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AbstractThis article explores the current formations of nostalgia as they have emerged in contemporary Moscow. It examines this theme through the prism of three architectural spaces that tell us something about nostalgia as a postsocialist and specific cultural and temporal condition : Moscow's Park of Sculpture, the rebuilt Cathedral of Christ the Savior, and the shopping mall in Manezh Square. I argue that what is politically at work at these sites is a certain kind of de-ideologization that has become “the new style” in postSoviet Russia. De-ideologization has turned into a historical norm, an affective fashion, and I argue that it is precisely because of this process that a “nostalgia industry” has emerged. This article takes the attachments of nostalgia seriously, but rather than looking at nostalgia as an analytical symptom, I am interested in examining it as a historical condition, a temporal response that emerges in a particular moment in time.
Keywords: Rethmann, postsocialisme, nostalgie, Moscou, Rethmann, post-socialism, nostalgia, Moscow, Rethmann, post-socialismo, nostalgia, Moscú
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AbstractThrough the Prism of HIV. Doing Field Research among Street Children in CambodiaThis article has two goals. First, it is part of a broader interest in the embodiment of social events. Using the example of street children in Cambodia, it analyzes how individual's lives, framed by collective fate, bring some children (but not all) to HIV exposure. Second, the paper examines some issues of applied anthropology, since the research was designed as a negotiation between the anthropologist and people working in the humanitarian and development field. In particular, it shows how the global perspective of the protection of children can be in contradiction with local field work situations. The analysis is based on interview of one hundred and four street children in Phnom Penh in 1999. The paper describes the children's ‘‘careers'' which are very different for girls and boys. The emotional and sexual lives of the children are described, notably prostitution. Almost all the girls in the sample draw their entire salary from their work as indirect sex workers in bars whereas prostitution provides some supplemental income for some of the boys.
Keywords: Guillou, enfance, sida, humanitaire, pauvreté, sexualité, genre, violence, prostitution, vie affective, Guillou, Childhood, AIDS, Humanitarian Relief Work, Poverty, Sexuality, Gender, Violence, Prostitution, Emotional Life, Guillou, infancia, sida, humanitario, pobreza, sexualidad, género, violencia, prostitución, vida afectiva
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AbstractGift 's Part in AdoptionThis article offers an interprétation of the gift relationships in legal adoption between strangers, in Quebec, in the 1990s. It shows which values and reprsentations tend to exclude the notion of gift from the legitimate actions in the domain of adoption. Adoption tends to circulate parental status rather than children. The state system which regulates it is based on an individualist and instrumental conception of kinship ties. There is thus a dissociation of the interrelated dimensions of the traditional genealogical model.
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AbstractRaï, Social Norm and Religious ReferenceOne usually hears that Raï praises alcohol and " free love ". That wouln't mean anything if one didn't see how thoses topics and other ones, grow by reference to social rules, especially religious norms.The quality of Raï spleen depends, in part, on this psychological position of religious " overhang ". The songs of Raï present candidly the contradiction between impulses and constraints, between personnal desires and socio-religious norms, between competing ideologies. As the word " Raï " shows (it means " opinion ", " free choice "), the human beeing is free, free with his choices, but also with not choosing anything and trying to manage the irreconcilable. Such an existential do-it-yourself, such a tight-rope uprise of individuality often happens through the manipulation of the religious referent.Key words : Virolle, song, love, marginality, norm, religion, woman
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ABSTRACTThis article explores the gender dimension of the Lower Canadian Rebellion of 1837. Women, it is argued, were much less active in the anti-government cause than they had been in various 18th century episodes of riot and resistance. The explanation for this change focuses on a process of masculinization of politics to be found at work in most parts of the western world in this period. As typical republicans of the first half of the nineteenth century, the Lower Canadian patriots championed a specifically male conception of democratic citizenship. At the same time, their Rousseauian conviction that virtuous women should confine themselves to domestic matters, helps explain their occasional misogynist outbursts against women who took public stands against the patriot movement.