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Fence Me In Current Anthropology (IF 3.226) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 David Flood
Current Anthropology, Ahead of Print.
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Racial Optics of Escalation Current Anthropology (IF 3.226) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Sonia N. Das, Hyemin Lee
Current Anthropology, Ahead of Print.
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Dialogues: decolonizing anthropology in/with Japan Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Sachiko Kubota, Shuhei Kimura, mai ishihara, Sara Park, Byung‐Ho Chung, Motoji Matsuda, Rima Higa, Tsuyoshi Kitamura, Soumhya Venkatesan, Yoshinobu Ota, Chip Colwell
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Columbia plateau socio-political organization as seen through an anarchist framework: Conflict as resistence to centralization Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2024-05-04 James W. Brown, Steve Hackenberger
The Columbia-Fraser Plateau of Northwestern North America was inhabited by complex hunter-gatherer populations throughout the Late Holocene. Archaeological studies have typically characterized these peoples as having corporate households and wealth inequality. Ethnographic accounts emphasize the societies of this region as egalitarian communities and pacifist. In this paper we compare radiocarbon dates
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Customary ‘child selling’ and the ‘untouched mother’ in Western Odisha, India: understanding the legitimatization of caste hierarchy Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Minaketan Bag, Kishor K. Podh
The place of mothers is respected in all societies irrespective of their social, cultural, and geographical differences. The mother‐child relationship is considered one of the most sacred in the world. This article explores the age‐old customary ‘child selling’ prevalent in Western Odisha, a voluntary and non‐remunerative practice of childcare during infancy to save children from illness and Yama,
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Zimmer‐Tamakoshi, Laura (ed.). First fieldwork: Pacific anthropology 1960‐1985. x, 251 pp., map, illus., bibliogrs. Honolulu: Univ. of Hawai‘i Press, 2021. £30.95 (paper) Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Andrew J. Strathern, Pamela J. Stewart (Strathern)
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Population, culture history, and the dynamics of change in European prehistory★ Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Stephen Shennan
Despite many attacks on its shortcomings, culture history has remained in practice the dominant framework for describing and interpreting European prehistory. It has gained even more salience in recent years because the new information coming from ancient DNA about the genetic ancestry of individuals in prehistory seems to show that this correlates closely with the cultural affiliation of the archaeological
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Wool they, won’t they: Zooarchaeological perspectives on the political and subsistence economies of wool in northern Mesopotamia Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Max D. Price, Jesse Wolfhagen
An important facet in the study of complex societies involves documenting how the extraction of resources to support political structures (the political economy) impacted the subsistence economy of everyday life. Caprine production was a central feature of ancient Mesopotamian subsistence, while ancient texts reveal that wool was centrally important to the region’s political economies. It has long
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The grammar of a hunger strike: nonviolence and biopolitics in Manipur, India Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Sayantan Saha Roy
What are the potentialities and limits of nonviolence as a method of resistance against modern biopolitics? This article offers an ethnographic account of Irom Sharmila's sixteen‐year‐long hunger strike against the continued state of emergency in the Indian state of Manipur. It interrogates how she envisioned the protest, the objectives that she set, and how her protest came to an end. This article
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Well‐being in the context of Indigenous heritage management: A Hach Winik perspective from Metzabok, Chiapas, Mexico Economic Anthropology (IF 1.236) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Christopher Hernandez, Armando Valenzuela Gómez
In this article, we examine what local well‐being means in the contexts of collaborative heritage management and national development in Mexico. Driven by the request of Lacandon Mayas (including the second author) who live in Puerto Bello Metzabok, Chiapas, Mexico, in 2018, we engaged in archeological consolidation and heritage management to promote local tourism and sustainable economic development
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Juries and Prosecutors in an Era of Mass Incarceration Current Anthropology (IF 3.226) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Richard Ashby Wilson
Current Anthropology, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 391-392, April 2024.
