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Henrietta L. Moore (2000)
The Contributors. 1. Anthropological Theory at the Turn of the Century. (Henrietta L. Moore). 2. From Private Virtue to Public Vice. (James G. Carrier and Daniel Miller). 3. Clash of Civilizations of Asian Liberalism?:An Anthropology of the...
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Bryan Pfaffenberger • Annual Review of Anthropology
(1992)
At the onset of the 20th century, anthropologists such as Balfour, Marett, and Haddon could readily identify three spheres of strength in anthropological research: material culture, social organization, and physical anthropology (49). The s...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.an.21.100192.002423
Sidney W. Mintz, Christine M. Du Bois • Annual Review of Anthropology
(2002)
▪ Abstract The study of food and eating has a long history in anthropology, beginning in the nineteenth century with Garrick Mallery and William Robertson Smith. This review notes landmark studies prior to the 1980s, sketching the history o...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.anthro.32.032702.131011
Fredrik Barth • Current Anthropology
(2002)
Whereas previous Sidney Mintz lectures have celebrated Mintzs work on inequality, racism, and ethnicity, I have chosen to speak to the broadest scope of his research and teaching in anthropology. A comparative perspective on human knowledge...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/324131
Diane Katherine Lewis • Current Anthropology
(1973)
Anthropology emerged from the colonial expansion of Europe. Colonialism structured the relationship between anthropologists and the people they studied and had an effect on methodological and conceptual formulations in the discipline. For e...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/201393
Robert M. Hayden • American Anthropologist
(2005)
Anthropology in the Margins of the State. Veena Das and Deborah Poole, eds. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press, 2004. 330 pp....
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.2005.107.4.721
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
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
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
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
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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Kimberly G. Wagoner, Olivia E. Horton, Cynthia K. Suerken, E. Alfonso Romero-Sandoval et al. • Preventive Medicine Reports
(2026)
Objectives: We assessed point-of-sale advertising for CBD in three states with different cannabis laws (i.e., medical/recreational use; medical only; CBD/low THC) to determine if CBD is marketed in ways that are prohibited by the U.S. Food ...
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DOI: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2026.103472
Paulius Japertas • Lietuvos Istorijos Studijos
(2025)
This article investigates the process of mine clearance in Lithuania between 1944 and 1946, conducted through the Soviet paramilitary organization OSOAVIACHIM. Based on documents preserved in the Lithuanian Central State Archives and the Li...
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DOI: 10.15388/LIS.2025.56.4
R. Brian Lowry, Tanya Bedard, Xin Grevers, Susan Crawford et al. • Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada
(2023)
IntroductionCurrent published long-term provincial or territorial congenital anomaly data are lacking for Canada. We report on prevalence (per 1000 total births) and trends in 1997–2019, in Alberta, Canada, for selected congenital anomalies...
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DOI: 10.24095/hpcdp.43.1.04
Susy Katikana Sebayang, Desak Made Sintha Kurnia Dewi, Septa Indra Puspikawati, Erni Astutik et al. • Journal of Community Mental Health and Public Policy
(2020)
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Gadget use among Indonesian adolescents is becoming more prevalent. Most Indonesian families own smartphones for various uses including for accessing the internet. Gadget and internet use has sharply increased during the Covid-19 p...
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DOI: 10.51602/cmhp.v3i1.47
Soumyadeep Bhaumik, Rebecca J Mathew • Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care
(2015)
As of 2013, the latest statistics available, more than 400,000 individuals are lodged in Indian prisons. Prisoners represent a heterogeneous population, belonging to socially diverse and economically disadvantaged sections of society with l...
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DOI: 10.4103/2249-4863.161304