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From mammoth to miniature: ‘Model of a summer encampment of the Yakuts’ as a narrative object Du mammouth à la miniature : La maquette de camp d’été des Yakoutes comme objet de narration

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Classic anthropological accounts of miniature objects have focused on their spatial and aesthetic dimensions, with more recent work addressing their communicative potential, connections with play, and role in protecting threatened cultural knowledge. This article analyses responses to a miniature landscape model of yhyakh, a festival celebrated in the ...
Alison K. Brown
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Institution building and growth in transition economies [PDF]

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Drawing on the recent literature on economic institutions and the origins of economic development, the authors offer a political economy explanation of why institution building has varied so much across transition economies.
Beck, Thorsten, Laeven, Luc
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A Theory's Travelogue: Post-Colonial Theory in Post-Socialist Space [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This essay examines theoretical arguments surrounding the use of post-colonial theory as a way to fill in the epistemological lacuna in the studies of post-socialism.
Hladík, Radim
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Beyond words: non‐dialogical public reason in (post) revolutionary Tunisia Au‐delà des mots : raison publique non dialogique dans la Tunisie (post)révolutionnaire

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In the widely demonized municipality of Ettadhamun, the heavy hand of Zin al Abidine Ben Ali's police state was partly lifted in 2011 and replaced by the softer touch of aid promoting international democracy. This aid architecture supported the burgeoning civil society to train Ettadhamun residents in the skill of ‘interpersonal communication’ (tawasul
Charis Boutieri
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Socialism.Robert Flint [PDF]

open access: bronze, 1895
Sidney Ball
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From socialism to capitalism: 1989-2007 [PDF]

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The transition of former socialist countries to capitalist economic system is modelled for the period between 1989 and 2007. The transition is entirely defined by three empirical parameters and the model describes only the evolution of real GDP per ...
Kitov, Ivan
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