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Burying Futures: Artisanal Mining Deaths and the Politics of Negligence in Zimbabwe

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 4, Page 719-729, December 2026.
ABSTRACT In the gold‐mining town of Kwekwe, central Zimbabwe, injury and death are a constant presence. Collapsing shafts, sudden explosions, gang fights, and neglected health infrastructure characterize the everyday lives of the town's impoverished residents.
Melusi Nkomo
wiley   +1 more source

THE BHAGAVAD GITA’S ETHICAL SYNCRETISM [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
: Syncretism of various kinds is clearly in evidence in the Bhagavad Gītā, yet no attempt has been made to show how a consistent ethical syncretism might be articulated and defended in the scholarship.
Roopen Majithia, MAJITHIA, Roopen
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Norm Circles and the Limitations of European Union Normative Projection in Afghanistan

open access: yesJournal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 56, Issue 4, December 2026.
ABSTRACT Norm diffusion research explains the international travel of norms in semantic terms, through resonance, framing, grafting and localisation. Such accounts presuppose norms to be portable objects whose identity persists through transit. Yet, ontologically, norms exert causal force only where a real social group endorses and enforces them.
Oz Hassan
wiley   +1 more source

Reconsidering Syncretism and Contextualization: The sangoma-Prophet Phenomenon in South African Neo-Prophetic Pentecostalism

open access: yesReligions
The emergence of African Christianity from missionary tutelage towards the close of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century raised concerns of syncretism that only eased with arguments of contextualisation in the 1970s.
Thabang R. Mofokeng
doaj   +1 more source

Belief and the beast: Religion and attitudes towards tigers in Central India

open access: yesPeople and Nature, Volume 8, Issue 11, Page 4041-4053, November 2026.
Abstract Human perceptions of wildlife are critical to shaping conservation outcomes, particularly in landscapes where people coexist with large carnivores. Religion, a deeply rooted sociocultural force, remains underexplored in the context of human–wildlife conflict.
Sathvika Krishnan   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Nouns and Adjectives to Verbs: Base Effects on the Grammatical Behaviour of Denominal Verbs in Ancient Greek1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 3, Page 714-749, November 2026.
Abstract This paper investigates the role of semantic features of noun and adjective bases in determining the grammatical behaviour of Ancient Greek denominal and deadjectival verbs in *‐ye/o‐. The paper adopts a lexicalist framework (Rappaport Hovav & Levin 1998) and examines how the event schema, actionality, telicity and voice of derived verbs are ...
Carolina Marescotti
wiley   +1 more source

Semantic syncretism of attributive adverbs of B. Pasternak’s lyrics

open access: yesPolilog: Studia Neofilologiczne, 2015
Semantic syncretism of attributive adverbs of B. Pasternak’s lyrics The article is devoted to the phenomenon of qualitative-quantitative semantic syncretism and specifics of its manifestation at the level of adverbial lexemes of B.
Viktoria Golubeva
doaj   +1 more source

The Gender of Heteroclites1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 3, Page 772-804, November 2026.
Abstract Few have asked what happens to gender when a noun is heteroclitic – when its inflection draws on more than one inflection class. While heteroclisis has moved from being treated as a marginal irregularity to a theoretically revealing phenomenon, its implications for gender assignment remain largely unexplored.
Greville G. Corbett
wiley   +1 more source

Case syncretism

open access: yes, 2020
Case syncretism is the combination of two or more morphosyntactic cases in a single morphological form. A four-part typology of case syncretism is given, with some patterns attributable to what was originally a functional motivation, while others appear ...
Baerman, Matthew
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Antonio Gramsci's Anti‐Fascism: Not Your Average Fascist's Cultural Marxism

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 6, November 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper discusses the form and content of Gramsci's Marxism in light of long debates about anti‐fascism. Through twists and turns, Gramsci came to understand fascism as a new form of politics, as a movement, ideology or regime. No mere bourgeois reaction, fascism is a sui generis form of mass politics that translates the roots of modern ...
Stefan Kipfer
wiley   +1 more source

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