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Liberty and moral ambivalence: Postsocialist transitions, refugee hosting, and bodily comportment in the Republic of Guinea
dc.contributor.authorMcgovern, Mikeen_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-05-04T20:36:17Z
dc.date.available2016-07-05T17:27:59Zen
dc.date.issued2015-05en_US
dc.identifier.citationMcgovern, Mike (2015). "Liberty and moral ambivalence: Postsocialist transitions, refugee hosting, and bodily comportment in the Republic of Guinea." American Ethnologist 42(2): 247-261.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0094-0496en_US
dc.identifier.issn1548-1425en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/111138
dc.description.abstractGuinean hosts viewed Liberian refugees with the same ambivalence and fascination that many held for their own children, who were embracing the consumerist ethos of Guinea's postsocialist 1990s. Loma‐speaking farmers’ categories for evaluating historical change and refugee comportment grew out of metaphors of embodied agency and morality. These categories challenge some aspects of both Guinean elites’ and contemporary anthropologists’ understandings of the meaning of post–Cold War social change. [subaltern historiography, embodiment, Guinea, West Africa, fast capitalism, postsocialism]en_US
dc.publisherWiley Periodicals, Inc.en_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Chicago Pressen_US
dc.titleLiberty and moral ambivalence: Postsocialist transitions, refugee hosting, and bodily comportment in the Republic of Guineaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelAnthropology and Archaeologyen_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelSocial Sciencesen_US
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Revieweden_US
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/111138/1/amet12128.pdf
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/amet.12128en_US
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