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issue: March–April 2024 Deception

This issue explores the anatomy of deception and dissects the truths and untruths that form our understanding of reality. What lies do people tell themselves? What lies do they tell others? Are these depictions conscious or subconscious, harmful or benign, or even helpful in certain contexts? Are they structured as conspiracies, creating alternate versions of reality?

ARTICLES IN THE “DECEPTION” ISSUE

A Reliable Narrator

Erin Routon

Culture

Is There Something Fishy about the Polygraph?

Hugh Gusterson

Culture

Can You Tell, Just By Looking?

Ariana Gunderson

Culture

Deception as Investment: How to Make Digital Ponzi Schemes in China

Yichen Rao

Culture

Based on the Incredible True Story: Colonial Minds, Late Capitalist Hearts, and Deception in Hollywood 

Karin Friederic

Culture

Vazaha Always Want to Know, But We Talk Like Dreams

Cory-Alice André-Johnson

Culture

Familiar Danger: Human-Animal Conflict and the Expectation of Deception in Wayanad, Kerala

Susan Haris

Culture

A Conspiracy of Democratic Repair

Nomaan Hasan

Culture

The Semi-Conductor Radio Made in Shanghai

Skylar Hou

Culture

Airlock: Deception and the Circulation of Beer in Urban Zimbabwe

Jeremy Jones

Culture

Transitory Facades: Architectures of the Middle-Somewhere

Neelakantan Keshavan, Seema Krishnakumar, Rajkumar Bejjanki & more…

Culture

On Police, Criminals, and the Anthropological Games They Play

David Sausdal

Culture

The Deceptive Echoes of Meta

Maryam Riasat

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