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Introducing Urban Anthropology 2nd Edition Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Agus Danugroho
Published in Anthropological Forum: A journal of social anthropology and comparative sociology (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Karma and Grace: Religious Difference in Millennial Sri Lanka Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Mark P. Whitaker
Published in Anthropological Forum: A journal of social anthropology and comparative sociology (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Religion as Atmosphere: The Material Mediation and Aesthetical Ambiguity of a Contemporary Night Church Atmosphere Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-12 Andreas Melson Gregersen
In this article, I offer an ethnographic exploration of how Fatboys (a type of bean bag chair) and visuals co-constitute the atmosphere and religion inside a Copenhagen Night Church. By exploring t...
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Transinsular Networks of the Caribbean Seascape Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 Carlo Cubero
This paper examines the sea as a metonym for visualising the Caribbean island experience. This paper argues that islanders’ relations with the sea are maintained through a double condition of conne...
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Exclusionary Cosmopolitanism in Buenos Aires Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-18 Lorenzo Cañás Bottos
In this article I explore the organisation of practices of vernacular cosmopolitanism in the city of Buenos Aires. The starting point is a series of festivals and activities organised by the city g...
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New Horizons for Human Solace: Universal Basic Income Making a Difference in People’s Well-Being Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-03 Octávio Sacramento
Considering contemporary crises and challenges, I hereby discuss the Universal Basic Income (UBI) as a citizenship prerogative aimed at promoting new ways of social organization and living. The ana...
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Politics of Shared Humanity: On Hospitality, Equality and the Spiritual in Rural Gambia Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Tone Sommerfelt
In rural communities on the north bank of River Gambia, religious ‘visitations’ or pilgrimage ceremonies (siyaare) are becoming increasingly popular. These ceremonies have been described as a hallm...
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The Good Enough Life Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-27 Courtney Boag
Published in Anthropological Forum: A journal of social anthropology and comparative sociology (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Truth and Responsibility: Understanding Christian Pastors and Priests Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 David W. Haines, Marc Roscoe Loustau
This special issue focuses on the roles and lived experience of pastors and priests, with an emphasis on North America and Europe. This introduction to the special issue includes: (1) the rationale...
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Curriculum Transformation for the Futuristic Worlds: Design Anthropology for Twenty-First Century African Universities Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Artwell Nhemachena
In their efforts to dissuade Africans from engaging fruitfully on matters of design, including design anthropology, colonialists dismissed the indigenes as only capable of designing witchcraft and ...
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Re-engaging Foodways: Life-courses of Disconnection and Reconnection with Food, Environment, and Sociality in Hawai‘i Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Janne von Seggern, Anita von Poser
The article focuses on the centrality (and relationality) of food, environment, and sociality in the efforts of a group of education practitioners and learners on Hawai‘i Island to create a more li...
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A Brief History of Political Instability in Vanuatu Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Guy A. Lavender Forsyth, Quentin D. Atkinson
Vanuatu has largely avoided the political violence seen elsewhere in Melanesia in the recent past. It has a small but successful tourist economy, based on its selling point as a tropical paradise. ...
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Yuupurnju: A Warlpiri Song Cycle Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 John Bradley
Published in Anthropological Forum: A journal of social anthropology and comparative sociology (Vol. 34, No. 3, 2024)
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Sensing Disaster: Local Knowledge and Vulnerability in Oceania Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Mardi Reardon-Smith
Published in Anthropological Forum: A journal of social anthropology and comparative sociology (Vol. 34, No. 2, 2024)
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The Hungarian State’s Good Catholic Pastor: Reading Foucault’s Provocations on Christian Institutions and Governmentality Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Marc Roscoe Loustau
Given Michel Foucault’s immense influence on anthropology, assessing his account of pastoral power is an inescapable task for anthropologists who aim to make ‘pastors and priests’ into distinct obj...
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Forecasts: A Story of Weather and Finance at the Edge of Disaster Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Elizabeth Finnis
Published in Anthropological Forum: A journal of social anthropology and comparative sociology (Vol. 34, No. 3, 2024)
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De-labelling the ‘Memory of the World’: A Cosmopolitan Perspective on Qiaopi Remittance Letters Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Shuhua Chen
Qiaopi, remittance family letters that maintained networks between overseas Chinese and their families and relatives in China in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, have been recognised since 2...
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Cosmopolitan Networks – Networking Cosmopolitans: Between Anyone, the Other and the Making of Sociality Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Lorenzo Cañás Bottos, Jan Ketil Simonsen, Shuhua Chen
In an increasingly polarised world, crisp labelling, dichotomisation, and the flourishing of nation- and ethnic-based prejudice hinders the finding and construction of spaces for transcending bound...
