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Amidst (waste) abundance: world‐making and struggles in hosting a municipal landfill in the Bolivian lowlands Au milieu de l'abondance (de déchets) : fabrication du monde et luttes liées à la gestion d'une décharge municipale dans les basses terres de Bolivie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In recent decades, solid waste has proliferated worldwide, becoming a pressing global issue. This article explores the role of Indigenous people dwelling within and upon emerging waste scenarios, with a specific focus on involved forms of sociality and ontological contestation. Drawing on the case of a municipal landfill sited on a Guarani community in
Vanesa Martín Galán
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Martin Kessels aphoristische Anthropologie im Kontext von Roman und Essay

Convivium, 2013
Der Aufsatz ist an der Nahtstelle von monographischem Thema und gattungstheoretischem Problem angesiedelt. Er stellt den Aphoristiker Martin Kessel (1901-1990) vor, indem er sich vornehmlich dessen Aphorismen im Kontext seines Romans Herrn Brechers ...
Friedemann Spicker
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The choice to submit: freedom, gender, and the figure of God in Pentecostal Nigeria Le choix de se soumettre : liberté, genre et figure divine chez les Pentecôtistes du Nigeria

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Why do some women choose to submit to their husbands in marriage? In anthropology, the paradox of ‘chosen submission’ has famously been explored by Saba Mahmood. Her work amongst Egyptian women donning the veil in the Islamic da'wa movement spotlights the notion of ‘piety’ to explore how devotion to God can act as a powerful motivator of human ...
Naomi Richman
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A perforated anodised aluminium slide for improved specimen clearing and imaging for confocal laser scanning microscopy

BMC Research Notes, 2018
Objective The bleaching, clearing and handling of tiny specimens with soft tissue and cuticular components for confocal laser scanning microscopy is difficult, because after cuticle bleaching and tissue clearing the specimens are virtually invisible.
Felix Simon Christian Quade, Beate Preitz, Nikola-Michael Prpic   +2 more
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Conceptual colour: race, economic knowledge, and the anthropology of financialization De la couleur comme concept : race, connaissances économiques et anthropologie de la financiarisation

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Economic anthropologists now carry out fieldwork in settings for which the ethnographic method was never designed, amongst powerful financial actors who are notoriously difficult to access, and in contexts which transcend geographical boundaries. This has engendered a re‐orientation of anthropology, to consider not only the economic lives of people but
Kimberly Chong
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Anthropologie naïve, anthropologie savante

, 2001
Il y a deux siècles, les naturalistes s'emparèrent de la question de l'origine de l'homme, à laquelle seuls les mythes fournissaient jusqu'alors des réponses. Mais la science, après avoir rejeté les traditionnels récits mythiques, a-t-elle véritablement réussi à se libérer de leur influence ?
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Robert Nicolaï, Parcours sémiotiques ou les mots des hommes. Une anthropologie langagière, Paris, L’Harmattan, collection « Du sens », 2019, 185 pages.

Signifiances (Signifying), 2021
COMPTE-RENDU de l'ouvrage : Robert Nicolaï, Parcours sémiotiques ou les mots des hommes. Une anthropologie langagière, Paris, L’Harmattan, collection « Du sens », 2019, 185 pages.
Michaël Grégoire
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The company you keep: becoming one(self) in an Indonesian convent En bonne compagnie : devenir (quelqu’)un dans un couvent indonésien Pergaulan dalam biara di Indonesia: sebuah proses pembentukan diri*

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article investigates companionate processes of self‐making in a religious community of Catholic nuns in eastern Indonesia. I argue that the sociality of the convent establishes a unique context for understanding the effects of one's company on processes of self‐becoming.
Meghan Rose Donnelly
wiley   +1 more source

A antropologia da globalização e a globalização da antropologia

Mediações: Revista de Ciências Sociais, 2013
RESENHA de: ABÉLÈS, Marc. Anthropologie de la globalisation. Paris: Payot, 2008, 280 p.
Celso de Brito
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Boredom, despondency, and the scourge that lays waste at noon: an anthropology of acedia Ennui, abattement et le fléau qui frappe à midi : une anthropologie de l'acédie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Attentive to the ways that inertia can take hold of life, Catholic monks recognize despondency as a potential not only within the monastery, but in contemporary society more widely. Such experiences are regularly mapped onto an understanding of what early Christian monks termed ‘acedia’ (a Greek term that can be translated as ‘lack of care’). Taking as
Richard D.G. Irvine
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