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Ethnography beyond thick data Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-12 Ajda Pretnar Žagar, Dan Podjed
This article presents opportunities for enriching anthropological knowledge and methods with machine learning and data analysis. Different examples show how quantitative methods empower anthropologists and how computational methods supplement ethnography, from sensor data and interview transcripts to designing technology solutions and automatically labeling cultural heritage. Conversely, the authors
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Diversity Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 Elizabeth Beckner
In this essay, the meaning of diversity is explored as it pertains to senior underrepresented minority (URM) faculty experiences. The experiences of senior URM faculty were gathered through the URM Senior Scholars Histories Project to bring more visibility to racist and sexist practices and to the lack of diversity among faculty within research universities. This brings into question the use of the
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Human centered design for applied anthropology Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-27 Mary Carnes, Angela VandenBroek, Emily K. Brunson
In this article, we highlight a partnership between CommuniVax and a human‐centered design firm (Bridgeable) that resulted in CommuniVaxCHAT—an online toolkit capable of engaging community members and translating their experiences and local knowledge in a way that decision‐makers, including mayors and public health directors, can act upon. In addition to considering the process involved in creating
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Applying up: How ethnographers powered public health changes in the United States during the COVID‐19 pandemic Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-27 Monica Schoch‐Spana
“Studying up” was Laura Nader's provocation to anthropologists to scrutinize the actions of the powerful few in relation to the ordeals of the powerless many. Engaging this lineage, this article describes CommuniVax, a rapid ethnographic research coalition supporting an equitable COVID‐19 vaccine rollout in the United States. By tapping hyperlocal knowledge as well as that held by public health and
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Anthropology at speed, at scale, in action: The CommuniVax example Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Emily K. Brunson, Monica Schoch‐Spana
This special issue presents accounts of different aspects of the CommuniVax Coalition and its work—a project that conducted rapid, multisited, applied anthropological research to deliver guidance during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Our purpose in writing these articles is to provide details of our work so anthropologists interested in similar types of research can learn from our efforts. While anthropological
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“Use what you have: ” Health promotion and economic vitality in a COVID‐19 worksite vaccination initiative Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-15 Stephanie M. McClure, Kathryn Oths, Pamela Payne Foster, Olivia R. Radcliffe, Bronwen Lichtenstein
In mid‐2021, the CommuniVax Alabama team broadened their community engagement by partnering with the Chamber of Commerce, the Alabama Department of Public Health, and others to bring vaccines to the workplace. Through this collaboration, the team hoped to fortify the state's persistently anemic rate of vaccination. The goals of increasing access to, and convenience of COVID‐19 vaccination were only
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An audacious approach to incorporating students into the ethnographic research process Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-13 Diana Schow, Elizabeth Cartwright, Tamra Bassett
In this paper, we discuss the experience of the Idaho CommuniVax local team and how a large‐scale incorporation of college students into its ethnographic research process ensured bona‐fide community engagement and a deeper understanding of the experiences of Hispanic community members as they considered COVID‐19 vaccination within the broader context of non‐Hispanic, rural, agricultural southeastern
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Ethics and ambiguity in wastewater development on the Placencia Peninsula, Belize Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-20 W. Alex Webb, E. Christian Wells, Christine Prouty, Rebecca Zarger, Maya Trotz
Development projects present ambiguous ethical terrain for anthropologists to navigate. Particularly in relation to WaSH (Water, Sanitation, Hygiene) infrastructures which mediate human and environmental health. Our interdisciplinary team of anthropologists and engineers initially set out to design context‐sensitive on‐site wastewater treatment infrastructures for homes along Belize's Placencia Peninsula
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The missing study groups: Liminality and communitas in the time of COVID‐19 Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Fredy R. Rodríguez‐Mejía, Elizabeth K. Briody, Ethan L. Copple, Edward J. Berger
