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Cutting freedom down to size Liberté calibrée

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Freedom, as a concept and a value, presents limited prospects for anthropological comparison. The study of enslavement, much neglected in attempts to develop an anthropology of freedom, shows that freedom has been imagined by the enslaved as the opposite of their condition only under particular circumstances.
Harri Englund
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Of Numbers and Frogs: Wending One's Way through the Mind Fields of Symbolic Interaction Identity

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Gary T. Marx
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Introduction: On the fickleness of friendship Introduction : de l'inconstance en amitié

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In this Introduction to the special section, I provide a brief overview of the anthropology of friendship, particularly from the 1960s to the present, before focusing on the four articles that form the main body of the section. I argue that anthropologists who do not regard themselves as specialists in friendship will still find much to gain from ...
Simon Coleman
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نظریہ تہذیبی تصادم کے تناظر میں تعلیم کاکردار ،سید ابوالاعلیٰ مودودی ؒ اور ہن ٹنگٹن کےافکار کی روشنی میں

Pakistan Journal of Islamic Research
Civilization covers the vast range of human thoughts, believes and practical life. Today’s emerging world’s most discussed topic is “Clash of Civilizations” written by renowned American policy maker Samuel P.
Abdul Razaq Khan Niazi
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Fire in the mind: changing understandings of fire in Western civilization. [PDF]

Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2016
Pyne SJ.
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The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
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Western Brass Quintet, October 29, 1980

, 2019
Recorded during a live performance at Kanley Chapel, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan on October 29, 1980, 4:00 p.m., program no. 46 of the School of Music's 1980-1981 season.Western Brass Quintet (Donald Bullock and Stephen Jones ...
Western Brass Quintet
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Religious morality (and secular humanism) in Western civilization as precursors to medical ethics: A historic perspective. [PDF]

Surg Neurol Int, 2015
Faria MA.
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Sri Lankan chronicles, Chinese pilgrims and the nineteenth‐century hierarchy of texts in the construction of early Buddhist geography

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article examines how nineteenth‐century scholars reconstructed the geography of early Buddhism through a historically contingent hierarchy of texts that privileged Chinese monastic travelogues over Sri Lankan Buddhist chronicles. Focusing on the relationship between the Pāli vaṃsa literature—especially the Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa—and Chinese ...
Bhadrajee Hewage
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The Revival of Islamic Civilization

Journal of Islamic Thought and Civilization, 2018
Maryam Jameelah was an American convert to Islam. Born to a non-observant Jewish family in New York, she travelled to Pakistan on the invitation of Abul A‟la Maududi where she spent more than fifty years and never returned to America.
Zohaib Ahmad
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