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The end of bamboo houses in northern Laos
American Anthropologist, Volume 125, Issue 3, Page 611-622, September 2023., 2023 Abstract While we know much about the beginnings of houses, we rarely know about their endings. Yet, to understand the temporality of houses and the entanglement of the biographies of houses and their residents, the analysis of their endings is particularly relevant.
Rosalie Stolz
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Beyond the flying geese? New patterns, actors, and contestations of policy transfer in East Asia
Asian Politics &Policy, Volume 15, Issue 3, Page 353-368, July 2023., 2023 Abstract East Asian policy transfer and diffusion is conceived as following a “flying geese” model but transformations in the region challenged this hierarchical leader‐follower relationship between countries. Based on the articles in this Special Issue, this article seeks to nuance the flying geese dynamics of policy transfer.
Giulia C. Romano, Kidjie Saguin
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THE PROMISE OF FOG CAPTURE: Ground‐Touching Clouds as a Material (Im)Possibility in Peru
Cultural Anthropology, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 225-250, May 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT This article centers on an NGO‐induced fog‐capture project in Lima, Peru. While presented by the NGO as an alternative water‐supply system for residents lacking state infrastructure, the fog catchers ultimately failed to live up to promises about potable water.
CHAKAD OJANI
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Journal of Traumatic Stress, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 71-82, February 2023., 2023 Abstract The accurate definition and assessment of trauma exposure is the foundation for replicable studies of mental health problems following trauma exposure. However, scales developed to assess trauma exposure might vary widely in terms of item content; overlap; and specifications of trauma intensity, frequency, duration, and timing.
Karen‐Inge Karstoft, Chérie Armour
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The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 564-574, December 2022., 2022 Abstract Rich in raw materials, the state of Guerrero, Mexico, is one of the main enclaves of opium production, mineral extraction, and a focus for the multiplication of armed actors in Latin America, which, together with the overlapping of counterinsurgent violence in the past, post‐colonial violence and the militarization of the policies of the so ...
Inés Giménez Delgado
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Anthropology‐as‐theology: Violent endings and the permanence of new beginnings
American Anthropologist, Volume 124, Issue 2, Page 333-344, June 2022., 2022 Abstract This article examines the temporality of dispensationalist imaginings of the apocalypse, with a particular focus on why such imaginings often have an acutely violent character. For the Brethren and for Jehovah's Witnesses, the most convincing signs of the imminent apocalypse are violent ones.
Joseph Webster
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The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 27, Issue 1-2, Page 37-56, June 2022., 2022 Resumen La reventa de gasolina brasilera en la frontera Venezuela–Brasil es un acontecimiento emergente que facilita el entendimiento sociopolítico nuevo de las estrategias de sobrevivencia locales más allá de la resiliencia social e informalidad en tiempos de crisis.
Morelia Morillo Ramos, Eva van Roekel
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Using Wikipedia to measure public interest in biodiversity and conservation
Conservation Biology, Volume 35, Issue 2, Page 412-423, April 2021., 2021 Abstract The recent growth of online big data offers opportunities for rapid and inexpensive measurement of public interest. Conservation culturomics is an emerging research area that uses online data to study human–nature relationships for conservation. Methods for conservation culturomics, though promising, are still being developed and refined.
John C. Mittermeier +4 more
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Das Questões, 2021 O presente artigo procura elaborar um diagnóstico da nossa situação presente a partir de três pensadores: Mark Fisher, Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi e Jonathan Crary. É nossa hipótese que esses três autores, cada um a sua maneira, compõem um quadro que ajuda a entender uma sensação de estagnação que imperaria no capitalismo contemporâneo ”” e que será ...
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Conservar, conversar y contestar. Grietas y relecturas del álbum familiar
Arte, Individuo y Sociedad, 2020 La fotografía es capaz, no de detener el tiempo, pero sí de retener instantáneas para que no debamos conservarlas solo en la memoria. Y es especialmente en el ámbito familiar en el que esta forma de representación se convierte en un amarre que permite ...
Marta Martín-Núñez +2 more
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