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... to Assertion: Untouchability, Identity and Politics in Early and Modern India , edited by Aktor Mikael Deliège Robert , 31 – 63 . Copehnhagen : Museum Tusculanum Press , 2010 . Almagor Uri . “ The Cycle and Stagnation of Smells: Pastoralists-Fishermen Relationships in an East Af-rican...

... it mean to affirm the expertise of an eighty-year-old indigo dyer who tells color by smell, when hand dyers' and weavers' livelihoods continue to be vulnerable in the modern market? What does a small spinning machine innovated to bring together impoverished cotton farmers, skilled handloom weavers...

... with the multiple stakeholders on the grant. As one research assistant on a project in Lebanon told me, they are asked to “write extensive fieldnotes so that the PI, who was living in London, can feel, smell, walk, sense all that I felt, smelled, experienced that day. . . . I ended up jotting hundreds of pages...

..., but it there is no protection against is hard to tell from the condition the cold or the smell or the of the factories that these busi• dirt. Rubber shoes, which nesses involve millions of dollars. wou~d provide protection The factories...

...: doesn’t it reek of human blood? Do you know whose blood it was? Do you know whose blood made the Red Sea redder? Can’t you smell your grandpa’s blood? Lusting for power your grandfathers fought each other The blood they spilled still stains the trail. Whenever they fought...

... ern coverage of the Rwandan tragedy, according away, this smell will linger in our bodies and our to McNulty, was marked by the exotic and the minds.10 biblical. Quoting Gérard Prunier, he...

... of grieving. 39 I took the curtains to the tailor. I had first washed them, of course. “I am not taking those,” he said to me, “they stink.” “What do they smell of?” I asked him. “They stink of shit.” “Are you serious?” I replied, “I washed those with my own hands.” He finally took them. Days later...

... and the dark's kingdom came We would sit at the door with no light in the hut. In house after house the lamp would be lit, The fire would bestarted, bhakri kneaded, From somewhere the smell of lentils, of wange, Would hit our noses. In our stomachs all was darkness. And a stream of tears would flow from my...

.... People would turn their head. They would laugh at you.” This sense of shame was compounded by the food her mother would pack for school, which consisted of a sandwich of eggs and amba (Iraqi chutney): “That was horrible because it did smell. . . . One of my traumas when I went to school [was that] I...

... against that they hired larger langur monkeys to urinate the relocated monkeys, however, is not about the on their homes and offices, knowing that the smell difference between types of monkeys but is, rather, would intimidate the smaller rhesus monkeys. We a variant of the old chauvinist argument...

...Figure 5. Excerpt from the Punjab Agri-Horticultural Society's Garden Report for 1877–78 discussing plans to clear and drain a part of the garden with “rank vegetation” and “a very offensive smell.” Miscellaneous Report: Lahore; Agricultural-Horticultural Gardens Reports 1875–91 MR/169, folio 5...

..., as Michael Burtscher BurtscherMichael well as for his “extirpation” (taiji) campaign against “Materialism”—that “foul-smelling air,” as he put it in 1898, that was “blowing into our scholarship and society from the West.” Gentlemen, how do you think about these cir- cumstances...

... first arrived at the church, I had noticed there was a burned smell in the air, like burning plastic. Pastor Herve explained, however, that the smell was the scent of God, yet more evidence that the evening was special. In the days following the service, a number of church members gave testimonies...

...- concluded: “Although it is not proved by con- able smell proceeded from the caravan . . . these clusive facts that the dead bodies of cholera pa- boxes contained corpses which have been col- tients can transmit cholera, it is prudent to con...

.... smell of an oily rag. On August 28, 1925, the Hindi Caste, of course, was a casualty in this exercise carried an appeal from Lala Hardayal to Indian again quite unlike the case with other periodicals brethren overseas, wherein he urged Indian emi- and editors. Hofmeyr skirts this issue...

... Chanda: The Tortoise and the Leopard, or the Postcolonial Muse 131 on the wall. And smell the smells But we can’t go in, categories, a language that opposes tradition with mod- Chacko explained, because we’ve been locked out. . . ernity and then aligns the bad and the good accordingly. .Our dreams...

...- the barrel, down to his shoulder, and pulled the ered in blood and feathers, there was little smell. bird out, still thrashing if a bit more slowly. The Up there sat two boys, the young butchers, who did head had just stopped chirping moments before, their chopping...

... to the smell of their produce. occupation for women. With the introduction of Furthermore, in markets, they are subject to the net-making machines, with which the painstaking whims of local strongmen...

... to snarl or growl at times troversial publication of Arnold Gesell’s Wolf Child and refuse to wear clothes. He would continue to and Human Child (1941), which had repeated quota- smell despite every efort at washing him and could tions at the start of chapters from The Jungle Book.55 revert...