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Playground of gender : cross-dressing and self-mutilation as negation of gender identity in Tanja Duckers’s Spielzone (1999) [PDF]

, 2014
Although it is an outstanding example of writing life as negotiation of gender roles as well as exploration of the body as site of identity constructs, Tanja Dückers’s novel Spielzone, published in 1999, has not yet received the critical attention it ...
Dautel, Katrin
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Ontological polyglossia: the art of communicating in opacity* Polyglossie ontologique : l'art de communiquer dans l'opacité

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
What do communicating with a baby, with an animal, and with an ancestor have in common? In all three cases, people engage in opaque communication that is far from the standard psycholinguistic model of transparent interaction based on shared intentionality.
Charles Stépanoff
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The representation theory of C*-algebras associated to groupoids

, 2012
Let E be a second-countable, locally compact, Hausdorff groupoid equipped with an action of T such that G:=E/T is a principal groupoid with Haar system \lambda. The twisted groupoid C*-algebra C*(E;G,\lambda) is a quotient of the C*-algebra of E obtained
Clark, Lisa Orloff, Huef, Astrid an
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Hair as sensory skin: sensitive bodies, ritual shaving, and the maintenance of bodily boundaries in Hindu Suriname De la pilosité comme peau sensorielle : corps sensibles, rasage rituel et maintien des limites du corps chez les hindous du Surinam

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Hair is an integral part of the skin's interface and has sensory capacity. It actively contributes to processes of bodily materialization and facilitates transactional exchange with other social actors and environments, particularly regarding energies and vibrations that can be perceived as subtle matter.
Sinah Theres Kloß
wiley   +1 more source

Bridging cultural binaries through pedagogical practices [PDF]

, 2013
In internationalising the curriculum, the move away from polarising domestic and international students to focus on preparing all students for global citizenship is promising.
Meerwald, A.M.L.
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Strength of convergence and multiplicities in the spectrum of a C*-dynamical system

, 2006
We consider separable $C^*$-dynamical systems $(A,G,\alpha)$ for which the induced action of the group $G$ on the spectrum $\hat A$ of the $C^*$-algebra $A$ is free.
An Huef, Astrid, Robert Archbold
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Introducing the Anthropology of Adolescence Introduction à l'anthropologie de l'adolescence

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Adolescence is widely recognized as a key life stage, yet its meaning and experience remain under‐explored due to the complex interplay between biological and social transformations. While researchers across fields such as psychology and public health increasingly frame adolescence as a ‘critical period’, anthropology offers distinctive insights that ...
Emily H. Emmott, Benjamin Theobald, Mark Dyble   +2 more
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Disclosure, disbelief, enclosure: listening with precarious kids in London Témoignage, incrédulité, enfermement: écouter les enfants en situation de précarité à Londres

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article interrogates the role of testimonial disclosure as a mechanism of access and a barrier to visibility for marginal people, particularly adolescents, in the UK. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2021 and 2024 in alternative educational provision (AP), as well as in English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) classes ...
Kelly Fagan Robinson
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“Resonancias”, “ecos” y “reverberaciones”, una propuesta epistemológica para la producción de pensamiento en la investigación escénica

Liminal
En este artículo se explora la noción de «resonancia» en las artes escénicas, extendiéndola más allá del sonido para abarcar vibraciones y energías en la materia y la memoria.
Didanwy Kent Trejo
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Society beyond morality: mimesis, sovereignty, and being not‐human in the Nyau associations of Malawi La société par‐delà la moralité : mimèse, souveraineté et existence non humaine dans les sociétés Nyau du Malawi

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Nyau masked dancers embodying a variety of people, animals, and objects appear at many public events in Chewa areas of Malawi. Understood to be the physical manifestation of ancestral spirits, these entities are classified as ‘not human’ and transgress ordinary morality, mocking and threatening audiences.
Sam Farrell
wiley   +1 more source