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Performing Integrity: Managing Misalignment while Researching Transgressive Social Worlds
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.The qualitative literature criticizing REBs suggests that researchers should develop an approach to research ethics that does justice to their daily practice of fieldwork. In this article, I contribute to this exploration by presenting three cases of negotiating research ethics while researching transgressive social worlds.
Thaddeus Müller
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O velho, o bobo e o louco: Ensaio sobre a representação da loucura em Rei Lear
O Que Nos Faz Pensar, 2022 This essay intends to demonstrate that the approach to madness in King Lear can be divided in three interrelated manifestations, corresponding to three characters: Lear, Poor Tom and the Fool.
Pedro Süssekind
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Demonic possession and the historical construction of melancholy and hysteria
History of Psychiatry, 2014 Contrary to the often-voiced opinion that the birth of modern psychiatry should be regarded as a victory of enlightened science and rationality over outdated religious beliefs and ecclesiastical authority, it is argued in this article that the emergence of medical and psychiatric approaches to pathology in modernity takes place in the context of ...
Westerink, H., Westerink, H.
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
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Zło magii w pastoralnych wskazaniach Ojców Kościoła
Vox Patrum, 2013 The article took up the problem of evil in magic in the teaching of the Church Fathers. The ancient priests were convinced that magic was the work of the devil himself.
Paweł Wygralak
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.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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‘To sin in loving virtue’: desire and possession in Measure for Measure
Sillages Critiques, 2013 This essay offers a startling new reading of Shakespeare’s Angelo as a paradoxical if not tragic hero who discovers in his sudden and inexorable impulse to rape a nun in the dark that desire is always more-or-less demonic – even, and perhaps especially ...
Ewan Fernie
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Attentive to the ways that inertia can take hold of life, Catholic monks recognize despondency as a potential not only within the monastery, but in contemporary society more widely. Such experiences are regularly mapped onto an understanding of what early Christian monks termed ‘acedia’ (a Greek term that can be translated as ‘lack of care’). Taking as
Richard D.G. Irvine
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Etudes Epistémè, 2017 In the 1730s, a group of villages in the Venetian Dolomites was the stage of a case of collective possession. Dozens of people, especially women, began to manifest the classic symptoms of demonic possession. Meanwhile, many other people and their animals
Federico Barbierato
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Almas y demonios ante la materia del mundo
Terra Brasilis, 2022 This article examines how the naturalistic research during the sixteenth century integrated into its agenda the clarification of two central issues of the Christian doctrine: the existence of Hell and the relationship of spiritual entities with the ...
Andrés Vélez-Posada
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