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Keeping their powder dry: Purity, pollution, and handgun ownership among Jewish women in Israel
Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the gendered practices through which Jewish women in Israel experience and negotiate personal handgun ownership in everyday life. Drawing on interviews, participant observation in gun‐related spaces, and analysis of women‐only online forums, we explore the expanding participation of Jewish women in civilian gun ownership,
Maya Maor +3 more
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Colonial and gendered peace: Decolonial perspectives on peace in Nagorno‐Karabakh
Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article critically interrogates peace processes in the aftermath of the First Nagorno‐Karabakh War by centering the lived experiences and political voices of Armenian and Azerbaijani internally displaced and refugee women, based on ethnographic fieldwork and in‐depth interviews conducted in 2019.
Ramil Zamanov
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Anthropology of the Ukrainian Cossacks’ Military Potential (XVIIth–XVIIIth Centuries) [PDF]
Folk art and ethnology, 2021 The publication deals with the widespread use by the Russian Empire of the Ukrainian people’s armed forces in its wars of conquest after the 1654 Pereyaslav Council. In particular, given are the facts of the Ukrainian Cossacks’ decisive participation in the assaults of Azov in 1696 and Izmail in 1790.
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Quiet activism as feminist practice
Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract In this article, we discuss how women combat silencing in the face of violence and increased political turmoil through quiet activism in their day‐to‐day lives. Centering lengthy conversations with Arab women across London and notes from an ongoing collaboration with a feminist activist based in the US, we examine how wearable rhetorical ...
Vicky Panossian, Catherine A. Evans
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« Con attenzione degli orecchi » : figurations sonores de la guerre à la Renaissance
Arts et Savoirs, 2023 During the Renaissance, poetry and music record how loud, strange and fascinating war can be. Epic literature and historical practices of sound and music in military context have indeed shaped battle as a culturally extreme soundscape.
Pauline Lafille
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Impact of Geography on Institutions in Agricultural and Nomadic Societies
International Studies of Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How geography affects the choice of institutions is studied in a theoretical model. In this model, nations are located around a circle. Rulers compete through choosing tax rates, the level of military spending, and the degree of formality of institutions. Geographic condition is captured by population density.
Haiwen Zhou
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International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The frequency of tobacco use during the postmedieval period is widely underexplored; this has repercussions for our understanding of the intoxicant's health impacts during this time. Our study assesses the frequency rates of tobacco consumption in different social groups in England and the Netherlands, two countries in which tobacco use became
Anna M. Davies‐Barrett +1 more
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Mobilizing Presence across Borders: Devotion to Papua New Guinea's Blessed Peter To Rot in Australia
Oceania, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article engages with the conjunctures between migration and religion by focusing on the celebration of Papua New Guinea's ‘National Patron Saint’, the Blessed Peter To Rot, in the Australian diaspora. Both in Sydney and Brisbane, Catholic Papua New Guinea (PNG) migrants have been ‘relocating’ PNG shrines, regalia, relics and ritual ...
Anna‐Karina Hermkens
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Motivation of Volunteers during Great Patriotic War (Case Study of Rostov Region)
Научный диалогThis article explores the motivations behind citizens joining volunteer formations during the Great Patriotic War. The study relies on archival and published sources on the history of volunteer movements in the Rostov region.
O. A. Eldinov
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract The aurora borealis (northern lights) is an abiotic natural phenomenon that contributes to human well‐being. There is currently a significant research gap in primary qualitative valuation of the aurora's links to people. This exploratory qualitative study applies the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES ...
James David Broome +3 more
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