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ZygonThe editors of Critical Approaches to Science and Religion, Myrna Perez Sheldon, Ahmed Ragab, and Terence Keel, have assembled an extraordinary group of contributors to produce a rich source of inspiration for future research. As they demonstrate, modern
Elizabeth Pérez
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The Event of Nationalism [PDF]
, 2015 This essay focuses on the role played by a series of events and how they were interpreted to have a foundational meaning for the creation of Mexican identity, nationhood and statehood.
Hart, SM
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 1, Page 283-300, March 2025.The article focuses on the predicaments faced by return migrants to Cuba and how they respond to societal pressures to make a valuable difference ‘back home’, opening analytical avenues at the juncture of the anthropology of ethics and morality and migration.
Valerio Simoni
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Santería grand slam: Afro-Cuban religious studies and the study of Afro-Cuban religion
NWIG, 2008 [First paragraph] Living Santería: Rituals and Experiences in an Afro-Cuban Religion. MICHAEL ATWOOD MASON. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2002. ix + 165 pp.
Stephan Palmié
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Spirit Mediumship in Brazil: The Controversy about Semi-Conscious Mediums [PDF]
, 2015 This article focuses on spirit mediumship in Brazil. The term mediumship refers to the communication between humans the spirit world which is the core of Spiritism. In anthropological literature it is often categorised as altered states of consciousness,
Schmidt, Bettina E.
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The house is coming from inside the call
American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 1, Page 208-219, March 2025.Abstract You are reading the first sentence of this essay. In fact, outside of this abstract and a brief introduction, there are only first sentences in this essay, all collected from anthropology monographs and articles. Anthropology is a promiscuous discipline, but there are only about half a dozen ways to begin an anthropology essay.
Lachlan Summers
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Santeria: Its Growth and Changes as a Result of its Major Relocations [PDF]
, 2013 In lieu of an abstract, below is the article\u27s first paragraph. Santeria is a religion native to Cuba. Santeria is a very spiritual religious way of life. Followers believe that everything has a spirit to it which must be honored and appeased in order
Kindler, Michelle
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American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 1, Page 96-107, March 2025.Abstract Much anthropological scholarship on war—particularly “civil war”—focuses on violence perpetrated between organized political groups within the confines of a national space. In contrast, this article examines how “internal armed conflict” manifests across international borders, irrupting as interpersonal violence in spaces that are supposedly ...
Alana Ackerman
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The Maya Train: Infrastructure and Racial Capitalism in Southeast Mexico
Antipode, Volume 57, Issue 1, Page 96-119, January 2025.Abstract In this paper, I illustrate the interplay between infrastructure and racialised differentiation through the case of the Maya Train—a contentious megaproject aimed at constructing 1,554 km of rail tracks across southeast Mexico, led by the López Obrador federal administration.
Claudia Fonseca Alfaro
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Wifredo Lam, the Shango Priestess, and the Femme Cheval [PDF]
, 2016 This article examines Afro-Cuban painter Wifredo Lam and his iconic construction of Afro-Cuban identity. From the vantage point of a literary scholar rather than art historian, and in keeping with Lam’s description of his paintings as “poetry,” I read ...
Sato, Paula
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