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
Translating Islam into Georgian
The Question of Georgian Muslim Identity in Contemporary Adjara
Ricardo Rivera
special linguistic training. Here, I would like to elaborate on a specific example of local Adjarians’ reading and reception of this text, translated by AGAM into Georgian – in particular, male high school students at a Quran school in the Upper Adjara
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
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- 01 Sep 2019
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- Research Article
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- 72–78
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
Livia Jiménez Sedano
? Moroccan women cannot dance’, commented a belly-dance student with her instructor after a summer trip in Morocco. ‘Africans remained stacked in the basic step. We Europeans are the ones who have made Kizomba evolve’, stated a Kizomba teacher in Portugal
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
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- 01 Jun 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 73–77
Gabriela Kiliánová, Rūta Muktupāvela, Philip McDermott, Marion Demossier, Alessandro Testa, Alastair McIntosh, and Thomas M. Wilson
– as well as to revert it to scientific discourse, to create new extraordinary ideas, to fascinate his students with them, thus giving impetus to the new generation of researchers. If a scholar can be characterised as a person doing what he likes best
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
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- 01 Jun 2019
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- A Note Of Appreciation For Ullrich Kockel
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- viii–xiv
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