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On the Railway Wheel Squeals : 1st Report, On the Frequency of Squeals

open access: yesTRANSACTIONS OF THE JAPAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS Series C, 1981
Mikio NAKAI   +2 more
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Encountering ‘Broken’ Public Services: Defiance and Disaffection at the Frontlines of the Democratic State

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The apparently parlous state of public services in advanced liberal democracies has become a hot topic, nowhere more so than in ‘broken Britain’. Indeed, there is much debate in both politics scholarship and political rhetoric about the nature and causes of this decline, and its potential remedies. All perspectives are at pains to characterise
John Boswell
wiley   +1 more source

Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
wiley   +1 more source

Islam at the monastery: on infinity as subtractive truth L'islam au monastère : de l'infini comme vérité soustractive

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Based on ethnographic research at Rūm Orthodox Christian monasteries in Lebanon, the article studies scenes of Islam at the monastery as they intersect with anxious public debates on, and anthropological theorizations of, sectarianism and ‘Muslim–Christian’ relations in the Mashriq.
Aaron F. Eldridge
wiley   +1 more source

Torture and scepticism in Papua New Guinea witch hunts Torture et scepticisme dans les chasses aux sorcières en Papouasie‐Nouvelle‐Guinée

open access: yesJournal 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
wiley   +1 more source

The reckoning: ethnographic explorations of the ending of a friendship Règlement de comptes : explorations ethnographiques de la fin d'une amitié

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article examines the ending of a friendship in ethnographic fieldwork. I argue that friendship is a necessarily ambiguous concept and relation, made most distinctive as a ‘friendship’ at its end. Reflecting on a friendship that was ended between this author and an old friend in fieldwork in Halleigh, North Manchester, England, I discuss the ...
Katherine Smith
wiley   +1 more source

The Obligations of Exempt Monasteries: The Practice in England

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract This note draws on the extensive sources surviving from the fourteenth century to examine, in the light of debates about the medieval papacy, the observance by English houses of papal obligations imposed on exempt monasteries. It concludes that these arrangements, reflecting the complex history of exemption, were more fluid, negotiable and ...
Peter McDonald
wiley   +1 more source

Syphilis and ‘Sons of Empire’: The ‘Prostitute’ and Britain's Fighting Arm in Nineteenth ̵ Century Colonial Punjab

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The British army in India took great care to provide European troops with facilities for sexual relations while anxiously managing venereal disease. Examining archival evidence, political debates and medical discourse from the nineteenth century, this article examines the colonial military enterprise of regulated prostitution in colonial ...
Sameera Chauhan
wiley   +1 more source

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