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The end of bamboo houses in northern Laos
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
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
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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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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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
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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Using Wikipedia to measure public interest in biodiversity and conservation
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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Incidência do passado histórico nos discursos da eleição presidencial de 2018
O objetivo deste trabalho foi mapear e atribuir sentido aos usos políticos do passado histórico ao longo das entrevistas realizadas com os treze candidatos postulantes à presidência em 2018.
Fábio Chilles Xavier
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O objetivo é trazer à lume algumas reflexões sobre as relações entre presente e passado, memória e história, pensando os caminhos da prática historiográfica e o ensino de história frente aos recorrentes usos políticos do passado e aos ataques e demandas ...
Vera Lúcia Silva Vieira +1 more
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Temporalidades críticas: el caso de Douglas Gordon [PDF]
This paper analyzes the temporality of the moving image and its manipulation as conceptual resource in the work of Douglas Gordon. The analysis is based on the specific characteristics of the type of artistic production of the time-based new media, i.e ...
Segura-Cabañero, Jesús
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