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Brand "Piracy" and Postwar Statecraft in Guatemala
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In this paper, the authors analyze significant gaps between what branding means in Guatemalan Maya communities and how brands are understood in international projects of legal harmonization that are also about rebranding the Guatemalan nation.Abstract:
In this article, I analyze significant gaps between what branding means in Guatemalan Maya communities and how brands are understood in international projects of legal harmonization that are also about rebranding the Guatemalan nation. Following Guatemala's internal armed conflict, neoliberal statecraft has involved policy approaches that amplify the presence of global brands while compounding conditions of socioeconomic inequality that limit Maya men and women's access to authorized goods. Meanwhile, Maya people are invited to participate in a modernist vision of citizenship and social progress that encourages a privatized model of indigenous identity mediated by branded commodities and formal market transactions. In this context, the brand is a powerful medium through which claims to legitimacy and authority are negotiated at national and local levels. [brands, piracy, intellectual property, trademark, fashion, Guatemala, Maya]read more
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Domestic violence, liminality and precarity in the British borderlands : Polish women's experiences of abuse and service engagement in Edinburgh
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the significance of political economy in the context of domestic violence, particularly on how political economic practices relating to British statecraft intersected with Polish women's migrant identities and experiences.
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Sufferer's market : sufferation and economic ethics in Jamaica
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the everyday understanding and management of Jamaica's adverse economy through an ethnographic analysis of economic practice among five groups variously involved in Montego Bay's tourist sector, including Sindhi merchants, local craft vendors, an artisan cooperative, a Rastafarian tour village and local lottery scammers.
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The Year 2013 in Sociocultural Anthropology: Cultures of Circulation and Anthropological Facts
TL;DR: The authors explored the relationship between cultures of circulation and anthropological facts and discussed the challenges and opportunities for a sociocultural anthropology that recognizes the transformative power of global connection while refusing to give up its long-running pursuit of cultural wisdom and more humane social configurations.
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Matters of Patrimony: Anthropological Theory and the Materiality of Replication in Contemporary Latin America
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“That British Sound”: Talk of Nationalness in Global Capitalism
Kwai Hang Ng,Tad Skotnicki +1 more
TL;DR: The concept of nationalness was introduced by as discussed by the authors to account for the persistent circulation of national labels as a tool of distinction, which is made possible through "rhematization" the process of appropriating signs whose interpretants are taken to be iconic.
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Neoliberalism as exception
TL;DR: In this article, Aihwa Ong offers an alternative view of neoliberalism as an extraordinarily malleable technology of governing that is taken up in different ways by different regimes, be they authoritarian, democratic, or communist.
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The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture
TL;DR: The Female Complaint as discussed by the authors explores the origins and conventions of the first mass-cultural "intimate public" in the United States, a women's culture distinguished by a view that women inevitably have something in common and are in need of a conversation that feels intimate and revelatory.
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Brands: The Logos of the Global Economy
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define the interface of the brand as complex objects, interactivity and partial solutions, and the objectivity of the Brand as interaction and the limits of rationality.
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Countering Brand Counterfeiters
Robert T. Green,Tasman Smith +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors summarize the literature that addresses this issue and provide an in-depth description of how one company addressed the threat of counterfeits in a lucrative developing market.