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Encountering ‘Broken’ Public Services: Defiance and Disaffection at the Frontlines of the Democratic State

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The apparently parlous state of public services in advanced liberal democracies has become a hot topic, nowhere more so than in ‘broken Britain’. Indeed, there is much debate in both politics scholarship and political rhetoric about the nature and causes of this decline, and its potential remedies. All perspectives are at pains to characterise
John Boswell
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A commoning framework for environmental archaeology: beyond resource management in Indigenous North America

Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology
Environmental archaeology has often relied on common-pool resource models to interpret past human-environment relationships, yet these frameworks overlook Indigenous ontologies grounded in kinship with land, water, and more-than human beings.
Jessica A. Jenkins, Martin D. Gallivan, Brad Hatch   +2 more
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The Anthropology of Epidemics

, 2019
Over the past decades, infectious disease epidemics have come to increasingly pose major global health challenges to humanity. The Anthropology of Epidemics approaches epidemics as total social phenomena: processes and events which encompass and exercise

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Torture and scepticism in Papua New Guinea witch hunts Torture et scepticisme dans les chasses aux sorcières en Papouasie‐Nouvelle‐Guinée

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
For over a century, anthropologists have documented the many institutions that exist to respond to witchcraft and the uncanny that it names: oracles that attempt to produce certainty by naming the witch; moots in which grievances are aired; trials in magistrates’ courts that attempt to satisfy the community while preserving the life of the accused ...
Chloe Nahum‐Claudel
wiley   +1 more source

Anthropology By the Wire

, 2012
Website began in 2011.Anthropology by the Wire is a multi-media research project on urban and visual anthropology in Baltimore that is part of a National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates grant at Towson University.
Durington, Matthew Slover, Collins, Samuel Gerald   +1 more
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Mortal relationality: waria family care and the ethics of dying in Bali Relationnalité mortelle : soins familiaux des waria et éthique des mourants à Bali

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Can a good death occur for those who balance on the edges of grievability? In Bali, where death marks a transition within the cycles of reincarnation, a good death depends on the mortuary care performed by intimate others – care that may be foreclosed to those whose lives are shaped by stigma.
Sylvia Tidey
wiley   +1 more source

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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Geniets patologi

Lychnos, 2016
In the mid-nineteenth century, the ancient notion that genius is a form of insanity suddenly became the topic of intense medical interest. Beginning with the French physician Lélut’s 1836 study of Socrates, Du démon de Socrate, a number of prominent ...
Tobias Dahlkvist
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The reckoning: ethnographic explorations of the ending of a friendship Règlement de comptes : explorations ethnographiques de la fin d'une amitié

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article examines the ending of a friendship in ethnographic fieldwork. I argue that friendship is a necessarily ambiguous concept and relation, made most distinctive as a ‘friendship’ at its end. Reflecting on a friendship that was ended between this author and an old friend in fieldwork in Halleigh, North Manchester, England, I discuss the ...
Katherine Smith
wiley   +1 more source

Staging friendship: towards an anthropology of everyday geopolitics in South Asia L'amitié mise en scène : vers une anthropologie de la géopolitique du quotidien en Asie du Sud

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article studies Indian‐Bangladeshi friendship ethnographically, as a contested political imaginary, claim, and relation, from the vantage of its shared borderlands. Staging friendship, I show, is a geopolitical project that engages equally the highest echelons of the Indian and Bangladeshi states and ordinary residents of its marginalized ...
Sahana Ghosh
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