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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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What we talk about when we talk about trauma: Content overlap and heterogeneity in the assessment of trauma exposure

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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Algunas notas sobre la cuestión de la temporalidad en Descartes

Tópicos, 2023
La cuestión de la temporalidad atraviesa toda la filosofía de Descartes. Es relevante para la geometrización de la física que se propone llevar a cabo, así como también en la misma lógica argumentativa que pone en marcha la duda metódica cartesiana.
Guillermo Sibilia
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Defensa comunitaria y culturas del terror: Crimen organizado y violencia de Estado en comunidades originarias de Guerrero, México

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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"Los piratas son los que nos salvan": informalidad, ritmos espaciotemporales y normatividad práctica en la (in)movilidad cotidiana de Cali

Revista Colombiana de Antropología, 2022
En 2008 se inauguró un sistema de transporte masivo en la ciudad colombiana de Cali que pretendía generar una nueva cultura de la movilidad y un nuevo orden público.
Francisco Adolfo García Jerez
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Medidas de prevención y sanción del abuso de la temporalidad en el ámbito local

Cuadernos de Derecho Local, 2023
En este trabajo se analiza fundamentalmente el problema de la temporalidad en el ámbito local. Se reflexiona sobre las múltiples soluciones aportadas por el legislador básico estatutario para prevenir los abusos en las relaciones laborales de carácter ...
Josefa Cantero Martínez
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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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Comprender lo desconocido

Lenguaje, 2023
La comprensión de oraciones y textos involucra fenómenos complejos en los que interviene tanto información específicamente lingüística como información extralingüística.
Gabriela Mariel Zunino
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