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Islands of Work at the Rough Edge of the World; and: Archiving Culture and Nature: Harlan I. Smith’s Ethnographic Record of the Pacific Slope

Two book-length studies will be completed.

Placeholder image Dianne Newell

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“I’m not a jukebox where you push a button and then I sing”: Negotiating Medicine Access in Physician–Patient Encounters

Liu, Rui, Susanne M Lundin, Talieh Mirsalehi and Margareta Troein. 2022. “I’m not a jukebox where you push a button and then I sing”: Negoti...

Susanne Lundin Susanne Lundin

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Contaminations and Ethnographic Fictions

Hemer, Oscar. 2020. Contaminations and Ethnographic Fictions. Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-349...

Oscar Hemer Oscar Hemer

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Local media: Western media in a context of orality in Africa

This book project in four parts intends to study how people, coming from a centuries-old orality, act in a context of copyright introduced by colonial and postcolonial authority.

Mamadou Diawara Mamadou Diawara
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