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Description:: This dissertation explores new gendered subjectivities that emerge as women negotiate tensions between "personal" and Russian neo-traditionalist national agendas. It is based on an ethnographic …
Year:: 2010
Contributor:: Mazzarino, Andrea C (creator); Warren, Kay (Director); Kertzer, David (Reader); Brown, Keith (Reader); Caldwell, Melissa (Reader); Brown University. Anthropology (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Gender; Sex; Demography; Subjectivity; Urban anthropology; Russia
Collection:: Anthropology; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: Rio de Janeiro's primary waste disposal site is not only the largest garbage dump in Latin America, but also the workplace of over 2,000 people …
Year:: 2011
Contributor:: Millar, Kathleen Marie (creator); Gutmann, Matthew (Director); Lutz, Catherine (Director); Biehl, Jo?o (Reader); Townsend, Nicholas (Reader); Warren, Kay (Reader); Brown University. Anthropology (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Work and labor; urban poverty; recycling; Subjectivity; Brazil
Collection:: Anthropology; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: This senior thesis project explores the complicated intersection of food and culture, diabetes, biopower, and identity. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in an endocrinology clinic …
Year:: 2024
Contributor:: Sarig, Ya'el (creator); Smith, Daniel (thesis advisor); Glasser, Irene (reader); Brown University. Anthropology (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: gender; Diabetes; Food habits; Eating disorders; Food; Medicalization; Culture; Biopolitics; performativity; Subjectivity
Collection:: Anthropology; Theses and Dissertations

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