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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Classic anthropological accounts of miniature objects have focused on their spatial and aesthetic dimensions, with more recent work addressing their communicative potential, connections with play, and role in protecting threatened cultural knowledge. This article analyses responses to a miniature landscape model of yhyakh, a festival celebrated in the ...
Alison K. Brown
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Matraga, 2012 The critic and literary historian Francesco De Sanctis (1817- 1883) experienced a peculiar period in the history of Italy: the unification of the peninsula.
Karine Simoni
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Abstract In this paper, we present a foray into the computational study of anthropological texts. Drawing on a corpus of approximately 2,500 articles published in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (formerly Man) from 1950 to 2018, we discuss selected findings from the deployment of two methods for computational text analysis, namely ...
Kristoffer Albris +4 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
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History of literature and other sciences [PDF]
تاریخ ادبیات, 2013 The discussion about the history of literature, its necessity and how to compile it is one of the topics that has been the focus of researchers and literary critics especially in the last two decades, and each of them has looked at the history of ...
احمد خاتمی
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Co-authoring History: Montpellier, the Vendée, and the Co-authorship of the Sources
Humanities, 2013 The discourses of literature and history are generally regarded as two distinct genres. This essay sets out to investigate the use of fictitious, that is, the invented, as well as real elements, in addition to narrative tools in some literary and ...
István M. Szijártó
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Anthropologists, in common with social theorists more generally, have often understood social life as an emergent phenomenon grounded in practices of creativity and improvisation. Where stasis and continuity feature, these are often presented as illusory manifestations of underlying processes of ‘invention’, or as external impositions upon otherwise ...
Paolo Heywood, Thomas Yarrow
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Материалы по археологии и истории античного и средневекового Крыма, 2019 Syrian and Armenian influence has been felt in the Old Bulgarian culture by different scholars, such as archaeologists and architecture historians as well as historians of the earliest Bulgarian writing and manuscripts.
Basil Lourié
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Implications for Survival: Coping Strategies of the Women in Alice Walker\u27s Novels [PDF]
, 1987 Various strategies for coping have surfaced in the uncertain, arduous, and frequently faltering struggle by black Americans for equality of opportunity, coping strategies characterized variously as carefully considered judgments or mere reactions devoid ...
Walker, Robbie Jean
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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
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