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Towards the Subjectivities Underneath 走向底层主体性

Society and Culture in South Asia Pub Date : 2024-07-25 DOI: 10.1177/23938617241264911

D. Pathak

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Domesticating the Cosmic: Elemental Fire and the Tamil Festival of Lights 驯化宇宙：元素之火与泰米尔灯节

Society and Culture in South Asia Pub Date : 2024-02-27 DOI: 10.1177/23938617241231552

Indira Arumugam

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Book review: Amiya Kumar Das, Grassroots Democracy and Governance in India: Understanding Power, Sociality and Trust 书评：Amiya Kumar Das，《印度的基层民主与治理》：理解权力、社会性和信任

Society and Culture in South Asia Pub Date : 2023-11-20 DOI: 10.1177/23938617231208659

Shofiul Alom Pathan

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Book review: Francis Cody, The News Event: Popular Sovereignty in the Age of Deep Mediatization 书评:弗朗西斯·科迪，《新闻事件:深度媒介化时代的人民主权》

Society and Culture in South Asia Pub Date : 2023-11-09 DOI: 10.1177/23938617231208668

None Sabari Girisan M

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A Ramayana for Our Times: Superheroes, Science Fiction and Myth 《我们时代的罗摩衍那:超级英雄、科幻小说和神话

Society and Culture in South Asia Pub Date : 2023-11-09 DOI: 10.1177/23938617231196641

Roma Chatterji

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Book review: Kudret Bulbul, Md. Nazmul Islam and Md. Sajid Khan (Eds.), Rohingya Refugee Crisis in Myanmar: Ethnic Conflict and Resolution 书评:Kudret Bulbul, Md. Nazmul Islam和Md. Sajid Khan(编)，缅甸的罗兴亚难民危机:种族冲突和解决方案

Society and Culture in South Asia Pub Date : 2023-11-09 DOI: 10.1177/23938617231211430

Md. Obaidullah, Meherab Hossain

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Narratives of Ageing, Narratives of Nation-building: Manjul and the Poetics of Dissidence in Nepal 老龄化叙事，国家建设叙事:尼泊尔的曼朱尔和持不同政见者的诗学

Society and Culture in South Asia Pub Date : 2023-10-20 DOI: 10.1177/23938617231203425

Mallika Shakya

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Chronicity and COVID-19: Kinship, Illness and the State in Pakistan 慢性病和COVID-19:巴基斯坦的亲属关系、疾病和国家

Society and Culture in South Asia Pub Date : 2023-09-23 DOI: 10.1177/23938617231191593

Sanaullah Khan

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Being and Becoming: Men in a Matrilineal Society 存在与成长:母系社会中的男人

Society and Culture in South Asia Pub Date : 2023-09-18 DOI: 10.1177/23938617231190350

Subhashim Goswami

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Representing the Caste-oppressed: Exploring Rettaimalai Srinivasan’s Anti-caste Endeavours in the Tamil Public Space 代表种姓受压迫者:探索Rettaimalai Srinivasan在泰米尔公共空间中的反种姓努力

Society and Culture in South Asia Pub Date : 2023-09-18 DOI: 10.1177/23938617231191592

Dhivya Sivaramane

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