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Journal articles on the topic "Political anthropology"

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Ivonin, Yury, and Olga Ivonina. "Plato’s Political Anthropology." Ideas and Ideals 11, no. 1-1 (March 28, 2019): 103–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.17212/2075-0862-2019-11.1.1-103-128.

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Aronoff, Myron J. "Good Political Anthropology, Bad Political Anthropology: A Response to Professor Mamdani." PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 27, no. 1 (May 2004): 16–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/pol.2004.27.1.16.

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Sabloff, Paula L. W. "Political Anthropology on Exhibit." PoLAR: Political html_ent glyph="@amp;" ascii=""/ Legal Anthropology Review 25, no. 2 (November 2002): 90–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/pol.2002.25.2.90.

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Westermark, George D., and Ted C. Lewellen. "Political Anthropology: An Introduction." Anthropological Quarterly 58, no. 2 (April 1985): 86. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3317847.

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Wiseman, John A., and Ted C. Lewellen. "Political Anthropology: An Introduction." Man 20, no. 3 (September 1985): 576. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2802480.

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Ahmad, Irfan. "Is Political Anthropology Dead?" Anthropology News 59, no. 1 (January 2018): e161-e165. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/an.784.

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LANGTON, JOHN. "Publius and Political Anthropology." American Behavioral Scientist 31, no. 4 (March 1988): 484–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000276488031004009.

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Abélès, Marc. "Foucault and political anthropology." International Social Science Journal 59, no. 191 (March 2008): 59–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2451.2009.00679.x.

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Gledhill, John. "Power in political anthropology." Journal of Power 2, no. 1 (April 2009): 9–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17540290902760857.

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Laviolette, Patrick, Sarah Green, and Francisco Martínez. "Locating European anthropology." Anuac 8, no. 2 (December 29, 2019): 245–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.7340/anuac2239-625x-3931.

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This commentary revisits the “Rethinking Euro-anthropology” Forums published in the journal Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale. It reconsiders three specific issues: who are the subjects of European anthropology, who are its others, and who are its authors? Noting that European anthropology does not imply a spatial fixity (there is no “there there” in European anthropology), we suggest instead that European anthropological scholarship is the outcome of diverse forms of crossborder and transborder exchanges. Yet as a project that is both intellectual and political, we further discuss some of the contradictions, ambiguities and paradoxes behind this “worlding” of the discipline. By observing that E(e)uropean anthropology in particular should constantly strive to relate the locating endeavours of ethical practice, empirical evidence, historical reflection and humanistic theorising, we call for innovative forms of academic collaboration, narrative creations and belonging to/with places.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Political anthropology"

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Ford, E. J. "Life on the Campaign Trail: The Political Anthropology of Local Politics." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2008. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002610.

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Dodaro, Robert. "Language and justice : political anthropology in Augustine's 'De Ciuitate Dei'." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.335661.

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Shore, C. N. "Organization, ideology, identity : The social anthropology of Italian communism." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.373907.

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Savage, O. M. "The Efik political system : the effervescence of traditional offices." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.356115.

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Turner, Benjamin. "The pharmacology of the political : on the relationship between politics and anthropology in the work of Bernard Stiegler." Thesis, University of Kent, 2017. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/66667/.

