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31 May 2024: This line of thought opened significant questions about the nature of consciousness, agency, and knowledge in resistance and political struggle. ... Equally, there is concern about the ways in which protest movements are represented and perhaps even

31 May 2024: The starting point of much anthropological scholarship on voice has been the attempt to destabilise a number of powerful assumptions about it. ... Barber 2007; Finnegan 2007). The emerging anthropology of voice equally contributes to dispelling engrained

31 May 2024: Voice in Euro-American modernity. The starting point of much anthropological scholarship on voice has been the attempt to destabilise a number of powerful assumptions about it. ... Barber 2007; Finnegan 2007). The emerging anthropology of voice equally

31 May 2024: Additionally, there are seating arrangements, dress codes, and tacit rules about the order in which foods should be consumed (Douglas 1972). ... However, it is surprising that while the potlatch is always called a ‘feast’, very little of this

31 May 2024: and phenotypical features to a discourse about the culture and religion of ‘racial others’. ... That anthropological scholarship about race and racism has overwhelmingly focused on Western contexts should not blind us to the fact that while racism is

31 May 2024: This entry spans the changing politics of writing anthropology from the late nineteenth century, when Victorian natural science notions about texts as objective was the model for scholarship, to the 1970s, ... London: Routledge. Eriksen, T.H. 1994. The

31 May 2024: The revival of interest in the photo-essay, and more broadly the critical use of photographs in anthropological scholarship, is one such recent development in visual anthropology. ... The effect of the move towards multimodal anthropology has not only

31 May 2024: Particularly significant has been a study of the systemic erasure of memory about the <em>yanggongju,</em> Korean women who acted as sex workers for US servicemen during the Korean War, ... The scholarship on haunting silences further contributes to

31 May 2024: Before ethnographic fieldwork was an established part of anthropological practice, anthropologists depended upon photographs from explorers and missionaries for key details about the populations they studied. ... Photography does not just act upon

31 May 2024: A common principle is that talking openly about the end of life between patients, families, and professionals improves decision making, whereby the patient’s knowledge that they are dying is thought ... family, and dying patients, asking who knew about