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Affect, Embodiment and Sense Perception

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Homepage_slug_rhizome_art Editorial Introduction: Recent trends in social theory have placed great importance on “affect” for both analytic and political reasons, but the term is somewhat vague and ambiguous. For example, it has been described as felt bodily intensity that is: different from emotion and language; pre-social, but not asocial; material—or somehow pertaining to matter; dynamic and e... More...

Somatic Modes of Attention

The Body of One Color: Indian Wrestling, the Indian State, and Utopian Somatics

Cancer Butch

An Acoustic Register, Tenacious Images, and Congolese Scenes of Rape and Repetition

Fingeryeyes: Impressions of Cup Corals

Issue 28.2, May 2013

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Homepage_slug_cuan_v28_i2_cover-1 Cultural Anthropology's May Issue features articles by Richard Handler, Kevin Lewis O'Neill, and Susan Cook and Rebecca Hardin, as well as a cluster of articles on "Cityscapes." Cityscapes authors include Christina Schwenkel, Daniella Gandolfo, Andrew Alan Johnson, Michael Fisch, and Erik Harms. For teaching material, including additional images, author interviews and bios, and discussion ques... More...

Disciplinary Adaptation and Undergraduate Desire: Anthropology and Global Development Studies in the Liberal Arts Curriculum

Left Behind: Security, Salvation, and the Subject of Prevention

Performing Royalty in Contemporary Africa

Post/Socialist Affect: Ruination and Reconstruction of the Nation in Urban Vietnam

Formless: A Day at Lima’s Office of Formalization by Daniella Gandolfo

Progress and its Ruins: Ghosts, Migrants, and the Uncanny in Thailand

Tokyo's Commuter Train Suicides and the Society of Emergence

Eviction Time in the New Saigon: Temporalities of Displacement in the Rubble of Development