upper class read French literature in the original language, traveled frequently to Europe, and remodeled Buenos Aires in the image of Paris. The weight of French cultural prestige was such that “for a small group of elite Latin American women, time in
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Linda Gruen
Adam Branch
or French literature. For African Studies to be decolonized would thus also encompass a call to the rest of the university. African Studies centres can play a key role in this, being sites from where invitations and provocations are made, from where
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
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- 01 Sep 2018
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- Research Article
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- 73–91 (19 total)
Destination Museum
A Conversation with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Conal McCarthy
architecture, philosophy, French literature, and Near Eastern literature at Toronto but at Berkeley, this “breadth requirements” meant first-year physics and social sciences, at the very least. Well, when I opened up the catalogue I was like a kid in a candy
Frenchman, Jew, Positivist
Reading the Rules and Mapping Émile Durkheim in Germany
Wiebke Keim
-existenzialistischen Soziologie: Ein Beitrag zur Begründung einer objektiven Soziologie (König 1975 [1938 unpublished]). Due to his mixed German–French family background and studies in Berlin and Paris, König was capable of addressing French literature in his work. During a stay
In Durkheimian Studies
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- 01 Dec 2021
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- Research Article
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- 154–186 (33 total)
Portrait
Ann Grodzins Gold
Ann Grodzins Gold, Bhrigupati Singh, Farhana Ibrahim, Edward Simpson, and Kirin Narayan
anthropology in 1975—10 years after dropping out of Reed College and formal education as a disengaged second-year French literature major. Now I was fully engaged and knew what I wanted to be. I applied to several graduate programs, but Chicago was my first
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2016
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Sheila K. Hoffman, Dominique Poulot, Bruno Brulon-Soares, and Joanna Cobley
classics from French literature, rereleases of neo-Gothic Romanticism, and poetic anthologies about the Cathedral. It is probably not an exaggeration to say that the fire's resonance was amplified by a more or less complete or faithful knowledge of Hugo