about inherent values and meanings that encompass different attitudes of the logic of practice, such as deception, betrayal, play, and embodiment. Here I address some of the common assumptions made by anthropologists (e.g., Downey 2008 ; Lewis 1992
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The Religious Foundations of Capoeira Angola
The Cosmopolitics of an Apparently Non-religious Practice
Sergio González Varela
Made in Nigeria
Duress and Upwardly Mobile Youth in the Biography of a Young Entrepreneur in Enugu
Inge Ligtvoet
social media feeds every day. Corruption is omnipresent, visible for everyone and internalized by all. It refers to the “whole range of social behaviour in which various forms of morally questionable deception enable the achievement of wealth, power, or
Iver B. Neumann
and deception,” which is, quite fittingly for a Russian monarchist, a 1914 quote from tsar Nicholas II where he described “definitely not the people,” Strelkov (2014) explains, “but the political, military and economic elite that surrounded him.” The
“Eyes, Ears, and Wheels”
Policing Partnerships in Nairobi, Kenya
Francesco Colona and Tessa Diphoorn
, Jacob . 2010 . “ Outwitting the Professor of Politics? Mungiki Narratives of Political Deception and Their Role in Kenyan Politics .” Journal of Eastern African Studies 4 ( 3 ): 435 – 449 . Rigakos , George S. 2002 . The New Parapolice: Risk
Jeanne Favret-Saada’s Minimal Ontology
Belief and Disbelief of Mystical Forces, Perilous Conditions, and the Opacity of Being
Theodoros Kyriakides
, on the one hand, and reliance, on the other—Evans-Pritchard speculates about this contradiction: “Azande are aware of the deception practiced by their witch-doctors … As in many other of their customs, we find a mingling of common sense and mystical
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Eileen Barker
Linda Woodhead, James T. Richardson, Martyn Percy, Catherine Wessinger, and Eileen Barker
Parliament, where it was suggested that the movement should be prosecuted for “offenses of deception under the Theft Act.” “You can’t go now,” said my husband. On the contrary, nothing would have stopped me from going now. In fact, the conference turned out