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Sex, violence, and moral ambiguity in <i>Once Upon a Time in the West</i>. [PDF]
Launer J.
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Anthropologists have long shown that asking for food in times of need is morally valued in rural Namibia. Yet among the Damara pastoralists with whom I work, people now increasingly describe feeling shame (taob) when they ask for food. In this article, I trace this shift to the affective dynamics of social class formation.
Michael Schnegg
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Medical science and the madness of crowds; context for our COVID pandemic years. [PDF]
Rhodes P.
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Can a good death occur for those who balance on the edges of grievability? In Bali, where death marks a transition within the cycles of reincarnation, a good death depends on the mortuary care performed by intimate others – care that may be foreclosed to those whose lives are shaped by stigma.
Sylvia Tidey
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The double banality of evil in public health: institutional protocols and psychic numbing in the COVID-19 pandemic. [PDF]
Martínez JA.
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Cutting freedom down to size Liberté calibrée
Freedom, as a concept and a value, presents limited prospects for anthropological comparison. The study of enslavement, much neglected in attempts to develop an anthropology of freedom, shows that freedom has been imagined by the enslaved as the opposite of their condition only under particular circumstances.
Harri Englund
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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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Artificial Womb Technology Cannot End the Abortion Debate for the Prolife Catholic. [PDF]
Ramirez NM.
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Intro -- Perceiving Evil: Evil, Women and the Feminine -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Perceiving Evil: Evil, Women and the Feminine -- Part I Myths and Tales: Fear and Adoration in the Feminine -- Sacrificing Narratives in Medea -- In the Wake of ...
Farnell, David. +2 more
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Imagination Will Not Be Automized: On AI Image Generators and Epistemic Oppression
Constellations, EarlyView.
Sarah Abel
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