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Photo of deceased man wearing United Nation shirt that circulated on Facebo...
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in Bullets and Boomerangs: Proleptic Uses of Failure in Myanmar's Anti-coup Uprising
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Published: 01 January 2023
FIGURE 23 Photo of deceased man wearing United Nation shirt that circulated on Facebook, September 2021.
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Published: 01 September 2021
figure 2 Costco customer invokes the “freedom” to not wear a mask.
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Excluding Muslim Women: From Hijab to Niqab , from School to Public Space
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (1): 39–46.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Sylvie Tissot Six years after banning pupils from wearing a hijab in public high schools, in July 2010, French deputies passed a law that forbids women from wearing the “integral veil” (or niqab , an outfit hiding the entire face except the eyes) in public spaces. This article examines why...
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Face Mask Face-Offs: Culture and Conflict in the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (3 (95)): 441–466.
Published: 01 September 2021
...figure 2 Costco customer invokes the “freedom” to not wear a mask. ...
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Figure 13 Snapshot from the June 30, 2018 “Families Belong Together” march in New York City, across the Brooklyn Bridge, in which a participant, wearing a Gay and Lesbian Surf Association T-shirt, carries a sign featuring Hokusai’s Great Wave off Kanagawa . Photo by author.
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Fashion, Gender and the Bengali Middle Class
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Public Culture (1991) 3 (2): 93–112.
Published: 01 May 1991
..., shops and small restaurants. The ad runs as follows:
There flows the river Dhaleswari,
Itsbanks deeply shadowed by trees,
She who is waiting for me (there)
Is wearing a Dhakai sari,
With sinciw on her forehead.
Pabindranath Thakur
TANTUJA Is Engaged...
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Dealing with Used Clothing: Salaula and the Construction of Identity in Zambia's Third Republic
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Public Culture (1994) 6 (3): 503–523.
Published: 01 September 1994
... with a walkman wears what looks like an orderly’s
white hospital uniform topped with a pink peignoir. Other young male traders
wear women’s knit-skirts as headgear and what might have been women’s shorts.
Mature women wear men’s dust coats over their dresses and men of all ages
wear what once were...
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Trooping the Colors on TV
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Public Culture (1991) 3 (2): 155–158.
Published: 01 May 1991
... it. Living within the magic Circle of its
protection, they have no need to drain its contagious sacred power, or to
strive to eam its blessing.
For common soldiers and those who love them, the flag wears a differ-
ent aspect that television has faithfully captured This is a shamanistic flag...
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Musée Légitime
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (1 (93)): 113.
Published: 01 January 2021
... enough that it can fit inside the hat while the artist wears it. In different moments, the artist does a selection of pieces, tucks them inside the hat, and goes for a walk while wearing the museum. If the moment arises, he takes the hat off and presents the pieces in the collection, telling...
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A Consumer and a Gentleman
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Public Culture (1990) 2 (2): 129–134.
Published: 01 May 1990
..., with seersucker a cheap fabric, to fashionable garb
when Damon Runyon, 'The King of Dudes', started wearing one in the
mid-Forties. And, while it is conceded that Sarah Bernhardt was the first to
wear a fedora, "by the turn of the century, millions of men were wearing fe-
doras," including, once again...
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Eyeless in the Market Place
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Public Culture (1989) 2 (1): 129.
Published: 01 January 1989
... a prolonged advertisement on one of the TV channels.
Passersby on the streets somewhere were being shown sun-glasses, costing
$19.99 apiece, wearing which, it was said, enables one to see behind one's
head (and ahead too, I guess): The people encountered were asked to wear
the sun-glasses and give...
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Islamism and the Politics of Fun
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Public Culture (2007) 19 (3): 433–459.
Published: 01 September 2007
... “dens of drug, booze, sexual movies and urfi [unofficial]
marriage” and were frequented by “girls who smoke sheesha and wear clothes
that are uncalled-for.” The paper called for surveillance to protect “our youth.”3
Advanced by opposition...
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Red Mosque
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Public Culture (2008) 20 (1): 19–26.
Published: 01 January 2008
..., as he tried to escape
the premises disguised in a burkha, clutching a handbag and, according to some
reports, wearing high-heeled shoes. What were high heels doing at the mosque
anyway, and how had the divine learned to wear them? According to Pakistani
officials, Abdul Aziz was spotted because...
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Portrait and Scan
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (3 (95)): 349–369.
Published: 01 September 2021
..., impeccably whitewashed, taped on the wall next to framed portraits of kin in formal wear. Color runs riot, saturating some objects, coating others; it is artifice and it is real. My use of the phrase “runs riot” treads dangerously close to Orientalist stories of color as abundance and passion. Panivong...
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Be. Very. Careful. Who. You. Invite. In: A Warning, an Invitation, Destruction, and Creation in the Art of Image-Making
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Public Culture (2025) 37 (1 (105)): 5–14.
Published: 01 January 2025
... sculpture of a majestic female form that was now on display in the grounds of the University of Houston. This was Witness —one half of the duo comprising Havah —an utterly self-contained and self-rooted figure, wearing a metallic laced hoopskirt through which one glimpsed the vegetal roots that held her...
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Becoming The Armed Man
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Public Culture (1991) 4 (1): 71–88.
Published: 01 January 1991
...” for would-be waniors. Each year it held a week-
long convention in which everyone dressed up in camouflage fatigues and
attended war games and seminars on military affairs. Going to SOF’s party
was a big deal. In L.A. and Dallas I’d seen tough guys at the local gun
shows walking around wearing...
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The Narco Uncanny
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (2 (91)): 327–348.
Published: 01 May 2020
... like has emerged as a national preoccupation and become an increasingly difficult task in Mexico. When I first made visits to northern Mexico, in the early 2000s, local people told me narcos looked like Mexican cowboys, wearing cowboy hats and boots like cheros (from ranchero). As Javier...
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“Crushing the Pistachio”: Eroticism in Senegal and the Art of Ousmane Ndiaye Dago
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Public Culture (2000) 12 (3): 707–720.
Published: 01 September 2000
... took to wearing scented undergarments (such as the bethio) and
girdles of fragrant pearls (the fer), which she would reveal only to her lover or
husband. Known as thiuraye, these practices became central to the erotic arts of
West Africa.
Perhaps...
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How Much Is Enough?
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (3 (71)): 375–386.
Published: 01 September 2013
... the subtle differences between brands and styles more carefully, just as some boys take the differences between brands of sports shoes seriously. But the variety of situations men must consider in choosing what they wear is less. Women in contemporary Western societies, however, find themselves...
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Block Thinking and Internal Criticism
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Public Culture (2006) 18 (3): 453–455.
Published: 01 September 2006
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schoolgirls to wear headscarves, are suddenly freighted with immense signifi-
cance. The feeling is often that this sort of seemingly simple proposal is really
part of a larger, more sinister package.
The package is Islam, and it includes such terrible things as we see in the press
daily: things...
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