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Fiscal grievance politics: wealth taxation and master‐race democracy in post‐coup Bolivia Politique des griefs fiscaux : impôt sur la fortune et démocratie de la race maîtresse en Bolivie post‐coup d’État

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
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L’évolution récente des expositions temporaires sur le Moyen Âge en Italie: Public, thèmes, finalités [PDF]

Zograf, 2011
This article proposes a reflection about Italian art exhibitions on Middle Ages all over the twentieth century in order to understand the reception of medieval history in Italy.
Trivellone Alessia
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Views of Vidigal: negotiating opportunities and risks in a gentrifying favela in Rio de Janeiro Favela avec vue : négocier opportunités et risques dans un quartier en voie de gentrification à Rio de Janeiro

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The contested dynamics of slum gentrification in Rio de Janeiro came into focus during the brief period of relative peace brought by the pacification policy leading up to the 2016 Olympics. In this unprecedented moment, Rio's South Zone favela residents experienced a respite from the daily confrontations with police operations and drug trade violence ...
Angela Torresan
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Louis I. Kahn and Richard Kelly: collaborative design in creation of the luminous environment [PDF]

, 2017
As one of the most prominent architects of the twentieth century, Louis I. Kahn aspired to use natural light to shape his architecture. The lighting designer Richard Kelly, one of his close collaborators, had significant influence on modern architectural
B. Lau, Büttiker U., Curtis W. J. R., Emmitt S., Frampton K., Hawkes D., Hawkes D., Hopkinson R. G., Kimbell Art Museum, Lobell J., McDonald R. C., Neumann D., Neumann D., Olsen C., Plummer H., Pressman A., S. Kaçel, Sanoff H., SLL (The Society of Light and Lighting), Steane M. A., Tanteri M., Vischer J. C.   +21 more
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Introducing the Anthropology of Adolescence Introduction à l'anthropologie de l'adolescence

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Adolescence is widely recognized as a key life stage, yet its meaning and experience remain under‐explored due to the complex interplay between biological and social transformations. While researchers across fields such as psychology and public health increasingly frame adolescence as a ‘critical period’, anthropology offers distinctive insights that ...
Emily H. Emmott, Benjamin Theobald, Mark Dyble   +2 more
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The Role of the Landscape in the Collage: Connections in the Past and the Present

Деміург: ідеї, технології, перспективи дизайну, 2019
The aim of the research is to throw light on the different meanings of landscape in the art of Sergei Sviatchenko with a specific focus on his collages. The methology of the research.
Ibеn From
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Returning the Radiant Gaze: Visual art and embodiment in a world of subjects [PDF]

, 2018
Drawing on the latter thinking of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, as well as on the ideas of other contemporary philosophers and theorists, this essay considers the denigration of vision from Plato to twentieth-century anti-ocularism, and argues for the ...
Carruthers, Beth
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Disclosure, disbelief, enclosure: listening with precarious kids in London Témoignage, incrédulité, enfermement: écouter les enfants en situation de précarité à Londres

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article interrogates the role of testimonial disclosure as a mechanism of access and a barrier to visibility for marginal people, particularly adolescents, in the UK. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2021 and 2024 in alternative educational provision (AP), as well as in English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) classes ...
Kelly Fagan Robinson
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Innovators and Iconoclasts: Six Books on Latin American Modern and Contemporary Art

Latin American Research Review, 2019
This essay reviews the following works:   Abstraction in Reverse: The Reconfigured Spectator in Mid-Twentieth-Century Latin American Art. By Alexander Alberro. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. 368. $50.00 hardcover.
Harper Montgomery
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Ishiguro's Inhuman Aesthetics [PDF]

, 2015
The question of what it means to be human pervades Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Never Let Me Go, which gradually reveals a counterfactual twentieth-century England where clone colonies provide ready supplies of organs for donation.
Black, Shameem
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