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  • THE EFFICACY OF INTIMACY AND BELIEF IN WORLDMAKING PRACTICES
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    THE EFFICACY OF INTIMACY AND BELIEF IN WORLDMAKING PRACTICES
    MOHAN, URMILA
    This book explores ‘efficacious intimacy’ as an embodied concept of worldmaking, and a framework for studying belief practices in religious and political domains. The study of how beliefs make and manifest power through their sociality and materiality can reveal who, or what, is considered effective in a particular socio-cultural context. The chapters feature case studies drawn...

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  • MASKING IN PANDEMIC U.S.
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    MASKING IN PANDEMIC U.S.
    URMILA MOHAN
    This anthropological study explores the beliefs and practices that emerged around masking in the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic. Americans responded to this illness as unique subjects navigating the flux of social and corporeal boundaries, supporting certain beliefs and acting to shape them as compelling realities. Debates over health and safety mandates indicated that respo...

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  • THE MATERIAL SUBJECT
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    THE MATERIAL SUBJECT
    LAURENCE DOUNY / URMILA MOHAN
    The Material Subject emphasises how bodily and material cultures combine to make and transform subjects dynamically. The book is based on the French Matière à Penser (MaP) school of thought, which draws upon the ideas of Mauss, Schilder, Foucault and Bourdieu, among others, to enhance the anthropological study of embodiment, practices, techniques, materiality and power. Through...

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