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Leaving The House Of Memory: Post-Soviet Traces Of Deportation Memory, Rebecca Gould
Leaving The House Of Memory: Post-Soviet Traces Of Deportation Memory, Rebecca Gould
Rebecca Gould
No abstract provided.
Mahfouz, Naguib, Benjamin Geer
Mahfouz, Naguib, Benjamin Geer
Benjamin Geer
An encyclopaedia article about the Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz.
Intersections Of Age And Gender, Laura Quilter, Liz Henry
Intersections Of Age And Gender, Laura Quilter, Liz Henry
Laura Quilter
No abstract provided.
Transgressive Sanctity: The Abrek In Chechen Culture, Rebecca Gould
Transgressive Sanctity: The Abrek In Chechen Culture, Rebecca Gould
Rebecca Gould
The ancient tradition of the abrek (bandit) was developed into a political institution during the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth century by Chechen and other Muslim peoples of the Caucasus as a strategy for dealing with the overwhelming military force of Russia's imperial army. During the Soviet period, the abrek became a locus for oppositional politics and arguably influenced the representations of violence and anti-colonial resistance during the recent Chechen Wars. This article is one of the first works of English-language scholarship to historicize this institution. It also marks the beginning of a book project entitled A …