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Measuring Subjective and Objective Well-being: Analyses from Five Marine Commercial Fisheries—Where Are We Now? Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2022-02-15 Patricia M. Clay,Courtland L. Smith
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Field Research in the Era of the Islamic State and Trump Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2022-02-15 William Yaworsky,Dawid Wladyka,Katarzyna Sepielak
We survey anthropologists who work in Arab League countries to ascertain their perceptions of fieldwork security conditions. Based on the responses of forty-seven specialists reporting on conditions in 127 field sites, we find the security environment in the Arab League to be diverse. Scholars working in nations such as Morocco, Oman, and Qatar report overwhelmingly favorable research conditions, while
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Defining Cultural Resources: A Case Study from the Mid-Atlantic United States Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2022-02-15 Madeline Brown,Timothy Murtha,Whittaker Schroder,Luwei Wang
Integrating cultural and natural resources for large landscape conservation remains an applied challenge for landscape planners and resource managers across North America. When resources are considered at a regional scale, developing shared priorities, definitions, and metrics is an essential but complex process for successful conservation partnerships. Strategies exist for designing regional conservation
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Becoming Modern and Inclusive: Getting Rid of Status and Tradition in an Ecuadorean Bank Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2022-02-15 Consuelo Fernández-Salvador,Michael D. Hill,Julie L. Williams
This article discusses the way corporate cultures reproduce social structures in their internal organization, operating as microcosms of the larger society. Utilizing a qualitative ethnographic methodology, including participant-observation, in-depth interviews, and focus groups with around 400 associates of the largest private bank in Ecuador, this nationwide study provides both an analysis of the
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The “Struggling Good Mother:” The Role of Marginalization, Trauma, and Interpersonal Violence in Incarcerated Women’s Mothering Experiences and Goals Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2022-02-15 Catherine M. Mitchell Fuentes
Feminists anthropologists have long fought against idealized discourses of the “good” mother based on traditional, White, middle-class, heterosexual values. Extensive participant-observation, in-depth interviews with twenty-one mothers and focus groups with a total of sixty-four mothers incarcerated in a large, urban county jail in North Carolina revealed marginalized women’s pathways to incarceration
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Reflection on: “The Cultural Conceptions of Dengue Fever in the Cayo District of Belize” Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2022-02-15 Lauren Smith
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An Intersectional Approach to Problem Drinking in the Nepali/Bhutanese Community in Northeast Ohio Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2022-02-15 Marnie K. Watson,Nuha Alshabani,Scott Swiatek
Akron, Ohio, is home to many who came to the United States as refugees from Bhutan. Originally of Nepali background, they fled Bhutan during a period of ethnic cleansing beginning in the 1990s. As the Nepali/Bhutanese population grew, local providers (e.g., resettlement agencies, social services, emergency room personnel) noted significant levels of problem drinking compared to other local refugee
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Changes in Social Capital Associated with the Construction of the Belo Monte Dam: Comparing a Resettled and a Host Community Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2022-02-15 Adam Mayer,Maria Claudia Lopez,Guillaume Leturcq,Emilio Moran
Nations in the Global South have increasingly embraced large hydropower. Hydropower development typically involves the displacement and resettlement of entire communities and has a range of social and ecological impacts. Some communities become the operational center for the dam construction, as well as host new neighborhoods of resettlers. One of the less-studied impacts of dams is the potential loss
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Applied Medical Anthropology and Structurally Informed Emergency Care in the Evolving Context of COVID-19 Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2021-11-29 Heather Henderson,Jason W. Wilson,Bernice McCoy
This article describes the integration of medical anthropologists as direct members of health care teams within a large, urban teaching hospital as a means to address the role of structural inequality in unequal health care delivery within the context of COVID-19. The pandemic starkly underlined the role structural forces such as food insecurity, housing instability, and unequal access to health insurance
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Marshallese Families’ Reported Experiences of Home-school Connections: An Asset-based Model for Critiquing “Parental Involvement” Frameworks and Understanding Remote Schooling during COVID-19 Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2021-11-29 Elise Berman,Vicki Collet
COVID-19 closed school buildings across the United States, forcing a shift to remote education. How families navigated remote schooling likely varied across class, racial, and ethnic differences, raising questions about how the pandemic might deepen educational inequities. We talked to Marshallese migrant families in a town in the South Central United States about their experiences with remote schooling