We examine the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on teaching and learning in an Engineering School of a large US research university. We focus on the adjustment of instructors as they converted their courses to distance teaching and learning formats (e.g., virtual sessions, online forums) and on bachelor student experiences with those changes. While both instructors and students experienced liminality
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Deep hanging out, mixed methods toolkit, or something else? Current ethnographic practices in US anthropology Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Jeffrey G. Snodgrass, Michael G. Lacy, Amber Wutich, H. Russell Bernard, Kathryn S. Oths, Melissa Beresford, Shawna Bendeck, Julia R. Branstrator, H. J. François Dengah, Robin G. Nelson, Alissa Ruth, Seth I. Sagstetter, Cindi SturtzSreetharan, Katya Xinyi Zhao
We use a mix of qualitative and quantitative analyses to examine 1354 survey responses from members of the American Anthropological Association about their practice and teaching of cultural anthropology research methods. Latent profile analysis and an examination of responses to open‐ended survey questions reveal distinctive methodological clustering among anthropologists. However, two historical approaches
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Living art or souvenir? Perspectives on the interpretation of traditional pottery in Cambodia Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Giacomo Caruso
Cambodia is a country facing an unprecedented wave of development but also the delicate task of conservation of traditional heritage. Pottery is one of the crafts that the Khmer civilization had been able to produce in various forms, of which mainly two are found in the country today. One style, produced in the province of Kampong Chhnang, is utilitarian and has a fairly solid internal market due to
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Institutional delivery and maternal health: Anthropological insights from Southwest Ethiopia Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Dejene Teshome Kibret, Tekle Wakijira Firisa
The quest to ensure maternal health has long been in focus, mainly since the Safe Motherhood Initiative of the 1980s. Maternal health is contingent, among other things, on the availability of maternal health care services and the context in which the services are available. Therefore, we conducted rapid ethnographic research at four public hospitals in Southwest Ethiopia to gain anthropological insights
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Consuming unregulated “diet weed”: The social context of motivations and risk among users of Delta-8 THC Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Malka Riell, Doug Henry
A relatively novel, laboratory-produced, hemp-derived psychoactive cannabinoid called “Delta-8 THC” has become widely available to consumers since 2020. Lack of federal oversight and a loose patchwork of regulations by states have resulted in numerous “adverse events” reported by poison control centers and the CDC, and even warnings from the industry itself. Yet consumer demand for cannabinoids like
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How career ready are your students? Reflections on what we are (not) teaching anthropology students Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-30 Riall W. Nolan, Elizabeth K. Briody
Despite the growing market in industry, government, and non-profits for anthropologists, and their evident success there, anthropology has no real framework for teaching students about the practical applications of anthropology. This pattern appears at all degree levels—bachelor's, master's, and PhD. With that in mind, the Anthropology Career Readiness Network set out to investigate and identify some
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How to avoid the “infrastructural blues”? Studying-while-caring for data stewardship Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Luis Felipe R. Murillo
When it comes to climate crisis research, current debates are increasingly thematizing the needs but also the challenges of collaborative, transdisciplinary work. Geophysical characterizations of climate change are increasingly deemed insufficient to respond to the challenges that vulnerable communities face worldwide. In this paper, I describe the work of studying-while-caring for an environmental
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A mereological qualitative study protocol for understanding the lived experience of homelessness in California Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-03 Michael Duke, Zena K. Dhatt, Tianna Jacques, Cheyenne Garcia, Grace Taylor, Margot Kushel, Kelly Knight
Although qualitative interview studies provide in-depth understandings of the opinions and lived experiences of social groups, they are typically small in scale, bounded by a small number of physical or virtual spaces, and designed to capture relatively demarcated aspects of participants’ experiences. This paper describes the qualitative component of a large mixed method study of homelessness in California
