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“Clean data—well-collected raw numbers—contain within them thousands of stories,” Crystal […] Africa global health health medical anthropology Quantitative The Social Life of Data
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The sex offender has been labeled the monster of our […] medical anthropology prisons psychological anthropology sexuality Sex Offenses and the Imaginaries of Punitive Reason
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