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A single question orients the argument that guides this thesis: what ramifications does the pluralisation of human nature have for our understanding of the political? This will be explored through two lines of argument. The first is established through an investigation of the rejection of a singular human nature found in Bernard Stiegler's philosophy of technics, which will argue that the political must be considered as plural as a result of his work. By claiming that the human is only ever constituted within a relationship with technical objects, Stiegler makes it possible to conceive of the political as a response to the problems unique to the way in which technics structures human life across varying contexts. This is consolidated by his understanding of technical objects as 'pharmaka', both poisonous and curative for political and social life. The political will be conceptualised as a response to these pharmacological tendencies, and thus differentiated across various anthropological contexts. The first three chapters will reconstruct how Stiegler's readings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, André Leroi-Gourhan, Jacques Derrida, Plato, and Gilbert Simondon contribute to the concepts that form his philosophical anthropology. These concepts are, namely, the default of origin, the pharmakon, and organology. Uniting the terms introduced across these three chapters will be the development of an understanding of the political based in Stiegler's concept of the a-transcendental. As a-transcendental, the concepts that direct the political are subject to transformation and change along with empirical technical systems, and are responses to particular a-transcendental horizons framed by pharmacological problems. The second line of argument will be that this a-transcendental conception of the political has ramifications for political theory more generally. It will be argued that Stiegler's philosophy of technics creates a tension between anthropological plurality and political judgement. Political theory makes decisions or judgements on the limits of politics, whereas anthropology represents the potential for these judgements to be suspended. Stiegler reveals this constitutive tension between political theory and anthropology insofar as his philosophy of technics puts this anthropological plurality at the heart of the political. After establishing this tension, an internal critique of Stiegler's arguments will show that he both furthers the possibility of understanding the political in the plural through his use of the concept of impossibility, but closes this space through his use of entropy and negentropy, and in his limiting of the political to a Western history following its emergence in the Ancient Greek polis. Despite his work both making the plurality of the political possible and negating it - by making political judgements that close off anthropological plurality - Stiegler's work is not unsuccessful in providing material for this pluralisation of the political. Instead, it will be claimed that his writing itself demonstrates this tension between political judgement and anthropological plurality. It will be concluded that Stiegler's work must be treated pharmacologically insofar as it makes anthropological plurality possible while also closing this space through his own particular political judgements. Stiegler's example will be seen to have broader ramifications for political theory, in that he demonstrates the demand for political theorists to pay critical vigilance to the way in which anthropological presuppositions form boundaries to the political, and that the possibility for the suspension of these limits must be incorporated into the work of political theory.
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Mousavi, Sayed Askar. "The Hazaras of Afghanistan : an historical, cultural, economic and political study." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.317761.

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Craig, Douglas Broward Jr. "Beyond snaketown: Household inequality and political power in early Hohokam society." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/290061.

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This study examines Pre-Classic Hohokam sociopolitical organization using data collected from recent research in the middle Gila River Valley of southern Arizona. The Pre-Classic period, ca. A.D. 500 to 1150, witnessed the first appearance of extensive irrigation works in the middle Gila River Valley. It also witnessed the introduction of ballcourts as part of a regional ceremonial and exchange system. Archaeologists disagree about the conditions that gave rise to these developments. Some researchers point to the scale of the irrigation works and the apparent need for massive labor coordination to argue for political centralization and the emergence of bureaucratic elites. Others point to the likely use of ballcourts as ritual facilities to argue that ultimate authority was vested in the hands of religious leaders. The dynamics of power in Hohokam society are examined in this study from the vantage point of a group of households that lived at the Grewe site, the ancestral village to Casa Grande Ruins. Attention is directed to the demographic and environmental conditions that contributed to household inequality at Grewe. New methods are advanced for deriving population estimates and measuring household wealth based on architectural evidence. This information is then used to explore the role of wealthy households in promoting political growth in early Hohokam society. It is argued that the influence of wealthy households extended across multiple social levels and multiple generations.
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Khalili, Mostafa. "Everyday ethnicity of Kurmanji speaking Kurds in Iran : a case in political anthropology." Thesis, https://doors.doshisha.ac.jp/opac/opac_link/bibid/BB13135798/?lang=0, 2020. https://doors.doshisha.ac.jp/opac/opac_link/bibid/BB13135798/?lang=0.

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This dissertation is an attempt to pose a challenge to the reified image of Kurdishness and Kurdayeti (awakening Kurdish nationalism), from an ethnographical perspective. The focus group is the comparatively understudied Kurmanji-speaking Kurds of Urmia county in Iran, both in rural and urban contexts. The questions is why do the Kurds of this study, in particular, and Kurds all over the Middle East, in general, have a high potential for mobilization during politically charged moments?
博士(グローバル社会研究)
Doctor of Philosophy in Global Society Studies
同志社大学
Doshisha University
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Pes, Luca Giuseppe. "Building political relations : cooperation, segmentation and government in Bancoumana (Mali)." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2011. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/346/.

