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Aloneness and the terms of detachment in West African migration

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In this article, I examine practices of social detachment among West African migrants in urban Ghana. Faced with pressures arising from expectations of reciprocity, especially from kin back home, some migrants exert considerable efforts to break, if temporarily, with relations of mutual recognition and support, entering what I term migratory aloneness.
Michael Stasik
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Mining and/in outer space: Verticality, analogy, and infrastructural mediation in subarctic Sweden Les mines et/dans l'espace : verticalité, analogie et médiation infrastructurelle dans les régions subarctiques de Suède

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Space activities in subarctic Sweden are predicated on older infrastructures of underground resource extraction. The ongoing expansion of the country's rocket launch site outside Kiruna relies on the Swedish state's historical construction of the region as a resource frontier.
Chakad Ojani
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Accommodating religion and belief in healthcare: Political threats, agonistic democracy and established religion

open access: yesBioethics, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 15-27, January 2023., 2023
Abstract This paper considers what concept of accommodation is necessary to identify and address discrimination, disadvantages and disparities in such a way that the plurality of religious people with their beliefs, values and practices may be justly accommodated in healthcare. It evaluates threats to the possibility of such accommodation pertaining by
Joshua Hordern
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Frazemi u Gospinim plačevima na starohrvatskome jeziku

open access: yesRasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje, 2011
This paper studies and analyzes the well-established collocations with desemantization in medieval Croatian versions of Planctus Mariae written in the Old Croatian language.
Martina Kramarić
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The perplexity of Christmas trees: ageing, errantry, and intersectional time La perplexité des arbres de Noël : vieillissement, errance et temps intersectionnel

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
What is offered by considering ageing, ethics, and intersectionality from a critical phenomenological perspective that draws upon critical race theory? Based upon an extended ethnography of African Americans raising children with illnesses and disabilities, I consider the Christmas trees that a grandmother lovingly decorated each year.
Cheryl Mattingly
wiley   +1 more source

Genus Alternans in the Early History of Ibero‐Romance: Textual Evidence from Early Medieval Iberian Peninsula

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This study revisits the diachrony of the Latin neuter gender in early Ibero‐Romance. The fate of the Latin neuter is counted among the most long‐standing and yet the most controversial questions in Romance historical morphosyntax. While there has been a long‐held belief that neuter nouns merged into the masculine gender in late Latin after ...
Ziwen Wang
wiley   +1 more source

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