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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

Countering Authoritarian Behavior in Democracies. [PDF]

Polit Behav
Hobolt SB, Osnabrügge M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Strangers on the ladder of the party‐state: Women in teaching in Nationalist Taiwan, 1940s–1980s

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract As the ruling party of a party‐state in China and Taiwan, the Nationalist Party (Kuomintang/Guomindang) built a close relationship with the teaching profession. Many teachers joined the party and there was a well‐trodden pathway from teaching into local representative politics and civil service.
Joseph Lawson
wiley   +1 more source

Political rights of persons with disability in the Zimbabwean media. [PDF]

Afr J Disabil
Vengesai P.
europepmc   +1 more source

The 2007 parliamentary elections: coming to power versus democratic perspectives [PDF]

, 2007
Kononchuk, Svitlana
core  

‘Expression is power’: Gender, residual culture and political aspiration at the Cumnock School of Oratory, 1870–1900

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates the ways in which late‐nineteenth‐century students at Northwestern University's Cumnock School of Oratory mobilised elocution training and parlour performance to foster mixed‐gender public discourse. I use student publications to reconstruct parlour meetings in which women and men adapted traditions of conversational ...
Fiona Maxwell
wiley   +1 more source

The Political Determinants of Oral Health Inequalities: Lessons in Policy Development and Implementation From Six Case Studies. [PDF]

Community Dent Oral Epidemiol
Serban ST, Perdomo S, Borges-Yañez A, Allen F, Guarnizo-Herreño C, Navarro-Ramírez MK, Hobbs M, Cohen LK, Tsakos G, Baker SR, Conway DI.   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Multiparty Politics in Russia [PDF]

, 1994
Ponomarev, Lev A.
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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
wiley   +1 more source

A fast three-step second-order explicit numerical approach to investigating and forecasting the dynamic of corruption and poverty in Cameroon. [PDF]

Heliyon
Ngondiep E.
europepmc   +1 more source