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Paul E. Farmer • Current Anthropology
(2004)
Any thorough understanding of the modern epidemics of AIDS and tuberculosis in Haiti or elsewhere in the postcolonial world requires a thorough knowledge of history and political economy. This essay, based on over a decade of research in ru...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/382250
Catherine A. Lutz, Geoffrey M. White • Annual Review of Anthropology
(1986)
Interest in has burgeoned in the last decade, not only in anthropology, but in psychology (e.g. 5, 77,113, 141), sociology (e.g. 72, 81), philosophy (e.g. 153, 177), history (e.g. 180), and feminist studies (e.g. 176). A concern to understa...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.an.15.100186.002201
Margaret M. Lock, Vinh‐Kim Nguyen (2018)
An Anthropology of Biomedicine is an exciting new introduction to biomedicine and its global implications. Focusing on the ways in which the application of biomedical technologies bring about radical changes to societies at large, cultural ...
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James D. Faubion • Cambridge University Press eBooks
(2011)
Through an ambitious and critical revision of Michel Foucault's investigation of ethics, James Faubion develops an original program of empirical inquiry into the ethical domain. From an anthropological perspective, Faubion argues that Fouca...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511792557
James Acheson • Annual Review of Anthropology
(1981)
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anth...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.an.10.100181.001423
Edmundo R. Leach • Routledge eBooks
(2021)
The essential core of social anthropology is fieldwork–the understanding of the way of life of a single particular people. This fieldwork is an extremely personal traumatic kind of experience and the personal involvement of the anthropologi...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003136460-1
Immanuel Kant • Cambridge University Press eBooks
(2012)
Kant was one of the inventors of anthropology, and his lectures on anthropology were the most popular and among the most frequently given of his lecture courses. This volume contains the first translation of selections from student transcri...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139028639
Rebecca Bryant, Daniel M. Knight • Cambridge University Press eBooks
(2019)
Study of the future is an important new field in anthropology. Building on a philosophical tradition running from Aristotle through Heidegger to Schatzki, this book presents the concept of 'orientations' as a way to study everyday life. It ...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108378277
Bialecki, Jon, Naomi Haynes, Robins, Joel • Duke University Press eBooks
(2006)
This article surveys the literature that constitutes the newly emergent anthropology of Christianity. Arguing that the development of this sub-discipline was impeded until recently by anthropology's theoretical framing and empirical interes...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822388159
Ryan Cecil Jobson • American Anthropologist
(2020)
ABSTRACT This essay principally meditates on the scholarship published by sociocultural anthropologists in 2019. In 2019, the field of anthropology confronted anthropogenic climate change and authoritarian governance both as objects of scho...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13398
Arturo Escobar • American Ethnologist
(1991)
Since the end of World War II, relations between industrialized nations and Third World countries have been greatly determined and mediated by the discourses and practices of “development.” Although anthropologists in general have not prob‐...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/ae.1991.18.4.02a00020
Bill Maurer • Annual Review of Anthropology
(2006)
This review surveys anthropological and other social research on money and finance. It emphasizes money's social roles and meanings as well as its pragmatics in different modalities of exchange and circulation. It reviews scholarly emphasis...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.anthro.35.081705.123127
KAREN BRODKIN SACKS, Henrietta L. Moore • Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews
(1990)
Feminism and anthropology - the story of a relationship gender and status - explaining the position of women understanding women's work - kinship, labour and household I the changing nature of women's lives - kinship, labour and household I...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2072413
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro • Common Knowledge
(2011)
The article assumes that the expression “comparative relativism”—the title of the Common Knowledge symposium in which the essay appears—is neither tautological nor oxymoronic. Rather, the author construes the term as an apt synthetic charac...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754x-2010-045
Simon W Hillson • Cambridge University Press eBooks
(1996)
Teeth are one of the best sources of evidence for both identification and studies of demography, biological relationships and health in ancient human communities. This text introduces the complex biology of teeth and provides a practical gu...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139170697
Henrika Kuklick • Choice Reviews Online
(2008)
List of Illustrations. Notes on Contributors. Introduction: Henrika Kuklick (University of Pennsylvania). 1. Anthropology before Anthropology: Harry Liebersohn (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign). Major Traditions . 2. North American...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.46-0387
Tim Ingold • Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory
(2017)
Ethnography aims to describe life as it is lived and experienced, by a people, somewhere, sometime. Anthropology, by contrast, is an inquiry into the conditions and possibilities of human life in the world. Anthropology and ethnography may ...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.14318/hau7.1.005
Victor W. Turner (1986)
Turner is all over the globe as he addresses issues of cultural performance, carnival, film, theatre, and performing ethnography to break new ground in anthropological thinking about event, spectacle, and audience. One of his last writings,...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.56021/9781555540012
Catherine S. Dolan, Emma Gilberthorpe, Dinah Rajak • Wiley eBooks
(2017)
The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology is the most complete reference resource for the field of anthropology and interrelated areas, providing an authoritative and expert overview of the concepts, research, and techniques that toget...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118924396
David Graeber • eVols (University of Hawaii)
(2004)
Everywhere anarchism is on the upswing as a political philosophy—everywhere, that is, except the academy. Anarchists repeatedly appeal to anthropologists for ideas about how society might be reorganized on a more egalitarian, less alienatin...
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