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RESISTING ALTERNATIVE IMAGES: An Ethnography of Visual Disinformation in Brazil
IF 1.9 1区 社会学
Cultural Anthropology Pub Date : 2024-12-02 DOI: 10.14506/ca39.4.03
MIHAI ANDREI LEAHA, ROGER CANALS
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DISSONANCE: Cartooning in Iran, Humor, and the Study of Things That Don't Match
IF 1.9 1区 社会学
Cultural Anthropology Pub Date : 2024-12-02 DOI: 10.14506/ca39.4.07
MIRCO GÖPFERT
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REMEMBERING PLACE: The Temporality of Trauma in Rudraprayag after the 2013 Flash Floods
IF 1.9 1区 社会学
Cultural Anthropology Pub Date : 2024-12-02 DOI: 10.14506/ca39.4.05
GIDEON THOMAS MATHSON
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THE WRESTLER AND HIS WORLD: Precarious Workers, Post-Truth Politics, and Inauthentic Activism
IF 1.9 1区 社会学
Cultural Anthropology Pub Date : 2024-12-02 DOI: 10.14506/ca39.4.01
GREGORY HOLLIN
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“TOO MUCH” SAND, NOT WATER: A Geostory of Himalayan Riverine Sediments as “Problem”
IF 1.9 1区 社会学
Cultural Anthropology Pub Date : 2024-12-02 DOI: 10.14506/ca39.4.04
SAUMYA PANDEY
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GOOD BUREAUCRATS AND GOD: The Ethical Labor of the Public
IF 1.9 1区 社会学
Cultural Anthropology Pub Date : 2024-12-02 DOI: 10.14506/ca39.4.06
MAIRA HAYAT
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THE AFTERLIFE OF SACRIFICE IN THE KURDISH MOVEMENT
IF 1.9 1区 社会学
Cultural Anthropology Pub Date : 2024-12-02 DOI: 10.14506/ca39.4.02
ESIN DÜZEL
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ECONOMY OF FAVORS: Tiered Labor Systems on Mexico's Car Assembly Lines 人情经济：墨西哥汽车装配线上的分级劳工制度
IF 1.9 1区 社会学
Cultural Anthropology Pub Date : 2024-09-05 DOI: 10.14506/ca39.3.04
ALEJANDRA GONZÁLEZ JIMÉNEZ
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EFFECTIVE CYNICISM: Waste, Power, and the Negotiation of Urban Decay and Renewal in Ulaanbaatar 有效的共产主义：乌兰巴托的废物、权力和城市衰败与重建的谈判
IF 1.9 1区 社会学
Cultural Anthropology Pub Date : 2024-09-05 DOI: 10.14506/ca39.3.05
REBEKAH PLUECKHAHN
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QUANTIFYING VULNERABILITY: Humanitarian Datafication and the Neophilia of Integrated Power 量化脆弱性：人道主义数据化与综合国力的新嗜好
IF 1.9 1区 社会学
Cultural Anthropology Pub Date : 2024-09-05 DOI: 10.14506/ca39.3.02
MALAY FIROZ
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