Fejos Postdoctoral Fellowship (Other Keyword)

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Taxtaja thaj Tokmeala: Invisible Chalices and Conspicuous Marriages (WGF - Fejos Postdoctoral Fellowship) (2017)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Catalina Tesar.

This resource is an application for the Fejos Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The Romanian Gypsy population of Cortorari keep to conspicuously arranging their children's marriages despite repeated attempts at national and European level to eradicate the practice. Contrary to folk and policy-makers' representations of Roma marriages as cursory alliances enforced by adults on pubescent children ensuing in premature sexual intercourse, Cortorari experience their...


Walpole Street (WGF - Fejos Postdoctoral Fellowship) (2019)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Diana Szanto.

This resource is an application for the Fejos Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This is a collective film project based on my field-work in Sierra Leone, amongst polio-disabled people living in self-sustaining communities. Through the story of a young disabled boy, Manish, the film captures how historical time and its macro-political work (war and peacebuilding) shape the micro-realities of individual lives. Manish is a war-survivor and he squats with many of his...