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Islam : A Guide For The Perplexed - Study & Evaluation Of An Attempt Of Application: Alleviating Poverty In Tafahna Alashraf, Nancy Fathy Emara Jun 2003

Islam : A Guide For The Perplexed - Study & Evaluation Of An Attempt Of Application: Alleviating Poverty In Tafahna Alashraf, Nancy Fathy Emara

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Women, Power And Position Within The Household Economy, Mamdouh Kamal Hakim Jun 2003

Women, Power And Position Within The Household Economy, Mamdouh Kamal Hakim

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No abstract provided.


Barbarous Magnificence: The Decline And Continuity Of Akan Traditional Religious Practices, Kwasi Bempong Jun 2003

Barbarous Magnificence: The Decline And Continuity Of Akan Traditional Religious Practices, Kwasi Bempong

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This thesis uses archaeological, anthropological, and historical evidence along with indigenous texts as the determining factors to address two major problems in the literature: the widely held belief that Akan culture developed in the forests of modem Ghana and that their supreme deity, Onyame, is a 'withdrawn deity', with whom they did not share an intimate relationship. Although these problems may seem unrelated the former is used to support the latter by ignoring the historical antecedents of Northern Akan culture that blossomed in the savanna-forest transition zone and the subsequent movement of well-developed religious practices and beliefs from the north …


Charity, Development And The Global Market: The Pursuit Of An Alternative Through Fair Trade, Christy L Ferguson Jun 2003

Charity, Development And The Global Market: The Pursuit Of An Alternative Through Fair Trade, Christy L Ferguson

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The Miraculous And Coptic Orthodox Christianity: Empowerment, Embodiment And The Living Tradition, MarkéTa Sebelová Jun 2003

The Miraculous And Coptic Orthodox Christianity: Empowerment, Embodiment And The Living Tradition, MarkéTa Sebelová

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Women And Inheritance Laws: The Case Of Egypt, Hedayat Labib Feb 2003

Women And Inheritance Laws: The Case Of Egypt, Hedayat Labib

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This work is a study of the discrepancy between the law and practice of inheritance. Since inheritance problems are confronted by both sexes, examples will involve men and women but with the main focus on the latter. Economic dependence on men results in powerlessness and passivity on the part of women. Men utilize cultural capital in their attempt to justify their unjust disinheritance of their female kin. This is used to mystify and justify to themselves their material possession of the shares of women. Whether they accept this situation or not, women are socialized into perceiving men in a certain …


Aragi:An Ethnography Of Sudanese Displacement, Bjorn Curley Feb 2003

Aragi:An Ethnography Of Sudanese Displacement, Bjorn Curley

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Social Orientalism, Daniel P Reany Feb 2003

Social Orientalism, Daniel P Reany

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No abstract provided.