Reflecting on the process of national liberation as a struggle against neo-colonialism, Kinuthia Ndung’u draws from Kinyatti’s example and looks at role revolutionary petty bourgeoisie intellectuals students in neo-colonial oppression. In today’s Kenya this is reminder to that it their duty give ideological guidance ongoing class debate (hustlers-dynasty) other struggles everywhere they find th...

This article discerns the role that Mexican American gang members play in drug markets, and the relationship between gang members'drug use and drug selling in South Texas. A four-part typology based on the two dimensions of gang type and gang member emerged from this qualitative analysis of 160 male gang members: Homeboys, Hustlers, Slangers, and Ballers. Major findings include the following: (...

This book is an informative and entertaining history of the American medicine show. The first chapter briefly describes the European antecedents of the medicine show, such as Italian mountebanks, and the rest of the book traces the evolution of the institution in America from colonial times to the twentieth century. These shows ranged in size from a single performer to large-scale wild west or ...

How do gunshot victims manage pain without health care? This paper examines this question through ethnographic data of a single gunshot victim who self-medicated with Percocet. The observations for this paper were collected in Philadelphia between January of 2010 and October of 2011, and were part of a larger ethnographic study that included 40 gunshot victims recruited from an outpatient traum...

Abstract Deputy President William Ruto’s victorious presidential campaign in Kenya’s 2022 elections saw him champion the plight of ‘hustlers’, young informal economy workers on low, piecemeal incomes. Reconfiguring political identities around notions economic hardship and struggle, appeared emblematic what scholars have recently identified as a turn towards ‘populism’ Africa, transmuting ethno-...

in order to protect individual and society from deviations and indecent activities, there are appropriate penal laws like hadd and ta’ zir in quran and traditions to halter administrative violators and social corrupters. in this regard, imprisonment in different forms has been considered as one of correctional punishments in narratives texts of shiite and sunnite. this article submits not only ...

All the languages that have appeared in world are born after which it got better. But truth is our Tamil language was Sangam Literature, Classical includes Patthuppaatu (Ten Idylls) and Etthutthokai (Eight Anthologies). Earth can be said to fundamental reasons for a group's gradual cultural development. In such case, Kurunthokai, part of Ettutthokai, characteristics appropriate Marutham land, p...