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This is an ethnographic study of women's activism in Bosniac (Muslim) areas of post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina. I examine the activities and representational strategies of activists in women's non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and political parties as they engage local nationali…

This dissertation is about the cultural work that musicians and dancers do through gendered dance performance to produce place-specific senses of identity. Focusing on performers—musicians and dancers--in Malang, a provincial section in the region of east Java, Indonesia, I argu…

Although Morocco gained its independence from colonial rule in 1956, a persistent colonial legacy, compounded by pressures of economic and cultural globalization, has maintained a literary focus on decolonization and nationbuilding. Most recently, Moroccan women have renewed the…

Pastoral production systems have been undergoing endogenously and exogenously driven change in recent years. One predominant change in pastoral production systems involves a shift from pure pastoralism to an integration of crop and livestock production. In this study, I explore …