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Addressing extremism: theatre and critical humanities

Ikhtilaf
The present paper addresses the humanities' mission to explore the critical potential of the liberal arts by concentrating on theatre. Given its public quality and direct appeal to audiences, theatre (including spoken and music drama, puppet and street ...
Sabine Coelsch-Foisner
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Torture and scepticism in Papua New Guinea witch hunts Torture et scepticisme dans les chasses aux sorcières en Papouasie‐Nouvelle‐Guinée

Journal 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
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Modern theatrics of love: desires and consumption in the Indian middle class Le théâtre moderne de l'amour : désirs et consommation dans la classe moyenne indienne

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article analyses class construction amongst the urban Indian middle class, through a novel prism of romantic love, specifically performances of romantic love which in turn highlight anxieties of being middle class. The article explains how a performance of romantic love before marriage is used as a basis by the middle class to claim being global ...
Parul Bhandari
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The Inverted Circuit: Attribution, Answerability, and Accountability in Canadian Health Governance

The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points Canada and the United States have not failed for want of accountability mechanisms in health governance. They have failed because accountability is repeatedly invoked where attribution and answerability are not already standing, so the result is the punishment of visible individuals rather than structural correction.
ALAN H. MENKIS
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Aesthetic Treatment of Scenography for the Theatrical Script “Womenfolk (Al Walaya)” An Analytical Applied Study

Journal of Architecture, Art & Humanistic Science
theatrical production includes a set of interrelated elements that complement each other in a complex process aimed at achieving the message of the play and communicating it to the audience. This research examines the aesthetic elements of the theatrical
Assist.Prof. Dr. Dalia Saleh Abdel Wahab Farah
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Queering Institutional Milestones in Elite Higher Education: Queer Perspectives on Princeton University and Coeducation (1960–1980)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A new archive of oral history interviews from LGBTQIA‐identified alumni, faculty and staff reveals the complex ways that queer and transgender students understood, experienced and remembered the long transition from single‐sex to coeducation at Princeton University.
Ezelle Sanford III, Judy Jarvis, Eric Anglero   +2 more
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Meta‐Virtuality: Strategies of Disembeddedness in Virtual Interiorities

Journal of Interior Design, EarlyView., 2022
ABSTRACT To reclaim their seat in the rapidly growing market of virtual space, designers of the built environment can benefit from reevaluating theories that see the virtual as a mere extension/reflection of the physical. By claiming ontological autonomy from external worlds, the virtual is liberated from the hegemonic control of the physical.
Vahid Vahdat
wiley   +1 more source

‘More Beastliness Than Beauty’: Gendering Pica in Seventeenth‐Century English Medicine and Culture

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Today, defined as the ‘persistent eating of non‐nutritive substances’, pica is a lesser‐known eating disorder with a long history. Defined in early modern England as the ‘desire to eat absurd things’, pica was explicitly gendered, associated with pregnant women and pubescent girls.
Helena C. Aeberli
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The Dialectics of Spectator Performance in the Strategy of the Contemporary Iraqi Multimedia Theater

الاكاديمي
This research is based on the hypothesis that the effectiveness of theatrical performance increases when its strategies are deliberately directed toward the spectator, not only drawing them into the space of reception but also implicating them in the ...
Bahaa Abdul-Mohsin Hassan
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The Not‐So‐Neue Frau: Weimar Berlin's Modern Women and Generational Identity After 1945

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article studies the post‐1945 literary careers of Gabriele Tergit and Ilse Langner, two ageing German writers. Both had enjoyed promising careers as young women in Weimar Berlin, but Nazism and war disrupted their professional trajectories in varying ways. After 1945, they tried and failed to recapture their Weimar‐era success, eventually
Katharina Friege
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