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1 Jul 2024: Participatory surveillance does, however, include a ‘vertical’ dimension, in the sense that people can monitor the authorities ‘bottom up’. ... that I “exploit people for informative purposes” can I deny that anthropologists often do just

1 Jul 2024: or to do with ‘nature’ and land rather than with people and urbanised surroundings. ... Building, dwelling, living: how animals and people make themselves at home in the world.

1 Jul 2024: Rather than reflecting an inherent vulnerability to climate change, these discourses can actually encourage people in affected areas to produce and perform their vulnerability in order to receive development funding (Webber ... Other studies show how

1 Jul 2024: David Maybury-Lewis quotes from an elder of the Gabra people, pastoral nomads in northern Kenya: ‘Even the milk from our own animals does not belong to us. ... to paradise through charity and the more modern aim of reinserting poor people into the

1 Jul 2024: E. Hull 2012), demonstrates the potency of apparently benign injunctions to ‘reform’ institutions and states on unobjectionable principles – such as making them more accountable to ‘the people’. ... Annual Review of Anthropology 42, 227-46.

1 Jul 2024: Yet people often use the language of suzhi disingenuously, as political cover, to soften or occlude unpopular opinions while making public expression possible (Kipnis 2007: 393). ... Kipnis, A. 2007. Neoliberalism reified: suzhi discourse and tropes of

1 Jul 2024: On the other hand, the things that people took to mark any Mediterraneanness of people, things, and places also marked them as non-modern. ... Cambridge: University Press. Davis, J. 1977. People of the Mediterranean: an essay in comparative social

1 Jul 2024: Local and international governing agencies increasingly determined people’s everyday lives. This changed the role that quantification took in governance. ... At the same time, statistics co-create how people see the world around them.

1 Jul 2024: Ethnographic collections were often displayed alongside European archaeology, implying a similarity between people from the distant past and the contemporary lives of non-western peoples. ... analyzing the beliefs and practices of typically remote groups

1 Jul 2024: of professionalism also provides a language for disciplining people's physical appearance at work, especially of women. ... out in the new economy: how people find (or don’t find) work today</em>.