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
“Eyes, Ears, and Wheels”
Policing Partnerships in Nairobi, Kenya
Francesco Colona and Tessa Diphoorn
Hague : Clingendael Conflict Research Unit . Private Security Regulation Act. 2016 . The Republic of Kenya, Kenya Law N. 13 of 2016. Rasmussen , Jacob . 2010 . “ Outwitting the Professor of Politics? Mungiki Narratives of Political Deception and
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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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
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Eileen Barker
Linda Woodhead, James T. Richardson, Martyn Percy, Catherine Wessinger, and Eileen Barker
marry them off, hundreds at a time. Furthermore, questions were being asked in 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
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Talal Asad
Talal Asad, Jonathan Boyarin, Nadia Fadil, Hussein Ali Agrama, Donovan O. Schaefer, and Ananda Abeysekara
only the other's desires but also one's own—including the self-deception in our desire to engage with the other. It was my oldest English friend John Dixon, who had just graduated with a degree in English Language and Literature from Oxford, who