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Forensic and Expert Social Anthropological Practice: An Introduction Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 James W. W. Rose
This special issue of Anthropological Forum presents a collection of articles by international practitioners of forensic and expert social anthropology (FESA), and related areas of law. The forensi...
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Article 1F and Anthropological Evidence: A Fine Line Between Justice and Injustice? Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 John R. Campbell
While all anthropological experts take pride when their evidence plays a vital role in securing protection for an asylum applicant, we also acutely remember the cases in which our research and repo...
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The Multiple Roles of Socio-Anthropological Expert Evidence in Indigenous Land Claims: The Xukuru People Case Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Mariana Monteiro de Matos
In 2018, the Inter-American Court delivered the first – and so far, only – judgment against Brazil on Indigenous land rights. This leading decision upheld the state’s failure to comply with human r...
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Constructing Anthropological Expertise: Community Support and Legal Partnership in Transgender Cases Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 ChorSwang Ngin, Joann Yeh, Luz Borjon
Anthropologists working with marginalised populations in need of legal representation have faced challenges spanning epistemological, methodological and ethical questions. In the provision of evide...
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Anthropology in Australian Indigenous Legal Cases: What I've Learned from the Law and What Lawyers Have Learned from Me Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 David S. Trigger
Reflecting on several decades of my applied research, expert witness roles and a forensic methodology, this article addresses the application of anthropological studies in Australian legal cases co...
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Witness Statements as Cross-Cultural (mis)Communication? Evidence from Blue Mud Bay Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Frances Morphy, Howard Morphy
Translation, broadly defined as the articulation of the relationship between different cultural, social and legal systems, is at the heart of the anthropologist’s or linguist’s role as an expert wi...
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Addressing Cultural Difference in Indigenous Copyright Cases Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Riccardo Mazzola
This article presents and discusses two different ways through which the Ganalbingu people (Australia) addressed cultural differences in the normative conceptualisation of artworks in a judicial se...
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Engaged Social Anthropology and Indigenous Land Claims in Malaysia Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Rusaslina Idrus
The use of litigation has become an important strategy for customary land claims for the Orang Asli, the aboriginal people of Peninsular Malaysia. Increasing displacement from their customary terri...
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Pastors as Mediators of Respect in African American Pentecostal Churches Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Frederick Klaits
This article explores how two African American Pentecostal pastors in Buffalo, New York (USA) promote a phenomenology of respect as they link imperatives to labour for the good of others to the nee...
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Pastors, Preaching and Parking Lot Conversations: Clergy’s Tactics of LGBTQ+ Inclusion in Mainline Protestant Churches Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Benjamin Hollenbach
Mainline Protestant pastors in the United States play pivotal roles in envisioning and planning changes to local congregational practices. They are highly visible and authoritative figures who must...
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Environments and Socialities in Oceania – Changing Ideas and Practices Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Desirée Hetzel, Arno Pascht
This Introduction provides an overview of the topics and discussions addressed in the Special Issue ‘Environments and Socialities in Oceania'. It focuses on the phenomenon that people in Oceania en...
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Correction Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-07
Published in Anthropological Forum: A journal of social anthropology and comparative sociology (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Magic, Self and (World) Society: Groundwork for an Existential and Cosmopolitan Anthropology Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Huon Wardle
Human beings can be found everywhere (Piette) and the true subject of anthropology is anyone (Rapport). What do we need to do to our epistemology and practice to reframe anthropology in existential...
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The Perils of Being a Pastor: Then and Now Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 David W. Haines
As early Christian writings emphasise, pastors are crucial to maintaining Christian communities and in serious practical and spiritual jeopardy if they fail to do so. They are held to unachievable ...
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Migration, Marriage Rituals and Contemporary Cosmopolitanism in Urban Zambia Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-10-27 Jan Ketil Simonsen
Different types of rituals to contract marriage have developed in urban Zambia that combine customary girl’s initiation and marriage rituals with novel forms of ritual performances. The participant...
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Embodying the Call: ‘Call Narratives’ and the Importance of Encouragement for Progressive Mennonite Pastors Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Christa Mylin
For the progressive Mennonite pastors I met, the process of becoming a pastor is a lengthy and challenging personal journey of recognizing, accepting, and enacting a call to a pastoral vocation, wh...
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Difference, Indigeneity and Ethnoclass Convergence Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Antonio A. R. Ioris
This paper presents an analysis of the politico-economic and ethnic-social basis of difference, paying special attention to the anti-difference violence suffered by indigenous peoples and the concr...
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Women’s Active Engagement with the Sea Through Fishing in Fiji Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Elodie Fache, Annette Breckwoldt
Fiji’s iTaukei (Indigenous) women contribute significantly to small-scale coastal fisheries, and are therefore integral to successful fisheries (co-)management, yet their role still remains underes...
