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Ayse Serap Avanoglu, Diana Riboli, Juan Javier Rivera Andía, Annalisa Butticci, Iain R. Edgar, Matan Shapiro, Brooke Schedneck, Mark Sedgwick, Suzane de Alencar Vieira, Nell Haynes, Sara Farhan, Fabián Bravo Vega, Marie Meudec, Nuno Domingos, Heidi Härkönen, Sergio González Varela, and Nathanael Homewood

), a turbulence that in the case of Ayoreo people is depicted through religious indoctrination, brutality and shame, constant starvation and slavery, murder, and being hunted in the forest. Nevertheless, even in the worst scenarios of this life (such as

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Sam Jackson, Áron Bakos, Birgitte Refslund Sørensen, and Matti Weisdorf

fundamentalist Christianity) in the American far right. This chapter wanders widely, considering the Left Behind series of apocalyptic novels, extreme laissez-faire economics, compassionate conservatism, slavery, and immigration. It is easy to get lost in the

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Shadow Soldiering

Shifting Constellations and Permeable Boundaries in “Private” Security Contracting

Maya Mynster Christensen

private security industry ( Chisholm 2014 , 2015 ; Chisholm and Statchowitsch 2016 ; Eichler 2014 ; Higate 2012b ). Elsewhere, I have analyzed how Sierra Leonean contractors employ notions of race and slavery as a moral response to the unequal

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Guarding the Body

Private Security Work in Rio de Janeiro

Erika Robb Larkins

skin color, is symbolically associated with the dirty work to be done in the household. Palpable in the racial commentaries across classes is a recognizable discourse that associates domestic work with dark skin, and dark skin with slavery, dirty

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Russia’s Return as True Europe, 1991–2017

Iver B. Neumann

us off from the future and leave us pitifully to vegetate in the slavery and downtroddenness of our almighty neighbors? Addressing the army and sundry other institutions and groups, they asked how “those who do not love their country, those who

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The Social Life of Fighting Words

The Case of Political Correctness

Ronald S. Stade

situation demonstrably had changed over time, for example, through colonization and slavery. More importantly, the theoretical turn toward materialism, Marxism, world systems, and so forth forced anthropologists to spend at least some of their time in

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Invisible Veterans

Defeated Militants and Enduring Revolutionary Social Values in Dhufar, Oman

Alice Wilson

Oman of Sultan Qaboos. The Front had also banned slavery ( Takriti 2013: 122 ). Those (such as Khalid) who were slaves to Sultan Said, and attended Qaboos while he grew up in Salalah, can remain closely connected to him, as can their relatives. 8 No

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Introduction

Understanding Experiences and Decisions in Situations of Enduring Hardship in Africa

Mirjam de Bruijn and Jonna Both

Holocaust Trauma Descendant Memory Work .” In Argenti and Schramm 2010b : 193 – 228 . Leopold , Mark . 2006 . “ Legacies of Slavery in North-West Uganda: The Story of the ‘One-Elevens .’” Africa 76 ( 2 ): 180 – 199 . 10.3366/afr.2006

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The Religious Foundations of Capoeira Angola

The Cosmopolitics of an Apparently Non-religious Practice

Sergio González Varela

to their African origins are constant, either visually in the decoration of academies or in the way leaders speak about slavery and oppression. Additionally, capoeira Angola mirrors the strict hierarchy of knowledge and power that exists in the Afro

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Religious Tourism

Analytical Routes through Multiple Meanings

Emerson Giumbelli

Translator : Jeffrey Hoff

-Americans to visit slavery sites on the African coast. In the section dedicated to ‘faith tourism’, Stausberg cites a study about Cuba, where Afro-religious traditions inspire spectacles that take place in hotels and whose priests can be accessed thanks to