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Anthropology of the Mediterranean
"The Mediterranean has been a controversial topic and area of study in anthropology and therein lies much of its value for the discipline. The notion of an anthropology of the Mediterranean emerged in the 1950s and was strongly..." - by Laia Soto Bermant and Sarah Green
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Police and Policing
"Policing, perhaps more than any modern institution, has become the subject of intense political contestation. Police killings have sparked clashes in the public sphere and in the streets over the role of policing in society in diverse places..." – By Paul T. Clarke and Julia Hornberger
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In October 2023, 75 full new articles, 10 revised, 0 summary articles, spread across 21 subjects have been published on the Oxford Research Encyclopedias platform.
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