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... Given the very real differences in levels of wealth and economic production between São Paulo and most other Brazilian states, but especially those in the North and Northeast, how did political groups in the latter regions respond to claims of paulista superiority? This chapter examines...

... Area study centers and other postwar regroupings of social scientists studying questions of interest to State, Defense, and intelligence organizations impacted a variety of postwar anthropologists. Some area study centers, like MIT’s Center for International Studies (CENIS) or Harvard’s Russian...

.... Modernization theory helped rationalize foreign aid policies that often had counterinsurgency links. Anthropologists’ work with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and other agencies is considered within the context of American counterinsurgency policies and later revelations of specific...

...Of Other Worlds to Come This chapter suggests that decolonization has to be understood in terms of its temporal structure and argues that its teleological time has given way to reassertions of multiple precolonial temporalities because of the failure of the promises of decolonization...

... This chapter discusses Togolese who apply for the U.S. Diversity Visa lottery. More Togolese per capita apply for the Green Card lottery than those from any other African country, and winners attempt to game the system by adding “spouses” and dependents to their dossiers, reinventing kinship...

... the limits and/or gap that separates humans from (other) animals. animals cats Derrida Hegel the Other ...