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Orientation and atmosphere: Toward an anthropology of political subjectivity 取向与氛围：走向政治主体性人类学

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Ethos Pub Date : 2025-09-10 DOI: 10.1111/etho.70023

Janis H. Jenkins

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Care, complicity, and containment: Professionals’ experiences of moral injury working in US immigration detention centers 关怀、共谋和遏制：在美国移民拘留中心工作的专业人员的道德伤害经验

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Ethos Pub Date : 2025-09-08 DOI: 10.1111/etho.70022

Lauren Medina

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Affecting with and being affected by person-centered interviewing and observation 以人为中心的访谈和观察影响和被影响

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Ethos Pub Date : 2025-07-22 DOI: 10.1111/etho.70020

Douglas Hollan

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Exile, post-traumatic life desire, and therapeutic empowerment 流亡，创伤后生活欲望，以及治疗性赋权

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Ethos Pub Date : 2025-06-16 DOI: 10.1111/etho.70017

Mayssa Rekhis

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Literacy and illiteracy, its relational other: A key topic for collaboration between psychology and anthropology 扫盲与文盲的关系：心理学与人类学合作的重要课题

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Ethos Pub Date : 2025-06-04 DOI: 10.1111/etho.70015

Erdmute Alber, Carlos Kölbl

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What exactly is a family man? Performing and precluding respectable fatherhood in Dominica 到底什么是顾家男人？在多米尼加扮演并排除了一个受人尊敬的父亲

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Ethos Pub Date : 2025-05-07 DOI: 10.1111/etho.70014

Adom Philogene Heron

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Aid workers parenting in the field: Children-as-audience and the generational transmission of privilege in Senegal 援助工作者在外地养育子女：儿童作为听众和塞内加尔特权的代际传递

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Ethos Pub Date : 2025-04-29 DOI: 10.1111/etho.70011

Dinah Hannaford

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Making beautiful babies: Performative parenting, parental determinism, and personhood in Côte d'Ivoire 制造漂亮的婴儿：行为父母，父母决定论，和人格在Côte科特迪瓦

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Ethos Pub Date : 2025-04-29 DOI: 10.1111/etho.70012

Konstanze N'Guessan

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Motherhood amidst reprimands and advice: Parenting and class in Rio de Janeiro 谴责和建议中的母性：巴西的育儿和课堂

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Ethos Pub Date : 2025-04-28 DOI: 10.1111/etho.70013

Laura Lowenkron, Camila Fernandes

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Parenting as contested practice between experts, audiences, and selves: An introduction 育儿作为专家、观众和自我之间有争议的实践：介绍

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Ethos Pub Date : 2025-04-23 DOI: 10.1111/etho.70010

Heike Drotbohm, Konstanze N'Guessan

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