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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
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Liquid homeownership: Navigating future horizons to turn homeownership into assets in Bucharest, Romania Economic Anthropology (IF 1.236) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Alexandra Ciocanel
This article examines the financialization and assetization of housing in an Eastern European context by focusing on the specific temporally bounded financial strategies to maintain housing as an asset and vehicle for social reproduction. It proposes the concept of liquid homeownership to account for the varied associations of housing with liquidity and the expectations of future increased exchange
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From Criminals to Slaves Current Anthropology (IF 3.226) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Insa Lee Koch
Current Anthropology, Ahead of Print.
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Ritual as image American Ethnologist (IF 1.906) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Aarti Sethi
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in the central Indian cotton belt, I examine two historical moments: (1) the expansion of agrarian capitalism and absorption of market logics into the peasant household in the colonial period; and (2) changes in seed technology and gendered labor required for cultivating hybrid cotton in the postcolonial era. Through these transformations, cotton farmers have maintained
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Religious suasion: introduction to the special issue Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Danny Cardoza, Sam Victor
In this introduction, we outline a comparative tool for studying communicative ideologies and practices, which we call ‘religious suasion’. Developing a conversation about religious forms of ‘suasion’ is important because it provides a vocabulary for comparing parallel practices of religious influence across different religious communities, allowing for more nuanced understandings of what might commonly
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Silent suasions: interpersonal mediation in Thai meditation Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Julia Cassaniti
Discourse is the typical modus operandi for persuasive practices, but silence also has an important role to play in many religious contexts. In this essay, I examine how silence works as a mechanism of persuasion in Thailand, where Buddhist logics of meditation permeate social life. Through a close analysis of a meditative retreat at Wat Pradhatu Sri Chom Thong Voravihan in Northern Thailand, I suggest
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TikTok and the Politics of Photographic Time Current Anthropology (IF 3.226) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Benjamin Fogarty-Valenzuela
Current Anthropology, Ahead of Print.
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The death of Elizabeth II on Wikipedia: fleshing out freedom through technoliberal participation online Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Guilherme Fians
While journalists performed a long‐rehearsed move to announce the death of Elizabeth II on the BBC, several volunteer editors rushed to break the news in the late queen's Wikipedia article. Aside from updating verb tenses from is to was, such edits entailed a revisionist approach, with Wikipedians seeking to shape how the British royals would be portrayed online. Tracing the negotiations and edit wars
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State abandonment and territorial citizenship in rural Colombia: Montes de María after the peace accords Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Diana Hoyos‐Gómez
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Montes de María, Colombia, I examine citizen‐state relationships and experiences of the state in rural communities during the implementation of the 2016 Peace Agreement between the Colombian government and Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas. I focus on the participatory process that led to the formulation of the Development Plans with a Territorial
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How many people lived in the world’s earliest villages? Reconsidering community size and population pressure at Neolithic Çatalhöyük Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2024-03-30 Ian Kuijt, Arkadiusz Marciniak
Adopting a building and village biography approach combining archaeology and ethnography, we critically reevaluate the historical argument that Neolithic villages were occupied by many thousands of people. Focusing on the settlement at Çatalhöyük, Turkey, where it has been argued that 3,500 and 10,000 people lived in the village, we argue that this is a significant overestimate of the number of people
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A ritual geology: Gold and subterranean knowledge in Savanna West Africa By Robyn d'Avignon. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 304 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.906) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Tom Özden‐Schilling
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Gut anthro: An experiment in thinking with microbes By Amber Benezra. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2023. 282 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.906) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Andrea Ford
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The Affective Politics of Sound Current Anthropology (IF 3.226) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Elvira Wepfer
Through regenerative environmentalism, the international ecoproject scene aims to re-create human-environment relations. To do so, eco-activists reject the dominant narrative of individuation that underlies capitalist resource extraction in favor of a notion of relationality that collaboratively cocreates all life. In Greece, as elsewhere, eco-activists assert that such regeneration of relationality
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Birding under fire American Ethnologist (IF 1.906) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Bridget Guarasci
Birding for nature conservation becomes violent in war when foreign states and industry use it to extract value from countries like Iraq. In wartime Iraq, birding became a pathway to multinational resource extraction by producing “eco-value,” a form of economic value for species life and, by extension, the ecosystems they inhabit. Iraqi marshland conservationists, including private contractors, produced
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Something in these hills: The culture of family land in southern Appalachia By John M. Coggeshall. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. 238 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.906) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 William Schumann
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Genres of listening: An ethnography of psychoanalysis in Buenos Aires By Xochitl Marsilli‐Vargas. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 248 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.906) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Sergio E. Visacovsky
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Notes on contributors Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-03-25
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Epiphenomenal suasion: Jehovah's Witnesses and the politics of preaching against the state Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-03-23 Danny Cardoza
The individual is the conventional way religious change is figured when considering ‘conversion’. This essay argues this is rooted in the soteriological focus of Christian evangelism and shifts what are typically taken to be the objects of change to view them as agents of change. As an example of this, the essay compares two ethnographic examples of Jehovah's Witnesses’ evangelism: the ways that Witnesses
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Always a Trace Current Anthropology (IF 3.226) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Liam M. Brady, John Bradley, Amanda Kearney
Current Anthropology, Ahead of Print.
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Proselytizing is not evangelism: epistemic virtue and religious suasion at a post‐fundamentalist church in Nashville Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Sam Victor
This essay proposes a moral epistemological explanation for many US evangelicals’ growing unease about proselytizing. Drawing on extensive fieldwork at a church in Nashville, Tennessee, it highlights how a particular kind of epistemological certainty became a driving value of evangelical biblicism when early nineteenth‐century evangelicals attempted to apply the precepts of inductive science to textual
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Afterword: Suasion, circulation, and an anthropology of influence Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Courtney Handman
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Self‐suasion: agents of Jewish conversion in Israel in search of religious sincerity Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Michal Kravel‐Tovi
The title of this essay is intended as ironic. The irony resides in the fact that while the agents of state‐run Jewish conversion in Israel are preoccupied with the sincerity of conversion candidates, they are also troubled by the sincerity of their own religious belief and conduct. This essay will explore ethnographically how these religiopolitical actors engage with semiotic and interactive strategies
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Dialogues: anthropology and literature Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Siddratul Muntaha Jillani, Kiran Nazir Ahmed, Liliana Colanzi, Jessica Sequeira, Elisa Taber, Rex Lee Jim, Anthony K. Webster, Najet Adouani, Andrew Brandel
The relationship between anthropology and literature has attracted renewed theoretical energy in recent years (Brandel 2020; Debaene 2014; Fassin 2014; Reed 2018; Wulff 2016), developing and deepening connections with, for example, anthropological theories of art (Reed 2011), religion (Furani 2012), subjectivity (Olszewska 2015), and ethics (Bush 2017), as well as with allied fields and traditions