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Marketless trading in Hammurabi’s time: A re-appraisal [PDF]

, 2013
In this article I revisit Karl Polanyi’s writings on ancient Mesopotamia. I begin by situating them in the context of his general approach to trade, markets and money in the ancient world. Next, I reconstruct his major theses on Mesopotamia, drawing upon
Dale, G
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Living in the Paraindustrial

American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 1, Page 131-139, March 2025.
Abstract This article is an autoethnographic exploration of life in the former steel mill region of Southeast Chicago in the ‘Rust Belt’ of the Midwestern United States. It challenges assumptions about deindustrialization that depict one discrete historical stage following another (i.e., the postindustrial following the industrial) in favor of what is ...
Christine J. Walley
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Freedom of choice or force of circumstance? : Eastern European sex-workers in the Republic of Cyprus ; paper for the conference 'Alltag der Globalisierung. Perspektiven einer transnationalen Anthropologie', January 16-18, 2003, Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main [PDF]

, 2003
This paper focuses on Eastern European migrants who, since the beginning of the 1990s, are entering the Republic Cyprus as “artistes”. This is a visa permit status as well as an euphemism for short-term work permits in the local sex industry. In addition
Lenz, Ramona
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The dawn of division: For an anthropological theory of consciousness through contemplative ethnography

Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 36, Issue 1, Spring 2025.
AbstractThe article delves into the need for an anthropological exploration of consciousness in the modern context. While anthropology's core focus has always been the study of the human subject, this study argues that consciousness has emerged as a fundamental aspect that underpins all human phenomena.
Federico Divino
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Embodiment of the Manhood in Folklore: Keeping Secret from Women in Azerbaijan in the Context of a Real and Virtual Social Environment

Etnoantropološki problemi / Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology
This article investigates reasons for keeping secrets from women in real and virtual social environment of Azerbaijan through a manhood perspective. The investigation has revealed that the masculinity within the society creates the folklore patterns that
Hikmet Guliyev, Safa Garayev
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Mission: Agnes C. L. Donohugh, early apostle for ethnography

, 2017
In the spring of 1915, the Kennedy School of Missions at Hartford Theological Seminary, the leading graduate school for missionary training in the United States at this time, offered the first graduate-level course on ethnology ever to be taught in ...
Hartley, Benjamin L.
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Anthropology & Open Access: An Interview with Jason Baird Jackson [PDF]

, 2011
During the last few weeks I had the chance to conduct an email based interview with Jason Baird Jackson about Open Access (OA), academic publishing, and anthropology..
Anderson, Ryan B.
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Ambivalent elites and conservative modernizers : studying sideways in transnational contexts ; paper for the conference 'Alltag der Globalisierung. Perspektiven einer transnationalen Anthropologie', January 16-18, 2003, Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main [PDF]

, 2003
Spacially dispersed transnational professional communities can be perceived of as cultural formations living in a global frame of reference, transgressing existing political and cultural boundaries.
Ilyes, Petra
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Socio-political and Structural Aspects of the Concept of Social Entrepreneurship: The Case of Serbia

Etnoantropološki problemi / Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology
The focus of this research are the ways of conceptualizing the phenomenon of social entrepreneurship, which in transitional and developed capitalist societies alike, rely on cognitive models shaped by divergent cultural and socio-political contexts.
Miloš Zarić
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"The World That Could Be": Gender, Bildung, Zukunft und das Projekt einer Anticipatory Anthropology [PDF]

, 2018
This article is the revised version of my inaugural lecture given on June 27, 2017 at the Department of European Ethnology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Chakkalakal, Silvy
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