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A stable and peaceful country by West African standards, Mali uneasily fits the paradigm of a ‘failed state.’ While government and development agencies tend to interpret Mali’s stability as the outcome of successful institutional reform, foreign scholars and local intellectuals emphasise the power of enduring traditions and their adaptation to changing conditions in Malian society. Critically assessing both views, this dissertation explores political relations and practices in post-colonial Mali in a rural locality of Mande, the region south-west of the capital Bamako. The work draws on 18 months of field research in the rural municipality of Bancoumana to document an intensely mediated form of government resulting from the dynamic process of grouping and of building cooperative relations in everyday social life. I examine how projects broadly intended to deepen state control such as the ‘framing’ of resident and migrant populations by the state, the betterment of the land, the recognition and the registration of ‘traditional’ rights, among other practices of bureaucratic ‘fixing’ are dealt with in the locality. The analysis links their history to processes of fission and fusion of social groups, where the interventions may exacerbate tensions or, instead, create solidarity among different village factions. Thus, the practices and processes of government in the locality are able to successfully fill the gap between the state and other agencies, and society. Contributing to the anthropological tradition studying law, politics and the state in Africa, the dissertation links recent trends in the anthropology of the state, and of more specific regulatory domains such as land development and taxation, to a reanalysis of the traditional chestnut of the anthropology of West Africa, a ‘segmentary style’ of social organization.
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Pailes, Matthew C. "Political landscapes of late prehispanic sonora| A view from the Moctezuma Valley." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3680868.

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This dissertation offers a reformulation of social organization in eastern Sonora from the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries based on survey and excavation data collected in the Moctezuma Valley, Sonora, Mexico. Prior researchers, utilizing Spanish exploration era documents, argued for the presence of territorial polities that controlled large sections of river valleys with an elite class supported by the management of long distance trade. Previous archaeological research demonstrated hierarchy in settlement patterns, but differed in interpretations regarding the methods of "elite" ascendance. This dissertation addresses questions of both the scale of political organization and its likely underpinnings. Multiple data sets including artifact style boundaries, settlement pattern analysis, and consideration of ecological parameters demonstrate political organization rarely reached beyond local sections of river valleys. This suggests dozens of locally autonomous settlement communities were present in an area previously argued to contain less than ten political units.

Additionally, application of a diverse set of provenance techniques facilitated testing previous hypothesis regarding exchange in the region. The character of regional exchange systems appears to be mostly through down-the-line acquisition, likely orchestrated by aspirant leaders at the level of local settlement communities. These interactions rarely reached beyond near neighbors and excluded some immediately adjacent settlement communities. In contrast, the exchange of mundane ceramics crossed these same boundaries, indicating different segments of society forged incongruous social networks.

In summary, these data suggest the region would be a very poor conduit for long distance exchange, most aspirant leaders had only limited access to social valuables, and that the social landscape was sufficiently volatile that most households sought exterior ties as a means of risk reduction. Local warfare in conjunction with demographic and ecological factors are argued to play the predominant roles in generating the political landscape of eastern Sonora. Overall, small scales of political consolidation and minimal hierarchical control characterized the broader region.

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Books on the topic "Political anthropology"

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Hertefelt, Marcel d'. Political anthropology. 3rd ed. Leuven: Acco, 1992.

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Clammer, John. Anthropology and Political Economy. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1985. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17943-5.

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Tishkov, Valeriĭ Aleksandrovich. Politicheskai︠a︡ antropologii︠a︡ =: Political anthropology. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2000.

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Winnie, Lem, and Leach Belinda 1954-, eds. Culture, economy, power: Anthropology as critique, anthropology as praxis. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002.

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Jan, Kubík, ed. Anthropology and political science: A convergent approach. New York: Berghahn Books, 2012.

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Filippo, Osella, and Soares Benjamin F, eds. Islam, politics, anthropology. Malden, Mass: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

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Pandey, Gaya. Developmental anthropology. New Delhi: Concept Pub. Co., 2008.

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Kurtz, Donald V. Political Anthropology. Avalon Publishing, 2014.

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Turner, Victor W. Political Anthropology. Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

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Turner, Victor W. Political Anthropology. Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315126623.

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Book chapters on the topic "Political anthropology"

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Koster, Martijn. "Political Anthropology." In The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Anthropology, 330–47. 1 Oliver's Yard, 55 City Road London EC1Y 1SP: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781529756449.n19.

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Zöller, Günter. "Kant’s Political Anthropology." In Kant Yearbook 2011: Anthropology, 131–62. Berlin, Boston: DE GRUYTER, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110236545.131.

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Clammer, John. "Engels’s Anthropology Revisited." In Anthropology and Political Economy, 86–99. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1985. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17943-5_7.

