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Cheia de axé (full of axé): Spirituality, resistance, and repair in Pernambuco's Afro‐Brazilian traditional communities

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how Afro‐Brazilian communities in Pernambuco respond to state‐led industrial development through culturally rooted practices of resistance and repair. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in the coastal municipalities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, this study traces the effects of Brazil's large‐scale ...
Shelly Annette Biesel
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The Discourse of Courtly Love in Medieval Verse Narratives

Encyclopedia
This encyclopedic entry explores the vast field of courtly love poetry, romance, and other related genres, tracing the development of this topic across medieval Europe and discussing some of the major contributors.
Albrecht Classen
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Queer configurations: The female divine, regional identity, and Queer‐religious belonging in South India

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
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Twenty Questions [PDF]

, 2016
In the first of this new series for the journal, Peter Singer responds to questions from the editors and Theron ...
Peter, Singer
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The collision of feminisms, sexuality, and trafficking in persons in the Caribbean—A place for Kempadoo

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract The existence and development of feminist scholarship and practice have been revisited by feminist anthropologists and sociologists exploring it among the gendered cultural and historical dynamics of the Caribbean. Feminist Caribbeanists’ pioneering efforts that fit within this theoretical family have challenged the Global North status quo to ...
Cherisse Francis
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In praise of Ịjọ folklore: A Sailor’s Son by Christian Otobotekere

Tydskrif vir Letterkunde
The intersection of modern African poetry and folklore is a much-researched topic in African literary scholarship. However, literary scholars have not examined this relationship in the poetry of Christian Otobotekere, a king and poet whose cultural ...
Imomotimi Armstrong
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Tolkien Among the Moderns (2015), ed. by Ralph C. Wood [PDF]

, 2018
Book review by Robin Anne Reid of Tolkien Among the Moderns (2015) ed.
Reid, Robin A., Dr.
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Making care audible: Musical gifts and affective reciprocity in the clinic

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract In clinical settings, music therapy is frequently received as a gift—a voluntary offering that invites but does not demand participation. Drawing on ethnographic research with music therapists and patients in Canadian and American hospitals, this article examines how clinical care is co‐constituted through practices of giving, receiving, and ...
Meredith Evans
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The poetry attributed to The Islamic orthodox caliphs

مجلة كلية التربية للبنات, 2019
The Islamic orthodox caliphs had a great importance in the history of Arabs in particular, and of Muslims in general. Some attributed poetry to them. This issue to see whether such an attribution is correct or not. This research tried to deal objectively
الدكتور خلیل محمد إبراھیم
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Amazwi Amasha: New Approaches to Sustainable Poetry Teaching and Learning

SOTL in the South
At many South African schools poetry is considered  to be a “problem genre”, with both teachers and learners viewing it as “difficult” and as a genre that lowers schools’ pass rates in the National Senior Certificate (NSC) (Matric) examination. For this
Gerhard Genis, Deirdre C. Byrne
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