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148346
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THE COLLAPSE of the socialist world late in the 20th century and the redivision of its territory resulted in the emergence of new independent states, some of which are generally recognized while others are labeled self-proclaimed. But no matter how a new state finds its way onto the map, there will have been deep historical and cultural reasons for its coming into being. One of the new states is Abkhazia.
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005242
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Singapore, Brunei Shell, 1993.
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208p.hbk
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9813018038
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140133
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Traditions have remained a significant aspect of social and cultural structure of societies. In this article, changes in traditions associated with vital events in Mohla, a rural community of Punjab, Pakistan, are analysed. Birth, death and marriage are considered vital events and have been analysed over a period of 50 years. Data is drawn from a sample survey conducted in the village. Systematic sampling technique was used for the selection of the respondents. The results show that material exchanges on vital events have declined, with the exception of marriage. Traditions associated with the birth of a son have remained consistent throughout the decades whereas an upward trend was observed in traditions associated with the birth of a daughter. Awareness through education was a significant reason for this change. Some traditions associated with marriages have declined, with the exception of mehndi, which has substantially increased in the recent past. Most traditions associated with death, particularly daswan and chaliswan, have declined over the decades. Changes in traditions around most of the vital events have occurred due to economic factors.
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093960
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2009.
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Chinese people have had a strong bond with a long continuous history that has shaped their identity as Chinese. The opening to the outside world during the last century has exposed them to different kinds of histories. Within China, the threats to their civilisation and the possibility of national history have led to many revisions of the Chinese past. Those who have lived outside China have faced alternative historical representations. How will the various experiences with history paradigms influence the very idea of being Chinese?
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139786
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The New Year (Chunjie) came into being in China about four thousand years ago and, having experienced all and sundry vicissitudes of the historical process and political and economic reforms still survives at the beginning of the 21st century. All attempts of the authorities that be to overcome the desire of the people to mark Chunjie by the lunar calendar have failed. Popular customs have remained in the conditions of modernization and globalization, which confirms the conservatism of tradition as compared to the dynamism of the economic forms of life.
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130579
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2014.
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One of the initiatives used by the Singapore government to fortify its own position has been to promote Malay culture. This has been done by strengthening the Malays' attachment to their indigenous culture and also by introducing the customs and practices of the racial minority to non- Malays. This article traces the genealogy of cultural engineering by the state from the 1960s to the present, and argues that the persistence of late capitalism has retained the material dialectic between the political and the popular. Focusing on the local practices of the gamelan and angklung-kulintang, the article explores paradoxes in the way these musical genres are being promoted today by a new generation of non-Malay descendants, who have also become the cultural sculptors of Malay identity for international spectacles.
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130787
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2014.
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The concept of human values is by its very nature universal. That is why we find uniformity in the teachings on human values in all religions. If there are any differences on this subject, they relate to points of reference, i.e. to religious books, rather than to the human values themselves.
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165135
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The article is a modest attempt to shed light on the socio-cultural life of the Garos, one of the few remaining matrilineal tribes of the world holding a distinctive cultural tradition, of Garam Basti in Alipurduar district of West Bengal, India. Emphasis has also been given to delineate the eccentric traditional aspects therein, some of which are typically unique to the tribe, and also to look at the trends of change. In addition, this article outlines some of the major anthropological features of the tribe. It is based on ethnographic method. The facts and findings presented here are mostly gathered through empirical field work with the help of participatory observation, interview, case study, group discussion and key informant interview methods and techniques. Besides, different relevant available research references have also been consulted. The abovementioned issues have been examined and discussed empirically and put the information in an organized and systematic manner.
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102104
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2010.
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The author shows the role of the General Staff Military Academy in the Russian military education system at various periods of its existence, and also its goals and objectives. He argues for giving the General Staff Military Academy a greater role in education now that the Armed Forces are undergoing reform to develop a new makeup.
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124423
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2013.
