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Political inclusion without social justice: South Africa and the pitfalls of partial decolonisation 没有社会公正的政治包容:南非和部分非殖民化的陷阱

2区社会学

Anthropological Theory Pub Date : 2023-09-20 DOI: 10.1177/14634996231187764

Bongani Ngqulunga

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Authenticity and recognition: Theorising antiracist becomings and allyship in the time of COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter 真实性和认可性：新冠肺炎和黑人生命攸关时期正在兴起的反种族主义者联盟

IF 1.7 2区社会学

Anthropological Theory Pub Date : 2023-09-03 DOI: 10.1177/14634996231193608

Jordan CR Mullard

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Calibrating home, hospitality and reciprocity in migration. 在移民中校准家园、好客和互惠。

IF 1.7 2区社会学

Anthropological Theory Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1177/14634996221118140

Nicholas DeMaria Harney, Paolo Boccagni

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Decolonising the political: Presence, law and obligation 政治存在、法律和义务的非殖民化

2区社会学

Anthropological Theory Pub Date : 2023-08-02 DOI: 10.1177/14634996231185324

Julia Eckert

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Common difference: Conceptualising simultaneity and racial sincerity in Jewish-Muslim relations in the United Kingdom 共同点：英国犹太-穆斯林关系中的同时性和种族诚意概念

IF 1.7 2区社会学

Anthropological Theory Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1177/14634996231179520

Y. Egorova

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The bewitchment of our intelligence: Scepticism about other minds in anthropology. 我们智力的魔法:人类学中对他人思想的怀疑。

IF 1.7 2区社会学

Anthropological Theory Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/14634996221080578

Marco Motta

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Future perfect: From the pandemic to the Paris climate agreement. 未来完美：从疫情到巴黎气候协定。

IF 1.7 2区社会学

Anthropological Theory Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Epub Date: 2022-06-26 DOI: 10.1177/14634996221107961

Stuart Kirsch

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Ingold, hermeneutics, and hylomorphic animism 英戈尔德，诠释学，和神形泛灵论

IF 1.7 2区社会学

Anthropological Theory Pub Date : 2023-05-16 DOI: 10.1177/14634996231175282

Jeff Kochan

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Challenges in empire: Eduards Volters’ ethnography on Lithuania, 1882–1918 帝国的挑战：爱德华·沃尔特斯关于立陶宛的民族志，1882-1918

IF 1.7 2区社会学

Anthropological Theory Pub Date : 2023-05-03 DOI: 10.1177/14634996231159849

Vida Savoniakaitė

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In defence of ideological struggle against neocolonial self-justifications: Revisiting Asad's Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter amid the decolonial turn 为反对新殖民主义自我辩护的意识形态斗争辩护——重读阿萨德的人类学与非殖民化转向中的殖民遭遇

IF 1.7 2区社会学

Anthropological Theory Pub Date : 2023-03-16 DOI: 10.1177/14634996231160522

Stephen Campbell

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