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Trading Zones Between Thick and Thin: Anthropological Description as Scaffold or Mosaic

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Referring to the work of historian of science Peter Galison, I argue that anthropology requires thin description as an essential counterpart for thick description. Thin accounts provide the scaffolding within which thick descriptions sit. Galison uses the idea of a “trading zone” connecting different communities who, despite their differences (
David Zeitlyn
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Trabajando en la prostitución: doce relatos de vida, de José Luis Solana Ruiz y José López Riopedre [PDF]

Antropólogos Iberoamericanos en Red, 2014
La prostitución es uno de esos temas que siempre están de actualidad y, a tenor de los acalorados debates que suscita, que más interesan en nuestra sociedad.
Cliente X
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Feelings Without Emotion: Rethinking Male Friendship and the Value of Personal Reticence

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In various Euro‐American contexts, commentators have highlighted how emotional reticence inhibits men's ability to understand themselves and connect with others. More generally, public discourses of affective expressivity often present curtailed emotion as a form of “repression.” Through an ethnographic account of male railway enthusiasts ...
Thomas Yarrow
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Outsmarting sanctions

American Ethnologist, EarlyView.
Abstract In 2012 the UN Security Council and the European Union bolstered US economic sanctions on Iran, disembedding the country's economy from financial markets. Since then, the sanctions have radically devalued Iran's currency, leading Iranians to seek a viable standard of value elsewhere. They have done so through ghachagh (fugitive) configurations
Emrah Yıldız
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Reframing the Chipped Edge: Combining Materiality, Ontology, and Embodiment to Rethink Stone Tool‐Making and Human Conscious Behavior in the Paleolithic Past

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Combining different theoretical frameworks can lead to new insights into the role of material things in shaping human experience in the Paleolithic period. This paper first presents a historical review of three theoretical approaches in archaeology, anthropology, and the philosophy of mind: Material culture and materiality studies, the ...
Bar Efrati
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De la intimidad a la reflexión: sobre el documental etnográfico Xennials

Anthropologica, 2022
En el Perú, la mitad de la población son mujeres y tienen una mayor esperanza de vida. Son presentadas como las que viven para otros, a toda edad, y en todo nivel socio económico, por tanto se afirma que viven en una ‘pobreza de tiempo’. Casi sin tiempo
Paula Chávez López
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Phantasmic Encounters in the Arctic: Haunting Materialities Beyond the Ghosts of War

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the vast north, ghostly experiences are common for locals and outsiders alike. Here, we explore how cultural‐natural attributes, like remoteness and extreme seasonal variation, compound experiences of the haunting in visceral ways. This provides the Arctic region with an unusually pronounced baseline of other‐than‐human agency, which in the
Aki Hakonen, Oula Seitsonen
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Territorialidades en conflicto en torno a un parque eólico en Argentina

Anthropologica, 2022
Este artículo analiza las tensiones en torno a la dimensión territorial de la implementación de un emprendimiento de energía eólica en un paraje rural de la provincia de Río Negro (Argentina).
Laura Kropff Causa, Ana Spivak L'Hoste
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Transformation of the Agrarian Landscape and Hope in the Central Kalimantan Peatlands

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, agrarian state programs and corporate strategies seek to transform indigenous Ngaju Dayak into sedentary farmers. Focusing on the notion of transformation, the paper traces whether and how rural people can engage in struggles against structural injustices.
Anu Lounela
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Patrimonio arqueológico, puesta en valor y restauración en Ollantaytambo

Anthropologica, 2022
Este artículo examina la historia de los trabajos de restauración ejecutados en los últimos cuarenta años aproximadamente en el sitio inca de Ollantaytambo, en la región Cusco. La información recogida procede principalmente de entrevistas realizadas con
Pablo Garcia Bengoechea
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