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71. Publications & Writing
Bengal in Global Concept History: Culturalism in the Age of Capital
Today people all over the globe invoke the concept of culture to make sense of their world, their social interactions, and themselves. But how did the culture concept become so ubiquitous? In this ambitious study, 2000 IDRF Fellow Andrew Sartori closely examines the history of po…
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72. Publications & Writing
Between Integration and Disintegration: The Erratic Trajectory of the Congolese Army
On behalf of the DRC Affinity Group, Dr. Maria Eriksson Baaz of the Nordic Africa Institute and the School of Global Studies, Gothenburg University (Sweden) and Judith Verweijen, a PhD Candidate at Utrecht Unversity (The Netherlands) present the history, underlying mechanisms and…
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73. Publications & Writing
Beyond Memory: The Crimean Tartars’ Deportation and Return
In the final days of World War II, Stalin ordered the deportation of the entire Crimean Tatar population, nearly 200,000 people. Beyond Memory offers the first ethnographic exploration of this event, as well as the 50 year movement for repatriation. Many of the Crimean Tatars hav…
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74. Publications & Writing
Beyond Our Means: Why America Spends While the World Saves
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75. Publications & Writing
Beyond the Royal Gaze: Clanship and Public Healing in Buganda
Beyond the Royal Gaze shifts the perspective from which we view early African politics by asking what Buganda, a kingdom located on the northwest shores of Lake Victoria in present-day Uganda, looked like to people who were not of the center but nevertheless became central to its…
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76. Publications & Writing
Beyond the existence proof: ontological conditions, epistemological implications, and in-depth interview research
Authored by DPDF 2010 Discrimination Studies co-director, Samuel R. Lucas In-depth interviewing is a promising method. Alas, traditional in-depth interview sample designs prohibit generalizing. Yet, after acknowledging this limitation, in-depth interview studies generalize anyway…
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77. Publications & Writing
Biosecurity Interventions: Global Health and Security in Question
In recent years, new disease threats—such as SARS, avian flu, mad cow disease, and drug-resistant strains of malaria and tuberculosis—have garnered media attention and galvanized political response. Proposals for new approaches to “securing health” against these threats…
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78. Publications & Writing
Black Rhythms of Peru: Reviving African Musical Heritage in the Black Pacific
In the late 1950s to 1970s, an Afro-Peruvian revival brought the forgotten music and dances of Peru’s African musical heritage to Lima’s theatrical stages. The revival conjured newly imagined links to the past in order to celebrate—and to some extent recreate—Black cultur…
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79. Publications & Writing
Blood and Culture: Youth, Right-Wing Extremism, and National Belonging in Contemporary Germany
Over the past decade, immigration and globalization have significantly altered Europe's cultural and ethnic landscape, foregrounding questions of national belonging. In Blood and Culture, 2000 IDRF Fellow Cynthia Miller-Idriss provides a rich ethnographic analysis of how patterns…
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80. Publications & Writing
Blood and the Brain
Authored by DPDF 2009 Cultures & Histories of the Human Sciences co-Director, Emily Martin. In everyday Euro-American understandings, blood is both vital and dangerous to the brain. Why, then, are there virtually no illustrations of the brain in contemporary neuroscience that inc…
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