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“Whoever Dies, Dies”: A Pedagogical Model forUnderstanding the COVID-19 Outbreak in United States Prisons Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2021-11-29 Jason Bartholomew Scott
A year into the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly half of the United States prison population, or five times the rate found in the general population, had been infected. Limited social distancing and difficult to implement preventative measures helped to spread COVID-19 in prisons, while many incarcerated individuals felt that government policy prevented their ability to self-care. These feelings of alienation
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Identifying and Partnering Ecoallies through Perceived Natural Environment Futures in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2021-11-29 Brandon D. Lundy,Lauren Weeks,Rachel Langkau,Kamran Sadiq,Sami Wilson
Through an experiential, field-based investigative opportunity in the anthropology of climate change, this project introduced college and university students from the United States and Guinea-Bissau through active research encounters. This article examines one part of the larger project, perceptions of natural environment futures via 287 drawings collected by three United States-based undergraduate
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Through the Eyes on the Ground: Re-positioning Rural Agrarian Actors as Leaders in the Local Food Movement during the COVID-19 Pandemic Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2021-11-29 Allison Cantor
Despite Costa Rica’s efforts to promote international tourism, the economy continues to struggle with unprecedented unemployment rates due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This is especially concerning for tourism-dependent regions, such as the Monteverde Zone, where most residents have abandoned land-based livelihoods in favor of tourism. This study uses photovoice to illustrate the ways that small-scale
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At the Intersection of Harm Reduction and COVID-19: The Role of Anthropologists during and Post-Pandemic Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2021-11-29 Shana Harris,Allison Schlosser
Harm reduction is a public health approach that emphasizes reducing the negative effects of drug use rather than eliminating it. It has been practiced for decades; however, the COVID-19 pandemic poses new challenges for people who use drugs (PWUD) and harm reduction providers. In the United States, public health recommendations to curb the pandemic are complicating harm reduction efforts. Harm reduction
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Maasai Girls’ Experiences of Ukimwi ni Homa (AIDS Is a Fever): Idioms of Vulnerability and HIV Risk in East Africa Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2021-11-29 Kristin Hedges
There have been enormous strides in response to the AIDS epidemic in the past decades; however, adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) remain at high risk for new HIV infection throughout sub-Saharan Africa. Recognizing this continued discrepancy, I call for more attention to girls’ perceptions of vulnerabilities by revisiting an ethnographic study of HIV risk carried out in 2004 in a rural community
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A Protracted Pandemic: Anthropological Responses to the Ongoing COVID-19 Crisis Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2021-11-29 Deven Gray,Nancy Romero-Daza,David Himmelgreen
While the rollout of vaccines is probably the most effective mechanism to halt the spread of the pandemic (as evidenced by past health crises), it should be noted that there are clear disparities in the distribution and availability of vaccines at both the national level (such as in the United States) and globally (Duan et al. 2021). Despite the scientific evidence supporting the need to vaccinate
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Driving Organizational Change: 2020 Bronislaw Malinowski Award Address Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2021-08-12 Elizabeth K. Briody
This article represents my 2020 Bronislaw Malinowski Award Address that I delivered virtually at the 2021 Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meetings, March 23–27, 2021. The address focuses on the value of organizations as both a field of study and a place of employment for anthropologists. On the one hand, organizations have been largely excluded from anthropological field research in favor of
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Pain-full Worlds: Coming of Age with Chronic Pelvic Pain Peter K. New Student Award Paper Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2021-08-12 Halle Young
This article explores how young prenatal women negotiate, articulate, and manage their experiences of chronic pelvic pain (CPP). I argue that chronic pelvic pain lies at the intersection of chronic illness, pain, feminization, sex, and legibility, and that pain of this character is deeply stigmatized. Investigating it offers a visceral view into the affective layers of chronic pain. This project draws
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A Decade of Indigenous Knowledge Research in the Yukon River Basin: Reflection on “Indigenous Observations of Change in the Lower Yukon River Basin, Alaska” Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2021-08-12 Nicole M. Herman-Mercer
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ICE Offices and Immigration Courts: Accompaniment in Zones of Illegality Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2021-08-12 Kristin Elizabeth Yarris
