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Religiosity and Scientificity: The Transformation of Missionary Anthropology in the West China Border Research Society (1922–1950)

Religions
Religiosity and scientificity have long been intertwined in missionary anthropology. Since the 20th century, there has been a shift from religious missionary anthropology to scientific anthropology worldwide.
Peirong Li, Simei Bian, Qi Zhang
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When sharing becomes shameful: atmospheres of class formation in Namibia Quand le partage devient honteux : ambiances de formation de classes en Namibie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Anthropologists have long shown that asking for food in times of need is morally valued in rural Namibia. Yet among the Damara pastoralists with whom I work, people now increasingly describe feeling shame (taob) when they ask for food. In this article, I trace this shift to the affective dynamics of social class formation.
Michael Schnegg
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Mental illness in the light of christian anthropology

Консультативная психология и психотерапия, 2011
Author proposes an analyze o various deviations of the spiritual and psychological spheres in the context of the Orthodox approach to fundamental stereological terms in Christian anthropology.
Egorova E.B.
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Carl Schmitt's International Order: A Decolonial Reappraisal

Constellations, EarlyView.
Andrea Mura
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Cutting freedom down to size Liberté calibrée

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Freedom, as a concept and a value, presents limited prospects for anthropological comparison. The study of enslavement, much neglected in attempts to develop an anthropology of freedom, shows that freedom has been imagined by the enslaved as the opposite of their condition only under particular circumstances.
Harri Englund
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Decolonizing Christian Higher Education with Matt Bernico Pt. I

, 2018
The Institute for Christian Studies is a unique fixture in the field of Christian higher education, contributing to academia and also trying to transform it with fidelity to Christ.
Bernico, Matt, Dettloff, Dean, Kuipers, Ron   +2 more
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Modern theatrics of love: desires and consumption in the Indian middle class Le théâtre moderne de l'amour : désirs et consommation dans la classe moyenne indienne

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article analyses class construction amongst the urban Indian middle class, through a novel prism of romantic love, specifically performances of romantic love which in turn highlight anxieties of being middle class. The article explains how a performance of romantic love before marriage is used as a basis by the middle class to claim being global ...
Parul Bhandari
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Introduction: On the fickleness of friendship Introduction : de l'inconstance en amitié

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In this Introduction to the special section, I provide a brief overview of the anthropology of friendship, particularly from the 1960s to the present, before focusing on the four articles that form the main body of the section. I argue that anthropologists who do not regard themselves as specialists in friendship will still find much to gain from ...
Simon Coleman
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What does anthropology sound like? Poetry

, 2020
This is the second episode in the What Does Anthropology Sound Like series. In it Dr. Darcy Alexandra and Dr. Ather Zia join contributing editor and producer, Cory-Alice André-Johnson, to discuss ethnographic poetry. As the primary focus of the series is
Alexandra, Darcy, Zia, Ather
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A History of ‘Religious History’

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
As a category denoting the analysis of religious actors across history disinterestedly and on their own terms, “religious history” is a relatively recent coinage. This article offers a brief contextualisation of the emergence of the field in the twentieth century. It distinguishes “religious history” from an older, “confessional” mode of ecclesiastical
Joshua Bennett
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