a statist one. Crucially, statists may be found either toward the Right or the Left—that is simply a tactical question of which political and economic models are preferred in order to reach the strategic goal of a strong state. In 1991, the new
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J. D. Y. Peel
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, constructed account of the past. It was “history turned into nature” ( Bourdieu 1977: 78 ). Sahlins’s model suggested to John that change was confronted with an unproblematic cultural endowment and elided a crucial area of reflexivity ( Peel 1993: 172 ). He
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sociality, that is, a dispositif , a technique that imposes a particular conduct, modeling truth and normality by defining power relations. Consequently, abstract money turns into a source of systemic violence that pushes everything into the icy waters of
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has received some attention in recent years, as studies of the materiality of religion have become a prominent trend within social anthropology. This article demonstrates that beyond Tambiah’s model of the ‘sedimentation’ of charisma in holy objects as
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Stanley Kubrick’s model for Dr. Strangelove), tasked with thinking through what would happen in the case of a nuclear war. In a study of the worlds conjured at the RAND Corporation, Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi describes the perplexing conundrum that planning
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project is that it leaves no place for differentiation, and thus misses the very essence of anthropology—its ability to delineate cultural diversity. The model is also rather deterministic, as liminality becomes a base while culture in general becomes a