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Giovanni da Col
Researcher at University of Cambridge
Publications - 17
Citations - 554
Giovanni da Col is an academic researcher from University of Cambridge. The author has contributed to research in topics: Vitality & Luck. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 17 publications receiving 488 citations. Previous affiliations of Giovanni da Col include University of London & Max Planck Society.
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Dynamics of migration and crime in Europe: new patterns of an old nexus
TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented the central part of the research "Migrations and Crime - the international dimension of the problem" which was carried out under my direction by TRANSCRIME, University of Trento, on behalf of the Centro Nazionale di Prevenzione e Difesa Sociale.
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The View from Somewhen: Events, Bodies and the Perspective of Fortune around Khawa Karpo, a Tibetan Sacred Mountain in Yunnan Province
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the ontology of some key Tibetan bodies and their relation with perspectivism: the zombie ( ro langs ), the mountain god ( yul lha ), the reckless hunter ( rngon pa ), the "living Buddha" ( sprul sku ), and the idiom of "emanation" commonly known as "incarnation".
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Why do we read the classics
Giovanni da Col,Claudio Sopranzetti,Fred Myers,Anastasia Piliavsky,John L. Jackson,Yarimar Bonilla,Adia Benton,Paul Stoller +7 more
TL;DR: The authors investigate and question the analytical, historical, and interpretive arguments that have become common knowledge in anthropology, intuitively true and agreeable, yet rarely subject to rigorous scrutiny and discussion.
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The Elementary Economies of Dechenwa Life: Fortune, Vitality, and the Mountain in Sino-Tibetan Borderlands
TL;DR: In this paper, a historical study analyzes the social force of markets and nature in the Songpan region in concert with the political and social conflicts and compromise at the heart of changing political regimes and the area's ethnic groups.
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Two or three things I know about Ethnographic Theory
TL;DR: The authors argue that ethnographic theory rather aims to reach "satisfactory" (cf. Wittgenstein [1953] 2009) and "felicitous" (Austin 1975) effects, which account for the productive uncertainty at the core of human sociality and the anticipatory, subjunctive, and metapragmatic dimensions of any interaction.