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Appadurai, Arjun (2006). Fear of small numbers: An essay on the geography of anger
Media & Viestintä, 2009 Marko Ampuja
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The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 30, Issue 2, June 2025.ABSTRACT This article analyzes the different expressions of authenticity, fidelity, and genuineness surrounding the Mexican culinary scene in New York. On the one hand, self‐identified Mexicans express sensory and memory nostalgia during the production and consumption of foods they recognize as their own.
Axel G. Elías Jiménez
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The song remains the same? Sobre las biografías sociales y personalizadas de las canciones
El Oído Pensante, 2013 Al pasar revista desde una posición crítica a la teoría adorniana del fetichismo musical, el presente artículo, siguiendo la propuesta de Arjun Appadurai para el estudio de los objetos, explora la posibilidad de desarrollar métodos de análisis de la ...
Julio Mendívil
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Imagining Transcultural Fandom: Animation and Global Media Communities
The Journal of Transcultural Studies, 2011 This paper addresses the ways in which animation has become a medium for the formation of transcultural fan communities. It focuses in particular on the trend for anime, which has generated asymmetrical, tension-filled and yet productive interactions ...
Sandra Annett
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Rethinking Transnational Places as Migratory Ecotones
Population, Space and Place, Volume 31, Issue 4, May 2025.ABSTRACT This paper revisits the concept of ecotone to shed a different light on migratory spaces. The notion of ecotone was first applied for the study of the contact zones between ecological systems. Over the last two decades, it has been used by scholars of postcolonial literature for the analysis of spaces of cultural interactions.
Thomas Lacroix, Judith Misrahi‐Barak
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Cartographies of Clothing: On the Aesthetics and Practices of Property in Borderlands
PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Volume 48, Issue 1, May 2025.ABSTRACT This article explores the symbolic and material role of clothing in shaping the aesthetics and practices of property among the Garos in the India‐Bangladesh borderlands. It argues that clothing functions as a mediator of territorial claims, transcending the legal frameworks of national and customary orders to offer alternative understandings ...
Malini Sur
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Do nomadismo ao "ideocídio": o imaginário fenomenológico dos rolezinhos na pós-modernidade
Lumina, 2016 Este artigo procura situar os rolezinhos - jovens de periferia que se deslocam em grupos aos shoppings - dentro de uma leitura interdisciplinar baseada, primeiro, na ideia de nomadismo desenvolvida por Maffesoli (2001).
Eduardo Portanova Barros +1 more
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Enemies: uneasy accompaniments in late life Ennemis : accompagnements de fin de vie difficiles
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue S1, Page 128-144, April 2025.Against a phenomenological orientation to ageing as path or course, a contrastive frame is offered around a figure termed the enemy. Four distinctive ethnographic fragments are utilized: (1) a Polish‐Jewish migrant to Canada in her late eighties who listens continually to the radio and worries over the malign forces in the world that the radio ...
Lawrence Cohen
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Interseções da Teoria Crítica Contemporânea: Estudos Culturais, Pós-Colonialismo e Comunicação
Revista Eco-Pós, 2009 Já se vão mais de 10 anos da publicação do livro O local da cultura, de Homi K. Bhabha pela Routledge. E, para além do valor de efeméride, podemos ver na passagem desse período a consolidação de uma tendência nos Estudos Culturais e na teoria crítica: o ...
Ângela Prysthon
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Universities and the Right to Think in Africa
Australian Journal of Politics &History, Volume 71, Issue 1, Page 52-72, March 2025.Studies of academic freedom have mostly focussed on Europe and North America. Yet, any consideration of the societal crises in Africa cannot ignore the collapse of its universities and the very concept of academic freedom on the continent. Much had been expected of the universities.
Jeremiah O. Arowosegbe
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