La organización social de los mazahuas del Estado de México

“…This group posits their cosmological bases on a cultural matrix dating back to pre columbian and colonial times. Notwithstanding the presence of that cultural matrix, the communities manifest different kinds of social organization that the author perceives as having evolved as a consequence of the destructuration of the system of kinship. …”
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Assessing a Common Currency in Africa

“…The importance of African economies in global trade is not going to be judged by the power of each country’s individual economy, for there is none, so far, or by the stability provided by the benevolent hegemony of a colonial master. Rather, the power of African economies lies in the actual share of the proposed currency in world official foreign reserves, its liquidity in international trade, and its role as a competitor against the exorbitant U.S. dollar. …”
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“To us the war is a spectacle”: Domestic Consumption of the Crimean War in Victorian Britain by Alison Fletcher

“…Following the war, Mary Seacole a colonial subject from Jamaica, published a memoir of her experiences nursing sick soldiers in the Crimea. …”
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Théologie du désordre. Islam, ordre et désordre au Sahara by Abdel Wedoud Ould Cheikh

“…This contribution deals with some aspects of the interrelations between (dis)order and (il)legality in the Sahara, in light of the debates and positions informing the thoughts and writings of the Moorish fuqahâ’ confronted with the lack of a fully legitimate power, from an Islamic viewpoint, in the pre-colonial Western Sahara. Some of these theologians declared themselves in favour of a jihâd aiming at the coming of such a power; others, to the contrary, firmly opposed this idea. …”
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Clivages partisans et partis politiques en Libye by Moncef Djaziri

“…After a brief, theoretical outline and review of experiments with political parties during the colonial period and in the years following Kadhafi’s rise to power, the study will focus on the organization of contemporary political opposition groups, their similarities and differences. …”
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As quitandadeiras de Minas Gerais: memórias brancas e memórias negras by Javier Alejandro Lifschitz, Juliana Bonomo

“…In this article, we analyze narratives of memory about homemade pastries (quitandas) and the women who make them (quitandeiras) in the state of Minas Gerais, in three historical moments: as practices of African origin, which during the eighteenth and nineteenth century was reproduced in the colonies by black slave women selling food on the streets, carrying their trays; as practices of Portuguese origin, held within farms domestic black slaves under the supervision of white mistresses of Portuguese origin and, finally, as current policy of cultural heritage. …”
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Ecopoetics in Yorùbá Riddles by Olumide Adegbodu

“…However, Africans, long before their contact with coloniality, have engaged their literary texts in interrogating various aspects of their cultural milieu, including the ecosystem. …”
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Editorial by I.D. Mothoagae

“…For this reason, African biblical scholars, particularly those applying their hermeneutical lenses as theoretical tools, and scholars within the social sciences have argued that the Christian corpus of literature that was translated and composed during “Christianisation”, “colonisation”, and “civilisation”, using the strategies of conversion and assimilation of the “wretched”, are by their very nature colonial products. …”
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Decolonising Bibles? Image, imagination, and imagin(in)g in the postcolonial academy by J. Punt

“…The complicity of the Bible in the colonial endeavour is no longer seriously disputed. …”
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Naming the sites of the opioid crisis in Boston: a political issue by Elsa Vivant

“…The reactions and demands of the residents of these different neighbourhoods reveal the power dynamics in the urban space, the toponymic choices of which are the main focus of this analysis: Mass & Cass refers to the urban, colonial and racial history of the city and prohibition; Methadone Mile brings to mind the stigmatization of users and places of care; Recovery Road expresses the emergence of new care and harm reduction practices at work in this sector. …”
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Luang Prabang, sanctuaire Unesco et paradis gay by David Berliner

“…Famous for its Buddhist monasteries and orange-robed monks, as well as for its colonial architecture, its international reputation has grown quickly. …”
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La SNEP : une entreprise publique de l’imprimerie (1944-1992) by Baptiste Giron

“…However, the abandonment of the change in the status of the press led this company to become a government tool during the cold war and colonial conflicts, before being liquidated in 1992 under the weight of economic globalization and new liberal policies.…”
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Cognitive Semantics Against Creole Exceptionalism: A Case Study of Body Part Expressions in Nigerian Pidgin by Kosecki Krzysztof

“…It is argued that the expressions not only involve embodied universal patterns of imaginative reasoning, but also blend the substratum patterns of West African languages with the superstratum influence of colonial lexifiers, especially English. Thanks to this, NP speakers can deal with diverse aspects of experience, such as emotions, mental life, social interaction, or business transactions, which is strong evidence for the complex conceptual structure and the richly expressive character of the NP lexicon.…”
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"...dans le milieu de la Ville qui fait face à la place, se trouvent tous les besoins publiques..." : remarques sur la notion de centralité urbanistique en Louisiane coloniale et à... by Gilles-Antoine Langlois

“…The founding of the colonials towns of "La Mobile" (Mobile. Al.) and "La Nouvelle Orléans" (New Orleans, La.) illustrates the original French type of town-planning. …”
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Le corps, enjeu de la guerre d’indépendance algérienne. La question sanitaire dans les camps de regroupement (1954-1962) by Fabien Sacriste

“…The regroupments then revealed the contradictions of the « pacification » policy, a set of actions supposed to promote the adhesion of the Algerian population to the French army’s cause, but which instead acted as a colonial violence that complicated its task and ultimately alienated Algerians.…”
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Tawny Crazy Ant by Stephanie K. Hill, Rebecca W. Baldwin, Roberto M. Pereira, Philip G. Koehler

“…This 3-page fact sheet covers the tawny crazy ant’s distribution, description, colonies, feeding habits, and pest status and control. …”
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Revendiquer un point de vue situé. L’exposition « Tanesashi: Remembrance of the Shore » à Aomori en 2013 et la série photographique de Sasaoka Keiko by Catherine Grout

“…This article sets out to study the power dynamics at play in representations of landscape, as well as the potential for resistance to the process of (colonial) territorial appropriation by the central government inherent in such representations.…”
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Container traffic: East African case by V. S. Golubeva, N. V. Shcherbinin

“…In the course of the study an analysis of the export-import cargo flows structure in East Africa both in the colonial period and at the present time has been carried out. …”
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Résistances catholiques au protocole de Maputo. Mobilisations et controverses autour de la libéralisation de l’avortement en Afrique by Lison Guignard

“…As such, the controversy stemmed from this resistance shows what is at stake in the liberalization of abortion. In the post-colonial African context, these issues are presented as a Western invasion and lead to specific type of resistant position.…”
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Humanité et dépassement dans l’œuvre de Ferran Delèris (1922-2009) by Joëlle Ginestet

“…To this heir to war accounts heard in his family –1870 and mainly 1914-1918 –, to this member of the Resistance movement during the second world war and to this witness of the conflicts that would lead to the French colonies independence, going back to his mother tongue seems to have stimulated him in his attempt to understand why a man agrees to fight. …”
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