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Why do politicians employ public–private partnerships? Results from a mixed‐method study
Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract Public–private partnerships (PPPs) have become increasingly common in government infrastructure programs around the world. This study collates and categorises the types of rationales that scholars have identified as the reasons for governments to use PPPs.
Sebastian Zwalf
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Sacred and profane kriya in the island of Bali
Cogent Social SciencesThis article examines Balinese kriya’s development from sacred to profane. This research is qualitative research with a historical approach. The results show that the presence of past works cannot be separated from the purpose of the religious offering ...
I Ketut Sunarya, Ismadi
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, 2016 In December 2013 a judge of the Indian Supreme Court recriminalized homosexuality under Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code by overturning the Delhi High Court’s earlier decriminalization of it. The Supreme Court judgment declined to even engage the constitutional reasoning adduced by the Delhi High Court when it “read down” 377 “in ...
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Anthropological Researches and Studies, 2016 Objective. In postmodern culture, individuals explore ways to orient their worlds by a certain “invisible” religiosity, which penetrates throughout the so-called secular societies.
Maria Serafimova
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L’EXIL DE LA « RELIGION » CHEZ CAMUS [PDF]
Studii si Cercetari Filologice: Seria Limbi Romanice, 2008 Cet ouvrage se propose de « restituer » à l’œuvre et au système de pensée de l’existentialiste Camus la dimension chrétienne qu’il a tant niée. Au-delà de son nihilisme acharné et de son attachement aux valeurs concrètes de cette humaine condition ...
Crina-Magdalena ZARNESCU
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.While death remains a popular topic for anthropology, relatively few ethnographic accounts consider the modern bureaucratic processes accompanying it. One such process is public health autopsy, which scholars have largely taken for granted. Existing analysis has regarded it as a form of ‘cultural brokering’ and autopsy reluctance in communities is seen,
David M.R. Orr
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Семантика ДОРОГИ во фразеологии славянских языков: соотношение сакрального и профанного
Opera slavica, 2016 The paper deals with the ratio of the sacred to the profane in the semantic evolution and phraseological interpretation of the ROAD by means of Russian, Ukrainian and Czech languages.
Alla Archangel'skaja
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Abstract Towards the end of their Introduction, the editors of this special issue suggest that a principal challenge in ethnographic description is ‘how to measure the measures of others’. It is their own measure of persons, say, or of transactions, on which anthropologists frequently draw in adjudicating social phenomena, not least when characterizing
Marilyn Strathern
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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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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Egalitarianism is often idealized, but many anthropologists have noted its potential for nightmare scenarios involving envy, mistrust, and violence. This introduction outlines a framework for understanding the negative emotions and violence associated with the forces of commensuration that are necessary to make people equal.
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