urban spaces of the organizations that bring disabled veterans together, creating an activist movement. His ethnographic anecdotes bring to life the everyday camaraderie and humor characteristic of groups of disabled veterans. While the title of gazi
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Leyla Neyzi, Nida Alahmad, Nina Gren, Martha Lagace, Chelsey Ancliffe, and Susanne Bregnbæk
Belarusian Professional Protesters in the Structure of Democracy Promotion
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Alena Minchenia
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Doing Ritual While Thinking about It?
Emma Gobin
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Johanna Söderström
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Namibian Veteran Politics and African Citizenship Claims
Lalli Metsola
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Sheikhs and the City
Urban Paths of Contention in Sidon, Lebanon
Are John Knudsen
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Philippine Prison Marriages
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Sif Lehman Jensen
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Legacies, Trajectories, and Comparison in the Anthropology of Buddhism
Nicolas Sihlé and Patrice Ladwig
. NOTES 1 While space does not permit to provide an overview of the doctrinal, institutional, or other differences between these major groupings ( Gellner 1990: 95–98 ), it should be emphasized that the validity of several of the above designations has
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Contested Narratives of Storied Places—the Holy Lands
Jackie Feldman
The articles in this special section on pilgrimage and the Holy Lands provide a wide range of perspectives on the practice, representation, and production of sacred space as expressions of knowledge and power. The experience of space of the pilgrim and the politically committed tourist is characterized by distance, impermanence, desire, contestation, and the entwinement of the material and the spiritual. The wealth of historical Christian and Western narratives/images of the Holy Land, the short duration of pilgrimage, the encounter with otherness, the entextualization of sites, and the semiotic nature of tourism all open a gap between the perceptions of pilgrims and those of 'natives'. Although the intertwining of symbolic condensation, legitimation, and power makes these Holy Land sites extremely volatile, many pilgrimages sidestep confrontation with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as inimical to the spirit of pilgrimage. A comparative view of the practices of contemporary Holy Land pilgrims demonstrates how communitas and conflict, openness and isolation are constantly being negotiated.