...Chris Briggs What happens when a debtor does not pay back what he or she owes? As Margaret Atwood's chapter on “The Shadow Side” shows, the unpaid debt—in the broadest sense—is a recurring theme of history and literature. This review essay looks at the fourteenth-century village, a world which...

... and participation in the combat inside southern Lebanon. The narrative follows the progress of an infantry unit from its point of entry on the Israel-Lebanese border, through the villages of Raj-A-Min, Sham'a and on to the coastal position it held until the end of the war at Ras-Bayada. The memoir draws particular...

... Guerre brings understanding of the peasant world, which is also important for the trajectory of Luther's Reformation. Knowing about Martin Luther brings knowledge of major religious change, essential to understanding Martin Guerre's village world and what happened in it. Themes of “imposture...

...Christopher P. Jones The subject of “the last pagans” or “the end of paganism” in the Greco-Roman world has interested scholars for over a century but begs the question “What is paganism?” Is the term usable as a tool of analysis? It originates from the Latin paganus , meaning “villager,” “rustic...

.... Knowing about Martin Guerre brings understanding of the peasant world, which is also important for the trajectory of Luther’s Reformation. Knowing about Martin Luther brings knowledge of major religious change essential to understanding Martin Guerre’s village world and what happened in it. Themes...

..., for example, that van Eyck went to the village of Foots Cray to buy watercresses to use as models when painting greenery on the Ghent Altarpiece of the Mystic Lamb (which he completed in 1432). The recently erected gateway to the palace at Greenwich is said likewise to be the model for a towered gateway...

... for the paths that lead to poplar- shaded villages will miss seeing how seem- ing continuities of space are marked by cultural differences acknowledged and accommodated in the past. A pall of silence over genocide mutes the presence of a deeply interred diversity. Other gaps expose a timeline of events...

... of the Greek Orthodox ( Rum ) communities of central Anatolia, there was consider- able emigration away from the villages to coastal cities to Istanbul, above all. Cappadocian Rums also emigrated throughout the nineteenth century in search of new sources of income, but the Rum communities there continued...

... to social dynamics since the early days of anthropological and sociological inquiry. It has been twenty-­five years since the legal anthropologist Laura Nader, in discussing “justice and control in a Zapotec mountain village,” introduced the term harmony...

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.... The villages and fields and barns, the houses and stone chimneys and narrow footpaths that occupy these fractions of inches, in Slovenia and elsewhere in Europe and the world, can strike outsiders as negligible and unimportant. Border regions rarely possess the eminence...

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... Ribeira da Barca is a fishing village on the Cape Verde island of Santiago. My interlocutor Madalena, in her fifties, lives in front of the public esplanade at the center of town. She runs a small canteen, but she makes her real living selling grogs (local rum) to the men of the village: first...

... that of most other indigenous Amazonian peoples. Hierarchy is usually attributed to a system of linear status transmission associated with the position of village chief. The distinction is primarily an ethnological one and a topic for debate The author wishes to thank the program in social anthro...

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... care and support of the two religious groups are taken for granted and articulated in a way and at a level that are mostly invisible from the outside. Discreet Divisions and Inconspicuous Boundary Crossings I began fieldwork in 2009, mainly among Bulgarian Muslims,4 in a village located some 30 km from...

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