A Very Human Survey: The Cross-Cultural Inquiries of R. H. Mathews by Martin Thomas

“…Mathews close connections in the Aboriginal world did nothing to protect him from the internecine feuding that characterised Australian anthropology in the Federation era. …”
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SYMBOLIC USE OF DOMESTIC SPACE IN THE UPPER SVANETIAN (GEORGIA) VERNACULAR HOUSE by G. Sousa, M. Alcindor

“…This isolation also ensured the preservation of archaic cultural traditions and ancient rituals, such as animal sacrifices, ritual shaving and blood feuds, establishing what is known as <i>popular religion</i>. …”
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Rock Art Glossary: A Multilingual Dictionary, Expanded Second Edition (First Edition 2001). Edited by Robert G. Bednarik, Ahmed Achrati, Tang Huisheng, Alfred Muzzolini, George Dim... by Shu-Kun Lin

“…The proliferation of idiosyncratic terminologies of often academically isolated researchers, many of which have been used by only one scholar, has not only retarded progress and the transference of knowledge, it has led to countless misunderstandings and even personal feuds. The purpose of this dictionary is to create a single terminological standard as well as a cross-lingual uniformity of usage. …”
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A Very Human Survey: The Cross-Cultural Inquiries of R. H. Mathews by Martin Thomas

“…Mathews close connections in the Aboriginal world did nothing to protect him from the internecine feuding that characterised Australian anthropology in the Federation era. …”
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Shihabutdin Marjani on the Golden Horde by I.M. Mirgaleev, R.R. Abyzova

“…He pointed to the decline of education and culture, internal strife and feuds, and invasions of external enemies as the main causes for the dissolution of the Golden Horde. …”
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El arte del buen casar: matrimonio y viudedad en el siglo XVIII valenciano / The good marrying art: marriage and widowhood in the valencian 18th century by Antonio López Amores

“…ABSTRACT: Thanks to the analysis of several marriage contracts, testaments, feuds, powers and different documentation, we have built a brief summary of the matrimony process of the nobility, with its causes and consequences for women, in the 18th century Kingdom of Valencia. …”
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El arte del buen casar: matrimonio y viudedad en el siglo XVIII valenciano / The good marrying art: marriage and widowhood in the valencian 18th century by Antonio López Amores

“…Abstract Thanks to the analysis of several marriage contracts, testaments, feuds, powers and different documentation, we have built a brief summary of the matrimony process of the nobility, with its causes and consequences for women, in the 18th century Kingdom of Valencia. …”
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Continuity and change in the northeastern Sertão of Brazil by Hoefle, SW

“…However, concepts of family honour and morality have changed little and feuding persists.</p> <p>Political power has shifted from rural to urban groups but leaders are descendants of the traditional families of the past. …”

MULTIDISCIPLINARY ANALYSIS OF THE VERNACULAR SETTLEMENTS IN USHGULI (UPPER SVANETI, GEORGIA) by G. Sousa, G. Carlos, R. Florentino, T. Bermudez

“…In the Middle Ages, when natural conditions secured their isolation, the established feudal system preserved, until recent times, the warrior culture of the Svan through a judicial system based on blood feuds. The necessity to defend their territory from invaders, as well as the violent conflicts between families, influenced their settlement morphology, as well as their vernacular architecture. …”
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Albanian law and nation-building in northern Albania and Kosovo by Pritchard, E, Eleanor Mary Pritchard

“…<p>My thesis explores the roles in Albanian nation-building of the <em>Kanun</em> of Lekë Dukagjin, an early-twentieth century codification of northern-Albanian customary practices, and the <em>Pajtimi i Gjaqeve</em>, a late-twentieth century movement to conciliate blood feuds in Kosovo. To understand them, we need to know: what both were, in their own terms; their significance; and how they relate to other aspects of nation-building, and comparative examples. …”

The Third All-Russian Research Conference (with International Participation) “History, Economics and Culture of the Medieval Turkic-Tatar States of the Western Siberia”, Kurgan, 21... by D.N. Maslyuzhenko, S.F.Tataurov

“…Special attention was given to the problems of source studies of the history of this dynasty, the localisation of the territory and borders of the Shibanids’ possessions, the possibility of other Chingisid dynasties’ claims to the territory of southwestern Siberia, and the Shibanids’ engagement in the events of Great Zamyatnya and the steppe feuds of the 1420s. The second roundtable was linked to the history of “The Tyumen and Siberian Khanates and Their Neighbours (15th–16th centuries)”. …”
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Water governance in the twentieth-first century Governança da água no século XXI by José Esteban Castro

“…The paper argues for the development of a balance between the techno-scientific, socio-economic, political, and cultural aspects of water management activities, which may help in superseding the artificial separation of water research and practice in disciplinary and corporatist feuds.<br>Já é de amplo conhecimento que a crise mundial da água é principalmente uma crise de governança. …”
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The fandas in the Prizren and the Peć Sanjaks 1905-1908 by Zarković Vesna S.

“…Until this conflict, the Albanian Mohammedans and fandas in Đakovica lived in relatively good relations. There were blood feuds among them, but they were resolved like all the others among the Albanians themselves. …”
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Emancipatory discourse in the names of children of the present generation: Some attempts of balancing power relations with special reference to Tshivenḓa naming practices by Thomas Sengani

“…For this reason, there have been silent wars in families and communities. These silent feuds have been difficult to deal with, as any challenge to the elders or their way of doing things is a challenge to tradition, and challenging traditions has historically been unheard of or frowned upon amongst Africans in general. …”
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PostIndependentzia by Calzada, I

“….); very specifically, the perpetuation of the inertia of cultural politics rooted to the decimononic medieval ground of feuding Oinaz and Gamboa clans, and very generally, the need for a socially balanced post-crisis economic model. …”