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Anthropologists, in common with social theorists more generally, have often understood social life as an emergent phenomenon grounded in practices of creativity and improvisation. Where stasis and continuity feature, these are often presented as illusory manifestations of underlying processes of ‘invention’, or as external impositions upon otherwise ...
Paolo Heywood, Thomas Yarrow
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This article contributes to rethinking the dichotomy between informal sociality and ritual formality by examining the occasional ritual encounters surrounding spirit‐tablet inscription in Chinese Buddhist temples. Rather than viewing rituals as enactments of established orders, it presents ritual engagement as a contingent process of relational ...
Yang Shen
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Classes dominantes, classes délinquantes ? Le crime économique comme figure de la critique sociale
L’article aborde la question de la délinquance des élites en déplaçant l’attention des travaux criminologiques vers les travaux des économistes et sociologues critiques, principalement français, qui portent sur les comportements des classes dominantes ...
Jean Bérard
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This is a methodological chapter in which the question for investigation is how to describe the effects of technological mediation on learning. The chapter focuses on the use of language by learners enrolled on a course of English-for-specific purposes ...
Lamy, Marie-Noëlle
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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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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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Paul Bourget, un (anti)moderne ? De la « révolution » psychologique au roman « réactionnaire »
À partir de l’évolution littéraire de Paul Bourget, cet article cherche à explorer le pivotement qui s’opère entre sa critique psychologique marquée par une conscience de la décadence et ses romans psychologiques à visée sociale où l’auteur s’efforce de
Adrián Valenzuela Castelletto
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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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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
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