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La Cité Current Anthropology (IF 3.226) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Camilo Leon-Quijano
Current Anthropology, Ahead of Print.
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The sexual politics of empire: Postcolonial homophobia in Haiti By Erin L.Durban. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2022. 234 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.906) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Dasha A. Chapman
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“Punching is a sickness” American Ethnologist (IF 1.906) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Leo Hopkinson
Men who box professionally in Accra recognize that bouts are physically harmful and that they involve violently subordinating one another. Yet they also share a sense that bouts can be spaces of mutual becoming and affirmation. To navigate the tension between harm and affirmation, boxers and coaches couch their work between the ropes in idioms of care and mutual support. These idioms reflect their
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Uncertainty, Bewilderment Aversion, and the Problem of Physician Suicide Current Anthropology (IF 3.226) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Elizabeth Bromley
Current Anthropology, Ahead of Print.
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Visible critique/critical visibility American Ethnologist (IF 1.906) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Elizabeth Derderian
Artists based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are pressured by international art elites to critique the illiberal regime under which they live. But doing so is illegal. It can lead the state to retaliate with harassment, detention, cancellation of residency visas, and expulsion. Nonetheless, gatekeeping curators and critics validate UAE‐based artists’ work as worthwhile and good if these artists
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Fiat speech, fiat infrastructure American Ethnologist (IF 1.906) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Judith Bovensiepen
In 2011 the independent government of Timor‐Leste initiated a controversial oil and gas infrastructure project. To persuade Timorese citizens to embrace their vision of the future based on oil and gas, supporters of the project employed narrative strategies conventionally reserved for ritual authorities. Their scaling of ritual speech to the level of the nation hinged on establishing iconic links across
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¡Alerta! Engineering on shaky ground By ElizabethReddy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2023. 215 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.906) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Lisa Messeri
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Anthropology with a philosophical sensibility American Ethnologist (IF 1.906) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Eraldo Souza dos Santos
While philosophy and anthropology have much to say to each other, they do not always mesh in productive ways. Critically reflecting on an edited volume that seeks to bring insights from philosophy to anthropological analysis, I consider how the volume's form, while didactic, may contribute to the reproduction of power dynamics that both anthropologists and philosophers have denounced. More broadly
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Money, Currency, and Heterodox Macroeconomics for Archaeology Current Anthropology (IF 3.226) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Robert M. Rosenswig
Current Anthropology, Ahead of Print.
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Variation in bioavailable lead, copper, and strontium concentrations in human skeletons from medieval to early modern Denmark Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Jesper L. Boldsen, Dorthe Dangvard Pedersen, George R. Milner, Vicki R.L. Kristensen, Lilian Skytte, Stig Bergmann Møller, Torben Birk Sarauw, Charlotte Boje Hilligsø Andersen, Lars Agersnap Larsen, Inger Marie Hyldgaard, Mette Klingenberg, Lars Krants Larsen, Lene Mollerup, Lone Seeberg, Lars Christian Bentsen, Morten Søvsø, Tenna Kristensen, Jakob Tue Christensen, Poul Baltzer Heide, Lone C. Nørgaard
Three trace elements in human bones permit the delineation of temporal and social variability among medieval to early modern Danes in what they ate (strontium, Sr) and whether they lived in an urban or non-urban setting (lead, Pb; copper, Cu). The chemical composition of bones from 332 children (5 to 12 years old) buried in 51 Danish cemeteries was estimated through Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass
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Pig‐feast democracy American Ethnologist (IF 1.906) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Veronika Kusumaryati
In most Melanesian societies, pig feasts have been declining in recent years, owing to the incursion of Christianity and the modern economy. But in Indonesia‐occupied West Papua, pig feasts are being held more often, and at a greater scale, than ever. The feasts are taking place in the context of West Papua's “special autonomy” status and Indonesia's democratic reforms, which have established direct
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Modeling Archaic land use and mobility in north-central Belize Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Marieka Brouwer Burg, Eleanor Harrison-Buck
The Archaic period has not been as widely studied in Mesoamerica as it has been in other parts of the Americas. This problem stems from intractable issues such as low archaeological visibility and high post-depositional disturbance. And, while existing Archaic data from northern Belize indicates that foraging groups practiced diverse adaptations, little theoretical effort has been dedicated toward
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Situating microbes American Ethnologist (IF 1.906) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Timothy Gitzen
Microbes are relational, and they foster multispecies relationality. In both mundane and profound ways, they connect, interlace, and affect bodies, and are affected by them in turn. This comes to the fore in two recent ethnographic volumes that interrogate microbial worlds: The Probiotic Planet: Using Life to Manage Life, by Jamie Lorimer, and With Microbes, edited by Charlotte Brives, Matthaus Rest