In this article, I examine two sites of the contemporary illegality industry in the United States: the ICE Field Office and the Immigration Court. Drawing on ongoing ethnographic engagement, including accompaniment and observations in a regional Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Field Office and an Executive Office of Immigration Reform (EOIR) Court, I trace how human interactions and social
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Co-navigating Migrant Reception Services: Engaging Practices of Collaborative Anthropology in Emilia-Romagna, Italy Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2021-08-12 Federica Tarabusi
Drawing on a support program for foreign women, this article discusses anthropological collaboration with local services for migrants in one of the Italian regions most advanced in terms of multicultural policies. Often treated as a pre-given good, collaborative work is here revealed as a site for exploring ways of practicing anthropology with professionals engaged in migrant reception services. On
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Professionalization as a “Double-Edged Sword”: Assessing the Professional Citizenship of Community Health Workers in the Midwest Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2021-08-12 Ryan I. Logan
Community health workers improve health and well-being through, most notably, health education, advocacy, and building individual and community capacity. In spite of these contributions to the health care landscape, these workers are not well integrated within the professional workforce throughout much of the United States. Building on the lens of medical citizenship, I introduce the concept of professional
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Using an Anthropological Lens to Explore Motivators and Challenges for Follow-up Care Decision Making among Female BRCA1/2 Carriers at Risk for Inherited Cancer Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2021-08-12 Ann Louise Tezak,Anne Weidner,Kate Clouse,Tuya Pal,Deborah Cragun
Females with a BRCA1/2 (BRCA) pathogenic variant have high lifetime risks for cancer. Regularly updated guidelines are in place that recommend screening and/or surgery to monitor and/or significantly reduce breast or ovarian cancer risk. Follow-up care decision making among this population is important to explore to understand the multi-faceted influences guiding cancer screening behaviors and risk-reducing
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“You Can’t Catch ‘Em and Sell ‘Em”: Perceptions of Obstacles to Direct Marketing among Georgia Fishers Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Jennifer Sweeney Tookes,Tracy Yandle
Direct marketing of seafood is a promising avenue for seafood sales in the United States, utilizing local foods venues such as farmers markets and Community Supported Fisheries (CSFs). While interest in locally sourced seafood among local foods communities in Atlanta and Athens, Georgia is high, fishers from coastal Georgia have not filled this profitable niche. We investigate why this opportunity
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Articulating a Succinct Description: An Applied Method for Catalyzing Cultural Change Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Coleen Carrigan,Noah Krigel,Mira Banerjee Brown,Michelle Bardini
Articulating a Succinct Description uses ethnographic data to create case study interventions facilitated with people who belong to the culture with whom the ethnographer is engaged. We do so in order to disseminate research findings, address problems presented in the case, and collect additional data for further collective analysis. Further, Articulating a Succinct Description is designed as a means
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Violence and Migration on the Arizona-Sonora Border Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Jeremy Slack,Scott Whiteford
2010 was a significant year for immigration issues along the United States-Mexico border. In April, Arizona signed the most extreme law against undocumented immigrants. In August, 72 hopeful migrants were massacred in Tamaulipas by alleged drug traffickers, and the Arizona desert claimed a record 252 lives in fiscal year 2010. These events were part of the trend that began with border militarization
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Introducing “A Blast from the Past,” a New Feature of Human Organization Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Nancy Romero-Daza,David Himmelgreen
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Kidney Disease, Health, and Commodification of Drinking Water: An Anthropological Inquiry into the Introduction of Reverse Osmosis Water in the North Central Province of Sri Lanka Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 M.W. Amarasiri de Silva,Steven M. Albert
In response to evidence suggesting that polluted drinking water is a risk factor for Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Etiology (CKDu) in Sri Lanka, the government introduced reverse osmosis (RO) water as an alternative form of drinking water in the North Central Province (NCP) between 2010 and 2016. We examine whether CKDu prevalence and disease progression have been reduced as a result of the introduction
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Engaged Research in a Hurry: The Case for and Complications of Immediate Anthropology Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Krista Billingsley,Dillon Mahoney
Since 2017, the United States has dramatically decreased its budget for refugee resettlement, increasing barriers to services that help refugees meet their basic needs. For us, as anthropologists, given the relationships that are cultivated through long-term ethnographic research, it is impossible to ignore the detrimental effects of national policy changes in a political environment that is unlikely
