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A Crisis of Representation: Reflections on John Boswell, How Citizens Encounter the Democratic State

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In this symposium contribution, we subject John Boswell's How Citizens Encounter the Democratic State to the scrutiny warranted by its contribution. While the book offers a rich categorisation of the myriad forms of mundane agency one can observe in the underbelly of the democratic state, we seek to extend the argument by situating it in some ...
Liam Stanley   +2 more
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Torture and scepticism in Papua New Guinea witch hunts Torture et scepticisme dans les chasses aux sorcières en Papouasie‐Nouvelle‐Guinée

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
For over a century, anthropologists have documented the many institutions that exist to respond to witchcraft and the uncanny that it names: oracles that attempt to produce certainty by naming the witch; moots in which grievances are aired; trials in magistrates’ courts that attempt to satisfy the community while preserving the life of the accused ...
Chloe Nahum‐Claudel
wiley   +1 more source

Cutting freedom down to size Liberté calibrée

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

False kings and imagined protestants: why schismogenesis does not explain variation in inequality among Indigenous societies of the Pacific Coast Faux rois et protestants imaginaires: pourquoi la schismogenèse n'explique pas les variations des inégalités parmi les sociétés autochtones de la côte pacifique nord‐américaine

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

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