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Competing imaginaries: Crypto-utopianism and the material forces of Bitcoin mining 相互竞争的想象:加密乌托邦主义和比特币挖矿的物质力量
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Anthropology Today Pub Date : 2023-07-31 DOI: 10.1111/1467-8322.12825
ADAM HAYES
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Frail hope and new frontiers 微弱的希望和新的边界
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Anthropology Today Pub Date : 2023-07-31 DOI: 10.1111/1467-8322.12823
Alex Preda, Julie Valk, Ruowen Xu
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Blockchain in the EU: Transforming imaginaries and the social making of fnancial regulation b区块链在欧盟:转变想象和金融监管的社会制造
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Anthropology Today Pub Date : 2023-07-31 DOI: 10.1111/1467-8322.12829
Inês Faria
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Blockchain imaginaries: Introduction to this special issue 区块链imaginaries:本期特刊的介绍
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Anthropology Today Pub Date : 2023-07-31 DOI: 10.1111/1467-8322.12824
Julie Valk, Alex Preda, Ruowen Xu
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The money tree: Exploring central bank digital currency blockchain imaginaries 货币树:探索央行数字货币区块链的想象
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Anthropology Today Pub Date : 2023-07-31 DOI: 10.1111/1467-8322.12827
Lana Swartz, Carola Westermeier
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Front and Back Covers, Volume 39, Number 4. August 2023 封面和封底,第39卷,第4期。2023年8月
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Anthropology Today Pub Date : 2023-07-31 DOI: 10.1111/1467-8322.12719
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Classified 分类的
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Anthropology Today Pub Date : 2023-05-31 DOI: 10.1111/1467-8322.12821
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ALAN BARNARD (1949-2022) 艾伦·巴纳德(1949-2022)
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Anthropology Today Pub Date : 2023-05-31 DOI: 10.1111/1467-8322.12817
Thomas Widlok, Akira Takada
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Ethnographic responsibility: Can the bureaucratization of research ethics be ethical? 民族志责任:研究伦理的官僚化是否合乎伦理?
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Anthropology Today Pub Date : 2023-05-31 DOI: 10.1111/1467-8322.12811
Michael Herzfeld
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Indigeneity coalesced: The 2022 national strike in Ecuador 原住民联合起来:2022年厄瓜多尔全国罢工
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Anthropology Today Pub Date : 2023-05-31 DOI: 10.1111/1467-8322.12814
Víctor Bretón, Jordi Gascón, Camila del Mármol
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