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‘All cases are false’: law, gendered violence, and the politics of thickening in Himalayan India Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Radhika Govindrajan
This article focuses on Indian women's experiences of filing complaints of gendered violence in order to address two interconnected questions: how are complaints of gendered and sexual violence authenticated as genuine or rejected as dubious before they even reach a courtroom? And how do women who bring these complaints before the law navigate a social field in which what counts as the ‘truth’ might
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From private to public and back? Kyoto's cityscape councils and the urban commons Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 Christoph Brumann
Scholarly and public debate on the urban commons is burgeoning, but building exteriors and the cityscape these constitute are surprisingly absent from it, despite their considerable significance for and impact on residents and visitors. After reflecting on the cityscape as a commons, the article turns to Kyoto, the former capital of Japan and acclaimed stronghold of history and tradition. Decades of
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Is Mnemonics an End in Itself? Sensory Mnemonic Learning of the Qur’ān in Southwestern Morocco Current Anthropology (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-19 Romain Simenel
Current Anthropology, Ahead of Print.
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Fit to Protect Current Anthropology (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-19 Melissa Burch
Current Anthropology, Ahead of Print.
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Citizenship beyond solidarity and belonging American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-19 Ayşe Çağlar
The authors in this forum highlight collective action that gives way to new scripts of citizenship. This collective action also opens new spaces of common life, where people can perform the politics of being with others. I ask whether the concepts of commoning and sociability, rather than the language of solidarity and belonging, would be more suitable to capture the dynamics of contemporary citizenship
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Spaces and challenges of citizenship American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-19 Heide Castañeda
This commentary engages the articles in the “Citizenship, Solidarity, and Nonbelonging” forum by discussing three points: citizen participation in and challenges to bureaucratic practices; the spatialities of citizenship and belonging; and the potentials for co‐optation of civic mobilization vis‐à‐vis the privatization of state responsibilities. It concludes that citizen mobilizations can effectively
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Citizenship, agency, and the problem of sovereignty American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-19 Rebecca Bryant
This commentary asks what would change about the analyses in AE’s “Citizenship, Solidarity, and Nonbelonging” forum if the state were not assumed as the background. Using research on unrecognized states and their citizens, the commentary urges a return to the problem of sovereignty that takes seriously the desires that sovereignty evokes. Doing so, it argues, can help us understand the shape that political
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Citizenship thinking—with, against, and bypassing the state American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-19 Sian Lazar
This short commentary argues for the utility of a suitably expansive idea of citizenship, one that opens complex terrains for analysis: where citizens work with, against, and alongside the state, and where state power is enabled and sidestepped through multiple embodied processes. I consider the nature of the citizen‐state encounter in each article in AE’s “Citizenship, Solidarity, and Nonbelonging”
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Songs that made men leave: migration, imagination, and media in late twentieth‐century Mali Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Aïssatou Mbodj‐Pouye
Throughout the twentieth century, in the Soninke‐speaking area of West Africa, women sang to praise migrants and mock immobile men, before such songs were abandoned at the beginning of the twenty‐first century. These songs have commonly been read as reinforcing a normative order of migration whereby migration functioned as proof of manhood. The study of an original corpus, collected by a radio station
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Tracking Mortgage Pathways in Zagreb Current Anthropology (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Marek Mikuš
Current Anthropology, Ahead of Print.
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Autonomous partners: asymmetry and masculinity in Amazonian river trade Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-14 Vinicius de Aguiar Furuie
Trade on the Iriri River, in the eastern Brazilian Amazonia, is structured around a credit‐barter system between clients and bosses known as aviamento in Portuguese. Nowadays, bosses are river traders born in the riversides who offer goods on credit to riverside dwellers, who later pay these debts with fish and products they collect from the forest. While the system, found in the Amazon basin since
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Wassach: firearms enchantment and ‘gun culture’ in an Israel Defense Forces reserve combat unit Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-12 Nehemia Stern, Uzi Ben‐Shalom
This article focuses on the ‘enchanted’ materiality of state militarism by offering an anthropological analysis of ‘gun culture’ within the reservist ranks of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Through primarily ethnographic observations of one reserve combat unit over the span of a decade, we will argue that the ways in which firearms are handled by individual soldiers symbolically mirrors much broader
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Redeeming marriage? Bittersweet intimacy and the dialectics of liberation among Haredi Jews in London Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-11 Ruth Sheldon, Stephen Frosh, Marita Vyrgioti
This article intervenes in feminist anthropological debates about marriage within Western cosmopolitan, ‘post‐traditional’ contexts through a close ethnographic examination of food and ritualized meals among Haredi Jews in London. We focus on this diasporic religious Jewish minority, whose marital practices have been the object of debates over marriage, gender, and cultural difference in cosmopolitan
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Infrastructures of (Im)mobility: Human and Mineral Entanglements and Offshore Detention Current Anthropology (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 Samantha Fox
Current Anthropology, Volume 65, Issue 3, Page 581-582, June 2024.
