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Everyday economic survival in Myanmar
Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung
Reforms in Myanmar (formerly Burma) have eased restrictions on citizens' political activities. Yet for most Burmese, Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung shows, eking out a living from day to day leaves little time for civic engagement.
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Spirit children
Illness, poverty, and infanticide in Northern Ghana
Aaron R. Denham
Some babies and toddlers in parts of West Africa are considered spirit children - non-humans sent from the forest to cause misfortune and destroy the family. Aaron Denham offers a nuanced ethnographic study of this phenomenon in Northern Ghana that …
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Claiming civic virtue
Gendered network memory in the Mara Region, Tanzania
Jan Bender Shetler
Among communities in the Mara region of Tanzania, it is considered men's responsibility to maintain "history." But when Jan Bender Shetler's questions turned to specific familial connections within the village, she discovered her male informants had…
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