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Navigating and Engaging Continued Violence and Migration, A Reflection on: “Violence and Migration on the Arizona-Sonora Border” Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Jeremy Slack,Scott Whiteford
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“It’s a Long Walk to Development”: Navigating Capacity and Time in Cape Town’s Informal Settlements Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Angela D. Storey
In Cape Town’s informal settlements, the difficulties of living without permanent housing or basic services are compounded by frustrations of waiting for this development—a waiting permeated by the engagement of residents in political and social actions calling for fulfillment of promised development. In this article, I examine the involvement of informal settlement residents within an NGO-coordinated
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What’s “Justice and Dignity” Got to Do with It?: Migrant Vulnerability, Corporate Complicity, and the State Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Angela C. Stuesse
In 2001, Tyson Foods, one of the world’s leading chicken processors, was indicted on charges that it recruited undocumented migrants to work in its plants across the rural United States. In the following years, Tyson engaged in an operation to purge the largest chicken plant in the country of hundreds of unionized immigrant workers, relying heavily on the Social Security Administration’s controversial
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The Criminalization of Undocumented Work, Pandemic Suffering, and the Meat We Eat: A Reflection on “What’s ‘Justice and Dignity’ Got to Do with It?” (Stuesse 2010) Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Angela Stuesse
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Social Entrepreneurship and Arabica Coffee Production in the Northern Philippines: Navigating Opportunities and Constraints Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 B. Lynne Milgram
Private, government, and corporate sectors increasingly seek to mitigate the precarious economic and environmental conditions their businesses have caused. Given the shortcomings of conventional approaches to achieve meaningful social change, social entrepreneurship has emerged as an alternative approach to answer this call. Combining business, private investment, and social movement models, social
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Islamic Discourses of Environmental Change on the Swahili Coast of Southern Tanzania Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Justin Raycraft
This paper addresses how Makonde Muslim villagers living on the Swahili coast of southern Tanzania conceptualize and discuss environmental change. Through narratives elicited during in-depth interviews and focus group discussions, I show that respondents associate various forms of environmental change—ecological, climatic, political, and socioeconomic—with God’s plan. Respondents had a sound grasp
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“People Show Up in Different Ways”: DACA Recipients’ Everyday Activism in a Time of Heightened Immigration-Related Insecurity Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Christina M. Getrich
Undocumented young adults have emerged as a coherent political group, forging a large-scale social movement and helping push forward nineteen state-level tuition equity laws and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) in 2012. Yet, DACA recipients’ status became endangered when President Trump rescinded DACA in September 2017, necessitating even more innovative strategies for contesting their
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Considering Social Sustainability in Eco-Certification for Small-Scale Fishing—Why and How? Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Mathilde Højrup Autzen,Alyne Elizabeth Delaney
This paper reflects on the effects of eco-certification on small-scale fisheries and the possibilities for including social sustainability considerations in fisheries certification schemes for small-scale fisheries. The paper reviews existing eco-certification schemes and presents empirical data on Danish small-scale fisheries and a new Danish certification scheme. Our findings suggest the universalism
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Environmental Justice Ethnography in the Classroom: Teaching Activism, Inspiring Involvement Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 William L. Alexander,E. Christian Wells,Martha Lincoln,Brittany Y. Davis,Peter C. Little
In this era of industry deregulation, gutting of environmental protections, and science denial, environmental justice applied anthropology is more important than ever. There is growing ethnographic research into the ways people organize themselves and take action to protect their families and communities from toxins while demanding accountability from polluting industries and the state. When students
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La Crisis de la Atención de Maternidad: Experts’ Perspectives on the Syndemic of Poor Perinatal Health Outcomes in Puerto Rico Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Holly Horan,Melissa Cheyney,Yvette Piovanetti,Vanessa Caldari
The purpose of this study was to center the voices of maternal and infant health care (MIH) clinicians and public health experts to better understand factors associated with persistently high rates of poor perinatal health outcomes in Puerto Rico. Currently, Puerto Rican physicians, midwives, and other care providers’ perspectives are absent from the literature. Guided by a syndemics framework, data
