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The Akkadian word for “moustache” (1996)
Journal Article
George, A. (1996). The Akkadian word for “moustache”. Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, 1996(2 no. 60), 51-52

The Ritual Circle of the Terāpanth Śvetāmbara Jains (1996)
Journal Article
Flügel, P. (1996). The Ritual Circle of the Terāpanth Śvetāmbara Jains. Bulletin d'études indiennes, 13, 117-176

The article investigates the history, doctrine, organisation and the annual ritual circle of the Terāpanth Śvetāmbara Jains. It analyses for the first time the relationship between a particular Jain monastic order and its lay following, together form... Read More about The Ritual Circle of the Terāpanth Śvetāmbara Jains.

Articulation of Physical and social bodies in Kerala (1996)
Journal Article
Osella, C., & Osella, F. (1996). Articulation of Physical and social bodies in Kerala. Contributions to Indian Sociology, 30(1), 37-68. https://doi.org/10.1177/006996679603000102

This paper uses ethnography from Kerala to examine the concept of sneham, simultaneously an oily bodily fluid and the quality of nurturant affection. Sneham, which flows and circulates within and between persons in intimate moral relations, is the jo... Read More about Articulation of Physical and social bodies in Kerala.

Communist Revolution and Peasant Mobilisation in the Hinterland of North China: The Early Years (1996)
Book Chapter
Tiedemann, R. (1996). Communist Revolution and Peasant Mobilisation in the Hinterland of North China: The Early Years. In H. Bernstein, & T. Brass (Eds.), Agrarian Questions: Essays in Appreciation of TJ Byres (132-152). Frank Cass

This chapter examines the depiction by populism in the domain of 'popular culture' of what purports to be its non-capitalist/non-socialist alternative: in short, the socio-economic and political structure of its 'imaginary' as this involves a symptom... Read More about Communist Revolution and Peasant Mobilisation in the Hinterland of North China: The Early Years.