In the 1970s and 1980s, North and South Yemen appeared to be two states pursuing opposing, sometimes hostile, economic and political policies. Then, in 1990, they suddenly united. This article analyses sport diplomacy as an instrument in opening institutional contacts between the two governments and as a venue for conveying important socio-political and historical messages. Cross-border football contests reinforced the largely invented notion of a single Yemen derived from pre-Islamic kingdoms. This idea remains a foundation of Yemeni nationalism and a base of Yemeni national identity.
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Open-Themed Issues
Soheila Shahshahani
Dark and Bright Futures for Museum Archaeology
James L. Flexner
interpretation as a site of progressive politics, fighting the forces of sexism (Prados Torreira) and nationalism (Ytterberg) in a Europe where conservative backlash is increasingly prominent. Archaeologists are still addressing the legacies of colonialism, and
Death of a Statesman – Birth of a Martyr
Martyrdom and Memorials in Post–Civil War Lebanon
Are John Knudsen
ephemeral and, as Volk has suggested, only a temporal feature of what could be termed quasi-nationalism. The enduring legacy of Hariri’s martyrdom, however, can be read as an essential element of Lebanese statehood where martyrs – conceived, created and
In Anthropology of the Middle East
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Introduction
Engaging Anthropological Legacies toward Cosmo-optimistic Futures?
Sharon Macdonald, Henrietta Lidchi, and Margareta von Oswald
attend to questions arising in regard to ethnographic museums and collections by exploring the role and affects of archives and objects; collaborative methodologies and their terms; the interplay between cosmopolitanism and nationalism as expressed in and
Inaugural Editorial
Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh and Mette Louise Berg
the social sciences, grounded as they are in “methodological nationalism” ( Wimmer and Glick-Schiller 2003 ) and a “sedentarist bias” ( Malkki 1995 ). Migration and Society will act as a space to host and foster inter-, cross-, and trans
Undoing Traceable Beginnings
Citizenship and Belonging among Former Burundian Refugees in Tanzania
Patricia Daley, Ng’wanza Kamata, and Leiyo Singo
2013 ; Heilman 1998 ). The processes of accumulation that favors foreign investors and new, educated, entrepreneurial labor have given rise to narrow nationalism on the part of those among the elite and the popular classes who feel marginalized and
In Migration and Society
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Experiencing In-betweenness
Literary Spatialities
Tahmineh Hooshyar Emami
, nationalism, religious affairs and geographic and climatic nuances, providing a stage for displacement and integration. This sits in contrast with the common dictionary-bound definition of a city as a large town, and/or a relatively large and permanent human
Book Reviews
Sabina Barone, Veronika Bernard, Teresa S Büchsel, Leslie Fesenmyer, Bruce Whitehouse, Petra Molnar, Bonny Astor, and Olga R. Gulina
-and inter-group dynamics as a result of Syrian Christians’ assimilation into Hindu society, encounters with Portuguese and, later, British missionaries, Indian nationalism, and international migration. In doing so, the book offers a nuanced picture of Mar
In Migration and Society
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Invisible and Visible Shi'a
Ashura, State and Society in Kuwait
Thomas Fibiger
Sectarianism in the Gulf States: Dynamics of “Informal” Civil Society in Kuwait and Bahrain ’, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism 19 , no. 1 : 109 – 126 , doi: 10.1111/sena.12290 . Halm , H. ( 2004 ), Shiʿism ( New York : Columbia University
In Anthropology of the Middle East
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- 01 Jun 2022
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Hospitality
A Timeless Measure of Who We Are?
Elena Isayev
hand, and that elementary precondition of human freedom, which is the freedom of movement” ( De Genova 2010: 39 ). The contradictions, inherent within an international system of liberal nationalism that allows for such scenarios, leave those seeking
In Migration and Society
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