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Penning Pigs: Pig Rearing Practices, Biosecurity Measures, and Outbreaks of African Swine Fever in Central Uganda Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Rebekah Thompson
In this article, I explore why a number of smallholder pig farmers in central Uganda decided not to implement the biosecurity measures advocated by veterinarians. I focus on the infectious disease, African swine fever, to illustrate how the biosecurity measures intended to limit the risk of disease, inadvertently constrained the future returns on pigs for farmers and their families. I draw on ethnographic
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Another silver lining?: Anthropological perspectives on the promise and practice of relaxed restrictions for telemedicine and medication-assisted treatment in the context of COVID-19. Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2020-12-02 Emery Eaves,Robert Trotter,Julie Baldwin
As a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has temporarily relaxed restrictions to serve people who are opioid dependent during social distancing mandates. Changes include allowing patients to take home more doses of methadone and buprenorphine rather than coming to the clinic every day (for methadone) or weekly (for buprenorphine) and relaxed restrictions
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Anthropological Engagement with COVID-19 Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Deven Gray,David Himmelgreen,Nancy Romero-Daza
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“I Told You the Invisible Can Kill You”: Engaging Anthropology as a Response in the COVID-19 Outbreak in Italy Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Selenia Marabello, Maria Luisa Parisi
Italy has been the European country first struck and most heavily affected by COVID-19 Exploring the outbreak’s impact on the migration reception system in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna region, we show how anthropological tools have been applied to mitigate public health misunderstandings and the effects of legislative measures among vulnerable mothers, asylum seekers, and refugees Following a description
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Evaluating Understandings of State and Federal Pandemic Policies: The Situation of Refugees from the Congo Wars in Tampa, Florida Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Dillon Mahoney, Renice Obure, Krista Billingsley, Michaela Inks, Eugenie Umurutasate, Roberta D. Baer
This article addresses underlying inequities for resettling refugees that have been exposed by COVID-19, including language barriers and access to public health information, food, health care, housing, and employment It also speaks to theoretical concerns about the role of structural forces in creating increased health risks for vulnerable populations Fieldwork that began in May 2020 investigated the
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Rapid Ethnographic Assessment of Pandemic Restrictions in Child Welfare: Lessons from Parent and Provider Experiences Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Linda M. Callejas, Anna Davidson Abella, Flandra Ismajli
This paper analyzes policy and practice changes implemented by the child welfare system in Miami-Dade County in response to the COVID-19 crisis Rapid ethnographic assessment (REA) was used to capture multiple perspectives during a rapidly unfolding pandemic We identified system vulnerabilities and opportunities for lessening the impact of crises on vulnerable families with children in foster care The
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COVID-19 and Human Connection: Collaborative Research on Loneliness and Online Worlds from a Socially-Distanced Academy Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Maryann R. Cairns, Margaret Ebinger, Chanel Stinson, Jason Jordan
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in protracted social isolation across the globe due to the implementation of social distancing to limit the transmission of the virus People have relied overwhelmingly on digital technology/social media to manage physical distancing while maintaining social connection, resulting in concerns about loneliness and technology’s impacts during isolation Cairns worked with
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Entangled Roots and Otherwise Possibilities: An Anthropology of Disasters COVID-19 Research Agenda Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2020-12-01 A.J. Faas, Roberto Barrios, Virginia García-Acosta, Adriana Garriga-López, Seven Mattes, Jennifer Trivedi
We develop questions for a COVID-19 research agenda from the anthropology of disasters to study the production of pandemic as a feature of the normatively accepted societal state of affairs We encourage an applied study of the pandemic that recognizes it as the product of connections between people, with their social systems, nonhumans, and the material world more broadly, with attention to root causes
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A Rapid Qualitative Appraisal of the Impact of COVID-19 on Long-term Care Communities in the United States: Perspectives from Area Aging Staff and Advocates Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Andrea Freidus, Dena Shenk, Christin Wolf
The COVID-19 epidemic has hit residents and staff of congregate long-term care communities particularly hard In North Carolina, the site of this research, over half of registered mortality has been associated with congregate living communities This article reports on phase one of a rapid qualitative assessment of long-term care professionals and regional aging staff navigating care during this epidemic
