Violent contexts are not “normal” research settings; they involve abuses, power disparities, and collective histories of violence that researchers should be alert to. Researchers unreflexive about these risk causing harm in the form objectifying people context, normalizing violence, or silencing voices. Political reflexivity can equip to better identify, understand mitigate harms, where possibl...

The article is devoted to certain fundamental and discussed threads defined as dilemmas of political anthropology. Starting from specific rudimentary descriptions human nature, the natural state or man, initiated by thinkers described Barnard “precursors anthropology,” well referring problems contemporary philosophy, papers aims bring closer issues concerning fall his “regeneration,” “mask regi...