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McMorrow, Sean. "Marcel Gauchet's Political Anthropology." In Marcel Gauchet and the Crisis of Democratic Politics, 119–39. New York: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003142898-8.

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Clammer, John. "The Concept of Political Economy: Political Economy and Anthropological Economics." In Anthropology and Political Economy, 7–12. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1985. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17943-5_2.

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Sutton, Mark Q. "Political organization." In A Concise Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, 66–75. London: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003158431-7.

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Kramon, Eric. "Anthropology and Africanist Political Science." In A Companion to the Anthropology of Africa, 397–414. Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119251521.ch18.

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Schemeil, Yves. "Political Anthropology and Its Legacy." In The SAGE Handbook of Political Science, 170–87. 1 Oliver's Yard, 55 City Road London EC1Y 1SP: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781529714333.n13.

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Eller, Jack David. "The struggle for political identity in a mobile and uncertain world." In Cultural Anthropology, 281–300. Fourth edition. | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.: Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429197710-16.

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Clammer, John. "Concepts and Objects in Economic Anthropology." In Anthropology and Political Economy, 25–46. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1985. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17943-5_4.

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Conference papers on the topic "Political anthropology"

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Fan, Irina. "Corruption as a problem of political anthropology." In The 3-rd All-Russian Scientific Conference with international participation “Current issues of scientific support for the state anti-corruption policy in the Russian Federation”. Institute of Philosophy and Law, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.17506/articles.anticorruption.2018.349368.

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Hadzantonis, Michael. "Sustaining a Regional Dialect in Greece: Karpathos Island and its Linguistic Heritage." In GLOCAL Conference on Mediterranean and European Linguistic Anthropology Linguistic Anthropology 2022. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/comela22.1-10.

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The island of Karpathos sits both geographically and socio-politically within a vortex. Geographically, the island has been instrumental over centuries as a gateway to Crete and Rhodes, which in turn have offered a haven for foreign occupation. Socio-politically, the case is not significantly devoid. Through occupation of Karpathos, the waves of intruders have attempted to gain some level of footing over both local and larger regions, in order to assert power. Consequent to these waves of occupation, the language and cultural heritages of Karpathos have been tumultuous and dynamic. Yet, ideologies on the island have pervaded such changes and shifts, to adhere to a nationalist code, that is, a Greek nationalism and locally independent mentality, and in which, such a nationalist and independent culture-political positions are entextualized. The study landscapes the language of Karpathos to expose the language ideologies of the inhabitants of the island. I identified a connection to Greek continuity and Greek patriotism, yet entextualized in the island’s language behaviors that are themselves relative to the geographical and sociopolitical stance of the island. The study thus draws on a methodical framework of entextualization, as one that sits firmly within the boundaries of linguistic anthropology.
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Godinho, Luisa. "Global Governance: A Discursive-communicational Approach." In GLOCAL Conference on Mediterranean and European Linguistic Anthropology Linguistic Anthropology 2022. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/comela22.4-3.

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The recent pandemic has made evident the need for global responses, leading to the resurgence of the issue of global governance, which I propose to discuss in a communicational approach. Global governance, a concept with a long tradition in the humanities and the social sciences, has reappeared after the slow but effective process of erosion of the nation-state. However, its effectiveness depends on the consolidation of a global public sphere, a symbolic space capable of making the connection between world society and global political elites, and that may compensate for the void left by the crisis of national public spheres. This symbolic space is based on language and mass-self communication processes, which allow the sharing of meanings around the world. The diffusion of meanings will guarantee horizontal (between societies) and vertical (between societies and global political elites) communication of the fundamental values of the global social contract.
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Coin-Longeray, Sandrine. "The Lexicon of Wealth in Hellenistic Poetry: Between Continuity and Recomposition Τὸ Ἄφενος, and Ἀφνειός, η, ον." In GLOCAL Conference on Mediterranean and European Linguistic Anthropology Linguistic Anthropology 2022. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/comela22.11-2.