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The past 10 years have seen an increase in legislation pertaining to marriage migration in Europe. Such attention betrays various concerns and anxieties that intersect not only with issues of risk management, rights, and citizenship, but also with less tangible dimensions such as emotions, which become embedded in legal as well as in surveillance practices. Emotions such as love are integral to the institutions, procedures, analyses and reflections, calculation, and tactics that Foucault identified as part of governmental processes; the latter should not necessarily be equated with (and limited to) rationalized technocratic processes detached from emotional components. Technologies of love are central to the governmentality of marriage migration; as modes of subjectification and governing practice, they connect intimacy with citizenship. More than the manifestation of the rationalization of a specific emotion, technologies of love allow for an exploration of what an engagement with emotions such as love does to governmentality. Illustrations of the "attachment requirement" in Denmark, and the case of "Catgate" in Great Britain, show that technologies of love play a significant role in stirring and disciplining specific migration flows (what kind of marriage migrants the state welcomes or keeps at bay), but also in challenging, even if inadvertently, those policies and practices designed to gauge "true" relationships.
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099579
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The article examines the formation and development of the institution of the Chairman of the PRC from the time of the inception of the People's Republic of China (October 1, 1949) until this day. The emergence and development of the institution of the Chairman took place under the influence of certain historical and national specific features and traditions, naturally, with due account of the necessity and expedience of the creation of this political institution in concrete political conditions.
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130788
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2014.
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Man has always lived, and its still living, under two parallel social control mechanism - religion and law - and guidance for all aspects of human life is found in one or the other of these, often in both. Both are equally significant. Paradigmatic precepts teaching people how to live together in peace and harmony despite their different religious affiliations are found both in the age-old faith traditions and the national and international laws of time. I will briefly sample here relevant provisions of both but, being a law-man ignoramus in matters of religion, will begin with law.
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This article applies an interpretive approach to account for the process of definition and contestation over wartime memory in Japan. It first locates the role of memory in interpretive theory, emphasising how beliefs about the past are a crucial component of foreign policy traditions. Second, it highlights how the process of contestation over a country’s memory is fundamentally intertwined with attempts to legitimise or resist key foreign policy decisions in response to contemporaneous dilemmas that force a confrontation with historical traditions. This is illustrated through an analysis of the Yoshida Doctrine’s problematic compromise between conservative and progressive traditions of thought about Japan’s role in the Second World War, beginning with the period of US Occupation, moving through the Cold War years and ending with the death of the Shōwa Emperor in 1989. Finally, it studies the ‘normalisation’ of Japanese foreign policy during the post-Cold War Heisei period, the dilemmas caused by the debate over wartime memory and the effort to achieve reconciliation with other Asian nations. The central argument is that post-war Japanese foreign policy has generally represented an uneasy and evolving compromise between the conservative and progressive traditions.
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Using a case study method, we examine how practitioners, including judges, arbitrators and community mediators, view dispute resolution in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). The goal of this study is to assess whether traditional approaches to dispute resolution coexist with or are discarded for imported modes. Participants were selected through convenience sampling. Structured interviews involved (a) participants’ general theoretical foundations, (b) key principles that govern their professional role, (c) their views of different roles, and (d) the extent to which traditional modi operandi persist. The results highlight the dominance of principles and practices of Sharia law over common law. Although the use of formal Western procedures was reported in commercial disputes and rarely in family and tribal matters, implementation was undeniably shaped by religious and kin-based social habits and values.
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Saba Mahmood's untimely passing on March 10, 2018 was a tragic loss for family, friends, and colleagues, as well as for cultural anthropologists inspired by her scholarship over the past two decades. Her influence has been no less far-reaching in contemporary Islamic and gender studies, as well as the anthropology of ethics. It is against the backdrop of her legacy that this essay seeks to pay homage to and critically reflect on Mahmood's scholarship. It focuses on and assesses Mahmood's contributions as an anthropologist of Islam, subjectivity, and ethics, paying particular attention to the debates that have emerged in the wake of her scholarship on the ethics of piety, the ambivalent nature of subjectivity, and the meanings of freedom and tradition. The assessment suggests that there is an unresolved tension between Mahmood's experience-near reflections on the ethical care of the pious self, on one hand, and her more sweeping critiques of freedom and the liberal project. The essay concludes with some thoughts on where the anthropology of Islam is moving with regard to ethics, plurality, and the ambivalence of subjectivity.
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065413
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066984
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186288
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Oxon, Routledge, 2021.
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xvi, 216p.hbk
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9781032189611
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| 060208 | 297.5/HAM 060208 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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