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American Ethnologist

VOLUME 43 | ISSUE 3 | AUGUST 2016

On the cover: A steamroller crushes thousands of pirated CDs and DVDs in Rio de Janeiro on June 20, 2005. Some 140,000 discs were destroyed in the city government’s antipiracy drive, according to an official. (Reuters/Bruno Domingos SM/KS)

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Volume 43, Issue 3 August 2016
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RESEARCH ARTICLES

K. Drybread, Documents of indiscipline and indifference: The violence of bureaucracy in a Brazilian juvenile prison

Alexander Dent, Policing the unstable materialities of digital‐media piracy in Brazil

João Biehl, The postneoliberal fabulation of power: On statecraft, precarious infrastructures, and public mobilization in Brazil

Ieva Jusionyte, Crimecraft: Journalists, police, and news publics in an Argentine town

Grant Arndt, Settler agnosia in the field: Indigenous action, functional ignorance, and the origins of ethnographic entrapment

Eli Thorkelson, Precarity outside: The political unconscious of French academic labor

Alice Elliot, The makeup of destiny: Predestination and the labor of hope in a Moroccan emigrant town

Patty A. Gray, Memory, body, and the online researcher: Following Russian street demonstrations via social media

David Valentine, Atmosphere: Context, detachment, and the view from above Earth

Christopher Morris, Royal pharmaceuticals: Bioprospecting, rights, and traditional authority in South Africa

Andrea A. Flores, Forms of exclusion: Undocumented students navigating financial aid and inclusion in the United States

ETHNOGRAPHY AT ITS EDGES

Lesley Gill, Compulsory Zionism, free speech, and anthropology

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