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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article analyses class construction amongst the urban Indian middle class, through a novel prism of romantic love, specifically performances of romantic love which in turn highlight anxieties of being middle class. The article explains how a performance of romantic love before marriage is used as a basis by the middle class to claim being global ...
Parul Bhandari
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Food and alcohol indulgence, along with tea‐drinking, gambling, and gossip, are integral to a characteristically Sichuanese ethos of ‘life enjoyment’ (xiangshou shenghuo). Beyond mere pleasure, sensory, ludic, and comic experiences temporarily strip participants of both their formal and subjective qualities.
Angel Nayden
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Introduction: On the fickleness of friendship Introduction : de l'inconstance en amitié
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.In this Introduction to the special section, I provide a brief overview of the anthropology of friendship, particularly from the 1960s to the present, before focusing on the four articles that form the main body of the section. I argue that anthropologists who do not regard themselves as specialists in friendship will still find much to gain from ...
Simon Coleman
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A History of ‘Religious History’
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.As a category denoting the analysis of religious actors across history disinterestedly and on their own terms, “religious history” is a relatively recent coinage. This article offers a brief contextualisation of the emergence of the field in the twentieth century. It distinguishes “religious history” from an older, “confessional” mode of ecclesiastical
Joshua Bennett
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The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The British army in India took great care to provide European troops with facilities for sexual relations while anxiously managing venereal disease. Examining archival evidence, political debates and medical discourse from the nineteenth century, this article examines the colonial military enterprise of regulated prostitution in colonial ...
Sameera Chauhan
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the published writings of Lorna Gulston (c. 1932–2023), a hitherto unknown Northern Irish civil servant who wrote many articles for the earliest British lesbian magazines such as Arena Three, Sappho and Sequel. In doing so, the article asks: How did Gulston find her way onto the pages of these pioneering magazines?
Maurice J. Casey
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All Gone to the Dogs: Peasant and Aristocratic Masculinities in a Late Medieval Swiss Revolt
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines chronicle accounts of the so‐called ‘Waldmann Affair’, a revolt within the territories of the city–state of Zurich in 1489 directed against its mayor, Hans Waldmann. The revolt was partly the consequence of failed economic and political reforms which put pressure on the countryside, but was provoked by the command issued ...
Jamie Page
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