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In my book Poésie de la richesse et de la pauvreté. Étude du vocabulaire de la richesse et de la pauvreté dans la poésie grecque antique, d'Homère à Aristophane : ἄφενος, ὄλβος, πλοῦτος, πενία, πτωχός (Publications de l’université de Saint-Étienne, 2014), the study in particular of the theme of wealth showed how closely its stylistic uses are connected to the socio-political contexts in which poetic practice is embedded. In the epic, wealth is glorifying for the hero and a marker of social status and quality: If the situation is comparable for the choral lyrics, in a context of sporting victory and tyrannical government, it appears very different in the Athenian theatre, where material prosperity questions inequalities and the democratic process. In Hellenistic poetry, the expression of wealth evolves in a world characterized by the extension of Greek culture, the restriction of political questioning and simultaneously the passage of «public» poetry made for the greatest number of people, and an elitist poetry largely based on a high cultural and literary level. I detail both the continuity (epic imitation with ἄφενος, tragic uses of ὄλβος) and the ruptures (remoteness of the lexical field of wealth for ὄλβος, and complete absence of πλοῦτος).
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Timiri, Sai Chandra Mouli. "Rise and Decline of Languages: A Struggle for Survival." In GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2020. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/cala2020.3-3.

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Shifts in language presence are often predicated on the political and economic power of its users, where power level correlates with the longevity of the language. Further, during language contact, any resistance between the communities may lead to political and social conflict. The dominant language usually prevails, subjugating the weaker speech communities to the point where they adapt in various ways, processes which effect hegemonies. Language contact also motivates bilingualism, which takes effect over years. This paper suggests that, observing colonization through certain Asian countries, and centrally India, phonological influences have become conspicuous. Postcolonial contexts have selected language identities to assert local linguistic and sociocultural identities through specifying phonetic uniqueness. The study notes that economic trends alter this process, as do political factors. The study investigates how the role of English as an official language and lingua franca in India predicates the selection of certain phonetic patterns so as to legitimize identities of language communities. As such, Indian Englishes have developed their own unique varieties of language, through this process.
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McCartney, Patrick. "Sustainably–Speaking Yoga: Comparing Sanskrit in the 2001 and 2011 Indian Censuses." In GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2019. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/cala2019.3-5.

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Sanskrit is considered by many devout Hindus and global consumers of yoga alike to be an inspirational, divine, ‘language of the gods’. For 2000 years, at least, this middle Indo-Aryan language has endured in a post-vernacular state, due, principally, to its symbolic capital as a liturgical language. This presentation focuses on my almost decade-long research into the theo-political implications of reviving Sanskrit, and includes an explication of data derived from fieldwork in ‘Sanskrit-speaking’ communities in India, as well as analyses of the language sections of the 2011 census; these were only released in July 2018. While the census data is unreliable, for many reasons, but due mainly to the fact that the results are self reported, the towns, villages, and districts most enamored by Sanskrit will be shown. The hegemony of the Brahminical orthodoxy quite often obfuscates the structural inequalities inherent in the hierarchical varṇa-jātī system of Hinduism. While the Indian constitution provides the opportunity for groups to speak, read/write, and to teach the language of their choice, even though Sanskrit is afforded status as a scheduled (i.e. recognised language that is offered various state-sponsored benefits) language, the imposition of Sanskrit learning on groups historically excluded from access to the Sanskrit episteme urges us to consider how the issue of linguistic human rights and glottophagy impact on less prestigious and unscheduled languages within India’s complex linguistic ecological area where the state imposes Sanskrit learning. The politics of representation are complicated by the intimate relationship between consumers of global yoga and Hindu supremacy. Global yogis become ensconced in a quite often ahistorical, Sanskrit-inspired thought-world. Through appeals to purity, tradition, affect, and authority, the unique way in which the Indian state reconfigures the logic of neoliberalism is to promote cultural ideals, like Sanskrit and yoga, as two pillars that can possibly create a better world via a moral and cultural renaissance. However, at the core of this political theology is the necessity to speak a ‘pure’ form of Sanskrit. Yet, the Sanskrit spoken today, even with its high and low registers, is, ultimately, various forms of hybrids influenced by the substratum first languages of the speakers. This leads us to appreciate that the socio-political components of reviving Sanskrit are certainly much more complicated than simply getting people to speak, for instance, a Sanskritised register of Hindi.
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Monakhova, Elena, and Elena Yurieva. "Term-Phraseological Units in Professionally Oriented Texts: Semantic and Structural Peculiarities (On the Material of LSP Insurance)." In GLOCAL Conference on Mediterranean and European Linguistic Anthropology Linguistic Anthropology 2022. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/comela22.4-5.

