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Stumbling on/in Evaluation Anthropology [PDF]
, 2017 Mary Odell Butler's book is a comprehensive guide to how to do evaluation anthropology, especially in the United States. With candid passages about own experiences and about her own career path, she discusses ethics, methodology, dilemmas about the ...
Püsök, Imola
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Cultural Anthropology, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 597-620, November 2025.ABSTRACT Drawing on research with irregular migrants from Nepal who borrow up to $60,000 to reach the United States, this article explores what I call the invisible slow violence of debt. By focusing on how debt is embodied in cases of spirit possession, tension, and dis‐ease among migrants and their families—the article demonstrates how debt can ...
INA ZHARKEVICH
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Biodiversity in mountain soils above the treeline
Biological Reviews, Volume 100, Issue 5, Page 1877-1949, October 2025.ABSTRACT Biological diversity in mountain ecosystems has been increasingly studied over the last decade. This is also the case for mountain soils, but no study to date has provided an overall synthesis of the current state of knowledge. Here we fill this gap with a first global analysis of published research on cryptogams, microorganisms, and fauna in ...
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Walking and Perceptions of Danger in Various Cities
City &Society, Volume 37, Issue 2, August 2025.ABSTRACT Taking inspiration from Mauss' classic idea of walking as one of many “techniques of the body,” this essay reflects on how perceptions of danger shape how one walks in various cities. I draw on my own research on the limits and possibilities of quantified walking as well as on urban experiences I have had in my life.
Anne Meneley
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, 2004 Transaction introduction -- Preface -- I. What is anthropology? -- II. The problem of race -- III. The interrelation of races -- IV. Nationalism -- V. Eugenics -- VI. Criminology -- VII. Stability of culture -- VIII. Education -- IX.
Boas, Franz
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Crafting an Engaged Urban Anthropology [PDF]
, 2019 There has been a growing recognition within anthropology over the past two decades about the need to more seriously engage with topics and issues that are of more direct relevance to the everyday realities of the general public.
Shalabi, Samir
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The Anthropology Book forum has been awarded the GAD New Directions Award
, 2022 The Anthropology Book Forum has been awarded the 2022 New Directions Award (group category), presented by the General Anthropology Division, a sub-section of the American Anthropological ...
Groupp, Emilia
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Anthropology of the Middle East: An Overview [PDF]
, 2017 This is a review of Soraya Altorki's edited volume, "A Companion to the Anthropology of the Middle East," 2015. This review assesses the chapters in this volume with respect to the past, present, and the future of the ...
Fazel, Solaiman M
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, 2004 Asian Anthropology raises important questions regarding the nature of anthropology and particularly the production and consumption of anthropological knowledge in Asia.
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