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Cassava Spirit and the Seed of History: On Garden Cosmology in Northern Amazonia 木薯精神与历史的种子:北亚马逊地区园林宇宙论

IF 1 3区社会学

Anthropological Forum Pub Date : 2021-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/00664677.2021.1994918

L. Daly

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引用次数: 7

‘Awakening the Stones’: The Nieri Performance, Gardens and Regeneration in Tanna, Vanuatu “唤醒石头”:瓦努阿图Tanna的Nieri表演，花园和再生

IF 1 3区社会学

Anthropological Forum Pub Date : 2021-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/00664677.2021.2004878

Jean Mitchell

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引用次数: 4

Gardens Between Above and Below: Cosmotechnics of Generative Surfaces in Abulës-Speaking Nyamikum 上下之间的花园:Abulës-Speaking Nyamikum的生成表面的宇宙工艺

IF 1 3区社会学

Anthropological Forum Pub Date : 2021-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/00664677.2021.2006602

L. Coupaye

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引用次数: 2

Cartographies of Youth Resistance: Hip-Hop, Punk, and Urban Autonomy in Mexico 青年抵抗的制图:嘻哈、朋克和墨西哥的城市自治

IF 1 3区社会学

Anthropological Forum Pub Date : 2021-08-14 DOI: 10.1080/00664677.2021.1955505

Kelley Tatro

引用次数: 6

Recording Kastom: Alfred Haddon's Journals from the Torres Strait and New Guinea, 1888 and 1898 记录卡斯顿:阿尔弗雷德·哈登在托雷斯海峡和新几内亚的日志，1888年和1898年

IF 1 3区社会学

Anthropological Forum Pub Date : 2021-07-31 DOI: 10.1080/00664677.2021.1959142

J. Gibson

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引用次数: 3

Powerful Things: The History and Theory of Sacred Objects 《强大的事物:圣物的历史与理论

IF 1 3区社会学

Anthropological Forum Pub Date : 2021-07-21 DOI: 10.1080/00664677.2021.1955504

R. Sansi

引用次数: 1

Broken Cities: Inside the Global Housing Crisis 破碎的城市:全球住房危机的内幕

IF 1 3区社会学

Anthropological Forum Pub Date : 2021-07-21 DOI: 10.1080/00664677.2021.1955503

I. Martin

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引用次数: 0

Cricket, Kirikiti and Imperialism in Samoa, 1879–1939 萨摩亚的板球、基里基蒂和帝国主义，1879-1939

IF 1 3区社会学

Anthropological Forum Pub Date : 2021-07-21 DOI: 10.1080/00664677.2021.1955502

Andrew Grainger

引用次数: 0

Emergent Axioms of Violence: Toward an Anthropology of Post-Liberal Modernity 涌现的暴力公理:走向后自由主义现代性人类学

IF 1 3区社会学

Anthropological Forum Pub Date : 2021-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/00664677.2021.1966611

Stavroula Pipyrou, Antonio Sorge

引用次数: 10

Refusals of Tolerance: Hunger, Mercy, and the Ethics of Immediacy in Bosnia and Herzegovina 拒绝容忍:波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那的饥饿、仁慈和即时伦理

IF 1 3区社会学

Anthropological Forum Pub Date : 2021-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/00664677.2021.1964066

D. Henig

引用次数: 2