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The Pleasures of Making Current Anthropology (IF 3.226) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 David Howes
Current Anthropology, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 390-391, April 2024.
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Front Matter Current Anthropology (IF 3.226) Pub Date : 2024-04-24
Current Anthropology, Volume 65, Issue 2, April 2024.
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Front Cover Current Anthropology (IF 3.226) Pub Date : 2024-04-24
Current Anthropology, Volume 65, Issue 2, April 2024.
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Small work pleasures and two types of well‐being Economic Anthropology (IF 1.236) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Claudia Strauss
Does wage labor contribute to well‐being beyond providing an income? Well‐being can be understood in eudaimonic terms as the happiness derived from a socially valued life or in hedonic terms as the experience of pleasure. The eudaimonic–hedonic divide is replicated in competing progressive visions of the place of work in a good life. Laborist theories stress the centrality of paid work for a meaningful
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Making home alive again after war: Acoli Kaka’s Indigenous land sovereignties in Northern Uganda Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Lara Rosenoff Gauvin
After the war between the Ugandan government and the Lord's Resistance Army (1986‐2006), 90 per cent of the displaced rural population in Northern Uganda returned to small‐scale farming on their ancestral lands and their systems of communal land stewardship. At the time, there was much debate about transitional justice interventions to address war's violence, but in that same period over 85 per cent
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Love burnout: young women, mobile phones, and delayed marriage in Yaoundé, Cameroon Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Ewa Majczak
This article examines how work towards the promise of love marriage comes to be exhausted. It focuses on young urban women living in Yaoundé, Cameroon, trying to ‘catch’ a husband using digital technologies in which photographs figure prominently. Focusing on the visual production of dating profiles, I show how mobile phones place young women at the centre of their own husband‐catching pursuits. Through
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Feral ecologies of the human deep past: multispecies archaeology and palaeo‐synanthropy Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Shumon T. Hussain
This article articulates recent advances in palaeo‐ecology with the goals and ambitions of multispecies archaeology. It centres the synanthropic nexus as a key context for the study of early human‐animal relationships and argues that its evolution yields important yet currently overlooked dynamics shaping the structure of the archaeological record. I first show how the dominant heuristic of wild versus
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Contested values of grogue in Cabo Verde Economic Anthropology (IF 1.236) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Brandon D. Lundy, Nancy Hoalst‐Pullen, Mark W. Patterson, Monica H. Swahn
This article explores grogue, a sugarcane‐based distilled spirit of Cabo Verde, and its multifaceted and contested valuations in culture, livelihoods, and well‐being. Despite Cabo Verde's challenging climate, sugarcane agriculture remains significant primarily due to the importance placed on the local production of grogue. The study described in this article investigates how grogue is perceived and
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Productive leisure on the farm American Ethnologist (IF 1.906) Pub Date : 2024-04-20 Camille Frazier
In the context of deepening national concern about the future of farming in India, professionals in Bengaluru's (Bangalore's) booming information technology and related industries are purchasing agricultural land at the edges of the city and farming in their free time. These “techie farmers” invest their money and time in cultivation either (1) to generate idealized agrarian traditions and aesthetics
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Economy of production: A theory of household labor organization and material reuse Economic Anthropology (IF 1.236) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Maureen S. Meyers
Household economic studies of preindustrial societies have overlooked one very specific and common material aspect: thrift. This article introduces a theory of economic production for household analysis that focuses on the economic use of materials, space, and labor. This framework is especially integral to understanding emergence of hierarchies. In emerging hierarchies, craft production at the household
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Evaluating well‐being after compulsory resettlement: Livelihoods, standards of living, and well‐being in Manantali, Mali Economic Anthropology (IF 1.236) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Dolores Koenig
Despite efforts to improve outcomes, resettlement projects that aim to improve livelihoods and living standards of the displaced often do not achieve their goals. Could greater attention to the well‐being of the affected improve resettlement outcomes? This article considers standards of living and well‐being among one resettled group, the Bahingkolu of Manantali, Mali, relocated in the mid‐1980s by
