The article focuses on the “Islamization” of Berber lifestyles, rather than effects conquest Romanized inhabitants towns in Africa Proconsularis, medieval Ifriqiya. examination follows aspects material culture as a whole, particularly Western Maghreb, where urbanism was far less dense. evidence comes largely from later texts, although new archaeological work, at Rirha and Volubilis, has beg...

An exercise in hermeneutical suspicion, this article engages the extent to which the burgeoning appearance of ostensibly Eastern concepts and practices within everyday late-modern discourse and practice can actually be said to represent a thoroughgoing “Easternization” of Western culture. Using insights from Pierre Bourdieu, this article argues that Eastern themes have been appropriated by succ...

This paper aims to balance the conceptual reception of Bourdieu‘s sociology in the United States through a conceptual re-examination of the concept of Habitus. I retrace the intellectual lineage of the Habitus idea, showing it to have roots in Claude Levi-Strauss structural anthropology and in the developmental psychology of Jean Piaget, especially the latter‘s generalization of the idea of ope...

Newly collected male and female specimens of the leafhopper Kolla albescens Jacobi, 1943 from the type-locality (Northeast China), are identified as Pagaronia albescens (Jacobi), comb. n. (Evacanthinae: Pagaroniini). A redescription of the species is provided together with habitus photographs of the male and female and illustrations of the male and female genitalia. P. continentalis Anufriev, 1...

OBJECTIVE To identify differential clinical, laboratory, and echocardiographic characteristics in persons with diagnosed idiopathic and secondary pericarditis. METHODS From January 1999 to December 2001, 84 patients with clinically and echocardiographically diagnosed pericarditis were identified in a heart clinic. These patients were analyzed according to age, sex, anthropometric measurements...

Two genera and nine species of Peridinetini are recognised in the West Indies; four of the species are newly described. Peridinetus Schönherr is represented in the Greater Antilles by P. concentricus (Olivier), P. decipiens Prena sp. n., P. fuscosignum Prena sp. n., P. poeyi Jacquelin du Val stat. res., P. roeselii (Boheman) and P. sexguttatus (Fabricius) comb. n. and Palliolatrix Prena in the ...