Captivation, false connection and secret societies in Singapore [PDF]
, 2018 Interminable ritual repetition of set movements (taolu) has resulted in Chinese martial arts facing trenchant criticism as being useless in fight sports, mixed martial arts, and actual combat.
D. S. Farrer
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Shaping of the Yunnan-Burma Frontier by Secret Societies since the End of the 17th Century
Moussons, 2011 After the 1680s, Big Vehicle Religion gradually developed on the Yunnan-Burma frontier. It was banned by the Qing government and became a sect of Chinese secret societies.
Ma Jianxiong
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PATRIOTIC CHINESE TRIADS AND SECRET SOCIETIES: FROM THE IMPERIAL DYNASTIES, TO NATIONALISM, AND COMMUNISM [PDF]
Asian Affairs, 2019 Triad and other secret societies have been mutual aid groups, personal networks amongst Chinese, organised criminal gangs, as well as associated with patriotism.
Martin Purbrick
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On Liberian secret societies and conflict resolution
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2019 Recent times have witnessed a rising interest in micro-level conflict resolution mechanisms in the form of religious and traditional leaders due to their perceived legitimacy central to peace.
Ilmari Käihkö
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Explaining attitudes to secret surveillance in post-communist societies [PDF]
, 2018 This article seeks to explain public attitudes to secret surveillance. Secret surveillance, for example wiretapping by intelligence agencies, is a controversial activity that affects fundamental civil liberties in any democratic system.
Ola Svenonius, Fredrika Björklund
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11 Illustrating the Anthropological Text: Drawings and Photographs in Franz Boas’ The Social Organization and the Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians (1897) [PDF]
, 2014 Franz Boas was an American anthropologist who played a major role in the development of modern anthropology in the twentieth century. In 1897, he published his first monograph on the ceremonials of the Kwakiutl Indians, entitled The Social Organization ...
Camille Joseph
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Riots in Svisloch Gymnasium: Persecution of Secret Societies among Polish-Lithuanian Youth
Научный диалог, 2023 The article deals with the riots in the Svisloch gymnasium that occurred after the closure of the trial of the Philarets and Philomaths (1824), which was initiated by N. N.
K. B. Egorova
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Historical Amnesia: British and U.S. Intelligence, Past and Present [PDF]
Secrecy and Society, 2018 Many intelligence scandals in the news today seem unprecedented - from Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, to British and U.S. intelligence agencies monitoring activities of their citizens.
Calder Walton
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Secret society, secret sources?
South African Journal of Science, 2016 Iain Edwards
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Primitive Secret Societies. [PDF]
Journal of the American Medical Association, 1908 P. Radin, H. Webster
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