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Outline of a Theory of Practice.
Arthur W. Frank,Pierre Bourdieu +1 more
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Syncretism and Its Synonyms: Reflections on Cultural Mixture
TL;DR: Les notions d'hybridation and de creolisation qui rendent compte de la dynamique sociale mondiale, en vue d'elaborer une theorie du melange culturel are examined.
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Hype and weight.
Mark Nichter,Mimi Nichter +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the biocultural dynamics of body shape and argue that "bigger is better" and "better is not always better" with respect to body shape.
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Leaky States: Water Audits, Ignorance, and the Politics of Infrastructure
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the political and technical controversies of measuring water leakages in Mumbai to demonstrate how the dense historical accretions of technology, material, and social life that form hydraulic infrastructures in Mumbai trouble the audit cultures of neoliberal government.
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Dad and Baby in the First Year: Gendered Responsibilities and Embodiment
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors address the question of why there are persistent gender differences in the responsibility for children and argue that understanding continuing gender divisions of domestic responsibility, particularly in the first year of parenting, requires attending to issues of identity; commitment; embodiment; deeply rooted socialization or habitus; and normative community assumptions around gender, breadwinning, and caring.
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The making of the good academic accountant
TL;DR: In this article, it is argued that differences in the institutional contexts in which accounting academics are trained and research evaluated frame fundamental conditions of possibility for the nature and content of accounting theorising, and the construction of a European perspective appears to enjoy an institutionally determined anti-dogmatism allowing accounting research to elude the quest for "scientific" and rigorous knowledge.