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Anthropology between heritage and museums
Vibrant: Virtual Brazilian Anthropology, 2013 By analyzing some cases this article exposes the contribution of Anthropology, and specially, Urban Anthropology to the characterization of what may or may not be a cultural good and its value as Heritage in the context of the urban landscape.
José Guilherme Cantor Magnani
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Cultural Minorities and Life Styles: Iranian Trends [PDF]
Taḥqīqāt-i Farhangī-i Īrān, 2008 The Globalization accelerated the paradoxical processes of modernization by introducing the cultural homogenizations and heterogenizations: construction and deconstruction of local-communitarian identities.
Naser Fakouhi
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De la communauté d’hier à la communauté d’aujourd’hui : continuités andines
Ateliers d'Anthropologie, 2022 Terrain de prédilection des ethnologues qui ont travaillé dans la région, la communauté a longtemps constitué l’objet central de l’anthropologie andine et a été au cœur des grands débats théoriques de la discipline. De la construction d’un modèle idéel à
Fanny Chagnollaud
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract Caste—an ascriptive social hierarchy in South Asia and its diaspora—is a globalized phenomenon. Recent caste‐based discrimination, particularly in technology companies and anti‐caste efforts to address it, has compelled academia, policy, and the technology industry to better understand contemporary mechanics of caste.
Nayana Kirasur, Britt Paris
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A Good Life in Old Age: Accommodating Elderly Patients\u27 Values and Motivations in the Thai Healthcare System [PDF]
, 2016 People over age sixty-five are the fastest growing segment of the population in most developed and developing nations and their healthcare problems are placing strains on healthcare systems.
Marinucci, Jennie Lynn
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Three Styles in the Study of Violence [PDF]
, 2008 This is a postprint (accepted manuscript) version of the article published in Reviews in Anthropology 37:1-19. The final version of the article can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00938150701829525 (login required to access content).
Abel Theodore +18 more
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Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores how Afro‐Brazilian communities in Pernambuco respond to state‐led industrial development through culturally rooted practices of resistance and repair. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in the coastal municipalities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, this study traces the effects of Brazil's large‐scale ...
Shelly Annette Biesel
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Reframing Ethnographic Film [PDF]
, 2008 Book description: From a boom in theatrical features to footage posted on websites such as YouTube and Google Video, the early years of the 21st century have witnessed significant changes in the technological, commercial, aesthetic, political, and social
Basu, P
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Conflict, Claim and Contradiction in the New Indigenous State of Bolivia [PDF]
, 2012 Recent conflict between indigenous people and a self-styled indigenous state in Bolivia has brought to the fore some of the paradoxes and contradictions within the concept of indigeneity itself. The contemporary politics of state sponsored indigeneity in
Canessa, A
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Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
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