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Treasuring Indonesian Culture; From Local Practice to State Political Ritual

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President Jokowi Widodo, more commonly known as ”Jokowi,” and Vice President Jusuf Kalla surprised the public when attending Indonesia’s 2017 State of the Union Address (SOTU) by wearing traditional attire. The 2017 Jakarta election left a discernible impact on President Jokowi’s political strategies for managing diversity.

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Latin American Solidarity in Changing Times  

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Throughout the Cold War, campaigns of discreditation against capitalist alternatives flourished in the United States, and identity-based and human-rights-focused campaigns became more prominent. Joseph Feldman is the Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology section editor. What is solidarity?

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Gaza’s Deaf Community in the Face of Genocide

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In a recent commentary for the Journal for the Anthropology of North America , anthropologists Michele Friedner and Christine Sargent describe a conference in December 2023 in Amman, Jordan, that Friedner attended with journalists reporting on disability-related topics in the Middle East. It is also a cause of disability.

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