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LOVE AS ENJOYMENT: Hopelessness, Play, and Desirable Futures in Ghaziabad, India
IF 1.9 1区 社会学
Cultural Anthropology Pub Date : 2025-03-28 DOI: 10.14506/ca40.1.06
AKANKSHA AWAL
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ISHA'S WAIT: Money, Love, and Kinship in the Wake of Domestic Violence in India
IF 1.9 1区 社会学
Cultural Anthropology Pub Date : 2025-03-28 DOI: 10.14506/ca40.1.04
GARIMA JAJU
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BLESSED ACTS OF OBLIVION: On the Ethics of Forgetting
IF 1.9 1区 社会学
Cultural Anthropology Pub Date : 2025-03-28 DOI: 10.14506/ca40.1.05
PAOLO HEYWOOD
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ON CHAINSAWS AND ACOUSTIC VIOLENCE: Sound and Deforestation in Ajusco-Chichinautzin, Mexico
IF 1.9 1区 社会学
Cultural Anthropology Pub Date : 2025-03-28 DOI: 10.14506/ca40.1.01
ANDREW J. GREEN
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HOW TO SUSTAIN A STRIKE: Rules, Routines, and the Essential in Kashmir
IF 1.9 1区 社会学
Cultural Anthropology Pub Date : 2025-03-28 DOI: 10.14506/ca40.1.07
NISHITA TRISAL
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GOOD DIGESTION: The Metabolic Politics of Dutch Dairy Farming
IF 1.9 1区 社会学
Cultural Anthropology Pub Date : 2025-03-28 DOI: 10.14506/ca40.1.03
ELSE VOGEL
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RELIGIOUS AFTERLIVES OF A REVOLUTION
IF 1.9 1区 社会学
Cultural Anthropology Pub Date : 2025-03-28 DOI: 10.14506/ca40.1.02
AMIRA MITTERMAIER
{"title":"RELIGIOUS AFTERLIVES OF A REVOLUTION","authors":"AMIRA MITTERMAIER","doi":"10.14506/ca40.1.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14506/ca40.1.02","url":null,"abstract":"<p>When do revolutions end? How do revolutions live on in embodied affects, relationships, and horizons of aspiration? This article describes the remaking of religion among upper-middle-class Egyptians who participated in the 2011 uprising. It traces a widespread turn to Sufism, yoga, and meditation, along with the search for a personal connection to God. My interlocutors' spiritual bricolage could easily be read as an effect of political defeat, neoliberal self-care, or part of a global trend of declaring oneself “spiritual-but-not-religious.” Yet such contextualizing moves fail to grasp the sense of newness, surprise, and experimentation that pervades my interlocutors' narratives. I suggest that the revolution's indeterminacy is kept alive through the ethos of experimentation. Post-revolutionary spiritual bricolage results in seemingly apolitical practices like Sufi yoga, but from these practices a revolutionary spark can re-emerge.</p>","PeriodicalId":51423,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Anthropology","volume":"40 1","pages":"27-54"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.14506/ca40.1.02","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143717208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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RESISTING ALTERNATIVE IMAGES: An Ethnography of Visual Disinformation in Brazil 抵制替代图像：巴西视觉虚假信息的民族志
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 不和谐：伊朗的漫画，幽默，以及对不匹配事物的研究
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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THE WRESTLER AND HIS WORLD: Precarious Workers, Post-Truth Politics, and Inauthentic Activism 摔跤手和他的世界：不稳定的工人、后真相政治和不真实的行动主义
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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