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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.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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La vie sexuelle des anthropologues : subjectivité érotique et travail ethnographique
Genre, Sexualité et Société, 2011 This text is an introduction to Taboo, Sex, Identity and Erotic Subjectivity in Anthropological Fieldwork (1995), by Don Kulick and Margaret Willson, a collection of articles considering the fieldworker erotic subjectivity as a useful medium to ...
Don Kulick
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.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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From Petrarch to Machiavelli: the birth of a political ancestry during Fascism [PDF]
Polis: Revista de Stiinte Politice, 2021 This contribution aims to examine the declensions of the connection between Petrarch and Machiavelli, in some studies carried out between the Twenties and Forties of the 20th Century.
Laura MITAROTONDO
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Moral Animals and Moral Responsibility [PDF]
Les ateliers de l'éthique, 2015 The central question of this article is, Are animals morally responsible for what they do? Answering this question requires a careful, step-by-step argument. In sections 1 and 2, I explain what morality is, and that having a morality means following moral rules or norms. In sections 3 and 4, I argue that some animals show not just regularities in their
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Between Laws and Models: Some Philosophical Morals of Lagrangian Mechanics [PDF]
, 2004 I extract some philosophical morals from some aspects of Lagrangian mechanics. (A companion paper will present similar morals from Hamiltonian mechanics and Hamilton-Jacobi theory.) One main moral concerns methodology: Lagrangian mechanics provides a ...
Butterfield, Jeremy
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Invisible Hand, invisible morals: An experiment
, 2022 Invisible Hand, invisible morals: An ...
Aaron Nicholas (13055997)
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The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The British army in India took great care to provide European troops with facilities for sexual relations while anxiously managing venereal disease. Examining archival evidence, political debates and medical discourse from the nineteenth century, this article examines the colonial military enterprise of regulated prostitution in colonial ...
Sameera Chauhan
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 1955, two female factory workers and trade union leaders, Tan Lee Eng and Kwek Tai Eng, established the Singapore Women's Federation (SWF) to unite women regardless of race, religion or class for the anti‐colonial nationalist struggle. Singapore Chinese left‐wing feminism emerged at the confluence of the nationalist interest in mobilising ...
Yee‐Ting Leong
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