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Power, Law and Blood: Sources of Patriarchy in the Middle East [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This unpublished article was kindly provided to BU's institutional repository for deposit by the ...
Lindholm, Charles
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Mali: Visions of War

open access: yesStability : International Journal of Security and Development, 2013
Political elites in Bamako articulate different understandings of the war in northern Mali, though share the same view on the restoration of Malian sovereignty.
Roland Marchal
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Ecology and power in the periphery of Maasina : the case of the Hayre in the nineteenth century [PDF]

open access: yes
This article explores political tensions between successive nineteenth-century rulers of the inland delta of the Niger in central Mali (the Fulbe Diina of Hamdullahi and the Futanke successors of al-Hajj Umar) and the pastoral interests of the Fulbe ...
Bruijn, M., de, Dijk, H., van
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Henri Duveyrier et Cheikh ‘Othmân, cartographes du Sahara

open access: yesL’Année du Maghreb, 2011
The book published by Henri Duveyrier in 1864 under the title Tuaregs of the North included a 1/3000000 scale map which was considered for decades as the reference map of the Sahara.
Dominique Casajus
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Does Uranium Mining Increase Civil Conflict Risk? Evidence from a Spatiotemporal Analysis of Africa from 1945 to 2010 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
We employ a two-tier spatiotemporal analysis to investigate whether uranium operations cause armed conflict in Africa. The macrolevel analysis suggests that - compared to the baseline conflict risk - uranium ventures increase the risk of intrastate ...
Basedau, Matthias, Koos, Carlo
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Outline of an Anthropological Contribution to the Study of Snake Venom Variability: The Case of Echis sp. Envenomation

open access: yesEthnobiology Letters, 2014
An understanding of the variability of snake venom composition is of high relevance for adequate treatment of snakebites. Clinical observations of bite victims are considered as a first step in the study of venom variability.
Tilman Musch
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La proliferación estatal: Kosovo, Sudán del Sur y ¿Azawad?

open access: yesEstudios en Seguridad y Defensa, 2012
Aunque el ideal de la independencia es frecuentemente asociado con la libertad, no existe certeza de ello. Por el contrario, la ausencia de una serie de reglas claras con respecto a las condiciones para acceder al estatuto de Estado-nación termina ...
Mauricio Jaramillo Jassir
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The traditional house of Tuareg, adapted the harsh dry environment in the Sahara [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
サハラ砂漠に住むラクダ遊牧民トゥアレグの伝統的な住居について調査を行った。トゥアレグの家屋は,強烈な日差しと砂嵐を遮断し,居住の快適さを求めつつも,いつでもテントを解体して移動が出来るような簡便さも同時に備えたものである。 また,テントの柱や皮のサイズは非常に細かく厳密に寸法が決められている。その住居の女性の肘の長さを基準に3通りの寸法の単位がある。これらの寸法単位は,布やロープ(井戸水をくみ上げるためのもの)の寸法の単位でもあり,彼らの日常生活のすみずみまで行き渡った「モデュロール ...
Imamura Kaoru
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Manifestations of the desert in the modern and contemporary Libyan novel, the novel Bleeding of the Stone by Ibrahim Al-Koni as a model [PDF]

open access: yesZiglôbitha
: Ibrahim Al-Koni made a significant impact on the Arab novel scene in the 1990s with a distinctive voice that captured readers’ attention. His work, centered on the desert, is notable for its novel narrative approach, blending nostalgia and aversion to ...
Hassiba SAKER
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