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Carework as resistance: How incarcerated women care for each other to survive carcerality amid a global pandemic

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic was a crisis in prisons and jails, with some of the largest outbreaks in the United States happening inside carceral facilities. In the absence of structural interventions to protect them, people inside prisons engaged in various forms of carework to support one another and to draw attention to the horrific conditions. We
Esther Melton, Leslie Riddle, Jennifer Elyse James   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Indo-European kinship terminologies in Europe: trajectoriesof change [PDF]

Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford, 2015
Robert Parkin
doaj  

Higher Objectives of Islamic Law (Maqāṣid al‐Sharīʿa) in Substantiating Justice in Land Tax

The Muslim World, EarlyView.
Abstract This article discusses the relationship between the systemization of kharāj (land tax) and the higher objective of Islamic law or Maqāṣid al‐Sharīʿa. After the conquest of Sawād region (located in modern‐day southern Iraq), the First Caliph ʿUmar (634 ‐ 644 CE) introduced a new approach to the distribution of ghanīmah (spoils of war), leaving ...
Öznur Özdemir, Mehmet Asutay
wiley   +1 more source

How to make people do things with words

Noûs, EarlyView.
Abstract Sometimes we do what other people tell us to. A natural thought is that the motivation to act on an instruction comes about rationally as the result of interpreting an imperative and deciding to act on it; that is, by updating on information that gets mediated through belief‐desire reasoning.
Henry Schiller, Shaun Nichols
wiley   +1 more source

Compressible kinship terminologies are more learnable than less compressible alternatives

, 2018
S. Rolando, S. Kirby, Kenny Smith
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Ecological restoration in rights‐of‐nature laws and restoration as a substantive right of nature: challenges and opportunities

Restoration Ecology, EarlyView.
Introduction A growing number of countries have adopted legislation that recognizes nature as a subject of rights. The purpose of many rights‐of‐nature laws is linked to restoring biodiversity and ecosystems. Consequently, an ecosystem's right to restoration has emerged as a substantive right of nature.
Mariam C. Kanyama
wiley   +1 more source

Human cooperation and evolutionary transitions in individuality. [PDF]

Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2023
Townsend C, Ferraro JV, Habecker H, Flinn MV.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Painterly Materiality of Clouds in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the cloud‐gazing scenes in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet through the lens of early modern artistic theory and material practices, particularly the art of limning. Building upon existing philosophical and poetic interpretations of Shakespearean clouds as metaphors for ephemerality and memory, the essay argues that the ...
Anne‐Valérie Dulac
wiley   +1 more source

The conceptual building blocks of kinship terminologies

Lingua
C. Goddard
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Surviving the Post–Biafran War by Navigating the Igbo People's Igba‐Boi Apprenticeship Model of Entrepreneurship

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT After the Nigerian Civil War, the Biafrans started from scratch through trades, mostly adopting the igba‐boi apprenticeship system in Nigeria. This paper examines the impact of the igba‐boi entrepreneurship system in post‐Biafra for the survival of the Igbo identity.
Chiemela Victor Amaechi, Ugo Pascal Onumonu, Salmia Binti Beddu, Ikechi Mgbeoji   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source