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A Kauapapa Māori Intervention on Apology for LDS Church's Racism, Zombie Concepts, and Moving Forward Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Hemopereki Simon
This intervention paper, based on the Kaupapa Māori writing inquiry, aims to offer an alternative path forward to the idea that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints should apologise for ...
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Prowess and Indigenous Capture: Hinges and Epistemic Propositions in the Prey Lang Forest Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Courtney Work
In north-central Cambodia, Indigenous minority communities along with the Prey Lang Forest are rapidly transforming market-independent ecologies toward market-dependent existences. Through this tra...
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(Vaka)Vanua as Weakness, (Vaka)Vanua as Strength: Reflections on Fijian Sociality in Urban and Migrant Environments Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Dominik Schieder, Sina Emde, Geir Henning Presterudstuen
Fiji Islander sociality has long been characterised by high levels of diversity as well as interwoven categories of (self-)inclusion and (self-)exclusion and is increasingly shaped by urbanism and ...
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Large-Scale Land Transformations and Changing Sociality among the Wampar in Papua New Guinea Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Tobias Schwoerer
In the Markham Valley of Papua New Guinea, a Biomass Energy company is currently transforming the landscape by planting thousands of hectares of eucalyptus trees to offer a ‘carbon-neutral’ way of ...
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‘Life is Individual’: Outline of a Cosmopolitan Civility and its Anthropology Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Nigel Rapport
ABSTRACT Cosmopolitanism concerns the relation between the most general and the most particular aspects of the human condition. On the one hand there is the human species, representing the universals of human life or ‘cosmos’. On the other hand, there is the human individual, embodying all that is unique in time and space: ‘polis’. To comprehend the human, according to cosmopolitanism is to see these
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The Regime: Fire and Human-Landscape Involvement Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-08-14 Jon Rasmus Nyquist
In the southwest of Western Australia, the state Parks and Wildlife Service carry out prescribed burns with the goal of reducing ‘fuel loads’ and creating landscape patterns that they hope will slo...
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Life Is Not Useful Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Vincent Dodd
Published in Anthropological Forum: A journal of social anthropology and comparative sociology (Vol. 33, No. 2, 2023)
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Building on Borrowed Time: Rising Seas and Failing Infrastructure in Semarang Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-06-25 Jakkrit Sangkhamanee
Published in Anthropological Forum: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Comparative Sociology (Vol. 33, No. 1, 2023)
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The Death of Vernacular Cosmopolitanism Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Daniel M. Knight
ABSTRACT The paper offers a mutliscalar appreciation of vernacular cosmopolitanism as changing across space, time, and networks of relations. Drawing on observations from the UK and Greece, I argue for an expanded understanding of vernacular cosmopolitanism to incorporate everyday appreciations of multiculturalism, tolerance, and social liberalism that are produced within specific socio-historical
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Gothic Sovereignty: Street Gangs and Statecraft in Honduras Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-06-13 William Yaworsky
Published in Anthropological Forum: A journal of social anthropology and comparative sociology (Vol. 33, No. 2, 2023)
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In the Hands of God: How Evangelical Belonging Transforms Migrant Experience in the United States Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Leslie Fesenmyer
Published in Anthropological Forum: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Comparative Sociology (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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The Dialectics of Adat: Colonialism, the State, and Indigeneity in Indonesia Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Timo Duile
ABSTRACT In the wake of weakening leftist identities, indigeneity has become a promising political identity for economically marginalised people in rural areas worldwide. This is especially true for Indonesia with its anti-communist state ideology, but the roots of the Indonesian concept of indigeneity reach back at least into the late colonial era. The Dutch shaped the modern ideology of indigeneity
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The Supreme Sukundimi Declaration – Sacred Water, Moral Ecologies and Ontological Politics in a Mining Encounter in Papua New Guinea Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-03-11 Christiane Falck
ABSTRACT I discuss the Supreme Sukundimi Declaration, published as part of a campaign against the Frieda River Copper-Gold Project, in relation to the cosmo-ontological politics of individual and collective actors in a mining encounter in Papua New Guinea. I analyse the mobilisation of the Sepik River as a sacred being and a political actor from a perspective informed by findings from long-term fieldwork
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Centreing Women, Countering Killing: Women Sacrificing, Sacralising Maternity and Substantiating Intimacy with a Tamil Hindu Goddess Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Indira Arumugam
