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... Time is usually considered a benefit in academia, and it is often used as a disability accommodation. However, it can also have harmful effects. The chapter focuses on three codes within the dimension of time: duration of obtaining accommodations; duration of using accommodations; and suddenness...

... of exchange. People’s money lives are diverse. Cashlessness, a vision promoted by many money innovators, may only be obtainable for the relatively well off. And the cultural and social traditions of payment run deep. cashlessness cash payments industry unbanked underbanked ...

..., he hoped, would allow Africans to obtain self-determination without the need for state sovereignty. The chapter discusses this never-realized constitutional initiative in relation to Senghor’s contemporaneous writings about politics, culture, and civilization. It also relates his federalism to his...

... show how family relations can serve as a support for obtaining material resources (either licitly or illicitly) and as a place for caring and protection. We also show how those close relationships can be the locus where violence and physical harm are produced and reproduced. interpersonal...

... To learn more about Islam, many domestic workers obtain learning materials and take classes at Kuwait’s Islamic da’wa movement’s women’s center. Taught in their first languages, by teachers of similar ethnonational backgrounds, these classes effectively reproduce domestic workers’ ethnonational...

... persists. The chapter develops the concept of residual governance more fully, outlining dynamics that obtain throughout the industrialized world. In South Africa, I argue that its adoption fortified racial inequality even after the end of apartheid, creating a wicked problem that became more intractable...

... to obtain wage-paying jobs turn to tribal fighting in order to extort money from groups who receive mining benefits. Porgerans refer to tribal fighting as “working in the life market,” as people with no possibility of wage labor sell the only thing the market demands: their very lives. labor...

... in the direction of the pension. When we all reconvene in the car across the street, Brian addresses my question about how the state prosecutor, who is responsible for the case, can possibly find useful information that they had just obtained illegally. He explains that they give useful information...

... who resided in the city, and osterie (hostelries) for those who came temporarily to Venice for business transactions. In conjunction with its political agenda, the state relocated foreign communities to specific areas within the city; the Jews obtained a permanent, unified, and clearly demarcated...

... the column fight against the coronéis, nor did they hand over food, clothing, or weapons, let alone volunteer as soldiers. Unable to obtain sufficient supplies on their initial march across Bahia, the rebels soon turned around and began their journey to exile. In what proved to be the most intense wave...

... interests seeking to scale up plantation-scale production. The chapter, nonetheless, also offers a contrapuntal story: it follows a US anthropologist conducting fieldwork among a Bagobo community in the Davao Gulf in Mindanao and the knowledge of weavers this anthropologist obtained. Combined...

.... The municipal epidemiologist, who participated in several on-site investigations, tells of a deeper affective engagement, her hands-on efforts to obtain more accurate infant mortality statistics and to pinpoint the cause of the epidemic. Two nurses claim to have first discovered the epidemic and compiled...

... undertook an exhaustive and meticulous survey of Bolivia’s physical and human geography, gaining prominence and respect during the three years he spent in the country. He received advantageous offcial support, and obtained information and insights from a variety of sources, including creole intellectuals...

... of Indians, but also with their legendary leader. Yet it is important to remember the interests that the creoles themselves had in obtaining the support of indigenous groups. This would have implied pragmatic deal making. Cumbay promised, for example, to send more than two thousand Indians to Belgrano...

... for Great Britain, through its main Caribbean entrepôt, Kingston, to corner most of the benefits to be obtained from interimperial Caribbean trade. interimperial trade (and contraband trade) war in the Caribbean Caribbean port cities maritime history border crossing region making Republic...

... specific ways. Transplant has come to matter in Mexico largely through reliance on familial living donors, in stark contrast with other settings around the world where both the clinical practices and the biopolitics of organ donation skew toward obtaining organs either from the market or from the brain...

... in lower altitude zones. At the same time, though, there is a counterdiscourse of antiwork whereby young men who are unable to obtain wage-paying jobs turn to tribal fighting in order to extort money from groups who receive mining benefits. Porgerans refer to tribal fighting as “working in the life market...

..., also offers a contrapuntal story: it follows a US anthropologist conducting fieldwork among a Bagobo community in the Davao Gulf in Mindanao and the knowledge of weavers this anthropologist obtained. Combined, the contrapuntal narratives offer a sense of the number of thought-worlds surrounding plants...