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Food Supply Chains, Family Farming, and Food Policies under the COVID-19 Pandemic in a Brazilian City Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Antonio de la Peña García, Silvia A. Zimmermann, Ana Alice Eleuterio
The food system in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, experienced changes that reflected the uncertainties and restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic This study describes urban and periurban family farmers’ ongoing strategies to adapt to changes in the local food supply chains (FSCs) after the temporary suspension of farmers’ markets and government programs directed to small-scale agriculture Their disruption
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Another Silver Lining?: Anthropological Perspectives on the Promise and Practice of Relaxed Restrictions for Telemedicine and Medication-Assisted Treatment in the Context of COVID-19 Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Emery R. Eaves, Robert T. Trotter, Julie A. Baldwin
As a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has temporarily relaxed restrictions to serve people who are opioid dependent during social distancing mandates Changes include allowing patients to take home more doses of methadone and buprenorphine rather than coming to the clinic every day (for methadone) or weekly (for buprenorphine) and relaxed restrictions
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Community and Autonomy: Motivations for Entrepreneurship among Arizona Community College Students Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Alissa Ruth, Melissa Beresford, Elizabeth A. Cantú
Over the past half-century, as neoliberal governance agendas dismantle state-sponsored safety nets and emphasize individual economic responsibility, entrepreneurship has become a ubiquitous form of...
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Anthropology, Education, and Multicultural Absorption Migration from Ethiopia to Israel Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Ravit Talmi Cohn
This paper presents a case study, which demonstrates the power of applied anthropology in combining theory with practice in the effort to change reality. Drawing on a multi-site ethnographic study ...
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Everything that Rises Must Converge: Huaicos, Communitas, and Humanitarian Exchange in Peru Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Matthew D. Bird, Alejandra Hidalgo, Erika León, Vicente M. León
While terms such as solidarity and communitas are invoked, sometimes interchangeably, to characterize the feeling of togetherness supporting mutual aid during the emergency phase of disasters, they...
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“Before I Saw a Gas Canister, Now I See a Person”: Post Obesity-Intervention Body Acceptance and Responses to Weight Stigma among Urban Brazilian Gorda Women Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Fernanda Baeza Scagliusi, Mariana Dimitrov Ulian, Bruno Gualano, Odilon Jose Roble, Ramiro Fernandez Unsain, Maria Regina Carriero, Priscila de Morais Sato, Cindi SturtzSreetharan, Alexandra Brewis, Amber Wutich
Weight stigma is reportedly globalizing, but there is limited evidence of how concerns around weight change are impacting those in many places. Additionally, few studies to date have considered how...
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When Design Principles Do Not Apply: The Role of Individual Commitment and “Voluntarism” in Maintaining Communal Water Supply in Northern Kunene, Namibia Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Diego Augusto Menestrey Schwieger
Blueprints resembling Ostrom’s (1990) design principles have been used in Namibia’s northern Kunene to instruct pastoral communities in managing boreholes in their localities. However, these bluepr...
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Walking the Migrant Trail: Community Resistance to a Weaponized Desert Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Abby C. Wheatley
Since 1994, migrant fatalities on the Arizona Sonora Border have grown significantly as a result of prevention through deterrence policies ostensibly intended to prevent unauthorized migration by m...
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Engaging African Men through Sexual, Reproductive Health, and Rights Interventions Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Jeroen Lorist
This article examines how research and ideas related to so-called positive masculinities have emerged and proliferated among employees of a Dutch development organization, enabling it to establish ...
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At the Crossroads of Flood Mitigation and Urban Revitalization: Residents’ Perspectives of Shifting Floodplain Governance in the United States Rust Belt Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Lucero Radonic, Lauren T. Cooper, Marcela Omans
Over the past decade, floods have increased in frequency and intensity, a trend that is expected to intensify over the next twenty-five years. This article addresses an underexamined tension in flo...
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Damned If You Drive, Damned If You Don't: Meso-level Policy and Im/migrant Farmworker Tactics under a Regime of Immobility Human Organization (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Jennifer R. Guzmán, Melanie A. Medeiros
This article documents the sociospatial dynamics and policies that intensify structural vulnerability among Latin American im/migrant farmworkers in Western/Central New York. Focusing on the produc...