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The polysemic term “gringo” inevitably mediates the negotiation of cultural identity for anthropologists carrying out fieldwork in Latin America. Drawing on experiences from the authors' interactions in pursuit of professional goals, this analysis shows how nation, religion, gender, race, and the histories of colonization, migration, and alliance emerge and recede in kaleidoscopic encounters between hemispheric stereotypes and cross-cultural travelers. The intertwined personal experience narratives of ‘gringo-hood' we present reveal the fractal character of knowledge and experience. This article, therefore, shows how linguistic, cultural, and especially folkloric interactions mediate the various dimensions of our socially situated experiences and the different forms of talk we encountered.
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While the consequences of climate change are becoming more and more visible and it is not possible anymore to avoid them, pesticides use in agriculture is subject to a profound call into question due to environmental, economic and sanitary reasons. Agriculture is thus confronted with a double challenge: adapting to climate change and evolving towards less dependence on pesticides. These stakes are particularly significant in the Rhine Valley. Indeed, in this space where the consequences of climate change could be intense, traditional models with high pesticide use (intensive crop cultivation and reputed wine growing) cohabit with organic and biodynamic farming productions, mostly in wine growing. The local context could thus form an injunction to ecologically improve agricultural practices. Yet, decreasing pesticides use and adapting to climate change are sometimes contradictory objectives, even if many strategies allow reconciling both. To enlighten this paradox and understand the role of multiple borders in this cross-border space, we based on the comparison between sectors (crop cultivation and wine-growing) on the one side, and between countries (France and Germany) on the other side, to bring out the technical, regulatory, even cultural accelerators and obstacles to the implementation of these win-win strategies of a heterogeneous and rather complex agricultural transition: farmers indeed seek to reconcile different objectives, adaptation to climate change and/or its mitigation, decrease in pesticides use and preservation of biodiversity. Certainly, this is sometimes used as a commercial argument. Still, it also has to do with a real personal conviction for which social interactions play an important role: information spread by the agricultural organizations, exchanges between farmers, personal reflections and trials, and experiences abroad. The cross-border context of the Rhine Valley takes all its importance and, in spite of multiple borders, favours decision-taking facing environmental stakes.
Keywords: changements climatiques, adaptation, pesticides, biodiversité, grandes cultures, viticulture, Fossé rhénan, France, Allemagne, climate change, adaptation, pesticides, biodiversity, crops, viticulture, Rhine Valley, France, Germany
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Keywords: forensic storytelling, early modern feminism, ReSisters, 18th-century French women
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Both female monasticism and Jewish conversion acquired an accentuated significance in Catholic Europe during the age of reformations. Their convergence was ritually expressed in the celebration of the monastic vestition of converts from Judaism. This article centres on the experiences of baptized Jewish girls who entered monastic communities, based on an analysis of cases from central and northern Italy. It argues that Church authorities valued the radical break of formerly Jewish girls with the religious traditions of their ancestors. Yet at the same time, the highly esteemed attraction to female monasticism on the part of baptized Jews could also arouse considerable anxiety, which led to distancing attempts. These, the article suggests, were manifested by restricting converts’ monastic professions to designated institutions; by giving the cold shoulder to baptized Jews who took the veil and socially isolating them within their communities; or by not assisting sickly neophytes to fulfill their religious vocations.
Keywords: Conversion, Jewish–Christian Relations, Early Modern Catholicism, Female Monasticism, Servant Nuns, Choir Nuns, Enslaved Women, Intersectionality, Disability
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This paper represents the need for First Nations community workers to share their narratives of experience and wisdom for academic review. A growing number of mature Indigenous social service workers are returning to Canada’s learning centers where they are articulating observations and insights to Indigenous experience in colonial Canada. It is imperative that post-colonial academic literature include these contributions. True reconciliation between Canada and First Peoples is only possible if those stories of resilience are reflected back from the experience of historic trauma and unresolved intergenerational suffering.
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AbstractThis article provides a critical overview of recent research on cross-cultural divergences between English, French and German academic writing, demonstrating its relevance to translation. The author starts by discussing Galtung's notion of culture-specific intellectual styles. He then explores the relationship between composition teaching and writing style. This is followed by a detailed discussion of cross-language comparisons of various text types which lend evidence to significant differences between the linguacultures under survey. The resultant plurality of linguacultures, the author goes on to argue, must be preserved as a value in itself, and merits special attention on the part of the translator.
Keywords: academic writing, cross-language comparison, culture-specific intellectual styles, writing styles
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Abstract1914 to 1939 was a very important period in the history of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). The Force found its very existence threatened. It also was transformed as it lost and then regained a role at the provincial level of policing, found itself amalgamated with the Dominion Police in 1920, and experienced widely fluctuating personnel levels throughout the period. Finally, it took on a security/intelligence role that would last until 1984. “The Masculine Mountie” looks at the Mounted Police in this era. Specifically the paper uses gender and ethnic analysis to explore the values and characteristics of the RCMP and how they affected the work it performed. Who Mounties were leads directly into what they did. These two aspects are very related, a reality that is too often ignored in much of the writing about Canada's national police force. Finally, the paper connects these various threads in an effort to deal with the important question of why the RCMP survived and prospered in its era of great uncertainty.
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