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In the late nineteenth century, tens of thousands of porters carried ivory every year from the African interior to Bagamoyo, a port town at the Indian Ocean. In the opposite direction, they carried millions of meters of cloth, manufactured in the USA, Europe, and India. This book examines the centrality of the caravan trade, both culturally and economically, to Bagamoyo’s development and cosmopolitan character, while also exploring how this history was silenced when Bagamoyo was instead branded as a slave route town in 2006 in an attempt to qualify it for the UNESCO World Heritage List.

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Contemporary public discourses about the ocean are routinely characterized by scientific and environmentalist narratives that imagine and idealize marine spaces in which humans are absent. In contrast, this collection explores the variety of ways in which people have long made themselves at home at sea, and continue to live intimately with it. In doing so, it brings together both ethnographic and archaeological research – much of it with an explicit Ingoldian approach – on a wide range of geographical areas and historical periods.

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Despite high degrees of cultural and ethnic diversity as well as prevailing political instability, Guinea-Bissau’s population has developed a strong sense of national belonging. By examining both contemporary and historical perspectives, A Creole Nation explores how creole identity, culture, and political leaders have influenced postcolonial nation-building processes in Guinea-Bissau, and the ways in which the phenomenon of cultural creolization results in the emergence of new identities.

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The first book to address the classic anthropological theme of property through the ethnography of Amazonia, Ownership and Nurture sets new and challenging terms for anthropological debates about the region and about property in general. Property and ownership have special significance and carry specific meanings in Amazonia, which has been portrayed as the antithesis of Western, property-based, civilization. Through carefully constructed studies of land ownership, slavery, shamanism, spirit mastery, aesthetics, and intellectual property, this volume demonstrates that property relations are of central importance in Amazonia, and that the ownership of persons plays an especially significant role in native cosmology.

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"Raif Badawi's is an important voice for all of us to hear"— Salman RushdieRaif Badawi, a Saudi Arabian blogger, shared his thoughts on politics, religion, and liberalism online. He was sentenced to 1,000 lashes, ten years in prison, and a fine of 1 million Saudi Riyal, over a quarter of a million U.S. dollars. This politically topical polemic gathers together Badawi’s pivotal texts. He expresses his opinions on life in an autocratic-Islamic state under the Sharia and his perception of freedom of expression, human and civil rights, tolerance and the necessary separation of state and religion.

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Sultana’s Dream, first published in 1905 in a Madras English newspaper, is a witty feminist utopia—a tale of reverse purdah that posits a world in which men are confined indoors and women have taken over the public sphere, ending a war nonviolently and restoring health and beauty to the world."The Secluded Ones" is a selection of short sketches, first published in Bengali newspapers, illuminating the cruel and comic realities of life in purdah.

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Как становятся лингвистами? О своём жизненном пути, о том, как сам стал лингвистом рассказывает Владимир Михайлович Алпатов, доктор филологических наук, профессор, главный научный сотрудник института языкознания РАН, член-корреспондент РАН. Друзья, если вы хотите, чтобы наши видеоролики появлялись чаще, поддержите наш некоммерческий проект: nauka-pro.ru/podderzhat-proekt наука, научпоп, владимир алпатов, лингвистика, как становятся лингвистами, филология, языкознание, язык, научпросвет, ран, институт языкознания, как стать учёным, светлана бурлак, сергей попов

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Сегодня, 26 сентября, в Европейский день языков (European Day of Languages), наш очередной сюжет посвящён языкознанию. Зачем нужна лингвистика? Какие задачи, в том числе прикладные, существуют у этой науки? Рассказывает Владимир Михайлович Алпатов, доктор филологических наук, профессор, главный научный сотрудник института языкознания РАН, член-корреспондент РАН. наука, научпоп, European Day of Languages, Европейский день языков, 26 сентября, Зачем нужна лингвистика, лингвокриминалистика, психолингвистика, лингвистика, медицина, владимир алпатов, язык, языкознание, сохранение языка, ран, академия наук, институт языкознания, прикладная лингвистика, филология, прикладные задачи лингвистики, разделы лингвистики, факультет лингвистики, лингвистика вузы, какая лингвистика, лингвистика москва, компьютерная лингвистика

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Чем может отличаться мужская и женская речь? В каких культурах мужское и женское произношения могут различаются на уровне лексики и фонетики? В каких случаях женщина использует стиль речи, характерный для мужчин? Владимир Михайлович Алпатов, доктор филологических наук, профессор, главный научный сотрудник Института языкознания РАН, член-корреспондент РАН рассказывает, какие общие отличительные характеристики может иметь мужская речь, какие существуют гендерные различия в речи народов мира и в каких языках подобное разделение встречаются чаще всего. наука, научпоп, владимир алпатов, как говорят мужчины и женщины, мужчина и женщина, секс, гендер, равенство полов, феминизм, тимонова, сексизм, мускулинность, языкознание, филология, лексика, фонетика, лингвистика, ран, языкознания ран, женская речь

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Verbal attacks against Israel for human rights violations have turned into physical attacks against the Jewish community worldwide. How has that happened? This book attempts to explain the phenomenon. Anti-Zionists, whose primary goal is destruction of the State of Israel, use accusations of the worst forms of human rights violations against Israel to delegitimize the state. These accusations criminalize the Jewish population worldwide for actual or presumed support of the State of Israel. The contemporary international human rights system and the existence of the State of Israel are twin legacies of the Holocaust. The failure of the human rights system to prevent attacks on Israel and the Jews is an aftershock of the Holocaust.

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