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Sex and stature estimation on the tibia: a virtual pilot study on a contemporary Hispanic population Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Giorgia Mittino, Helen Langstaff, Julieta G. García‐Donas
Sex and stature estimation represent two pillars in the creation of the biological profile, providing crucial demographic information that forensic anthropologists use for the identification of unknown skeletonized remains. This pilot study evaluates population data proposing a virtual sex and stature estimation method for a Hispanic population using the tibia. Ninety‐two CT scans from the New Mexico
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Traditional adhesive production systems in Zambia and their archaeological implications Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Sebastian Fajardo, Jelte Zeekaf, Tinde van Andel, Christabel Maombe, Terry Nyambe, George Mudenda, Alessandro Aleo, Martha Nchimunya Kayuni, Geeske H.J. Langejans
This study explores traditional adhesives using an ethnobiological approach within a multisocioecological context in Zambia. Through semi-structured interviews, videotaped demonstrations, and herbarium collections, we investigated the traditional adhesives people know and use, the flexibility of production processes, resource usage, and knowledge transmission in adhesive production. Our findings reveal
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Flexible families: Nicaraguan transnational families in Costa Rica By CaitlinFouratt. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2022. 181 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.906) Pub Date : 2024-02-25 Lynnette Arnold
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Unearthing the Racial Landscape in New Orleans Current Anthropology (IF 3.226) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Zhumin Xu
Current Anthropology, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 170-171, February 2024.
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Worshipping Machines Current Anthropology (IF 3.226) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Anne Dippel
Current Anthropology, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 168-169, February 2024.
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Against Primordialism Current Anthropology (IF 3.226) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Samuel Fury Childs Daly
Current Anthropology, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 167-168, February 2024.
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Front Matter Current Anthropology (IF 3.226) Pub Date : 2024-02-22
Current Anthropology, Volume 65, Issue 1, February 2024.
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Front Cover Current Anthropology (IF 3.226) Pub Date : 2024-02-22
Current Anthropology, Volume 65, Issue 1, February 2024.
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Metaphoric veiled image-schema of kinship organization in ceremonial space: A south Andean case Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Tom D. Dillehay
This study is an interdisciplinary approach to a veiled metaphoric design expressed in the present-day spatial layout of ecologically-derived patronyms of Mapuche lineages and families positioned in public ceremonial plazas. The perspective combines ethnoarchaeological, cognitive, iconographic, oral tradition, allegoric metaphor, and historical approaches to the organization and meaning of this design
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Thanks for watching: An anthropological study of video sharing on YouTube By Patricia G.Lange. Louisville: University Press of Colorado, 2019. 362 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.906) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Daniel Miller
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Mafiacraft: An ethnography of deadly silence By DeborahPuccio‐Den. Chicago: Hau Books, 2021. 294 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.906) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Antonio Vesco
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Without the state: Self‐organization and political activism in Ukraine By EmilyChannell‐Justice. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022. 302 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.906) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Emma Mateo
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Experimenting with ethnography: A companion to analysis By AndreaBallestero and Brit RossWinthereik, eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 301 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.906) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Fulya Pinar
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Sextarianism: Sovereignty, secularism, and the state in Lebanon By MayaMikdashi. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022. 288 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.906) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Ola Galal
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Food allergy advocacy: Parenting and the politics of care By Danya Glabau. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 296 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.906) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Matthew Pappalardo, Holly Horan
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Chemical heroes: Pharmacological supersoldiers in the US military By Andrew Bickford. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 320 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.906) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Traben Pleasant
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Fat in four cultures—a global ethnography of weight By CindiSturtzSreetharan, AlexandraBrewis, JessicaHardin, SarahTrainer, and AmberWutich. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. 236 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.906) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Fernanda Baeza Scagliusi
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‘Even a piece of paper has two sides’: multi‐scalar cosmologies of Japanese New Year cards Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Inge Daniels
