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...David Johnson © 1994: South Asia Bulletin 1994 South Asia Bulletin, Vol. XIV No. 1 (1994) Conference Report Reconstructing the Study and Meaning of Africa David Johnson The Center for African Studies of the University private sponsorship of language and area centers...

... of the group was how to navigate processes of assimilation as translation, in the broad sense of the historical processes of the circulation of meaning between languages, that negotiates not only Europe as the linguistic outside but Arabic and Persian from within. By tracing the ways in which Edebiyat-ı Cedide...

...- Giroux: What Might Education Mean After Abu Ghraib 15 tive of never allowing the genocide witnessed at necessary and could actually be carried out through Auschwitz to happen again. For such a goal to be- individual and collective forms of resistance. What come meaningful and realizable...

...Asef Bayat Duke University Press 2007 A Women’s Non-Movement: What It Means to Be a Woman Activist VARIORUM VARIORUM in an Islamic State Asef Bayat eminists have long...

...Dane Kennedy Kennedy’s “The Means and Ends of Empires” offers a commentary on Julian Go’s stimulating comparative study of the British and American empires, Patterns of Empire . It argues that Go’s book is strongest in its analysis of the means by which the United States forged an empire, providing...

... such as pipe locations, water pressures, and the timings and operations of valves, as well as on the networks of power and influence that might underpin the appearances and disappearances of water. These risks are hedged by means of the continuous gathering and ongoing exchange of water-related knowledge...

... the issue of monkey translocation reveals about notions of belonging in this region. It contends that the reason there is such anxious public discourse around what is called the “monkey menace” is that it has dovetailed with a regional politics of identity and cultural meaning. What is at stake...

...Dorothy Figueira In this essay, Figueira discusses how the Aryan past can be studied as a myth , meaning a form of discourse that can be employed in the construction or the deconstruction of society. In particular, this examination focuses on the discourse concerning the Aryan race as a shared myth...

...Leigh Denault Alternately seen as a local-level court of arbitration, a union or committee, or village or municipal council, the concept of the South Asian panchayat was a sociopolitical and legal palimpsest. Retaining traces of meaning accrued from multiple incarnations, contestations...

... between revolutions and archives in their own practice. What does it mean, in practice, to unlearn the archive? What does it mean to do so from the global periphery, the still present specter of a third world? [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] md3821...

...Frances S. Hasso Based on analysis of scholarly and primary sources that include July 2011 and January and February 2014 fieldwork in Cairo, this article examines civil as a word with multiple synchronic meanings and shifts in valence in Egypt between January 2011 and July 2013. I argue that civil...

... engage in particular political projects through an examination of the way that particular forms of meaning production are invigorated through communicative forms that can involve critical shifts to the moral order. Finally, the essay examines the shifts related to the formation of the “Responsibility...

... people process death into meaning and life for their communities, subjectivities, and political projects? How do sovereign and intimate claims on bodies, and the contestation among these multiple claims, shape the meaning of death and the production of afterlives? How does the symbolic and material life...

... at the Margiana and Bactria geographical locations, which were the home to the Sakas Haomavarga people. This analysis argues that the haoma drink was used as a means of transcending the ordinary state of mind in order to connect with the supranatural realms of reality. Therefore haoma was upheld as a sacred...

...C. S. Adcock Proponents of cow protection in colonial north India around the turn of the twentieth century made abundant use of “economic” arguments for a legislative ban on cow slaughter. Drawing on recent critical reflections on secular history, this essay explores what it might mean to take...

...Martin Slama; Johann Heiss This introductory article discusses comparative approaches and research topics explored by contributors to the issue’s special section “Comparing Arab Diasporas.” The article reassesses debates about early meanings of the term diaspora that reveal the potentials...

... symbol of the Iranian national sovereignty, under the fundamentalist formulation of the “governance of the canonist” ( velayat-e faqih ). This new state manifesting itself through specific signs, symbols, slogans, discourses, and behaviors, as well as by appropriation of modern means of ideological...

... of Ottoman donors, while philanthropy functions more to legitimize wealth than to ensure political legitimacy. Nonetheless, philanthropy remains the means to contribute to a wider community, whether it is the community of Turkish citizens; of Muslims or another confessional group; or of a town...

... the serpent dwelling inside. These puttu or termite hills are sometimes transformed into little stone temples, and a sculpture of a goddess called “Puttu Amman” is placed on top of it. This article will attempt to explain the meaning of this popular cult and its possible connections with ancient mediterranean...