Are anthropologists monsters? An Andean dystopian critique of extractivist ethnography and Anglophone-centric anthropology

Are anthropologists monsters? An Andean dystopian critique of extractivist ethnography and Anglophone-centric anthropology The article departs from an ethnographic experience involving the kharisiri, a dystopian, fat-stealing monster of the Bolivian…
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Is there a place for faith in anthropology? Religion, reason, and the ethnographer’s divine revelation

Is there a place for faith in anthropology? Religion, reason, and the ethnographer’s divine revelation Anthropological insights are not produced or constructed through reasoned discourse alone. Often they appear to…
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The devil and the hidden life of numbers: Translations and transformations in Amazonia: The Inaugural Claude Lévi-Strauss lecture

The devil and the hidden life of numbers: Translations and transformations in Amazonia: The Inaugural Claude Lévi-Strauss lecture The notion of “aberrant derivations,” coined by Lévi-Strauss in The origin of…
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