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Materias / palabras clave: caste, oppression, racial minorites, cultural minorities, religious minorities; Social Sciences: Communities. Classes. Races

Materias / palabras clave: Caste; Tamil Nadu; Dravidian Politics; Equality; Histories of Caste; Subaltern

Materias / palabras clave: Castellanos, Juan de; Colombian poetry; History and criticism; Venezuelan poetry; Literatura latinoamericana; Poesía; Venezuela

In recent times, several claims have been made before Indian courts to seek the change of one’s first name or surname. Such claims are being made for many different reasons out of which one reason stands out which is t...

This article examines the representation of caste, labour, and marginality in Turning the Pot, Tilling the Land: Dignity of Labour in Our Times and Disaibon Hul: The Call of the Bending Sky through the theoretical lenses...

 Pudhumaipithan, born in the early half of the 1900s, is well known for his satirical short stories that poke fun at contemporary Tamil society. Pudhumaipithan is a revolutionary writer for his satires of the fundamenta...

This article engages Viramma: Life of an Untouchable (1995), one of the earliest ethnographies to foreground a Dalit woman’s voice, marking thirty years since its publication. Viramma’s oral testimonies in this work ...

The empirical ordering of the upper castes through scriptural doctrines delegitimized the subaltern epistemology and impeded the possibility of any form of resistance. The article finds relevance in delving deep into the...

The tea plantations of Assam, remnants of the British Raj in postcolonial India, comprise an important epistemic site for interrogating transformations in the ancient caste system within Indian modernity. Two theoretical...

Recensión del libro de Jorge Castellanos Claramunt: La participación ciudadana en el ámbito local. La integración democrática de lo local y de lo global en la era digital, Valencia, Corts Valencianes, 2020.

Se conoce como Mabinogion a una compilación de once relatos escritos en galés medio y de temas muy variados. Aunque la literatura galesa medieval se conoce poco, estos textos han tenido una difusión significativa en e...

Este artículo retoma las discusiones acerca de los aspectos normativos y pedagógicos de la Gramática castellana destinada al uso de los americanos. El trabajo analiza sucintamente sus características generales y el c...

Este artículo retoma las discusiones acerca de los aspectos normativos y pedagógicos de la Gramática castellana destinada al uso de los americanos. El trabajo analiza sucintamente sus características generales y el c...

Panochthus greslebini Castellanos (= P. rochai Paula Couto) tem sido tradicionalmente considerado um táxon endêmico do NE de Brasil. No entanto, nos últimos anos houve registros, ainda que com determinações duvidosa...

This article examines social boycott as a contemporary form of caste power in rural Telangana society and economy, focusing on the role of Village Development Committees (VDCs) originating from the informal caste council...

En este artículo se examina la complejidad y los desafíos de la práctica del tequio y su representación en la novela bilingüe Laxdao yelazeralle/El corazón de los deseos del escritor zapoteco Javier Castellanos. Si...

This article explores the process of caste stigma and questions about its reliability. The Chandals were a social group primarily comprising the aboriginal peoples of the Indian subcontinent, later placed at the bottom o...

This article examines how B.R. Ambedkar deployed three interconnected Buddhist philosophical categories—swayambhu (self-becoming), skandha (aggregates), and anattā (selflessness)—to construct a systematic critique o...

Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork conducted from 2022 to 2024 in two urban villages in Delhi, I investigate how Dalit women’s laughter functions as a powerful site of anti-caste resistance and feminist praxis. Moving...

Infusions of leaf and bark of Castela coccinea Griseb. (Simaroubaceae) were traditionally used against dysentery. In this work, anti-bacterial and antioxidant activity were studied in C. coccinea extracts. The higest DP...

Fil: Caimari, Lila. Universidad de San Andrés; Argentina. Fil: Caimari, Lila. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. A la luz de una masa de documentos personales e institucionales pues...

Abstract The CASTEP code for first principles electronic structure calculations will be described. A brief, non-technical overview will be given and some of the features and capabilities highlighted. Some features which ...

First-principles simulation, meaning density-functional theory calculations with plane waves and pseudopotentials, has become a prized technique in condensed-matter theory. Here I look at the basics of the suject, give a...

Fil: Coppolecchio, Leandro Gastón. Universidad Nacional de La Matanza; Argentina.