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The Sociopolitical Lives of Dead Bodies: Tibetan Self-Immolation Protest as Mass Media 尸体的社会政治生活:藏人自焚抗议作为大众媒介

IF 1.9 1区社会学

Cultural Anthropology Pub Date : 2015-08-10 DOI: 10.14506/CA30.3.05

Charlene E. Makley

引用次数: 16

STATES OF CAMOUFLAGE 伪装的状态

IF 1.9 1区社会学

Cultural Anthropology Pub Date : 2015-02-01 DOI: 10.14506/CA30.1.07

Ieva Jusionyte

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引用次数: 39

AN URBAN FRONTIER: Respatializing Government in Remote Northern Australia 城市边界:澳大利亚北部偏远地区政府的复兴

IF 1.9 1区社会学

Cultural Anthropology Pub Date : 2015-02-01 DOI: 10.14506/CA30.1.08

Daniel Fisher

引用次数: 9

FROM ANTHROPOLOGIST TO ACTANT (AND BACK TO ANTHROPOLOGY): Position, Impasse, and Observation in Sociotechnical Collaboration 从人类学家到代理人(又回到人类学):社会技术合作中的立场、僵局和观察

IF 1.9 1区社会学

Cultural Anthropology Pub Date : 2015-02-01 DOI: 10.14506/CA30.1.09

Anthony Stavrianakis

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引用次数: 31

Imagining Precarious Life in Tulum, Mexico 在墨西哥图卢姆想象不稳定的生活

IF 1.9 1区社会学

Cultural Anthropology Pub Date : 2014-02-03 DOI: 10.14506/CA29.1.PE

Laurence Cuelenaere, J. Rabasa

引用次数: 0

Memory Work: Reconstituting the Ethnic in Post-Mao China

IF 1.9 1区社会学

Cultural Anthropology Pub Date : 1998-05-01 DOI: 10.1525/CAN.1998.13.2.224

Ralph A. Litzinger

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引用次数: 51