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Beyond the suffering subject: toward an anthropology of the good
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In this article, the authors trace the change from the anthropologists' focus on the "other" to the "the other" and suggest that some strengths of earlier work were lost in the transition.Abstract:
In the 1980s, anthropology set aside a focus on societies defined as radically ‘other’ to the anthropologists' own. There was little consensus at the time, however, about who might replace the other as the primary object of anthropological attention. In important respects, I argue, its replacement has been the suffering subject. Tracing this change, I consider how it addressed key problems of the anthropology of the other, but I also suggest that some strengths of earlier work – particularly some of its unique critical capacities – were lost in the transition. The conclusion considers how recent trends in anthropology might coalesce in a further shift, this one toward an anthropology of the good capable of recovering some of the critical force of an earlier anthropology without taking on its weaknesses.read more
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TL;DR: The issues at stake in the policy focus on UHC are outlined and it is argued that UHC opens up a challenging new research field in medical anthropology.
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The unhappy marriage of victimhood and citizenship in transitional justice : exploring the potential of gender-just transformative reparations in Colombia
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The Promise of Poison: Life in the Field of Pediatric Cancer Treatment
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Good anthropology in dark times: Critical appraisal and ethnographic application
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Formations of the secular: Christianity, Islam, modernity
TL;DR: Asad as discussed by the authors explores the concepts, practices, and political formations of the secularism, with emphasis on the major historical shifts that have shaped secular sensibilities and attitudes in the modern West and the Middle East, and concludes that the secular cannot be viewed as a successor to religion, or be seen as on the side of the rational.
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On Ethnographic Authority
TL;DR: The frontispiece of Malinowski's Argonauts of the Western Pacific is a photograph with the caption "A Ceremonial Act of the Kula." A shell necklace is being offered to a Trobriand chief who stands at the door of his dwelling, behind the man presenting the necklace is a row of six bowing youths, one of them sounding a conch as mentioned in this paper.
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Prophecy and the near future: Thoughts on macroeconomic, evangelical, and punctuated time
TL;DR: The authors trace the optionality and consonance of this shift toward the relative evacuation of the near future in religion and economics by examining different theoretical positions within each domain, and suggest that the near-future is being reinhabited by forms of punctuated time, such as the dated schedules of debt and other specific event-driven temporal frames.
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Continuity thinking and the problem of christian culture : Belief, time, and the anthropology of christianity
TL;DR: A close reading of the Comaroffs' Of Revelation and Revolution illustrates the ways in which anthropologists sideline Christianity and leads to a discussion of reasons the anthropology of Christianity has languished as discussed by the authors.
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For An Anthropology Of Ethics And Freedom
TL;DR: The authors propose an approche possible for l'etude comparee et ethnographique de l'ethique et de la liberte, and quelques commentaires succincts on le jainisme servent a l'illustrer.