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The Theoretical Background of Understanding Urban Identity in the Anthropological Perspective

open access: yesKyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal, 2014
In the article, the theoretical background of the interpretation of urban identity is given using examples from anthropological studies. Urban identity is interpreted in terms of corporeality, memory and history of the city, and community.
Maksym Karpovets
doaj   +1 more source

Sitting in Many Camps—Innovative Approaches and Methods for First Nations‐Led Research Into Indigenous Peacebuilding

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2021, a desktop review was conducted of published references to First Nations peoples' approaches to conflict and its management in Australia (Project Stage One), culminating in a report published in 2024. This article focuses on Project Stage Two, a complex, innovative research undertaking building on the findings of Stage One, and being ...
Helen Bishop   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Standing on the shoulders of giants? Anthropology and the city [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
It has become increasingly commonplace to note that the past decade has witnessed a proliferation of anthropological studies dealing holistically with the dynamics of cities and city-living, to the extent that the current moment is considered to ...
Jones, Gareth A., Rodgers, Dennis
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Immanent Anthropology: A Comparative Study of 'Process' in Contemporary France [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This paper presents a comparative critique of the ‘processual temporalities’ which infuse both social-scientific theorizing and selected Western cultural practices.
Adam   +74 more
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Family Dispute Resolution in Australia: The Under‐Servicing of Indigenous, Migrant and Refugee Families Experiencing Family Violence

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Improving access to legal services for Indigenous, migrant and refugee women is critical to addressing family violence. In this context, Family Dispute Resolution (FDR) has long been discussed as a solution for separating families. This paper presents key findings of a research evaluation of an Australian Government $8.37 million pilot project
Siobhan McDonnell, Alyson Wright
wiley   +1 more source

Disciplinary Movements, the Civil Rights Movement, and Charles Keil’s Urban Blues

open access: yesCurrent Musicology, 2005
Charles Keil was in his midtwenties when he published his first book, Urban Blues (1966a), based on his master’s thesis in anthropology at the University of Chicago. In many ways, it was the summation of his experiences and encounters up to that point: a
Matt Sakakeeny
doaj   +1 more source

Degrees of permeability: confinement, power and resistance in Freetown's Central Prison

open access: yes, 2020
This article deconstructs a binary that has arisen between prisons as, on the one hand, ‘total institutions’ of exclusion and, on the other, ‘carceral continuums’ that incorporate marginalized urban livelihoods. The experiences of four inmates at Pademba
Schneider, L.
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The Formal, the Informal, and the Precarious: Making a Living in Urban Papua New Guinea [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
For many Papua New Guineans, the dominant accounts of 'the economy' contained within development reports, government documents and the media do not adequately reflect their experiences of making a living.
Cox, John   +4 more
core   +1 more source

A perspective from the Mesozoic: Evolutionary changes of the mammalian skull and their influence on feeding efficiency and high‐frequency hearing

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The complex evolutionary history behind modern mammalian chewing performance and hearing function is a result of several changes in the entire skeletomuscular system of the skull and lower jaw. Lately, exciting multifunctional 3D analytical methods and kinematic simulations of feeding functions in both modern and fossil mammals and their ...
Julia A. Schultz
wiley   +1 more source

The Terrestrialization of Amphibious Life in a Danube Delta \u27Town on Water\u27 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Visitors to the Danube Delta town of Vylkove, known as the “Ukrainian Venice,” are often disappointed by the condition its 40 kilometers of canals, which frequently resemble over-grown ditches that are often impassible by boat.
Richardson, Tanya
core   +1 more source

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