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A Crisis of Representation: Reflections on John Boswell, How Citizens Encounter the Democratic State
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract In this symposium contribution, we subject John Boswell's How Citizens Encounter the Democratic State to the scrutiny warranted by its contribution. While the book offers a rich categorisation of the myriad forms of mundane agency one can observe in the underbelly of the democratic state, we seek to extend the argument by situating it in some ...
Liam Stanley +2 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.For over a century, anthropologists have documented the many institutions that exist to respond to witchcraft and the uncanny that it names: oracles that attempt to produce certainty by naming the witch; moots in which grievances are aired; trials in magistrates’ courts that attempt to satisfy the community while preserving the life of the accused ...
Chloe Nahum‐Claudel
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Lo visible y lo invisible en el románico: fuentes y simbología de lo profano
El Futuro del Pasado, 2010 Lo profano se define como “aquello que no es sagrado ni sirve a usos sagrados”, sin embargo,enlaculturamedieval resultará excesivamente complejo independizar mundo profanoy religioso, así como el conocimiento específico de la función que desempeñan las ...
Antonio Ledesma González
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Can a good death occur for those who balance on the edges of grievability? In Bali, where death marks a transition within the cycles of reincarnation, a good death depends on the mortuary care performed by intimate others – care that may be foreclosed to those whose lives are shaped by stigma.
Sylvia Tidey
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Parole sacrée, parole profane : la voix antérieure
, 1990 Salazar Philippe-Joseph. Parole sacrée, parole profane : la voix antérieure. In: Littératures classiques, n°12, janvier 1990. La voix au XVIIe siècle. pp.
Salazar, Philippe-Joseph
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article studies Indian‐Bangladeshi friendship ethnographically, as a contested political imaginary, claim, and relation, from the vantage of its shared borderlands. Staging friendship, I show, is a geopolitical project that engages equally the highest echelons of the Indian and Bangladeshi states and ordinary residents of its marginalized ...
Sahana Ghosh
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St Andrews Encyclopaedia of TheologyHoliness can be analysed in terms of three frameworks: as a real property of sacred persons, places, things, and times; as an ascription of a special status, especially that of ownership by or proximity to God; and as a project of spiritual and ethical ...
Alan Mittleman
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Bringing together historical evidence, postcolonial fiction and memory work, this study recovers South Asian cultural attitudes towards interracial heterosexual romance from the margins of East African history. It asks why Black/brown intimacy was treated as taboo and denied legitimacy within South Asian diasporic communities in British‐ruled ...
Carissa Chew
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The measurement and reporting of falls: Recommendations for research and practice on defining faller types. [PDF]
J Frailty Sarcopenia Falls, 2023 Jehu DA, Skelton DA.
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Profanity as a Self-Defense Mechanism and an Outlet for Emotional Catharsis in Stress, Anxiety, and Depression. [PDF]
Depress Res Treat, 2023 Husain W, Wasif S, Fatima I.
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