Annually on 1 January, Japan's efficient postal system circulates 2.5 billion New Year cards to arrive simultaneously in every home in the country. Based on ethnographic fieldwork around Osaka, this article investigates the continued popularity of this exchange of paper forms in an age of smartphones and fast internet connections. Extending recent anthropological scholarship about digital data, I argue
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Ritual networks and the structure of moral communities in Classic Maya society Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2024-02-18 Jessica Munson, Matthew Looper, Jonathan Scholnick
Ritual plays an important integrative function in the creation, maintenance, and transformation of human society. The shared experience of ritual establishes strong bonds between individuals that defines their membership in certain social groups. However, rituals are not timeless traditions, nor do they simply restore social equilibrium. Rather, rituals are active and ongoing social processes that
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Spatial and temporal trends in the distribution of engraved eggshell fragments: A comparative view from the Holocene archaeological record of southern Africa and southern South America Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Natalia Carden, Gustavo Martínez, Peter Mitchell, Jayson Orton
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Making places in the world: An ethnographic review and archaeologic perspective on hunter-gatherer relationships with trees Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Paula C. Ugalde, Steven L. Kuhn
Despite the importance of trees in the lives of hunter-gatherers, the economic, cultural, and spiritual roles of trees have been seldom explored empirically or theoretically. What research exists on the topic has mostly focused on economic aspects, especially firewood management, consumption of edible tree products, and tool manufacture. Here, we summarize data collected from 104 ethnographies on hunter-gatherers
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The Embarrassment of Heritage Alienability Current Anthropology (IF 3.226) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Chiara Bortolotto
Current Anthropology, Ahead of Print.
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Settling the record: 3,000 years of continuity and growth in a Coast Salish settlement constellation Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Patrick Morgan Ritchie, Jerram Ritchie, Michael Blake, Eric Simons, Dana Lepofsky
For Indigenous people across the globe, being connected to traditional lands and histories continues to be of paramount importance. To document this connection on one river system in the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America, we compiled archaeological evidence from 14 settlements occupied between 3,000 years ago and the early 20th century. We demonstrate how households and lineages persisted inter-generationally
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Dance religious convers(at)ions: post-exotic ethnography of the circulation of sabar and Baye Fall aesthetics in France and Switzerland Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Alice Aterianus-Owanga
This article draws on an ethnography of the transmission of Senegalese sabar dancing in France and Switzerland to discuss how the religious pathways of sabar enthusiasts bear witness to many modes of adoption or rejection of Mouride and Baye Fall aesthetics. I focus on several portraits of students in order to highlight three modalities of the relationship with Baye Fall aesthetics, faith, and religious
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‘We welcome migrants and the tourists come’: postmodern hospitality in Palermo, Sicily Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Margaret Neil
In Palermo, Sicily, actors use the metaphor of hospitality to profess cosmopolitan attitudes towards ‘migrants’. This raises a conceptual puzzle: hospitality and cosmopolitanism represent contradictory models of social ethics. But an ethnography of one social enterprise reveals that the hospitality in use is not traditional hospitality. Rather, employing what I call ‘postmodern hospitality’ shows a
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Truth clashes: caste atrocities, false cases, and the limits of hate crime law in North India Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Sandhya Fuchs
This article brings together theories of truth in legal anthropology and the anthropology of religion to highlight how legal institutions can co-opt hate crime laws and reproduce patterns of sociopolitical oppression. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research on the social life of India's only hate crime law – the 1989 Prevention of Atrocities Act (PoA), which punishes violence against Dalit (ex-untouchable)
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Rural boredom: atmospheres of blocked promises Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Michael Schnegg
This article asks why Namibians complain that rural communities have become ǀowesa (boring) and why they describe a feeling of pointlessness. After Namibia gained independence in 1990, those who migrated to the towns often progressed economically, while those who remained in the rural hinterlands became the spectators of their success. At the same time, they experienced their efforts as having been
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Comparison through Collaboration Current Anthropology (IF 3.226) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Steffen Jensen, Dennis Rodgers
Current Anthropology, Ahead of Print.
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Resistant Breathing Current Anthropology (IF 3.226) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Umut Yıldırım
Current Anthropology, Ahead of Print.
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Cumulative Culture, Archaeology, and the Zone of Latent Solutions Current Anthropology (IF 3.226) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Kim Sterelny, Peter Hiscock
Current Anthropology, Ahead of Print.
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“My Culture Made Me Do It” Current Anthropology (IF 3.226) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Lawrence Rosen
Current Anthropology, Ahead of Print.
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Hinged Dialogues and Heteroglossic Silence Current Anthropology (IF 3.226) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Matt Tomlinson
Current Anthropology, Ahead of Print.