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Prison Rebellions, Black Radical Consciousness, and Counterinsurgency: Lessons from Attica Current Anthropology (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 Catherine Besteman
Current Anthropology, Volume 65, Issue 3, Page 579-581, June 2024.
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The “Lost Parts of Us”: Excavating Caste Complicity in India’s Help Economy Current Anthropology (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 Mythri Jegathesan
Current Anthropology, Volume 65, Issue 3, Page 577-579, June 2024.
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Front Matter Current Anthropology (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-09
Current Anthropology, Volume 65, Issue 3, June 2024.
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Front Cover Current Anthropology (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-09
Current Anthropology, Volume 65, Issue 3, June 2024.
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Campbell, Howard. Downtown Juárez: underworlds of violence and abuse. viii, 245 pp., map, illus., bibliogr. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 2021. £29.95 (paper) Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Charles D. Thompson
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Gaspar, Marisa C.; trans. Roopanjali Roy; foreword by Allen Chun. Heirs of the bamboo: identity and ambivalence among the Eurasian Macanese. xiv, 214 pp., map, illus., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2020. £99.00 (cloth) Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Katon Lee
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Books and films received Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-10
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Gelsthorpe, Loraine, PerveezMody & BrianSloan (eds). Spaces of care. 288 pp., bibliogrs. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2020. £65.00 (cloth) Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Neil Armstrong
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Straube, Christian. After corporate paternalism: material renovation and social change in times of ruination. xvi, 149 pp., maps, illus., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2021. £89.00 (cloth) Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Karen Tranberg Hansen
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Eltringham, Nigel. The anthropology of peace and reconciliation: pax humana. 176 pp., illus., bibliogr. London: Routledge, 2021. £34.99 (e‐book) Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Livnat Konopny‐Decleve
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A chance encounter: making meaning from coincidence Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Julia Cassaniti
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Defending heroic soldiers at the United Nations Human Rights Council: shame, honour, and sovereign masculinity Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Chulani Kodikara
Human rights activists worldwide rely heavily on naming and shaming rights‐abusing states at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to induce them to comply with international human rights norms. However, what about national‐level actors who seek to shame a government for complying with human rights? This article explores how Sinhala Buddhist ethnonationalist political leaders and ideologues
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Pignarre, Philippe. Latour‐Stengers: an entangled flight. xiv, 152 pp., bibliogr. Cambridge: Polity, 2023. £15.99 (paper) Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Chakad Ojani
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Sørensen, Tanja Wol (director). A Colombian family. 80 mins. DVD, colour. London: RAI Films, 2020. £50.00 (institutional use) Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Alejandro Jaramillo
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Babar, Zahra (ed.). Mobility and forced displacement in the Middle East. 320 pp., bibliogrs. London: Hurst & Co., 2020. £25.00 (paper) Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Susan Beth Rottmann
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Tilche, Alice. Adivasi art and activism: curation in a nationalist age. 272 pp., illus., bibliogr. Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press, 2022. £79.00 (cloth) Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Raphaël Rousseleau
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Anthro abuzz: fuel, electricity, and ethnography in the era of global boiling Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Michael Degani
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Econography Current Anthropology (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Daromir Rudnyckyj
Current Anthropology, Ahead of Print.
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Thought Collectives, Fascism, and Truth Current Anthropology (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Sharon Kaufman
Current Anthropology, Ahead of Print.
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Checking Facts by a Bot Current Anthropology (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Mei-chun Lee
Current Anthropology, Ahead of Print.
