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Vital events, vital relations: the structure of relations in an identity database Événements vitaux, liens vitaux : la structure des liens dans une base de données d'identité civile

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) manages Pakistan's biometric‐based national identity database, one of the largest identification systems of its kind in the world. This article examines bureaucratic practices used during identity registration to record ‘vital events’ in the lives of citizens: birth, marriage, divorce, and death.
Zehra Hashmi
wiley   +1 more source

Cutting freedom down to size Liberté calibrée

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Freedom, as a concept and a value, presents limited prospects for anthropological comparison. The study of enslavement, much neglected in attempts to develop an anthropology of freedom, shows that freedom has been imagined by the enslaved as the opposite of their condition only under particular circumstances.
Harri Englund
wiley   +1 more source

Classifying Mwaghavul Idioms

This study explores idiomatic expressions and attempts their classification in the Mwaghavul language, a West Chadic language of the Afro-Asiatic phylum spoken in some parts of Plateau State, Nigeria.
Dawet , Gungret Andrew, Kyarawal,  Kefas Jukuh, Datebs, Plangchin Malise, Author, Unknown   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Opening New Worlds of Meaning-A Scoping Review of Figurative Language in Autism Spectrum Disorder. [PDF]

Behav Sci (Basel)
Skogli-Christensen B, Tyldum Lefstad K, Moufack MF, Chahboun S.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Modern theatrics of love: desires and consumption in the Indian middle class Le théâtre moderne de l'amour : désirs et consommation dans la classe moyenne indienne

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article analyses class construction amongst the urban Indian middle class, through a novel prism of romantic love, specifically performances of romantic love which in turn highlight anxieties of being middle class. The article explains how a performance of romantic love before marriage is used as a basis by the middle class to claim being global ...
Parul Bhandari
wiley   +1 more source

A conceptual multi-agent architecture for mental health triage in post-conflict Arabic-speaking populations: a theoretical proposition and staged validation argument. [PDF]

Front Psychiatry
Shahin A, Masry B.
europepmc   +1 more source

Introduction: On the fickleness of friendship Introduction : de l'inconstance en amitié

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In this Introduction to the special section, I provide a brief overview of the anthropology of friendship, particularly from the 1960s to the present, before focusing on the four articles that form the main body of the section. I argue that anthropologists who do not regard themselves as specialists in friendship will still find much to gain from ...
Simon Coleman
wiley   +1 more source

Cultural Considerations in Suicide Risk Assessment with Immigrant and Refugee Populations in Canada. [PDF]

Transcult Psychiatry
Sadri-Gerrior M, Shivakumar K, Rouleau N.   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 1-28, March 2025.
Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
wiley   +1 more source

Cognitive processes of binomial expressions across modalities: a study of EFL Arab learners. [PDF]

Cogn Process
Almudawi A, Mohsen M.
europepmc   +1 more source