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Ulturgasheva, Olga & BarbaraBodenhorn (eds); foreword by Peter Schweitzer; afterword by Michael Bravo. Risky futures: climate, geopolitics and local realities in the uncertain circumpolar North. 234 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2022. £99.00 (cloth) Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 Adriana Petryna
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The moral economy of land markets in the Nicaragua highlands Economic Anthropology (IF 1.236) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 Santiago Ripoll
This article explores how small‐scale farmers' shared moral understandings of land shape both land sales and land rental markets, in the context of the commoditization of agriculture in Nicaragua. The results here presented are based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in a subsistence farming community in the highlands of Nicaragua. This research shows that even in relatively commoditized market economies
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Unuigbe, Ngozi Finette. Traditional ecological knowledge and global pandemics: biodiversity and planetary health beyond COVID‐19. 94 pp., illus., bibliogr. London: Routledge, 2021. £16.99 (e‐book) Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva
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Mol, Annemarie. Eating in theory. 208 pp., illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2021. £21.99 (paper) Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Jillian R. Cavanaugh
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Brumann, Christoph. The best we share: nation, culture and world‐making in the UNESCO World Heritage arena. xii, 303 pp., tables, illus., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2021. £100.00 (cloth) Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Herdis Hølleland
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Konstantinović, Radomir; ed. Branislav Jakovljević; trans. Ljiljana Nikolić & Branislav Jakovljević. The philosophy of parochialism. x, 356 pp., bibliogrs. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 2021. £68.95 (cloth) Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Nigel Rapport
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Dewan, Camelia; foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan. Misreading the Bengal Delta: climate change, development, and livelihoods in coastal Bangladesh. xxvi, 224 pp., maps, tables, illus., bibliogr. Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press, 2021. £22.99 (paper) Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 David Lipset
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Ballestero, Andrea & Brit RossWinthereik (eds). Experimenting with ethnography: a companion to analysis. xi, 301 pp., figs., illus., bibliogrs. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2021. £20.99 (paper) Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan
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Beynon, Huw & RayHudson. The shadow of the mine: coal and the end of industrial Britain. xii, 402 pp., maps, tables, plates, bibliogr. London: Verso, 2021. £20.00 (cloth) Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Chima Michael Anyadike‐Danes
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Micale, Mark S. & HansPols (eds). Traumatic pasts in Asia: history, psychiatry, and trauma from the 1930s to the present. xiv, 345 pp., tables, illus., bibliogrs. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2021. £107.00 (cloth) Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Jeff Kingston
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Escobar, Arturo. Pluriversal politics: the real and the possible. 232 pp., illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2020. £22.99 (paper) Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Juan Javier Rivera Andía
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Pizza, Giovanni. L'antropologia di Gramsci: corpo, natura, mutazione. 184 pp., bibliogr. Rome: Carocci editore, 2020. €19.00 (paper) Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Alice Stefanelli
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Rojas, Felipe, Byron EllsworthHamann & BenjaminAnderson (eds). Otros pasados: ontologías alternativas y el estudio de lo que ha sido. 369 pp., illus., bibliogr. Bogotá: Univ. de los Andes, 2022. COPS $30,000 (paper) Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Robert S. Weiner
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Blaming the house: women's efforts to preserve marriage in a rural Sinhala village Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Tharindi Udalagama
In rural Sri Lanka, marital tension, frequently leading to violence, is an increasing problem. This article explores how the house becomes both the source of problems and a possible solution to them. By examining the way that the social, material, and symbolic dimensions of houses are made to interact, I show how women effect the shaping of social relations and homemaking. Specifically, I focus on
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Unlearning hope: White Christian encounters with grace as a logic of exchange Economic Anthropology (IF 1.236) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Christine Jeske
