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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue S1, Page 159-166, March 2026.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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Jesus of Nazareth's Trial in the Uncensored Talmud
Tyndale Bulletin, 2011 The Munich Talmud manuscript of b.San.43a preserves passages censored out of the printed editions, including the controversial trial of ‘Yeshu Notzri’. Chronological analysis of the layers in this tradition suggests that the oldest words are: ‘On the Eve
David Instone-Brewer
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue S1, Page 7-27, March 2026.Egalitarianism is often idealized, but many anthropologists have noted its potential for nightmare scenarios involving envy, mistrust, and violence. This introduction outlines a framework for understanding the negative emotions and violence associated with the forces of commensuration that are necessary to make people equal.
Natalia Buitron +2 more
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Bruxas: figuras de poder Witches: figures of power
Revista Estudos Feministas, 2005 As mulheres que tanto a história como a imaginação popular mitificaram como "bruxas" constituem figuras que expurgam as fobias da Contra Reforma. As bruxas foram torturadas e queimadas para sinalizar os perigos de práticas e saberes à margem da Igreja e ...
Paola Basso Menna Barreto Gomes Zordan
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue S1, Page 28-48, March 2026.The Shuar of Ecuadorian Amazonia once pursued eminence through warfare and vision quests. While vision quests have been retained, today – settled in villages – they seek eminence through economic success and political leadership. This article examines an apparent paradox: whilst envy suspicions pervade public life, they legitimize rather than level ...
Natalia Buitron, Grégory Deshoullière
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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2014 Amongst other things, African culture (societies) has been characterised by its perception and fear of witchcraft. Even though the belief in witchcraft is an old phenomenon, its growth is revealed and to some extent mitigated by videos, films and ...
M. Elijah Baloyi
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How to Fish With Respect: A Transformation of Human‐Fish Relations in Riverside Amazonia
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 1, Page 63-72, March 2026.ABSTRACT Riverside inhabitants of the Middle Xingu River Basin, in the Brazilian Amazonia, frequently say that it is important to respect animals and the forest spirits who protect them. In recent decades, however, the development of an iced fish industry in the region has changed what respect means and how it is expressed when it comes to fishing ...
Vinicius de Aguiar Furuie
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Looking For Black Religions In 20th Century Comics: 1931-1993 [PDF]
, 2019 Relationships between religion and comics are generally unexplored in the academic literature. This article provides a brief history of Black religions in comic books, cartoons, animation, and newspaper strips, looking at African American Christianity ...
Chireau, Yvonne Patricia
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Affective Infrastructure: Capitalism's Specters in the Ecovillage Findhorn Community
Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring 2026.ABSTRACT The Ecovillage Findhorn Community (EFC) in Northeast Scotland seeks to live in harmony with nature. How the community has done this over its 60‐plus years has changed from social communalism, where residents lived in cheap caravans, to now mostly privately‐owned expensive ‘eco’ houses with green technology.
Kelsey D. Grubbs
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Body, Sensuousness, Eros and the New Aesthetic Order from Schiller to Rushdie [PDF]
, 2013 In the present article, I look into the culture-building power of Eros from Schiller’s ideas of “the aesthetic state of mind” in Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man, through the Pre-Raphaelites’ eroticism to the nineteenthcentury fin de siècle ...
Bădulescu, Dana
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