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A modern accumulation? The intricacies of enclosure, dispossession and cultural production in Venezuela’s Gran Sabana 现代积累?委内瑞拉大萨巴纳的圈地、剥夺和文化生产的错综复杂

IF 1.7 2区社会学

Anthropological Theory Pub Date : 2020-09-20 DOI: 10.1177/1463499620954709

Luis F. Angosto-Ferrández

引用次数: 4

A political anthropology of finance: Studying the distribution of money in the financial industry as a political process 金融的政治人类学:研究作为政治过程的金融行业中的货币分配

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Anthropological Theory Pub Date : 2020-09-09 DOI: 10.1177/1463499620951374

Horacio Ortiz

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引用次数: 12

Subaltern perspectives in post-human theory 后人类理论中的次等视角

IF 1.7 2区社会学

Anthropological Theory Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI: 10.1177/1463499618794085

Keir Martin

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引用次数: 4

Embodying equivocations: Ecopolitical mimicries of climate science and shamanism 含糊其辞：气候科学和萨满教的生态政治模仿

IF 1.7 2区社会学

Anthropological Theory Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI: 10.1177/1463499617753335

Aníbal G. Arregui

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引用次数: 6

Sticky ethics: Environmental activism and the limits of ethical freedom in Kerala, India 粘性伦理：印度喀拉拉邦的环境激进主义与伦理自由的局限

IF 1.7 2区社会学

Anthropological Theory Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI: 10.1177/1463499619828128

J. Mathias

引用次数: 4

Dualism and entanglement in anthropological approaches to statehood 人类学国家观中的二元性与纠缠

IF 1.7 2区社会学

Anthropological Theory Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI: 10.1177/1463499619832704

Alejandro Agudo Sanchíz

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引用次数: 0

Egalitarianism and resistance: A theoretical proposal for Iron Age Northwestern Iberian archaeology 平等主义与反抗：对铁器时代西北伊比利亚考古的理论建议

IF 1.7 2区社会学

Anthropological Theory Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI: 10.1177/1463499618814685

Brais X. Currás, Inés Sastre

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引用次数: 6

Resistance/refusal: Politics of manoeuvre under diffuse regimes of governmentality 抵抗/拒绝:分散治理体制下的策略政治

IF 1.7 2区社会学

Anthropological Theory Pub Date : 2020-07-16 DOI: 10.1177/1463499620940218

Elliott Prasse-Freeman

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引用次数: 20

The citizen as mere human: Litigating denationalization in post-9/11 UK 作为普通人的公民：9/11后英国的剥夺国籍诉讼

IF 1.7 2区社会学

Anthropological Theory Pub Date : 2020-07-08 DOI: 10.1177/1463499620931353

Caylee Hong

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引用次数: 2

Rising from the ordinary: Virtue, the justice motif and moral change 从平凡中崛起：美德、正义主题与道德变革

IF 1.7 2区社会学

Anthropological Theory Pub Date : 2020-06-17 DOI: 10.1177/1463499620932058

Susanne Brandtstädter

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引用次数: 1