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Political and social transformations have led to changes in lexical systems of national languages, which respond vividly to the emergent needs of society. The loss by special lexical units (terms) of their terminological exclusiveness, and their transition into the sphere of general use, indicates human involvement in economic, political, social, and other spheres, and the human dependence on current processes. Owing to a constant and continuous exchange between language for general purposes and language for specific purposes, and one which is bidirectional, the transition of word combinations and phraseological units into the sphere of special use has culminated in a process of determinism. Here, terminological units, for instance, LSP units, have begun to become widely used in language for general purposes. The active penetration of phraseology into the professional sphere of communication has encouraged linguists to conduct respective work in this field. One such aspect of phraseological unit study is their functioning in professional spheres, whereby scientists widely consider and discuss the problem of origin and use of term-phraseological units. Considering the complex nature of phraseological phrases and the fact that, initially, these units belong to general literary language, these units have been labelled term-phraseological units, as they are used in a terminological context, and thus form a second, terminological meaning. Such a phenomenon emerges from the generality of laws, and the functioning of terminological and commonly used vocabulary, yet also by the desire to identify word-forming features of terminology. Therefore, we see a need to discuss the theoretical underpinnings of semantic processes that underlie the formation of terminological meaning in phraseological units, the identification of semantic-nominative features of phraseological terms, and their differences to phraseological units of language for general purposes. The paper focuses on the complexity of the mutual penetration and influence of terminological and phraseological systems of the English language. The paper reveals the current patterns in viewing language units across various fields of knowledge, and evidences the fact that insurance terms are gaining higher social significance, more so as a greater number of people are involving themselves in this field of activity.
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Tosel, Natascia. "THE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY AS UTOPIA IN DELEUZE AND GUATTARI." In SGEM 2014 Scientific SubConference on ANTHROPOLOGY, ARCHAEOLOGY, HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY. Stef92 Technology, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.5593/sgemsocial2014/b31/s11.112.

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Tangit, Trixie M. "Conceptualizing the Language and Cultural Ideologies of the Kadazandusun in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo." In GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2022. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/cala2022.5-1.

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The Kadazandusun ethnic grouping in Sabah, Malaysia, a political network of at least 40 cultural groups with Bornean roots and animistic traditions, continues to grapple with identity issues and threats of internal splitting. While group leaders maintain that their respective group identities and languages are in contradistinction, they urge members to remain united under the Bornean Indigeneity symbol found in Kadazandusun, and to contest homogenisation under the Malayanising state. Yet, the decision to coin the term ‘Kadazandusun’ from two previously used ethnic categories in census, Kadazan and Dusun, continues to plague them. There is also opposition to the standard Kadazandusun language, which was created and has been taught in public schools since the late 1990s. As the identity politics of the Kadazandusun threatens its continued implementation, the entwining and entangled relationship between language and cultural ideas for the Kadazandusuns need to be properly unpacked and studied, if we are to truly understand what it means to be Kadazandusun today.
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Roy, Sylvie. "Politics of French in Canada: Reminiscence of Past European History with a New Twist." In GLOCAL Conference on Mediterranean and European Linguistic Anthropology Linguistic Anthropology 2022. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/comela22.6-2.

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Languages in Canada, especially French, continue to reflect the history and power domination of its European origins. French is one of the official languages of Canada, but is also a minority language for some of its communities outside of the province of Québec, which is situated in Eastern Canada. It is protected by strong ideological and political influence, and by law. In this paper, I would like to reflect on how historical, cultural, and social aspects of French are reproduced and also on how transnational fluidity and multilingual practices are deconstructing or unbounding the idea of how French is seen in one Canadian province: Alberta. This Western Province has a strong conservative base and still has issue with French being an official language, a reminiscence of the past. Drawing on my work (Roy 2020), I take a sociolinguistic for change perspective, where historical and social understandings allow for critical view of ideologies and social change. I also examine and investigate social processes (e.g., social categorization, marginalization, etc.), and how ideologies can impact as well as impede processes of social identity construction and socialization into language pedagogies. In addition, I employ Pennycook and Makoni’s (2020) idea that, as researchers, we will self-reflect and be open to adopt a dialectic and multiple perspectives on the data collected. My data arises from longitudinal and sociolinguistic ethnographic studies in Alberta over a period of 15 years. Here, I interviewed participants (students, parents, administrators, teachers) in schools, particularly French immersion schools, as well as outside schools, in order to locate discourses related to French, where those discourses come from, and the long-term effects of those discourses, particularly for those learning French. I also include new data collected with multilingual students learning French. By looking at new discourses from multilingual youth learning French, and by observing their repertoires, I can demonstrate how the ‘old’ can be unbounded by youth’s everyday practices.
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Reports on the topic "Political anthropology"

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Tyson, Paul. Sovereignty and Biosecurity: Can we prevent ius from disappearing into dominium? Mέta | Centre for Postcapitalist Civilisation, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.55405/mwp3en.

