Titlebook: Language, Ethnicity and the State, Volume 2; Minority Languages i Camille C. O’Reilly (Lecturer in Social Anthropolo Book 2001 Palgrave Mac

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Language Ideology and Language Conflict in Post-Soviet Belarus, a third of the country’s 10 million inhabitants;. on the other hand, as recently as the 1989 Soviet census, roughly 75 per cent of the population of the Belarusian republic, including 80 per cent of ethnic Belarusians, indicated Belarusian as their ‘native language’ (. 1990, p. 205).

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attempts at enlightened treatment of minority linguistic groups in some of the new states but in others such groups have been openly oppressed. This volume draws on sociologically and ethnographically oriented work from a number of disciplines to allow the reader to compare developments in the diff

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resources to give generously to the living, the dead, and the spirits. The resulting network of dependents who are obliged to serve and of elders or social superiors who are obliged to give sustenance and protection—even though subject to the inherent unpredictability of personal relationships—prov

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Robert D. Greenberg reality. Part herb shop and folk clinic, more than a “poor man’s pharmacy,” the botánica is a curative promise. With a pluralistic and eclectic worldview, botánicas are a community enterprise, a heritage, and a symbol of Caribbean cultural healing, a palpable representation of medical ., or syncret

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Rossitza Guentchevace of Haitian vodou and its healing practices in the fiction of Dominican American writer Julia Alvarez is useful in elucidating the episodes of mental breakdown and recovery in her novels. Though occasional vodou elements appear without elaboration in the novels, as in the “magic waters” that grace

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Thomas J. Hegartyf physical and mental illness and maintenance of health. In some Asian and African countries, 80% of the population depends on traditional medicine for primary health care. However, the knowledge of these conventional healing techniques and traditions associated with conveying this knowledge are slo

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Rebecca Golbertsex workers adopt to cope with their precarious existence. The research found that through the reappropriation of derogatory names like Hure, and their use of sexually explicit terms, sex workers created a group identity from which others were excluded. This group identity then allowed their own rul

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as found that that respondents did not always know the purpose of counselling. They attended sessions primarily with the hope that by doing so they could find ways out of their socio-economic plights and receive referrals to urgently needed medical services. In their search of support, migrants did