ABSTRACT Some sacrifices are cosmogonic acts. Along with (re)creating the world, they create male social bonds by ritually appropriating and transcending women’s corporeal reproductive powers. Departing from these androcentric representations, this paper considers when, why and how (differently) women sacrifice. I compare an exclusively female domestic worship to the mother/midwife goddess Periyacci
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Digital Vā: Pacific Perspectives on the Shift from ‘Ordinary Practices’ to ‘Extraordinary Spaces’ During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Aotearoa/New Zealand Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-03-05 Edmond S. Fehoko, David T.M. Fa’avae, Arcia Tecun, Sione A. Siu’ulua
ABSTRACT The emergence of the COVID-19 virus has significantly shifted the lives of Pacific families and communities from face-to-face communal settings to digital spaces. While there has been a multitude of opportunities for Pacific people to express themselves in digital spaces, little is known about the impacts of this on social life, including on quality time within families, exposure to misinformation
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Disruption in Bio-Psycho-Social Context: Children’s Perceptions of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Aotearoa New Zealand Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-03-05 Julie Spray
ABSTRACT Children growing up during the COVID-19 pandemic have seen unprecedented restructuring of their childhoods through lockdowns, virtual schooling and other public health measures. Theories of biographical disruption developed from individual experiences of life-altering diagnoses predict that unforeseen events such as the pandemic will restructure individual perceptions of their future life
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The Research Imagination During COVID-19: Rethinking Norms of Group Size and Authorship in Anthropological and Anthropology-Adjacent Collaborations Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-03-05 Nicholas J. Long, Amanda Hunter, Nayantara Sheoran Appleton, Sharyn Graham Davies, Antje Deckert, Rogena Sterling, Laumua Tunufa’i, Pounamu Jade Aikman, Edmond Fehoko, Eleanor Holroyd, Naseem Jivraj, Megan Laws, Nelly Martin-Anatias, Reegan Pukepuke, Michael Roguski, Nikita Simpson, Susanna Trnka
ABSTRACT This article explores some of the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has served as a collective critical event for anthropologists and other social scientists, examining how it has promoted new configurations of the research imagination. We draw on our own experiences of participating in a team of 17 researchers, hailing from anthropology and anthropology-adjacent disciplines, to research
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Engaging Environments in Tonga: Cultivating Beauty and Nurturing Relations in a Changing World Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-03-05 David Lipset
Published in Anthropological Forum: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Comparative Sociology (Vol. 32, No. 4, 2022)
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Dreadful Desires: The Uses of Love in Neoliberal China Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-03-05 Stephanie Yingyi Wang
Published in Anthropological Forum: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Comparative Sociology (Vol. 32, No. 4, 2022)
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Reciprocity and Its Practice in Social Research Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-02-26 Parimal Roy
Published in Anthropological Forum: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Comparative Sociology (Vol. 33, No. 1, 2023)
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States Reimagined: COVID-19, the Ordinary, and Extraordinary in Aotearoa/New Zealand Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-11-13 Susanna Trnka
ABSTRACT Shifting public imaginaries have played a vital role in shaping government and citizen responses to COVID-19 in Aotearoa/New Zealand. During the nation’s first COVID-19 lockdown, the general public expressed support, and at times even enthusiasm, for strict measures put in place to curb the spread of the virus. Less than a year later, what had begun as a nationalistic rallying cry to ‘unite
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Extraordinary Conditions, Ordinary Realities and a Squandered Opportunity: Māori Social Imaginaries and Covid-19 Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-11-13 Miriama Aoake
ABSTRACT In 2020, the nationwide lockdown in Aotearoa/New Zealand offered a rare opportunity to re-configure power relations between Māori and the state. These extraordinary circumstances constituted an opportunity to direct an expansion of state power towards re-imagining inequitable outcomes for Māori. Across myriad fora, whānau [extended family] communicated their sustained desire for utu [reciprocity]
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Historical Touchstones and Imagined Futures During COVID-19 in Aotearoa/New Zealand Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-11-13 Heather T. Battles, Bethany Sanders
ABSTRACT During the COVID-19 pandemic to date, particular histories have come to serve as touchstones for the pandemic experience. The specific form this historical imagination takes can be significant as it is likely to shape people’s understandings and responses to the pandemic with consequences for official policy, community action and public behaviour. This research examines this imaginative space
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Re-imagining Time in the Midst of Crisis: From Sci Fi Thrillers and Zombie Flicks to Young People’s Lived Temporalities of COVID-19 Anthropological Forum (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-11-13 Susanna Trnka, Revena Correll Trnka, Sanchita Vyas
ABSTRACT Popular films often depict pandemics in apocalyptic ways, temporally portraying how day by day, fear increases as a virus takes over the world. The speed of transmission, alongside the virus’s seemingly unstoppable global spread, evoke a sense of being engulfed by the extraordinary, creating an experience of time characterised by feelings of intensity and fear, both on and off-screen. In contrast