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Mlgpa News (December 1999), Betsy Smith
Mlgpa News (September 1999), Betsy Smith
Common Circle For Human Rights, Vol.4, No.6 (September-October 1999), M. Lichtman
Common Circle For Human Rights, Vol.4, No.6 (September-October 1999), M. Lichtman
Common Circle for Human Rights (1997-2000)
No abstract provided.
Mlgpa News (August 1999), Betsy Smith
Mlgpa News (July 1999), Betsy Smith
Mlgpa News (June 1999), Betsy Smith
Mlgpa News (May 1999), Betsy Smith
Naccs 26th Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
Naccs 26th Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
NACCS Conference Programs
Missionary Positions: Post-Colonialism to Pre-Sexto Sol
April 28-May 1, 1999
Radisson Hotel
Mlgpa News (April 1999), Betsy Smith
Mlgpa News (March 1999), Betsy Smith
Common Circle For Human Rights, Vol.4, No.5 (March-April 1999), M. Lichtman
Common Circle For Human Rights, Vol.4, No.5 (March-April 1999), M. Lichtman
Common Circle for Human Rights (1997-2000)
No abstract provided.
Mlgpa News (February 1999), Betsy Smith
Mlgpa News (January 1999), Betsy Smith
A Mirror Of Political Culture In Contemporary Egypt: Divisions And Debates Among Women Activists, Nadje Sadig Al-Ali
A Mirror Of Political Culture In Contemporary Egypt: Divisions And Debates Among Women Activists, Nadje Sadig Al-Ali
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The fourth of four volumes, this volume covers contemporary political and social issues in Egypt. The contributors include: Mona Abaza, Nadje Sadeg al-Ali, Iman Hamdy, Noha el-Mikawy, Reem Saad.
[Introduction To] Conceiving Spirits: Birth Rituals And Contested Identities Among Lauje Of Indonesia, Jennifer W. Nourse
[Introduction To] Conceiving Spirits: Birth Rituals And Contested Identities Among Lauje Of Indonesia, Jennifer W. Nourse
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For most of the Lauje' of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, birth spirits are of primary importance. The spirits inhabit a mother's birth fluids and placenta, nurturing fetuses in the womb and children after birth---or bringing sickness and death if rituals are neglected.
Jennifer Nourse describes how Lauje' from both modernized coastal and isolated highland villages attribute to birth spirits competing meanings that hinge on an individual's gender, social class, and religion. At the beginning of her fieldwork, Nourse collaborated with two Lauje' men whose concepts of birth spirits as divided into good and bad, male and female, or local and foreign …