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“There Are Places Full of Beauty”: Desettling High School Students' Scientific Writing
ABSTRACT This study contributes to desettling and expanding expectations about the forms of scientific language that belong in students' scientific writing. The primary empirical focus is the analysis of 52 high school student abstracts articulating community‐based investigations, submitted as part of their participation in a student conference in a ...
Alejandra Frausto Aceves
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Accounting for Friendlessness: Stigma and the Quest for an Honorable Self
How do people who identify as friendless make sense of their condition in a moment when friendship is extolled for the support and satisfaction it offers? This article draws on interviews with 21 adults in an Atlantic Canadian city. We argue that our interviewees were rarely at ease with their friendlessness and were at pains to recover an honorable ...
Laura Eramian, Peter Mallory
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Motivation of Volunteers during Great Patriotic War (Case Study of Rostov Region)
This article explores the motivations behind citizens joining volunteer formations during the Great Patriotic War. The study relies on archival and published sources on the history of volunteer movements in the Rostov region.
O. A. Eldinov
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This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
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This article analyzes the design and implementation of an escape game as a scientific mediation tool for sharing the results of an ethnographic study conducted within French military units with field workers.
Léa Ruelle, Pierre-François
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Anthropology and the 'War on Terror'. Analysis of a complex relationship
ResumenLos acontecimientos del 11 de septiembre de 2001 y la obsesión de las agencias de inteligencia occidental de contrarrestar el islamismo radical ha puesto una vez más a la antropología en primera línea.
Addaia Marrades Rodriguez
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Ethnographic Research in the U.S. Intelligence Community: Opportunities and Challenges [PDF]
This article considers lessons learned from conducting research inside the intelligence community. Drawing on a year of ethnographic field work and interviews at the National Counterterrorism Center, I show that “boundary personnel”- people who navigate ...
Nolan, Bridget
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The sound of violets: the ethnographic potency of poetry? [PDF]
This paper takes the form of a dialogue between the two authors, and is in two halves, the first half discursive and propositional, and the second half exemplifying the rhetorical, epistemological and metaphysical affordances of poetry in critically ...
Abbs P. +26 more
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Russia is consistently a top migration destination. While most migrate to Russia from other post‐Soviet countries, a small but highly visible group of the Russian‐speaking diaspora has returned from Europe and North America. Lauded in Russian media as ‘ideological migrants’, their narratives at first glance echo those of the state as they claim to flee
Lauren Woodard
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a collaboration among refugee newcomers, migrants, activists and anthropologists in Berlin [PDF]
In 2015, Germany entered what would later become known as the ‘refugee crisis’. The Willkommenskultur (welcoming culture) trope gained political prominence and met with signifi cant challenges.
Abdalla, Mustafa +7 more
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