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... Copyright 1991: South Asia Bulletin 1990 South Asia Bulletin, volume 10 number 1, 1990 Document: Centre for Society and Religion (January-February 1988) Sri Lankan Workers in the Middle East I paid Rs. 12,375 to a man in Dehiwala who and wages not keeping...

...Barak A. Salmoni The "Teachers' Army" and Its Miniature Republican Society: Educators' Traits and School Dynamics in Turkish Pedagogical Prescriptions, 1923-1950 Barak A. Salmoni During the first half of the twentieth century “modern” Having recourse to traditional Islamic distinctions...

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... of agricultural and technical education, this article elucidates the background of the increasing press attention to artisanal and agricultural occupations. If youths followed these callings, these publications claimed, Lagos society could regain self-respect and unity as an African race and eventually achieve...

...Ruchi Chaturvedi; Antina von Schnitzler Abstract This essay introduces the special section “Political Society and Popular Politics in Africa” and sets out some of the key debates and concepts that animate the contributions. It focuses in particular on the specific terrains of postcolonial...

...Vivek Bhandari Duke University Press 2006 Civil Society and the Predicament of Multiple Publics Vivek Bhandari n a newspaper article published recently, Neera Chandhoke, someone...

...Lois Beck; Julia Huang Duke University Press 2006 Manipulating Private Lives and Public Spaces in Qashqa’i Society in Iran Lois Beck and Julia Huang We are looking...

... acknowledge these contributions and am indebted to all, any errors are my own. Unless otherwise noted, all translations are my own. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 The Specter and Reality of Corruption in State and Civil Society: Privatizing and Auditing Poor Relief in Turkey Damla Isik...

...Nicole F. Watts This essay examines state-society relations in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq through a case study of the March 2006 protest in Halabja, during which protesters destroyed a memorial built to honor the victims of the 1988 chemical bombing of the city. The article suggests...

...Arshavez Mozafari; Melissa Finn © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Introduction: Veiled Constellations: The Veil, Critical Theory, Politics, and Contemporary Society...

...Hilal Khashan The Lebanese Army: A National Institution in a Divided Society Barak Oren . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2009 272 pp., $65.00 (cloth) , $25.95 (paper) © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 The Politics of Women’s Rights in Iran...

...Philip S. Zachernuk The Man-Leopard Murders: History and Society in Colonial Nigeria David Pratten Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press for the International African Institute, 2007 xii + 425 pp., $49.95 (cloth) Duke University Press 2010 The Crypto-Jewish Mashhadis...

...Kaveh Louis Hemmat The Khatay'namah , or Book of China , a description of Chinese government and society in the mid-Ming period, written by a Central Asian merchant and presented to the Ottoman court in 1516, is evidence that the advent of more rationalized, centralized, and bureaucratic forms...

... an already predominant dichotomy between the repressively secular state and the Muslim actors. What deserves more attention, however, is the transformation in state-society relations since the late 1990s. From a state-society perspective, the recent secularist backlash remains understudied. Why does...