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Historas (co) movedoras: Historia Oral e estudos de migrac?o
This article intends to review the contribution which oral history has made to migration studies over the last quarter century, mainly between Britain and Australia. The title "moving stories" in an useful pun about the oral history of migration because is centered on the physical experience of movement between places, as well as is deeply moving for the narrator and for his or her audience
Liberal Government and the Practical History of Anthropology
This paper explores the implications of Foucault's perspective of liberal government for approaches to the practical history of anthropology. It also draws on assemblage theory to consider the changing relations between field, museum and university in relation to a range of early twentieth-century anthropological practices. These focus mainly on the development of the Boasian paradigm in the USA during the inter-war years and on the anthropological practices clustered around the Musée de l'Homme in the 1930s. Key steps in the argument focus on the role of what Foucault called "transactional realities" in mediating the practical applications of anthropology in colonial contexts and in "anthropology at home" projects. Special consideration is also given to the increasingly archival properties of anthropological collections in the early twentieth century and the consequences of this for anthropology's relations to practices of governing