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For an inviting anthropology Pour une anthropologie accueillante
Anthropologists have recently become inspired, captivated even, by the practices of the arts, design, and architecture in efforts to renew anthropology's modes of engagement and understandings of its relevance, particularly affecting how we approach ethnographic fieldwork.
Tomás Criado +2 more
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The article describes the lexical and semantic features of religious texts of extremist and terrorist status. The research featured audio recordings of ISIS-Khorasan members. These texts contained linguistic means that assist in shaping and spreading the
Sandler Pavel
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Anthropologists, in common with social theorists more generally, have often understood social life as an emergent phenomenon grounded in practices of creativity and improvisation. Where stasis and continuity feature, these are often presented as illusory manifestations of underlying processes of ‘invention’, or as external impositions upon otherwise ...
Paolo Heywood, Thomas Yarrow
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Sanctus et sanctitas dans les Bibles latines
Sancio, sanctus and sanctitas are used in the Vulgate as translations of Hebrew and Greek lexemes that belong to religious vocabulary. What notions and actions do these terms exactly translate ? What new meanings do they carry ? How do the lexemes evolve
Marie Rébeillé-Borgella
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Abstract Towards the end of their Introduction, the editors of this special issue suggest that a principal challenge in ethnographic description is ‘how to measure the measures of others’. It is their own measure of persons, say, or of transactions, on which anthropologists frequently draw in adjudicating social phenomena, not least when characterizing
Marilyn Strathern
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The autonomy of the United Wa State Army of Myanmar today is said to be based on the egalitarianism of Wa communities in the past. The analysis of commensuration in kinship, sacrifice, and war challenges these portrayals of autonomy and egalitarianism.
Hans Steinmüller
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Secular Students in a Religious Environment. Oslo-Students on Internship in Africa
Early Childhood students may participate in a 3 months internship in 3 African countries. We have challenged a group of students from the last 5 years of the program to respond to how they experienced the religious atmosphere in and outside the ...
Geir Hoaas
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