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Flashcard 1
Q: What Wounds Enable
A: Examines how trauma—physical and emotional—shapes identity and political resistance in Black urban communities impacted by structural violence.

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Q: Crip Camp
A: A documentary on a 1970s summer camp that fueled the disability rights movement; shows how shared experience and language forge political and cultural identity.

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Q: Shadows & Illuminations
A: Explores how mental illness is understood and treated in Indonesia, offering a culturally grounded perspective on schizophrenia.

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Q: “Voices that are More Benign” (Luhrmann & Padmavati)
A: Highlights how auditory hallucinations are experienced differently across cultures, shaped by local beliefs and social frameworks.

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Q: Living Language (Laura Ahearn)
A: Introduces linguistic anthropology, showing how language shapes culture, power, and identity beyond mere communication.

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Q: Star Trek: Darmok
A: Depicts linguistic relativity through metaphor-based alien communication, illustrating cultural assumptions in language use.

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Q: High Voltage
A: Investigates how electricity infrastructure in rural India reshapes cultural, ethical, and political life.

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Q: Speaking is Believing (Susan Harding)
A: Analyzes how evangelical Christian language and storytelling convert outsiders and reproduce social belief systems.

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Q: Stalking with Stories (Keith Basso)
A: Examines Western Apache storytelling as a method of moral teaching and embedding cultural memory in place and language.

Flashcard 10
Q: Lose Your Mother (Saidiya Hartman)
A: A blend of memoir and historical critique that explores the legacy of slavery, diasporic identity, and memory.

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Q: White Man Say They Are African (Kamari Clarke)
A: Investigates how Yoruba diasporic communities construct and contest authenticity and identity in transnational contexts.

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Q: Lake of Betrayal
A: Chronicles the displacement of the Seneca Nation by the Kinzua Dam, focusing on indigenous sovereignty and environmental justice.

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Q: Self-Devouring Growth (Julie Livingston)
A: Critiques the ideology of endless economic growth, using Botswana as a case to show social and environmental consequences.

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Q: Clash of Civilizations over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio (Amara Lakhous)
A: A satirical novel depicting migration, racism, and identity in urban Europe through multiple perspectives.