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Τhe domestication of southwest Asian ‘farmyard animals’: Possible insights from management of feral and free-range relatives in Greece Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 Paul Halstead, Valasia Isaakidou, Nasia Makarouna
Understanding early animal domestication is complicated by disagreement over what, in cultural terms, differentiates domestic (closely managed? privately owned?) from wild and by the difficulty of distinguishing these categories zooarchaeologically. We describe recent feral populations of goats, sheep, cattle and pigs in Greece, comprising descendants of animals escaped or released from controlled
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Archaeologies of people and space: Social network analysis of communities and neighborhoods in spatial context Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-04 Adrian S.Z. Chase, April Kamp-Whittaker, Matthew A. Peeples
Applications of SNA to interpret archaeological evidence have been increasing dramatically, as has an interest in identifying communities and neighborhoods. Social Network Analysis (SNA) can be a lens and a tool to explore neighborhoods and communities with archaeological datasets from a range of temporal periods and regions. The spatial distribution of material culture facilitates the creation of
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Embracing uncertainty: porous and actionable responses to climate change at the borders of Indigenous and scientific expertise(s) in Siberia Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Olga Ulturgasheva, Mally Stelmaszyk
This article explores uncertainty as an onto‐epistemological concept that reveals integrative capacities of Indigenous and scientific knowledge. Looking at official scientific approaches to climate change in Russia, it traces how Indigenous peoples in Siberia navigate their lives as they continue to witness anthropogenic causes of climatic degradation intertwined with forceful denial of Indigenous
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Tongue, tape, and time: caring masculinities in the practice of electrical repair and maintenance work in India's Sundarbans Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Silvia Pergetti
In forest‐fringe areas of India's Sundarbans, young men at the intersection of low caste and class become invested in electrical repair and maintenance work – as a gendering practice that enacts a specific logic of care. This work takes embodied knowledge (tongue), thoughtful improvisation (tape), and lifelong commitment (time) to fragile things and people in need. Tongue, tape, and time make the difference
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Reconfiguring gender, kinship, and spirituality: space‐ and place‐making in Muslim Malaysia Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Viola Thimm
In the public and private spaces of Malaysia's capitalist cities, Malay women abide by a stricter Islamic dress code than they do in rural areas. Hence, in this local context, spatial public/private and ‘placial’ rural/urban order are of importance for gender identifications and practices. These orders imply influences on gendered forms of embodiment in the form of dress codes. This research examines
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Violence as a lens to Viking societies: A comparison of Norway and Denmark Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 Jan Bill, David Jacobson, Susanne Nagel, Lisa Mariann Strand
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Volumetric citizenship American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 Eli Elinoff
In Thailand, the volatile period from 2019 to 2023 was marked by changing material and political atmospheres. Air pollution, the COVID‐19 pandemic, and government restrictions on speech transformed how Thai citizens breathed and how they related to the monarchy. Understanding this period as a history of breath reconceptualizes the citizen‐body as volumetric, recasting politics as an intermaterial practice
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Staying with the blackout: an insecure anthropology of energy Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 Canay Özden‐Schilling
In the twenty‐first century, blackouts have settled into a familiar sequence of events in the fully electrified world. After jolting publics into a sudden awareness of energy assemblages, they gradually disappear from public memory. This article is an exercise in dwelling on blackouts that have already begun to recede from public memory so as to better conceptualize ‘energy security’ as an object of
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Refusals of noncitizenship American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-25 Peter Nyers
This commentary explores the politics of refusal as it plays out in struggles for citizenship. Refusals of noncitizenship involve a dialectic of negation and affirmation. They are at once acts of protest against an injustice or wrong, while also generative of new forms of political subjectivity and community. The refusals of noncitizenship found in the articles of this special forum involve acts of
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Accommodating agriculture at al-Khayran: Economic relations and settlement practices in the earliest agricultural communities of the southern Levant Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 Matthew V. Kroot
Early agricultural practices are often viewed as such a radical transformation that they not only structured and drove the long-term development of subsistence economies, but also required a dramatic reorganization of how community-wide economic relations were reckoned and enacted. This article examines how data derived from loci of economic production can inform us about the structure of economic
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The current economy: Electricity markets and techno‐economics By CanayÖzden‐Schilling. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021. 205 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 Dean Chahim
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