Rebel Discourse(s) on Gender as Demonstrated by Contemporary and Historical Chinese Marriage Practices

Rethinking Clientelism: Demands, Discourses and Practices in Contemporary Brazil

Implications of China's Contemporary Marriage Market on Gender Status

Standardisation and the Question of Identity: On The Dominant Discourses on Contemporary Iranian Art

This article deals with the discourse of cultural globalisation and related issues such as the global market and cultural industry, which emerged as recent seminal factors within the context of Iranian culture, art and artistic practice during the recent history of Iran. Moreover, it seeks to explore the inevitable issues drawn from the process of globalisation, namely the forces of standar...

Historical and Philosophical Perspectives on Contemporary Biology

The work of historians and philosophers of science has long benefited from conversations with practicing scientists, but to many scientific researchers—perhaps especially to those engaged in laboratory work—the value that such dialogue might have for their own endeavor is not nearly so obvious. There are of course exceptions— evolutionary biology, for one. Over the last several decades, a tradi...

An Historical Perspective on Contemporary Linguistic Anthropology

Introduction A recent review of a several popular textbooks in cultural anthropology has confirmed my suspicion that there is a significant gap between what linguistic anthropology means to me and what it means to my colleagues in cultural anthropology (and probably in other sub-fields as well). One easy explanation of this gap would be to say that the authors of these textbooks are simply unin...