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Affective assemblages of kinship and single mothers’ labour migration from a ‘climate hotspot’

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In coastal Bangladesh, ‘affective assemblages of kinship’ produce differential abilities for landless single mothers to migrate to brick kilns, the garment industry, and the Gulf. This group of women who return to their natal homes as a response to violence or abandonment is neglected by anthropologists of kinship and migration. Thinking of assemblages
Camelia Dewan
wiley   +1 more source

Perspectives on the decriminalisation of suicide in Pakistan: historical context, societal impacts, and the way forward. [PDF]

Lancet Reg Health Southeast Asia
Sibghatullah M, Dayani K, Zia M, Sabri T.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Islam and Law: the Islamic Schools of Law in al-Andalus

Arbor: Ciencia, Pensamiento y Cultura, 2008
Incluso basándose en unos mismos principios jurídicos, en el Derecho islámico se registra la existencia de cuatro maneras diferentes de interpretación, de cuatro escuelas jurídicas: la escuela malikí, hanafí, shafi‘í y hanbalí. Estas cuatro escuelas predominantes tienen sus propios tratados jurídicos, diferentes maneras de resolver problemas similares ...
openaire   +1 more source

Where do nomads bury their dead? Necro‐ostracism, statelessness, and the pastoral/ peripatetic divide in Afghanistan

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article proposes that stigmas connected to social categories of exclusion prevalent during life extend into dealings with the dead, here referred to as ‘necro‐ostracism’, in the context of death and burial of Muslim nomadic populations in urban Afghanistan. Based on qualitative fieldwork carried out in Kabul, Herat, and Mazar‐e Sharif, it explores
Annika Schmeding
wiley   +1 more source

Within the Confines of Youth. Childhood, Puberty and Adulthood in Medieval Islamic Law

, 2004
Amalia Zomeño Rodríguez
openalex   +1 more source

Racket sociality: investigating intimidation in North India

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article is an ethnographic investigation into acts of intimidation and threats. Theoretically, it dialogues with ‘racket’ – a key analytical term in the sociology of domination, state‐making, and mafias. The anthropology of power, violence, and crime has paid scant attention to the morphology of threats and the ways interpersonal intimidation ...
Lucia Michelutti
wiley   +1 more source

Wet-nursing as a new strategy for orphan care in Saudi Arabia. [PDF]

Int Breastfeed J
Albrithen A, Alfalasi S.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Private International Law in Islam [PDF]

, 2009
Ahmad AlFadli
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Gendering Late Ottoman Society and Reconstructing Gender in the Women's Press

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyses the construction of gender differences in the late Ottoman Empire through women's periodicals, which acted as a key medium in the redefinition of gender roles. It examines how new understandings of gender roles emerged amid rapid transformations in traditional societal structures, particularly in the women’s press.
Tuğba Karaman
wiley   +1 more source

The dynamics of mental health policy in Iran over the last century. [PDF]

BMC Psychol
Rastegar H, Morasae EK, Doshmangir L.
europepmc   +1 more source