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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"brotherhoods"”.
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A critical analysis of the differences between the operating brotherhoods and the railroads of the nation, arising out of the increasing use of the diesel-electric locomotive
Thesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Business and Engineering Administration, 1950
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Fraternity Personal Health, Inspiring Transformation (FRAT PHIT): Type 2 diabetes nutrition and physical activity behaviors among African American men
… and leverage the protective benefits of brotherhoods or peer-to-peer networks of AA men. Previous researchers have engaged AA brotherhoods in T2D interventions, yet with focuses limited to barbershops and faith-based settings. New evidence suggests the need to include AA fraternities in …
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The Izala Movement in Nigeria: Its Split, Relationship to Sufis and Perception of Sharīʿa Re-Implementation
… is very heterogeneous. Nevertheless two Sufi Brotherhoods, the Tijāniyya and the Qādiriyya dominated the religious field until the 1970s. This situation changed in 1978 with the appearance of Jama’atul Izalatzul Bid’a wa Ikamatis Sunna (Society for Removal of Innovation and Reestablishment of …
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How did governance in Acholi dovetail with violence?
… and moral, and counters that kaka was about brotherhoods - not rulersubject relationships. It further distinguishes what was “traditional” from “customary” systems, and demonstrates how colonialism in Acholiland, and a crisis of legitimacy manifested in a trifurcation of authorities, with: i) …
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How did governance in Acholi dovetail with violence?
… and moral, and counters that kaka was about brotherhoods - not rulersubject relationships. It further distinguishes what was “traditional” from “customary” systems, and demonstrates how colonialism in Acholiland, and a crisis of legitimacy manifested in a trifurcation of authorities, with: i) …
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Thugs, Thieves, Tricksters or Popular Heroes? A Comparative Look at the Phenomenon of "Ayyari"
… sources. During the medieval period, 'ayyar brotherhoods flourished in many of Iran's urban centers. Although they have attracted the attention of a wide spectrum of modern scholars, basic questions regarding their origins, organizational structure and social function remain unanswered. …
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Democracy's children?: the constitution of male subjectivity of coloured adolescents awaiting trial in post-apartheid Cape Town
… ·1-foll:,,ood heroes· and creating gangster ·brotherhoods· \hich resist the social dislol..'.ation produced b:, their historical situation. To some degree. then. ·democrac:, ·s children· use the ver:, discourses \ hich llXm and I irn it them. to exert agenc:. The author argues that b:, …
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Spaces of Japonisme and the Art of Whistler, Van Gogh, and Monet: Collecting, Decoration, and the japanese Other
… lived in harmony with one another in monastic brotherhoods, and learned about the transcendent through an intense study of nature. Monet found the model of the Japanese people living in intimate and contemplative harmony with nature especially compelling, and he admired the Japanese artist's …
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Luti Masculinity in Iranian Modernity, 1785-1941: Marginalization and the Anxieties of Proper Masculine Comportment
… situating their emergence out of Persian Sufi brotherhoods, bandit clans ('<em>ayyar</em>), and guild-like organizations (<em>futuwwa</em>) from the period of the 15<em>th</em> to the 19<em>th</em> century CE. This section provides an account of the most pertinent and distinguishing rites, …