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SECRET SOCIETIES AND SECRET COLLECTIVES

Oceania, 1990
In the 60 years since Camilla Wedgwood's article appeared in the first volume of Oceania, anthropological studies of secrecy have undergone a marked change of perspective. Simple distinctions between secret process and content, between 'society5 and 'secret society*, as marked by inside/outside, sacred/profane, and like contrasts, are no longer tenable.
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The Secret Police As a Secret Society

Russian Social Science Review, 1993
Today, as they observe the turbulent developments taking place in the society known until very recently as Soviet, our foreign colleagues, known appropriately as Sovietologists, are puzzled. How can it be that such a strong, centralized government has collapsed just like that, without any warning, and people who have lived in fear for more than seventy
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Ethnography of the Homo Secretus: Inside Secret Societies and Societies with Secrets in Vietnam

2021
In many ways the researcher in the social sciences and humanities aims to ‘reveal’ secrets, that is to say, to divulge new and often hidden knowledge, known by a small number of people, or at least presented as such. The fieldworker, as with working in the archives, must read between the lines, interpret the unsaid, refute lies, gather clues and ...
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THE SECRET SOCIETIES: DELVING DEEP INTO THE HIDDEN REALMS OF SECRET SOCIETIES

Pakistan Journal of International Affairs
Secret societies have always existed in human society, their forms and operation may vary but the core of all these secret societies is “to claim and to hold the secret knowledge that no one else does.” It is believed that these societies plays an important role in forming a government, in general no government challenges them. However these powers are
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SECRET SOCIETY

2022
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Secret Societies

2010
Samiul Hasan, Ruth Crocker, Damien Rousseliere, Georgette Dumont, Sharilyn Hale, Hari Srinivas, Mark Hamilton, Sunil Kumar, Charles Maclean, Harry Bauer, Wim Opstal, Camillo von Mueller, Robbie Waters Robichau, Georg von Schnurbein, Edith Archambault, Helmut K. Anheier, Maitrayee Mukerji, Thomasina Borkman, Rüdiger H. Jung, Ashok Das, Chris Govekar, Martin Hölz, Regina List, Michael Bisesi, Kate Ruff, David B. Howard, Ram Cnaan, Jennifer Preece, Christopher Kaan, Laurie Mook, Jack Quarter, Joseph Chan, Elaine Chan, Kai Brauer, Susan A. Ostrander, Jane Jenson, Eric Bidet, Alex Murdock, Georgette Dumont, Dennis R. Young, Janelle A. Kerlin, Dieter Ahlert, Hai Duong Dinh, Helmut K. Anheier, Sushma Raman, Heribert Meffert, Martin Holzberg, Dieter Rucht, Helmut K. Anheier, Jessica Moore, Susan Verducci, Andreas Schröer, Georgette Dumont, Anael Labigne, Aafke Komter, Jean-Louis Laville, Balazs Szabo, Martin Hölz, Deborah Simpson, Anne Alstott, Alex Murdock, Jenny Elmaco, Ekkehard Thuemler, Christoph Golbeck, Georg von Schnurbein, Norbert Götz, Diana Leat, Alfred Vernis, Holger Backhaus-Maul, Allyson Reaves, Richard Holloway, Georg von Schnurbein   +71 more
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Secret Archives, Secret Societies:

2017
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Secret Societies

Notes and Queries
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The secret society of torturers

2016
The Secret Society of Torturers107How do normal people become able to torture others? In order to explain this puzzling social phenomenon, we have to take secrecy – the characteristic trait of modern torture – as the lynchpin of the analysis. Following Georg Simmel’s formal analysis of the “secret society”, the contribution reconstructs structural and ...
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Secret Societies

Journal of Education, 1908
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