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Islam at the monastery: on infinity as subtractive truth L'islam au monastère : de l'infini comme vérité soustractive

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Based on ethnographic research at Rūm Orthodox Christian monasteries in Lebanon, the article studies scenes of Islam at the monastery as they intersect with anxious public debates on, and anthropological theorizations of, sectarianism and ‘Muslim–Christian’ relations in the Mashriq.
Aaron F. Eldridge
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Códice Desdre, detalle de la lámina 46, reprografía

open access: yes, 1960
I.O. En el reverso: "ClX-10". Nota: El Códice de Dresde está guardado en la Sächsische Landesbibliothek (SLUB), la biblioteca estatal en Dresde, Alemania. Es el más elaborado de los códices.

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From Nominalisation to Passive in Old Tibetan: Reconstructing Grammatical Meaning in an Extinct Language1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
wiley   +1 more source

South Asian Bodies at British Borders in the 1970s: From the Ugandan Asian ‘Stateless Husbands’ to ‘Virginity Testing’

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article looks at two critical moments in British immigration – the case of the ‘stateless’ Ugandan Asian husbands, whose wives successfully argued for their entry in Britain in 1973 and the ‘virginity test’ performed on Mrs K at Heathrow Airport in 1979.
Antara Datta, Jinal Parekh
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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La construcción histórica de las tierras bajas mayas del sur por medio de mapas esquemáticos

open access: yesHistoria Mexicana El Colegio de México, 2013
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Mario M. Aliphat F., Laura Caso Barrera
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The prophet Enoch among the Maya of the Yucatan Peninsula

open access: yesJournal de la Société des Américanistes
Mayas in Yucatan and Quintana Roo, Mexico, tell stories of having been visited by a prophet of the apocalypse who called himself Enoch. This article relates the content of those stories, reveals the identity of the alleged prophet, and explores how Mayas
Paul Sullivan
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Los mayas

open access: yes, 1998
«El principal espectáculo de los mayas era un juego de pelota, parecido al fúlbol.Según algunos investigadores, los jugadores eran los prisioneros de guerra y se decapitaba a los que perdían. Pero en realidad era más que un simple juego.
Rivero Gracia, María Pilar
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