Notes towards an Anthropology of Political Revolutions

Notes towards an Anthropology of Political Revolutions

While resistance and rebellion have remained core themes in anthropology at least since the 1960s, anthropologists have paid much less attention to the study of political revolutions as real historical events. Yet there are compelling real-world reasons why they should orient their analytical apparatus and A N T H R O P O L O G Y O F P O L I T I C A L R E V O L U T I O N S 705

Towards an Anthropology of Deliberation

This article explores the assemblage of voting: electoral systems, Direct Recording Electronic voting machines (DREs), ballots and ballot booths, and the central role of secrecy. Its aim is to argue that the contemporary political subjectivity of deliberation is intimately tied up with this assemblage. Based on ethnographic research, this article shows how controversies around DREs can reveal t...

Why Are Contemporary Political Revolutions Leaderless? An Agent-Based Explanation

One of the main aspects of the recent wave of revolutions in the so-called Arab Spring is the absence of a strong political leadership, substituted by an intensive use of social network technologies as a mean to obtain mass mobilizations. This evidence is in sharp contrast with the previous historical experience: in fact, charismatic gures, like Robespierre, Lenin, Mao and Khomeini, have shaped...

faculty of psychology and social sciences group of anthropology master thesis in major of anthropology

چکیده پایان نامه (شامل خلاصه، اهداف، روش های اجرا و نتایج به دست آمده): کار جمع آوری گو یش های محلی در سال های اخیر شتاب امیدوار کننده ای به خود گرفته است. شاید از بارزترین اهداف جمع آوری گویش های مختلف، ثبت و ضبط آن، جلوگیری از نابودی و مهمتر از همه حل مشکلات دستوری زبان رسمی باشد. دقت در فرآیند های زبانی گویش های محلی نوع ارتباط مردم نواحی مختلف با پیرامون نشان را به ما نشان خواهد داد. از س...

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