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‘It’s up to the market to decide’: Revealing and concealing power in the sustainable tea supply chain “由市场决定”：揭示和隐藏可持续茶叶供应链中的力量

IF 1.2 3区社会学

Critique of Anthropology Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI: 10.1177/0308275X211038607

Matthew Archer, H. Elliott

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Power in a minor key: Rethinking anthropological accounts of power alongside London’s community organisers 小钥匙里的权力：与伦敦社区组织者一起重新思考人类学对权力的描述

IF 1.2 3区社会学

Critique of Anthropology Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI: 10.1177/0308275X211038041

Farhan Samanani

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How to think about people who don’t want to be studied: Further reflections on studying up 如何看待不想被学习的人:对学习的进一步思考

IF 1.2 3区社会学

Critique of Anthropology Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI: 10.1177/0308275X211038045

D. Souleles

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Introduction: Ethnographies of power and the powerful 引言：权力与权贵的民族志

IF 1.2 3区社会学

Critique of Anthropology Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI: 10.1177/0308275X211038605

Matthew Archer, D. Souleles

引用次数: 4

Missing power: Nostalgia and disillusionment among Southern California water engineers 失去力量：南加州水利工程师的怀旧和幻灭

IF 1.2 3区社会学

Critique of Anthropology Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI: 10.1177/0308275X211036187

Sayd Randle

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Dynastic aura: Proximity to the powerful and its promise in corporate South Korea 活力光环：接近权贵及其在韩国企业界的前景

IF 1.2 3区社会学

Critique of Anthropology Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI: 10.1177/0308275X211038606

Michael M. Prentice

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Rich man, poor man, middleman, thing: Distributing power 富人，穷人，中间人，东西:分配权力

IF 1.2 3区社会学

Critique of Anthropology Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI: 10.1177/0308275X211040154

E. Hertz

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Power and precariousness in the expert hierarchies of the US hydrocarbon industry 美国碳氢化合物行业专家阶层的权力和不稳定

IF 1.2 3区社会学

Critique of Anthropology Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI: 10.1177/0308275X211038608

S. Field

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Who alone can ‘see’? Christian humanitarianism, aspect-perception and political critique 只有谁才能“看见”？基督教人道主义、侧面知觉与政治批判

IF 1.2 3区社会学

Critique of Anthropology Pub Date : 2021-06-16 DOI: 10.1177/0308275X211021658

James Wintrup

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Postcolonial social drama: The case of Brazilian dentists in Portugal 后殖民社会戏剧:巴西牙医在葡萄牙的案例

IF 1.2 3区社会学

Critique of Anthropology Pub Date : 2021-04-08 DOI: 10.1177/0308275X211004713

Angela Torresan

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