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Trading Zones Between Thick and Thin: Anthropological Description as Scaffold or Mosaic

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Referring to the work of historian of science Peter Galison, I argue that anthropology requires thin description as an essential counterpart for thick description. Thin accounts provide the scaffolding within which thick descriptions sit. Galison uses the idea of a “trading zone” connecting different communities who, despite their differences (
David Zeitlyn
wiley   +1 more source

Outsmarting sanctions

open access: yesAmerican Ethnologist, EarlyView.
Abstract In 2012 the UN Security Council and the European Union bolstered US economic sanctions on Iran, disembedding the country's economy from financial markets. Since then, the sanctions have radically devalued Iran's currency, leading Iranians to seek a viable standard of value elsewhere. They have done so through ghachagh (fugitive) configurations
Emrah Yıldız
wiley   +1 more source

The Unbecoming Ghost: Spectropolitics in the Making and Unmaking of BHU's Bhoot Vidya Ayurveda Certificate Program

open access: yesAnthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
wiley   +1 more source

ANTONYMIC RELATIONS IN THE KABARDIANCIRCASSIAN LANGUAGE: SEMANTIC CLASSIFICATION EXPERIENCE

open access: bronze, 2019
Dina Mukharbievna Kumykova   +1 more
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The prechoroidal cleft in neovascular age‐related macular degeneration

open access: yesActa Ophthalmologica, EarlyView.
Abstract The prechoroidal cleft is a lenticular, hypo‐reflective space on optical coherence tomography imaging, located between a band of fibrovascular material underneath the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and Bruch's membrane. It occurs in 8%–22% of neovascular age‐related macular degeneration (nAMD) eyes, most often with macular neovascularization
Niels J. Brouwer   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Conference‐Based Method: Interviewing Elites at Intergovernmental Conferences

open access: yesArea, EarlyView.
Short Abstract Conferences have increasingly featured within geographical research as sites of knowledge production, performance and contestation. However, this article explores how intergovernmental conferences can be productive sites for geographical fieldwork through elite interviews on research topics such as climate geopolitics and disaster risk ...
Liam Saddington, Katie Peters
wiley   +1 more source

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