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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 1023-1040, December 2025.Brazilian favelas (shantytowns) are often considered as marginalized urban territories that must be better integrated into the nation‐state to obtain legitimacy under the Rule of Law. Based on years of fieldwork in one of the largest shantytowns in Rio de Janeiro (Rocinha), this article suggests that the absence of a (normative) liberal apparatus in ...
Moises Lino e Silva
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Pain Research and Management, Volume 20, Issue 4, Page 199-209, 2015., 2015 BACKGROUND: There is strong empirical evidence that the support that chronic patients receive from their environment is fundamental for the way they cope with physical and psychological suffering. Nevertheless, in the case of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), providing the appropriate social support is still a challenge, and such support has often proven to ...
Zlatina Kostova +2 more
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La souffrance comme désordre [PDF]
, 2006 Cet article, basé sur des informations recueillies au cours d’une enquête de terrain, analyse le discours sur la maladie et la souffrance élaboré par des fidèles converties à une église néo-pentecôtiste brésilienne, l’Église Universelle du Royaume de ...
Costa, Lívia A. Fialho +1 more
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Our other Others: on perpetration, morality, and ethnographic unease
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 454-473, June 2025.Abstract This article critically assesses the impact of political and moral positions within contemporary anthropology. Re‐examining ideas of advocacy and the ethical within the discipline, it argues for an alternative political anthropology that focuses on perpetration rather than victimhood, offenders rather than the offended.
Trine Mygind Korsby, Henrik Vigh
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Development of the Adolescent Cancer Suffering Scale
Pain Research and Management, Volume 20, Issue 4, Page 213-219, 2015., 2015 BACKGROUND: While mortality due to pediatric cancer has decreased, suffering has increased due to complex and lengthy treatments. Cancer in adolescence has repercussions on personal and physical development. Although suffering can impede recovery, there is no validated scale in French or English to measure suffering in adolescents with cancer ...
Christelle Khadra +7 more
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L’implicite dans Sexe et mensonges de Leila SLIMANI : de l’intime à l’extime [PDF]
AkofenaRésumé : L’intime est le secret de l’âme qui cherche à être extériorisé ou à devenir extime. Dans son ouvrage Sexe et mensonges la vie sexuelle au Maroc, l’auteure raconte les confidences de ses personnages rebelles pleines de souffrances et de blessures
Fatima EL KINANI
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L’« affaire du foulard » en France : Retour sur une affaire qui n’en est pas encore une [PDF]
, 2009 Depuis 1989, les questions soulevées par le port du foulard islamique dans les écoles publiques ont éveillé l’intérêt de nombreux chercheurs en sciences sociales. « L’affaire du foulard », puisque c’est ainsi qu’ils l’ont désignée, en est-elle réellement
Amiraux, Valérie
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue S1, Page 5-18, April 2025.What can we learn about temporality by studying different ways of measuring time, institutional time regimes, and (a)typical experiences and creations of time when growing older? This introduction sets perspectives on this question from the anthropologies of ageing, ethics, and temporality.
Lone Grøn, Lotte Meinert
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From the Mouth of Babes: Getting Vaccinated Doesn’t Have to Hurt
Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, Volume 25, Issue 4, Page 196-200, 2014., 2014 BACKGROUND: Analgesic interventions are not commonly administered during childhood vaccination, despite the fact that two‐thirds of children are afraid of needles and one‐tenth are noncompliant with immunization. OBJECTIVE: To explore children’s experiences of vaccination and preferences for analgesia.
Anna Taddio +3 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue S1, Page 40-56, April 2025.Since the early 2000s, the proportion of older adults in Japanese penal institutions has risen dramatically, driven largely by high rates of recidivism. This trend has developed alongside growing social insecurity about crime, as well as anxiety about old age and care in a time of increasing neoliberal discourses of individualized risk and ...
Jason Danely
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