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Due Diligence and "Reasonable Man," Offshore

Bill Maurer

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Flexible Citizenship in Dubai: Neoliberal Subjectivity in the Emerging 'City-Corporation'

Ahmed Kanna

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Myriad factors—including but hardly limited to Laura Nader’s landmark 1969 essay “Up the Anthropologist” and the emergence of science studies as a robust field of inquiry--contribute to contemporary anthropologists’ interest in experts, expertise and expert communities.  A growing interest in how regimes of legal, medical and other forms of professional knowledge and practice were deployed and contested in both colonial and post-colonial settings also turned anthropologists’ attention to experts and expertise.  Not only has Cultural Anthropology supported the turn to expertise and

Cultural Anthropology has made ethnographic writing a central topic of concern. See, for example Elizabeth Enslin's "Beyond Writing: Feminist Practice and the Limitations of Ethnography" (1994) or David Samuels' "'These Are the Stories That the Dogs Tell': Discourses of Identity and Difference in Ethnography and Science Fiction" (1996). The figure of the shaman has also received ethnographic attention. See, Jean Jackson's "Preserving Indian Culture: Shaman Schools and Ethno-Education in the Vaupes, Colombia" (1995).

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Physical Training, Ethical Discipline, and Creative Violence: Zones of Self-Mastery in the Hindu Nationalist Movement
Arafaat A. Valiani
Cultural Anthropology Feb. 2010, Vol. 25, No. 1: 73-99
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From the Enemy's Point of View: Violence, Empathy, and the Ethnography of Fakes
Nils Bubandt
Cultural Anthropology Aug. 2009, Vol. 24, No. 3: 553-588
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Stories and Cosmogonies: Imagining Creativity Beyond "Nature" and "Culture"
Stuart McLean
Cultural Anthropology May 2009, Vol. 24, No. 2: 213-245
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THE ELEGIAC ADDICT: History, Chronicity, and the Melancholic Subject
Angela Garcia
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 2008, Vol. 23, No. 4: 718-746
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INCITEMENTS TO DISCOURSE: Illicit Drugs, Harm Reduction, and the Production of Ethnographic Subjects
Nancy D. Campbell
Susan J. Shaw
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 2008, Vol. 23, No. 4: 688-717
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The Coolie
Valentine E Daniel
Cultural Anthropology May 2008, Vol. 23, No. 2: 254-278.
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The End(s) of Ethnography: Social/Cultural Anthropology's Signature Form of Producing Knowledge in Transition
George Marcus
Cultural Anthropology Feb. 2008, Vol. 23, No. 1: 1-14
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Four Genealogies for a Recombinant Anthropology of Science and Technology
Michael M.J. Fischer
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 2007, Vol. 22, No. 4: 539-615.
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Versions of the Dead: Kalunga, Cuban-Kongo Materiality, and Ethnography
Todd Ramon Ochoa
Cultural Anthropology Nov 2007, Vol. 22, No. 4: 473-500.
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