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The production‐distribution‐consumption triad has structured how anthropologists understand exchange for roughly a century. This article argues for expanding this triad to include an explicit focus on acquisition – the systems, processes, and practices of acquiring.
Hanna Garth
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M. E. Grant Duff, Philosophic Liberalism and the Global Liberal Cause
Abstract Historians disagree about how best to conceptualize nineteenth‐century British Liberalism in relation to its international contexts. This article argues that we can better understand the patterns involved by interrogating individuals who bridged the worlds of partisan politics and elaborated thought.
Alex Middleton
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ABSTRACT This article investigates disaster communication as a process of disaster epistemology through which crises are culturally known, interpreted, and normalized. Based on a cross‐national qualitative comparison of Vietnam and the Philippines, the study broadens dominant secular models that conceptualize disaster communication as information ...
Ngoc‐Son Le
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“Flames Over Persepolis”: New Scientific Evidence Supporting Historical Perspectives
ABSTRACT This study investigates the burning of Persepolis Terrace, historically attributed to Alexander III in 330 bce. A review of classical accounts and excavation reports, combined with diagnostic surveys, confirms the fire's historicity and provides novel insights.
Maria Letizia Amadori +10 more
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ABSTRACT As the capital of Makuria, Tungul was a major sociopolitical center within medieval Nubia, being the seat of a bishopric and a monastic community. During the excavation of the Kom H monastery, three burial crypts (Crypts 1–3) were uncovered.
Robert J. Stark +2 more
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The Meaning of Obedience in a Time of Authoritarianism: Ethics of Care in and beyond the Military
ABSTRACT In my book, On Obedience, Contrasting Philosophies for Military, Community and Citizenry, I anticipated emerging and different problems of authority and the nature/character of obedience in military and civic cultures. My anticipations proved to be correct, and more urgent questions have emerged.
Pauline Shanks Kaurin
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The Ethics of Authoritarianism in Christian Perspective
ABSTRACT We look here at the characteristics of authoritarian government in the context of constitutional democracies and argue that its operative ethical system in public policy is egoism, with its supporters constituting a collective ego complicit in the undemocratic and Machiavellian practices used to sustain power and the authority of leadership to
James M. Childs
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Kant's Dialectic of Enlightenment
Abstract Kant's moral thought emphasizes both our ability to make adequate, immediate moral judgment, as well as our deep‐seated forms of self‐entrapment. Strikingly, these forms of self‐entrapment are not simply the result of reason being overpowered by forces external to it, but arise out of reason itself, as pathological versions of otherwise ...
Laurenz Ramsauer
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ABSTRACT Drawing from Arnstein's original ladder model, and the political philosophy of Dewey, Fraser and Pitkin, it is argued that people with lived experience of the justice system require a coherent social movement if they are to be collectively empowered by lived experience consultations.
Aaron Hart
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