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Beyond the Dichotomy of Success and Failure: Making Activism Meaningful in South Korea and France
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT First deployed in the 1970s, prefiguration has recently gained traction among ethnographers of political action as a descriptor for activist practices that foreground participatory democracy, horizontality, and direct action, as seen in social movements like Occupy Wall Street. Notably, ethnographers have come to understand these prefigurative‐
Guilherme Fians, Sera Yeong Seo Park
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Burying Futures: Artisanal Mining Deaths and the Politics of Negligence in Zimbabwe
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the gold‐mining town of Kwekwe, central Zimbabwe, injury and death are a constant presence. Collapsing shafts, sudden explosions, gang fights, and neglected health infrastructure characterize the everyday lives of the town's impoverished residents.
Melusi Nkomo
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Numerical Analysis of the Effects of TPMS Topology and Relative Density on Heat Sink Cooling Performance. [PDF]
Materials (Basel)Iticha W, Stręk T.
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Population genetic models of source-sink metapopulations
, 1996 The present study investigates the effect that different patterns of migration have on the genetic structure of source-sink metapopulations specifically modelling the dynamics of local populations.
Gaggiotti, OE, Gaggiotti, OE; id_orcid
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American Ethnologist, EarlyView.Abstract An anthropology of horror can serve as a vernacular critique of financial speculation. Drawing on fieldwork in San Pedro, Paraguay, I track horror across three registers: pombero tricksters; plata yvyguy (buried money) as a founding myth of postwar finance; and obligations binding sesame farmers to monsters, patrones, and creditors.
Caroline E. Schuster
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Breathing in Plants and Chaos—Cosmic Tree Events in Cameroon and Beyond
Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Contemporary practices of tapping into the wisdom of ancestral trees are described through three entangled recent events lived within the context of Bantu practices in Cameroon. In the three instances, the steered or chance encounters with high potency trees were serendipitous telling moments which brought something new to the horizon.
Julie Laplante +3 more
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Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Against the backdrop of sustained demographic contraction across the Asia‐Pacific, the developmental state (DS) paradigm, long premised on growth, faces profound challenges. While existing research on shrinking regions focuses on urban planning, little attention has been paid to how the state restructures its spatial power under contraction ...
Li Mingfeng
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Evaluating Causal Claims in Plant Developmental Metabolism: A When-Where-How Framework. [PDF]
Plants (Basel)Cheng X +10 more
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How do visual and conceptual factors predict the object content in typical scene drawings?
British Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Imagine you draw a typical bedroom, your choice of objects is likely to depend on visual occurrence statistics (i.e. the objects present in previously encountered bedrooms) and semantic relations between objects and scenes (i.e. the semantic relationship between the bedroom and its constituent objects).
Gongting Wang +6 more
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Overmassive black holes and little red dots naturally form in simulations. [PDF]
NatureChon S +4 more
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