Scarecrows: Supernatural Sentinels Against COVID-19 in Cambodia. [PDF]
Med AnthropolEisenbruch M.
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What is a Multi‐Ethnic Party and How to Spot a Fake One?
Swiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.Abstract Multi‐ethnic parties have been variously defined: as those which do not champion the interests of, or mobilize against, any specific ethnic group; as those with a recognisably cross‐communal leadership or membership; and as those which acquire some distribution of support across groups.
Jon Fraenkel
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A critical review of medicolegal research and information asymmetries in investigating cases of extrajudicial executions and forced disappearances. [PDF]
Int J Legal MedDempsey N, Sarkar R, Rivera C, Bassed R.
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Scents of care: Multispecies relations in Pakistan's heatwave
The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how odour, intensified by heat, shapes the sensory aspects of social and multispecies relations in Pakistan. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Kasur's tanneries and Lahore's animal shelters during a period of record‐breaking heat, it analyses how smell structures inclusion and exclusion, mediates encounters with humans
Muhammad A. Kavesh
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"Doctors are targeted and kidnapped": crimes and insecurity contribute to health problems and constrain the delivery of health services in urban settings in Nigeria. [PDF]
Front Public HealthOrjiakor TC +10 more
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When does the story end? Presence, the present and ‘the contemporary world’
The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract We write and read ethnography in the wake of time passing: a fact that has long thrown up a host of epistemological and ethical issues for the doing of anthropology. In this essay I revisit this classic problem—the problem of the ethnographic present—asking what happens when we rethink the relationship between ‘the present’ and ‘presence’, the
Michael Edwards
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More Than Childbirth: Unveiling the Risks of Marriage on Women's Mortality in Tang Dynasty China. [PDF]
Am J Hum BiolLiu Y.
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Suspicion: The politics of knowledge production when fieldwork and writing are uneasy
The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract How might fieldwork anxieties serve as a productive site to revisit the theoretical presumptions that guide research practices? This article explores moments of suspicion and scepticism during fieldwork to reflect on the tensions of fixing anthropological lines of inquiry and conceptual lineages.
Randi L. Irwin
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