neighbors, the inhabitants of Gilân stigmatise especially their predilection for bread, which they sometimes consider with amusement, sometimes with compassion, sometimes also with repulsion. I heard some young people from Rasht, the capital of Gilân
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of the Russian empire's defeat in 1905. The revolution had only made things worse. Due to heightened Japanese influence and a need to raise immediate capital, in 1920 the Far Eastern Republic (a temporarily independent state subject to Bolshevik
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capital, stories about “patriotic work” in Roseti-Dobrogea, 2 the place where we also started our experience as college students. In advance of Hegel's The Phenomenology of the Spirit , we learned how to sort red peppers for export, how humid our
Educating the Other
Foreign Governesses in Wallachia in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
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was “accustomed to speaking French and German rather than English.” 4 She wanted to settle in Bucharest, the capital of Romania, as a teacher of foreign languages, and for more than twenty years (1889–1911), this is what she did. Maude Rea Parkinson
Narva as Method
Urban Inventories and the Mutation of the Postsocialist City
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ethnographer or a reindeer herder. These peculiarities lead one to the question: what is the difference between ethnographer and nonethnographer? Do these categories reside in the specifics of knowledge, social capital, or the modes of social space
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Georgios Iakovidis (1853–1932), 7 and Anton Ažbe (1862–1905), 8 as women were not accepted as students at the prestigious School of Fine Arts. Her time in the Bavarian capital played a major role not only in shaping the bold and independent character of
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,000 public jobs to areas outside of Copenhagen with reference to the country needing to be ‘better balanced’; growth and development should benefit the country as a whole and not be concentrated in the capital ( Regeringen 2018 ). Similar measures are
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experiment in church-state collaboration, so Friesen remains agnostic about its ultimate legacy. Nevertheless, one could argue that this experiment set the groundwork for developments in the twentieth century. After all, Omsk did briefly become the capital of
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their international academic careers and activist recognition.” 11 Using Bourdieu, I spoke of economic, cultural, social, and symbolic feminist capital, as well as struggles for legitimacy. In my book one can find sentences like: “The names which the