How do humans develop hope in the face of seemingly irreparable harm against each other? Drawing on interviews and participant observation with 30 BIPOC Christians and 40 White Christians whom they identified as long‐term allies, in this article, I consider how a slim minority of White Christians develop ways of hoping that sustain lasting antiracist engagement. I identify contributing factors to reorientations
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Sanctified suffering and the common good: Translocal health care provisioning in smalltown Senegal Economic Anthropology (IF 1.236) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Benjamin R. Burgen, Meredith G. Marten
Senegal has long relied on local communities to expand health services and improve health outcomes for citizens and is internationally lauded for its effectiveness in promoting good health and facilitating local trust. Here we examine how community health care emerges in Keur Toma, a rural Wolof town in the Senegal River Valley that relies on a global network of labor migrants to fuel its remittance‐based
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Toward an economic anthropology of wisdom Economic Anthropology (IF 1.236) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Kathleen M. Millar
This article examines two values that have long motivated work in economic anthropology: the value of denunciatory critique and the value of thinking otherwise. Through a retrospective analysis of research that I have conducted on consumer debt in Brazil, I offer two different versions of that research based on whether the story is driven by the first value of denunciation or by the second of thinking
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From rebellion to censorship: power, freedom, and silicon values Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Natalie Morningstar
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Uneven Counting Current Anthropology (IF 3.226) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Salman Hussain
Drawn from research conducted with the families of child victims of a terrorist attack (on Army Public School) in Pakistan, this paper examines how these victim families make sense of contingencies of loss, suffering, and victimhood in their struggle for equal compensation and benefits of care and compassion. Compensating lives in warfare has not received attention in the discussion on the social life
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Restoring that which has never been: Hmong millenarianism and the reinvention of tradition Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Jacob R. Hickman
While change and flexibility in ritual practices and traditions have been in some sense constitutive elements of Hmong religion, the religious landscape of the contemporary Hmong diaspora is marked by dramatic changes of an altogether new scale. These include the proliferation of a wide range of competing millenarian movements. Leaders of these movements vie for recognition by casting traditional Hmong
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The one-eyed Elder woman stitches an ornament: Needles, needle cases, and women from the Iamal-Nenets region of Arctic Siberia Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Tatiana Nomokonova, Robert J. Losey, Andrei V. Gusev, Grace Kohut, Stella Razdymakha, Lubov Vozelova, Andrei V. Plekhanov
The Iamal-Nenets region of Siberia is one of many Arctic areas where women’s sewing skills were and are crucial to daily existence. Our article explores archaeological needles and needle cases that were made and used by ancestors of the current Indigenous peoples of this region. We frame our examination of these materials through a discussion of women’s sewing bags, which are a symbolic representation
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The value added of solidarity economies: Bureaucratic constructions of value for alternative economic policy in Ecuador Economic Anthropology (IF 1.236) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Alexander D'Aloia
The National Institute of the Popular Solidarity Economy (IEPS) in Ecuador was created to promote an alternative form of economy—the Popular Solidarity Economy (PSE). As a precarious institute with limited funding, IEPS staff worked hard to find alternative ways to support the PSE. In this article, I examine their work through the lens of valor agregado (added value), a commonly used local term for
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The Material Creativity of Affective Artifacts in the Dutch Colonial World Current Anthropology (IF 3.226) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Stefan Hanß
Current Anthropology, Ahead of Print.
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Expanding the conversation: on theology and anthropology Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Amira Mittermaier
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The Terminator in the goldfields: speculative affects in an extractive frontier in Colombia Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Pablo Jaramillo
This article analyses the relationships among speculative rumour, everyday storytelling, and financial speculation that impact small‐scale gold mining towns in Colombia. By following the stories surrounding the visit of Arnold Schwarzenegger to Marmato, a mining town in central Colombia, and its consequences, I explore how people speculate about such ‘speculative’ visits so as to reframe the events