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Public Culture (2020) 32 (2 (91)): 355–361.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Joel Isaac Susanne Langer’s Philosophy in a New Key (1942) is the most famous book you’ve never heard of. It has had a remarkable career: a big seller on the mass paperback market of the post–World War II decades; a key text in musicology, aesthetics, religious studies, and anthropology; a founding...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (1 (99)): 113–134.
Published: 01 January 2023
... millions of Vietnamese and Iraqis are at best irrelevant to but mostly just absent from the dominant narratives). While anthropological accounts that make the US military their focus bring war palpably “home” to (American) audiences accustomed to watching (mediatized) war unfold elsewhere, such accounts...
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Public Culture (2005) 17 (1): 75–100.
Published: 01 January 2005
.... New Left Review 17 : 5 -30. Appadurai, Arjun. 1988 . Putting hierarchy in its place. Cultural Anthropology 3 : 36 -49. Appiah, K. Anthony. 1993 . In my father's house: Africa in the philosophy of culture . New York: Oxford. ———. 2001 . Cosmopolitan reading. In Cosmopolitan...
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (1 (72)): 187–199.
Published: 01 January 2014
... wanted to ask you to reflect on anthropology’s role in today’s world. Or, not to be so parochial, what the ethnographic and conceptual work of transnationally oriented human scientists (forgive the German conceit!) could contribute to the navigation of times like these. Is this a good time to resurrect...
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (2 (91)): 415–422.
Published: 01 May 2020
... it famous. Purity and Danger presents a probing cultural analysis. Douglas argued that social systems should be understood by what they expel but also that the true power of dirt lies in the acts of cleansing. Cultural upheaval, decolonization, and war together appeared to render Douglas’s interest...
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Public Culture (2003) 15 (1): 195–198.
Published: 01 January 2003
... of anthropology at the University of California, Berke-
ley. Recent publications include The Life of the Law: Anthropological Projects
(2002) and “Anthropology! Distinguished Lecture” in American Anthropologist
(September 2001).
5. Elizabeth Colson, “The Practice of War,” working paper, University...
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Public Culture (2003) 15 (2): 373–384.
Published: 01 May 2003
... of Propaganda dur-
ing World War II. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Immerso, Michael. 2002. Coney Island: The People’s Playground. New Bruns-
wick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press.
Inda, Jonathan Xavier, and Renato Rosaldo, eds. 2002. The Anthropology of
Globalization: A Reader. Malden...
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Public Culture (2002) 14 (2): 429–430.
Published: 01 May 2002
...Danny Hoffman © 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Danny Hoffman is a graduate student in anthropology at Duke University. Currently he is researching the kamajor militia movement and its involvement in the war in Sierra Leone...
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Public Culture (1993) 5 (3): 431–449.
Published: 01 September 1993
... . The Sense of Order: A Study in the Psychology of Decorative Art . Oxford: Phaidon. Greenblatt , Stephen . 1989 . “Towards a Poetics of Culture.” Pages 1–14 in H. A. Veeser, ed. The New Historicism . London: Routledge. Handelman , Don . 1990 . Models and Mirrors: Towards an Anthropology...
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Public Culture (2005) 17 (3): 487–498.
Published: 01 September 2005
...Joseph Masco; Joseph Masco © 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Joseph Masco is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of the forthcoming book The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post–Cold War New Mexico. Masco, Joseph...
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Public Culture (2012) 24 (1 (66)): 109–129.
Published: 01 January 2012
... of the Royal Anthropological Institute 17 , no. 1 : 82 – 99 . ———. 2012 . Before (and after) neo-liberalism: Tacit knowledge, secrets of the trade, and the public sector in Egypt . Cultural Anthropology 27 , no. 1 : 76 – 96 . Escobar Arturo . 1995 . Encountering development...
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Public Culture (2003) 15 (2): 238–260.
Published: 01 May 2003
...David Pedersen © 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 David Pedersen teaches social and cultural theory at the University of Michigan, where he recently completed his Ph.D. in anthropology and history. He is the author of “The Storm We Call Dollars: Determining Value and Belief in El...
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (2): 223–236.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Johan Lindquist Copyright 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Earlier versions of this essay were presented at the University of Toronto, the University of Vienna, the National University of Singapore, Brown University, and the 2005 annual meeting of the American Anthropological...
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (3 (71)): 559–573.
Published: 01 September 2013
... that came with the Vietnam War, the awful break between children and parents, took on the beginning of sense seen through the Ndembu. Vic showed us ourselves in them. I thought this was just what anthropology was meant to do. Vic was a wonderful person, full of words, removed from involvement in the local...
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Public Culture (2000) 12 (2): 351–374.
Published: 01 May 2000
...Fernando Coronil © 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Fernando Coronil teaches anthropology and history at the University of Michigan. His publications include The Magical State: Nature, Money,and Modernity in Venezuela (1997), “Beyond Occidentalism: Towards Non-Imperial...
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (2 (91)): 441–448.
Published: 01 May 2020
... a proper idyll. A distinguished professor of classics, renewing IC , observed with some actuarial alarm, “I am told that this has now sold more copies than Thucydides’s Peloponnesian Wars !” There is no disputing the extensive adoption of Anderson’s anthropological notion of the nation as an imagined...
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Public Culture (1995) 7 (3): 529–555.
Published: 01 September 1995
... written Identity through History: Living Stories
in a Solomon Islands Society (Cambridge, 1991), and is currently working on
war memory and the politics of national history.
literature Cited
Appadurai, Arjun. 1992. “Global Ethnoscapes: Notes and Queries for a Transna-
tional Anthropology...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (1 (99)): 73–112.
Published: 01 January 2023
... .” Cultural Anthropology 23 , no. 3 : 488 – 530 . Blazevic Igor . 2021 . “ If junta will now manage to provoke the movement to start with counterviolence, they will be able to kill 10,000 and nobody from abroad will do anything with that. It will be seen as civil war and nobody will want...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (1): 211–214.
Published: 01 January 2009
...: University of Minnesota Press.
Ouellette, Laurie, and James Hay. 2008. Better Living through Reality TV: Televi-
sion and Post-welfare Citizenship. Oxford: Blackwell.
Price, David H. 2008. Anthropological Intelligence: The Deployment and Neglect
of American Anthropology in the Second World War...
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Public Culture (1996) 8 (3): 567–585.
Published: 01 September 1996
... he had won that family war and became a national legend, feared and A Funeral in North
hated by some, adored by his clan. He became a major political Jigure and, in Lebanon
1970, President of Lebanon. The Godfather elected President.
It’s July 25, 1992, and Franjieh’s body lies in state...
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