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Based on 17 months of ethnographic field work on the current exhumation of mass graves from the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and subsequent Francisco Franco dictatorship (1939-1975), the dissertation examines the practice of exhuming as a death ritual animated by emotions. A la…

The restoration of the southern marshes became one of the most celebrated projects of the post-2003 Iraq reconstruction era. This dissertation examines how during this period environmentalism, as an altruistic movement, enabled foreign investors to both rationalize and mystify p…

This study uses approaches from science studies and the sociology of culture to examine discourses on science in the 19th century Ottoman Empire. Analyzing official documents, literature, textbooks, and the press, it reconstructs the often heated Ottoman debates regarding scienc…