Tver’, Russia, 21 May 2019: The Ethnographer's Account The hallway was milling with people. A student usher smilingly greeted me and handed me a program, indicating the way. Impressively, my colleagues had scored the university's Assembly Hall
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“The 1990s Wasn't Just a Time of Bandits; We Feminists Were Also Making Mischief!”
Celebrating Twenty Years of Feminist Enlightenment Projects in Tver’
Julie Hemment and Valentina Uspenskaya
Conflicts in Children’s Everyday Lives
Fresh Perspectives on Protracted Crisis in Lebanon
Erik van Ommering
. Followed by 15 ninth graders, I climb the stairs in a rural school in South Lebanon. The school is situated amid orchards and olive groves at the edge of a village. Most students come from lower-middle-class backgrounds. Many of the families run small
In Anthropology of the Middle East
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- 01 Jun 2017
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- Research Article
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- 52–70
Maria Bucur
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
Becoming Communist
Ideals, Dreams, and Nightmares
Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild
suppression of student protesters and partisans in 1950s Romania. All these essays are notable for their deep research and detailed presentation of the levels to which the state authorities, and the many who implemented their orders, went to suppress the
Methodology Matters in Iran
Researching Social Movements in Authoritarian Contexts
Paola Rivetti
. This article is based on methodological reflections and conversations that I started with colleagues and activists in and from Iran years ago but that have intensified since the assassination of the Cambridge PhD student Giulio Regeni during the summer
In Anthropology of the Middle East
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- 01 Jun 2017
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- Research Article
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- 71–82
Paul L. Scham and Yoram Peri
articles that follow. This is also a ‘prize issue’, as it contains two articles by laureates of the AIS's Kimmerling Prize for the best graduate student paper of the year. Netta Galnoor is the 2019 winner, and her piece is entitled “From Jewish Sentiments
Editorial
Reinventing Anthropological Topics
Soheila Shahshahani
should become a must on the reading list of students of not only Kordestȃn, but of all the Middle East. It makes the student search for his own methodology, perspective, theories and even approach before going to the field, and makes him or her alert to
Play of Mirrors
An Encounter of Personal Biographies with Europe’s Journey
Marcos Farias Ferreira
were all students of International Relations and all were conscious, some more than others to be frank, of what it meant to be there at that particular juncture. No one could anticipate the tensions that would mark the years 1991–1993, but as we walked
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
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- 01 Mar 2017
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- Research Article
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- 17–34
Those Who Decide about the Fate of the Foreigner
A Commentary
Tiina Ann Kirss
competition) oriented to high school students throughout Estonia. The assignment, to be supervised by history teachers, was to find either a relative or a resident of one’s hometown who had been deported to Siberia and returned. As the 1941 deportation had few
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
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- 01 Mar 2017
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- Research Article
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- 128–133
Chiara Bonfiglioli
students’ massacre. Olcott specifically highlights the struggles for legitimacy among activists speaking at the Tribune, with women from different parts of the world, but also from the same country, objecting to each other's political representativeness and