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Caninde-Ioune: repertoire of indigenous and African matrix in songbook for Orpheonic Singing classes

open access: yes, 2020
Le but de l’article est d’analyser le processus de publication et le répertoire du recuel de chansons Guia Prático: estudo folclórico musical, de Heitor Villa-Lobos, en observant comment l’utilisation des éléments identifiés dans les chansons des matrices autochtones, africaines et européennes, révèle la diversité musicale, les conceptions aspects ...
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‘The Good Couscous That Pleases Us!’: The Meanings of Enduring Imperialist Imagery in Postcolonial French Food Advertising, 1970–2000

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
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On things seen and unseen: enlarging the vision in sociology of religion [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Our earliest sociological forebears gave us big ideas to think with and often turned their foundational questions to the analysis of religion. Durkheim (1964) asked how the energy of a gathered community became condensed into symbols that endure and bind
Ammerman, Nancy T.
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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
wiley   +1 more source

Book Reviews

open access: yesNWIG, 2002
-James Sidbury, Peter Linebaugh ,The many-headed Hydra: Sailors, slaves, commoners, and the hidden history of the revolutionary Atlantic. Boston: Beacon Press, 2000. 433 pp., Marcus Rediker (eds) -Ray A. Kea, Herbert S.
Redactie KITLV
doaj  

Care‐Based Disruption, Creative Practice and Collaborative Empathetic Histories

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This Forum essay examines the value of collaboration when creatively engaging with history as a means of developing empathy, care, and understanding. Creative and collaborative histories provide space to address the harmful misconceptions and preconceptions entangled in capitalist and colonial narratives.
SIERRA MCKINNEY, KATHERINE COOK
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FEMINISTS VERSUS MONUMENTS? From Protests to Anti‐monuments in Mexico City

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the role of heritage spaces and monuments in the Historic Centre of Mexico City during ongoing feminist mobilizations. Feminists have claimed that the Mexican government is more concerned about protecting monuments and urban heritage than acting to prevent gender‐based violence and femicide.
Fernando Gutiérrez
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PARTY‐STATE URBANISM: Coevolution of Local State Capacity and Strategic Alliances in Shenzhen

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract What is distinct about Chinese urban governance? Classic theories predict that when the central state retreats from resource allocation, capacity‐strained local governments must form alliances with non‐state actors, thereby diluting state power. In China, however, state power remains dominant despite decentralization.
Yunhan Wen
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