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Introduction – Rethinking the Agency of the Dead: Reasons, Triggers and Contexts

Studia Mythologica Slavica
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Ágnes Hesz, Tina Ivnik, Michal Uhrin
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“Women are Stronger Than Men”: Breaking Norms Through Hip Hop in Vietnam

Music and Arts in Action, 2022
This paper examines women’s motivations for engaging in men-dominated hip hop dance in urban Vietnam, arguing that it is the kinesthesia that draws the young women into hip hop.
Sandra Kurfürst
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Missing in Mexico: Denied victims, neglected stories

Culture & History Digital Journal, 2014
In this article, I will describe the mostly invisibilized “fight for rehumanization” of the families of the dehumanized disappeared of the Mexican Dirty War of the 1960s and 1970s. The conflictive memory politics in Mexico and the ambivalent transitional
Sylvia Karl
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Sign-Posts in Social and Cultural Anthropology [PDF]

Nature, 1965
Explorations in Cultural Anthropology Edited by Ward H. Goodenough. (Essays in Honor of George Peter Murdock.) Pp. xiii + 653. (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company; Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, Ltd., 1964.) 100s.; 12.50 dollars. Other Cultures Aims, Methods and Achievements in Social Anthropology. By John Beattie. Pp. xii + 283.
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“This is the Life of Kotis”

Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology
This article engages with current debates in queer anthropology that interrogate gender and sexuality as discrete analytical domains and highlight their complex entanglement in colonial and capitalist structures of power.
Stefan Binder
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Reproductive choices: a qualitative study of Dutch Moroccan and Turkish consanguineously married women’s perspectives on preconception carrier screening

BMC Women's Health, 2018
Background Cousin marriages, in the Netherlands most frequently between Turkish or Moroccan couples, are at higher risk of having offspring with recessive disorders.
Petra Verdonk, Suzanne Metselaar, Oka Storms, Edien Bartels   +3 more
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Revisiting the culture–social structure duality debate through the lens of personal networks

Connections
In this article, we address a long-standing debate in social science about whether culture or social structure provides the best lens for understanding human behavior and how that scales to the level of social institutions.
Molina José Luis, McCarty Christopher, Sánchez Angel, Pulgar Miroslav   +3 more
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African Nightclubs of Lisbon and Madrid as Spaces of Cultural Resistance

Open Cultural Studies, 2019
The main objective of this article involves describing how African nightclubs of Lisbon have become spaces for cultural resistance against certain representations of African-ness, taking Madrid as a contrasting case.
Sedano Livia Jiménez
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Managing floods, managing people: A political ecology of watercourse regulation on the Kemijoki

Nordia Geographical Publications, 2012
The stark discharge variations on the Kemijoki, the longest river in Finnish Lapland, have long formed an integral part of the rhythmic dynamics of social and ecological life along its banks.
Franz Krause
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Social Dynamics of Cultural Anthropological Transformations

Journal of Sociology: Bulletin of Yerevan University, 2016
In parallel with the civilizational development of the society, the true origins of the social construction gradually enfeeble. The deformation of the social ties and relations threaten to turn into a "social entropy", the social converts into a blank sign, devoid of any objective content.
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