laundry amongst the emergent Indonesian middle classes, thus offering an ideal example through which to examine how mundane everyday practices are implicated in imagined futures. Participants who had moved between being busy professionals in Indonesia to
In Anthropology in Action
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- 01 Jun 2019
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Andrew Dawson
taking place within Australia as a consequence of the pandemic, and broader transformations in Australians’ post-colonial relations to and intimacies with the United Kingdom. Behind Every Larrikin Is a Bureaucrat: Australia's Dirty Laundry A common
The Pandemic of Productivity
The Work of Home and the Work from Home
Suchismita Chattopadhyay
-building process ( Rao and Shalia 1986 ). The college initially offered courses in laundry, cooking, needlework, mother craft, first aid, hygiene, physics, chemistry and dietetics. Home science courses in 1938 also included courses in music, dance and other
In Anthropology in Action
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- 01 Mar 2021
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Girls’ Work in a Rural Intercultural Setting
Formative Experiences and Identity in Peasant Childhood
Ana Padawer
through role-play and gradual incorporation into the domestic activities of social reproduction. There was a basic division of labor by sex on the farms I visited: girls like Sonia were initiated into caring for younger siblings, doing laundry, and cooking
In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Jun 2018
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Radio Free Europe Information Item #687/54 (29 January 1954)
“The Decline of Family Life”
Melissa Feinberg
position of secretary, most of the employees were communists who advised her to arrange her marriage according to the “communist formula,” that is, she should send her child to a nursery, eat in the factory canteen, have the laundry done in the state
Perverse Economies of Intimate and Personal Labour
Resuming Domestic Work in Households after the Lockdown
Pooja Satyogi
humid and stuffy bathroom. To add to her consternation, she often saw used washable masks dumped in the laundry that she had to wash with her hands. Her own mask, she could not trash in any of the houses. The assumption of the linear flow of infection
In Anthropology in Action
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- 01 Mar 2021
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City Sterilization and Poverty Management
Examining a Mobility Hub in the “Redevelopment and Enhancement” of Downtown Tallahassee
Christopher M. McLeod, Matthew I. Horner, Matthew G. Hawzen, and Mark DiDonato
community to ensure “access to quality health care, food, housing, education, and stable income.” 33 Services included telephones, Internet, computers, shower and laundry facilities, information and referral services, travel assistance, medical care, case
Made in Nigeria
Duress and Upwardly Mobile Youth in the Biography of a Young Entrepreneur in Enugu
Inge Ligtvoet
other choice” if he wanted to go to school. He refused to settle for a life on the street making money through criminal activities, the only other choice available, according to him, and the easy way out. Fortunately, his laundry business took off, and
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jan 2018
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High-rise social failures
Regulating technologies, authority, and aesthetics in the resettlement of Taipei military villages
Elisa Tamburo
disruption of the relocated inhabitants, in this article I focus on other relevant, yet overlooked, factors—that is, the regulative and normative role of the high-rise. Figure 4: The informal settlement: laundry hanging in the alleys (© Elisa Tamburo). This
Why Does God Get It Wrong?
Divine Fallibility in Athens and Jerusalem
Gabriel Kanter Webber
worshippers were caring for their murtis in what was almost a parental capacity: providing food, shelter, sweet-smelling surroundings, laundry services. (Similar practices took place in Ancient Greek worship 3 and in a number of other religions.) The Hindus
In European Judaism
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- 01 Sep 2020
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