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Testigo en tierra salvaje: la cita tropical de Levi-Strauss y Theodore Roosevelt

Revista de Antropología Social, 2002
Este ensayo compara el texto de Claude Léví-Strauss Tristes Tropiques con Through the Brazilian Highlands, obra de Theodore Roosevelt, dos documentos referidos a la misma región de Brasil. El recorrido del presidente norteamericano (1913-1914) tuvo lugar
William A. Douglass
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When Time Stands Still: The Destructive Experience of Ambiguous Loss among Mothers of Combat Soldiers

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
What happens when stories refuse coherence? This article examines ambiguous loss among mothers of combat soldiers, focusing on how prolonged waiting and uncertainty infiltrate everyday life, eroding sensemaking. Drawing on ethnographic interviews, it explores how mothers experience the contraction of time and space—manifested in suspended routines ...
Shirly Bar‐Lev, Galit Itzhaki Draizin, Agamit Gelb   +2 more
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Problèmes de structure dans les Andes. De la parenté, de la polygynie et des moitiés à Cuzco

Journal de la Société des Américanistes, 2005
Problems of structure in the Andes. Kinship, polygyny and moieties in Cuzco. Lévi-Strauss, in articles written in 1983, poses the problem of multiple choices, with different advantages, of kin relationships between a ruler and his subjects. He takes as a
R. Tom Zuidema
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Torture and scepticism in Papua New Guinea witch hunts Torture et scepticisme dans les chasses aux sorcières en Papouasie‐Nouvelle‐Guinée

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
For over a century, anthropologists have documented the many institutions that exist to respond to witchcraft and the uncanny that it names: oracles that attempt to produce certainty by naming the witch; moots in which grievances are aired; trials in magistrates’ courts that attempt to satisfy the community while preserving the life of the accused ...
Chloe Nahum‐Claudel
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Vital events, vital relations: the structure of relations in an identity database Événements vitaux, liens vitaux : la structure des liens dans une base de données d'identité civile

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) manages Pakistan's biometric‐based national identity database, one of the largest identification systems of its kind in the world. This article examines bureaucratic practices used during identity registration to record ‘vital events’ in the lives of citizens: birth, marriage, divorce, and death.
Zehra Hashmi
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False kings and imagined protestants: why schismogenesis does not explain variation in inequality among Indigenous societies of the Pacific Coast Faux rois et protestants imaginaires: pourquoi la schismogenèse n'explique pas les variations des inégalités parmi les sociétés autochtones de la côte pacifique nord‐américaine

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Indigenous societies along the temperate Pacific coast of North America embody diverse cultural institutions. This variation is conventionally classified into two distinct cultural areas: the Northwest Coast (NWC) and California (CAL). Discussion of the environmental, material, social, and ideological variation in these societies has a long and ...
Eric Alden Smith, Brian F. Codding
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María Eugenia Olavarría, Levi-Strauss

Iztapalapa, 2018
Reseña del libro,Levi-Strauss, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, México, María EugEnia Olavarría, Lévi ...
Camilo Sempio Durán
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História e Etnologia. Lévi-Strauss e os embates em região de fronteira

Revista de Antropologia, 1999
O objetivo desse texto é recuperar, a partir de dois textos específicos de Lévi-Strauss, o debate que esse autor trava com a História. Tratam-se mais exatamente de dois ensaios que, apesar de apresentarem título idêntico - "História e etnologia" -, foram
Lilia K. Moritz Schwarcz
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What is social science if not critical?

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Abstract This short article represents a contribution to the debate on the motion “Social science is explanation, or it is nothing.” While in the format of parliamentary debating the contribution would fall on the side of the opposition, I will not be arguing against explanation as such.
Jana Bacevic
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Show Me Your Circle! A Typology of Circular Economy Disclosure Strategies by Multinationals

Abacus, EarlyView.
The circular economy (CE) is featuring more prominently in emerging regulations, codes of best practice, and corporate policies. Yet, accounting research offers limited insight into how circularity is currently conceptualized and communicated in corporate reports.
Warren Maroun, Laura Rocca, David Monciardini   +2 more
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