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Drawing on Milbank and Agamben, a politico-juridical anthropology matrix can be drawn describing the relations between ius and bios (justice and political life) on the one hand and dominium and zoe (private power and ‘bare life’) on the other hand. Mapping movements in the basic configurations of this matrix over the long sweep of Western cultural history enable us to see where we are currently situated in relation to the nexus between politico-juridical authority (sovereignty) and the emergency use of executive State powers in the context of biosecurity. The argument presented is that pre-19th century understandings of ius and bios presupposed transcendent categories of Justice and the Common Good that were not naturalistically defined. The very recent idea of a purely naturalistic naturalism has made distinctions between bios and zoe un-locatable and civic ius is now disappearing into a strangely ‘private’ total power (dominium) over the bodies of citizens, as exercised by the State. The very meaning of politico-juridical authority and the sovereignty of the State is undergoing radical change when viewed from a long perspective. This paper suggests that the ancient distinction between power and authority is becoming meaningless, and that this loss erodes the ideas of justice and political life in the Western tradition. Early modern capitalism still retained at least the theory of a Providential moral order, but since the late 19th century, morality has become fully naturalized and secularized, such that what moral categories Classical economics had have been radically instrumentalized since. In the postcapitalist neoliberal world order, no high horizon of just power –no spiritual conception of sovereignty– remains. The paper argues that the reduction of authority to power, which flows from the absence of any traditional conception of sovereignty, is happening with particular ease in Australia, and that in Australia it is only the Indigenous attempt to have their prior sovereignty –as a spiritual reality– recognized that is pushing back against the collapse of political authority into mere executive power.
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Gordon, Eleanor, and Briony Jones. Building Success in Development and Peacebuilding by Caring for Carers: A Guide to Research, Policy and Practice to Ensure Effective, Inclusive and Responsive Interventions. University of Warwick Press, April 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31273/978-1-911675-00-6.

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The experiences and marginalisation of international organisation employees with caring responsibilities has a direct negative impact on the type of security and justice being built in conflict-affected environments. This is in large part because international organisations fail to respond to the needs of those with caring responsibilities, which leads to their early departure from the field, and negatively affects their work while in post. In this toolkit we describe this problem, the exacerbating factors, and challenges to overcoming it. We offer a theory of change demonstrating how caring for carers can both improve the working conditions of employees of international organisations as well as the effectiveness, inclusivity and responsiveness of peace and justice interventions. This is important because it raises awareness among employers in the sector of the severity of the problem and its consequences. We also offer a guide for employers for how to take the caring responsibilities of their employees into account when developing human resource policies and practices, designing working conditions and planning interventions. Finally, we underscore the importance of conducting research on the gendered impacts of the marginalisation of employees with caring responsibilities, not least because of the breadth and depth of resultant individual, organisational and sectoral harms. In this regard, we also draw attention to the way in which gender stereotypes and gender biases not only inform and undermine peacebuilding efforts, but also permeate research in this field. Our toolkit is aimed at international organisation employees, employers and human resources personnel, as well as students and scholars of peacebuilding and international development. We see these communities of knowledge and action as overlapping, with insights to be brought to bear as well as challenges to be overcome in this area. The content of the toolkit is equally relevant across these knowledge communities as well as between different specialisms and disciplines. Peacebuilding and development draw in experts from economics, politics, anthropology, sociology and law, to name but a few. The authors of this toolkit have come together from gender studies, political science, and development studies to develop a theory of change informed by interdisciplinary insights. We hope, therefore, that this toolkit will be useful to an inclusive and interdisciplinary set of knowledge communities. Our core argument - that caring for carers benefits the individual, the sectors, and the intended beneficiaries of interventions - is relevant for students, researchers, policy makers and practitioners alike.
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