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Editorial: Conceptualising ‘Muslim Diaspora’
2016
Sense and Sensibility – Ethnology of Affect
2018
Cultural and Social Anthropology Studies in Latvia and Eastern Europe: Discussing Practices and Methods
2020
In the last academic year, two international scientific conferences were held in Riga, focusing on the anthropological dimension in the field of social sciences. Baltic International Academy (Riga, Latvia) in cooperation with the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Sofia, Bulgaria), the Ural Federal University (Ekaterinburg, Russian Federation), the University of Oradea (Oradea, Romania) and the International Festival of Visual Anthropology Mediating Camera (Moscow, Russian Federation) organised an international scientific conference Social and Political Anthropology: Modern Scientific Approaches to Research (Riga, 18–19…
Turcologica 62: Turkic-Iranian Contact Areas Historical and Linguistic Aspects. Edited by Lars Johanson and Christine Bulut. pp. vii, 333. Wiesbaden …
2007
French Cultural Policy DebatesAhearne, Jeremy. French Cultural Policy Debates . A Reader. London and New-York: Routledge, 2002. Pp.221. $80.00.
2003
The family, honour and gender in Sicily: models and new research
2004
This article shows how the latest research into Sicily's social and economic history calls into question certain well-established interpretations of the history of the family and its structures, the paradigm of Mediterranean honour, and the theory of familism. This new appraisal also highlights the major significance of the history of women and gender identity.
Decolonisation of the Zimbabwean linguistic landscape through renaming: a quantitative and linguistic landscaping analysis
2021
The language question is topical in Africa because of colonial hegemonies by colonial and languages of global communication such as English, French, and Portuguese. English hegemony in dominant dom...
Women's history and gender history: The Italian experience
2005
SummarySince the early nineteenth century political opposition became a central concept of political representation in constitutional monarchies. While this concept marked the political language of unified Italy on the national level, in local administration the legitimacy of political opposition remained an issue of dispute, as illustrated in this analysis of the political language in Bologna's city council. Local perceptions of national events, like Garibaldi's unsuccessful Mentana-campaign, assumed a significant symbolic meaning and challenged traditional understandings of local administration by introducing notions of political opposition. In Bologna, the second city of the former Papal…
Los expósitos y su representación en “La Gazeta de Madrid”
2016
La existencia de diarios oficiales permite a los Estados informar de la actividad legislativa y administrativa. Diferentes estudios han utilizado estos boletines para analizar la información sociosanitaria de un momento histórico determinado. Nos planteamos como objetivo valorar la evolución de las referencias respecto a los expósitos y su relación con las nodrizas en la “Gazeta de Madrid”, permitiendo la categorización en función de los aspectos tratados. Se plantea la revisión y análisis de contenido de las 130 referencias aparecidas entre 1751 y 1926 que cumplían los criterios establecidos. Tras la lectura, transcripción, cumplimentación y categorización de la información recopilada se r…
Introduction: using our pasts, defining our futures – debating heritage and culture in Europe
2019
This introduction to the themed section Using our Past, Defining our Futures – Debating Heritage and Culture in Europe summarises the three articles and outlines their approach to heritage. The aut...