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, 2015 The article offers information on the efforts to chronicle the economic and personal changes people have endured in Baltimore, Maryland, to make sense of their lives and represent the contradictions of capitalism which resulted in the media project ...
Durington, Matthew Slover +2 more
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The Royal Commission on the Constitution, 1927–1929
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Royal Commission on the Constitution (1927–1929) is a little‐remembered event in Australian political, policy and legal history, which produced—in the words of the constitutional law scholar Geoffrey Sawer—‘a useful student's textbook and a minor alteration in the Judiciary Act’.
Carolyn Holbrook
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Toward a Politics of (In)Fertility: Reproductive Debility in Africa
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sub‐Saharan Africa has some of the highest estimated rates of infertility or involuntary childlessness in the world, leading epidemiologists to refer to parts of the region as the “infertility belt.” The medicalization of infertility and the situating of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) as the treatment for infertility have siphoned ...
Tessa Moll
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Four Questions for Ethnographers Under Trumpian Authoritarianism
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines evolving challenges and ethical dilemmas facing ethnographers working under intensifying authoritarianism in the United States. Because very little of what the United States is experiencing is new, my work here is primarily curatorial in nature, drawing upon the lessons offered by scholars across disciplines in the United
Elizabeth Hanna Rubio
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A criminologia no Brasil ou como tratar desigualmente os desiguais
Dados: Revista de Ciências Sociais, 2002 In this article we discuss how the ideas of Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909) and his followers were incorporated into the intellectual debate in Brazil in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Alvarez Marcos César
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How Anthropology Can Harm Students During a Genocide
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay is about the harm that is committed in the name of care. More specifically, it is about student requests for support during the ongoing genocide in Palestine and an anthropology department's use and weaponization of the language of “care” to do the exact opposite: to cause harm.
Girish Daswani
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Anthropology of the Middle East: An Overview [PDF]
, 2017 This is a review of Soraya Altorki's edited volume, "A Companion to the Anthropology of the Middle East," 2015. This review assesses the chapters in this volume with respect to the past, present, and the future of the ...
Fazel, Solaiman M
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Burying Futures: Artisanal Mining Deaths and the Politics of Negligence in Zimbabwe
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the gold‐mining town of Kwekwe, central Zimbabwe, injury and death are a constant presence. Collapsing shafts, sudden explosions, gang fights, and neglected health infrastructure characterize the everyday lives of the town's impoverished residents.
Melusi Nkomo
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