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Colonialism and Malay masculinity: Malay satire as observed in the novel Kawin-Kawin [PDF]
, 2006 This article evaluates the novel Kawin-Kawin as a satire, and as a mode for forming social criticism on Malay society. An assessment of such a genre must consider the target audience and the Islamic cultural context of the novel.
Noritah Omar,
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
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Ugly American Hermeneutics [PDF]
, 2010 This article will appear in a Symposium on comparative legal hermeneutics that includes four articles by American scholars and four articles by Brazilian scholars.
Mootz, Francis J., III
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article argues that the current way of thinking about ethics in sport in primarily biomedical terms, and in particular in terms of the presence of particular pharmaceutical substances, fails to account for broader notions of sporting ethics and fairness in the Global South.
Michael Crawley, Uroš Kovač
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AISTHESIS EN EL REALISMO CRÍTICO DE LA CIUDAD Y LOS PERROS DE MARIO VARGAS LLOSA
Revista Chilena de Literatura, 2011 Lo nuevo de la "nueva novela hispanoamericana", que La ciudad y los perros (1962) de Mario Vargas Llosa representa, se halla en el re-trabajo de las categorías suministradas por la tradición realista bajo premisas que buscan despertar en el lector ...
José Morales Saravia
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ESPES, 2021 The paper deals with an analysis of the controversial novel Truismes by Marie Darrieussecq. In this work, the author sensitively maintains an oscillation between the plausibility of truth, hidden behind metaphors and symbols, and the implausibility of ...
Jana Sošková
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Aristotle on Enduring Evils While Staying Happy [PDF]
, 2018 In what ways and how far does virtue shield someone against suffering evils? In other words, how do non-moral evils affect the lives of virtuous people and to what extent can someone endure evils while staying happy?
Jimenez, Marta
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The good, the bad, and the ugly - but how ugly is ugly? [PDF]
, 2008 When monitoring a system wrt. a property defined in a temporal logic such as LTL, a major concern is to settle with an adequate interpretation of observable system events; that is, models of temporal logic formulae are usually infinite words of events, whereas at runtime only finite but incrementally expanding prefixes are available.\\ In this work, we
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.In recent decades, solid waste has proliferated worldwide, becoming a pressing global issue. This article explores the role of Indigenous people dwelling within and upon emerging waste scenarios, with a specific focus on involved forms of sociality and ontological contestation. Drawing on the case of a municipal landfill sited on a Guarani community in
Vanesa Martín Galán
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Defying Predatory Capital: Embracing Beauty, Resisting Ugliness, and Striving for Freedom
International Journal of Sociology of EducationResearch has explored the role of capitalist markets in the configuration of society and as social determinants. However, some niche markets have been taken by a form of capital, conceptualized as “predatory”, that has sought maximum benefit without ...
Elisabeth Torras-Gómez +5 more
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