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National capitalism, unhinged Economic Anthropology (IF 1.236) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Elizabeth Ferry
Keith Hart's magisterial, eclectic essay “The Rise and Fall of National Capitalism” takes on a dizzying array of topics, from the nature of money to the concept of the nation to the tension between “shareholder value” and “corporate social responsibility” to the mutual admiration society of celebrities, economists, politicians, and journalists at the World Economic Forum in Davos. The essay must be
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Family ideology: uneasy entanglements of eldercare in Germany Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Hadas Weiss
Material pressures on privatized households are commonly absorbed through a family ideology, according to which members must pool resources and care for each other, while the family relations they thereby nurture are inherently valuable and constitute their own reward. Drawing on my fieldwork on family-based eldercare in Germany, I explore the implications of this ideology. Specifically, I argue that
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Rewild Your Inner Hunter-Gatherer Current Anthropology (IF 3.226) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Noa Lavi, Alice Rudge, Graeme Warren
Current Anthropology, Ahead of Print.
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Erratum Current Anthropology (IF 3.226) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Xitlali Aguirre-Dugua, Alejandro Casas
Current Anthropology, Volume 64, Issue 6, Page 749-749, December 2023.
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Front Cover Current Anthropology (IF 3.226) Pub Date : 2024-01-08
Current Anthropology, Volume 64, Issue 6, December 2023.
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Front Matter Current Anthropology (IF 3.226) Pub Date : 2024-01-08
Current Anthropology, Volume 64, Issue 6, December 2023.
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Archaeologiques of sight: The visual world fosters the engagement between doing, seeing, and thinking Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.312) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Felipe Criado-Boado, Luis M. Martínez, Manuel J. Blanco, Diego Alonso-Pablos, Jadranka Verdonkschot
The paper examines how materializations of human practices relate to human cognition and to socio-cultural contexts. By combining evidence on the relationship between material culture and perceptual behaviour, we aim to understand the interactions between the mind, objects, and the world. The research is based on data regarding the visual perception of prehistoric pottery that was analyzed using Eye-Tracking
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Understanding money; Or, why social and financial accounting should not be conflated Economic Anthropology (IF 1.236) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Robert M. Rosenswig
This article defines social and financial money as distinct institutions that account for different realms of value. I present a fundamental dichotomy among economists' where orthodox theory defines money as a medium of exchange whereas heterodox chartalist economists characterize it as a unit of account. I argue that (pre)historical data provides clear evidence in support of the heterodox position
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Anthropology unbound American Ethnologist (IF 1.906) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Saira A. Mehmood
As an anthropologist currently working in the policy realm, I provide insights on the value of anthropology and its potential for growth and impact, both within and beyond academia. Drawing from my experiences studying in graduate school, teaching in academia, and holding nonacademic jobs, I suggest that anthropology can flourish by breaking free from disciplinary boundaries and silos, challenging
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The maturing of anthropology American Ethnologist (IF 1.906) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Daniel Miller
As anthropology reaches maturity, its contributions are likely to grow. This is because the discipline's practitioners, in writing parochial ethnography, can link a respect for individual difference to our understanding of global humanity. Such a practice aligns with the growing political struggle to retain meaning in an expanding world. Moreover, anthropology's commitment to life as lived research
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A view from another side, or, not just another quit-lit essay American Ethnologist (IF 1.906) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Lori A. Allen
Academic anthropology is a paradoxical realm. On the one hand, opportunities for creatively exploring the human condition are hemmed in by administrators and bureaucracy. On the other hand, scholars in the academy have the space to call for justice—in Palestine and elsewhere, as they did in 2023, when the American Anthropological Association passed a resolution to boycott Israeli institutions. This
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Translating the social in complex technology development American Ethnologist (IF 1.906) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Melissa Cefkin
As an anthropologist, I have worked with people in both developing new technologies and managing existing ones. Based on this experience, I suggest that although anthropologically informed perspectives can contribute to technology development—from providing insights on particular cases to raising broader questions about a product's impact on society—the route to doing so is sometimes indirect. In this
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The smugness of privilege American Ethnologist (IF 1.906) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Don Kulick
This essay answers the question What good is anthropology? via a discussion of Susan Sontag's review of photographer Diane Arbus's 1972 retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. Sontag asserts that Arbus, in depicting people whom Sontag smugly regards as “ugly,” is necessarily exploiting them. I perceive an exact comparison between Arbus's photographs and anthropology as an epistemological