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On the problem of continuity: a theory of culture beyond invention Le problème de la continuité : une théorie de la culture au‐delà de l'invention

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Anthropologists, in common with social theorists more generally, have often understood social life as an emergent phenomenon grounded in practices of creativity and improvisation. Where stasis and continuity feature, these are often presented as illusory manifestations of underlying processes of ‘invention’, or as external impositions upon otherwise ...
Paolo Heywood, Thomas Yarrow
wiley   +1 more source

Are you willing to be made nothing? Is Commonwealth reform possible? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
A new round of Commonwealth reform proposals commenced at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting of 2009. An ensuing report, titled A Commonwealth of the people: time for urgent reform, contained a long list of proposals that eventually resulted in
Baert, Francis, Shaw, Timothy M
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Special Libraries, April 1948 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1945
Volume 39, Issue 4https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1948/1003/thumbnail ...
Special Libraries Association
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A. C. Boudewijn Peters (1941–2026)

open access: yes
Annals of the Child Neurology Society, EarlyView.
Jurriaan M. Peters, Oebo F. Brouwer
wiley   +1 more source

Persistent Alarms Confronting New Priorities: Protestants in Africa in Italian and French Catholic Magazines (1945–1962)

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Anti‐Protestantism was one of the reasons for the revival of missions during the interwar period. By the 1960s, however, Protestants were less and less often mentioned as a threat to missionary efforts, and the decline in inter‐confessional tensions was increasingly considered a relic of the past.
Giacomo Canepa
wiley   +1 more source

The Influence of International Law on the International Movement of Persons [PDF]

open access: yes
Many migration theories identify ‘the law’ as a significant constraint on the international movement of persons. While this constraint often operates through national migration legislation, this study examines the influence of international law in ...
Opeskin, Brian
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State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
wiley   +1 more source

STREETS AS STAGES: Traffic Enforcement and the Competition for Cultural Growth in China

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In keeping with China’s desire to build soft power to parallel its economic growth, the policing of city streets has moved to the forefront as a mechanism for moral regulation and improving urban prestige. Under pressure to civilize their citizenry, many Chinese cities have become entrepreneurial cities within a type of cultural growth ...
Gregory Fayard
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Engagement Amid Austerity: A Bipartisan Approach to Reorienting the International Affairs Budget [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Examines trends that influence U.S. foreign aid and proposes reforms to better target economic and security assistance, transition ownership of PEPFAR to host countries, overhaul food aid, and establish an international affairs realignment ...
Connie Veillette, John Norris
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