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Action anthropology and public policy change: Lead poisoning in Syracuse, NY Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Sandra D. Lane, Robert A. Rubinstein, Oceanna Fair, Katie Farkouh, Melaica Delgado, Tanya S. McGee, Kinley Gaudette, Paul Ciavarri, Maureen Thompson, Md Koushik Ahmed
In Syracuse, New York more than 10% of children are lead poisoned each year, a toxic exposure that lowers the children's ability to learn and increases risky behaviors in adolescence. African American children are affected at nearly twice the rate of White children. We describe a community-university collaboration to reduce childhood lead poisoning in Syracuse, and the effects these efforts have had
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“Maintaining hope for a better future”: An interview with Dr. Crystal Felima Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Crystal Felima, Abigail DeeWaard, Clara Barbier, Erica Cano-Garcia, Gonzalo Jeronimo, Nari Coleman, Nataliya Hryshko, Mark Schuller
While anthropologists have played roles speaking out for marginalized groups, formalized to combat Antisemitism, racism, and xenophobia, they have also aided in the marginalization and oppression of communities, justified colonialism, and put the communities they have studied at risk. In recent decades, anthropologists have rethought the way research is conducted, presented, and justified to reduce
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Erratum Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-06-28
Ding, E., Storey, A.D., Lee, B.M., Jhoslien, A. and Cora, M. (2023), “Where Do I Even Start?”: Exploring Resources for Anthropology Students’ College-to-Career Transitions. Annals of Anthropological Practice, 47: 79–90. https://doi.org/10.1111/napa.12199 In the article above, the third author's first name is misspelled. The correct spelling of the author's name is: Briana M. Lee
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Erratum Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-06-27
Jackson, P., Ginsberg, D. and Storey, A.D. (2023), Student Researchers’ Reflections on the AAA Undergraduate Fellowship. Annals of Anthropological Practice, 47: 91–98. https://doi.org/10.1111/napa.12196 In the article above, the order of the authors is incorrect. The correct order is: Palmyra Jackson, Angela D. Storey, Daniel Ginsberg
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Participatory design of a smart forest in the Brazilian Amazon using smartphones, algorithms, and ethnographic methods Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-05-07 Shaozeng Zhang, Leonardo Ribeiro da Silva
This article reports on the participatory design of a smart forest project in a state forest reserve in the Brazilian Amazon in collaboration primarily with local community residents and secondarily with forest reserve managers and environmental scientists. The Smart Forest project was collectively proposed to use low-cost digital technologies for forest-carbon monitoring and sustainable development
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Critiquing Neocolonial Digital Barriers’ Impact on eLibraries and African Scholarship Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Kamela Heyward-Rotimi
This article offers an overview of the Knowledge Exchange Research Group (KERG) West African Elibrary Collaborative (WAELC) study of West African scholars' systemic restricted access to digitized scholarly databases. WAELC, an ongoing qualitative and quantitative study, explores limited accessibility to current open-access digital repositories and platforms at some African universities. A practical
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Beyond Methods: A Model for Teaching Theory in Applied Anthropology Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-02-26 Lauren Hayes, Yuson Jung
Rising numbers of anthropology majors are entering sectors in industry, in which qualitative data analysis skills and theoretical thinking are essential. Yet, a disciplinary divide between theoretical and applied approaches in anthropology and a market for commodified method skills often present challenges to teaching theory in the applied anthropology classroom. Our study is based upon the successful
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“Where Do I Even Start?”: Exploring Resources for Anthropology Students’ College-to-Career Transitions Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-02-24 Emily Ding, Angela D. Storey, Brianna M. Lee, Anastasia Jhoslien, Maria Cora
This article explores the resources that are available, or should be made available, to support college-to-career transitions for undergraduate anthropology students. Using mixed methods, this research was conducted by undergraduate anthropology students at a small Christian college in Illinois and at a large public university in Kentucky, in conjunction with a wider project for the American Anthropological
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Anthropology Majors Prepare for Life after College Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-02-24 Daniel Ginsberg, Palmyra Jackson
Unlike business, health, or engineering courses, undergraduate liberal arts programs do not point majors directly to a professional application, so students often need to creatively explore and identify professional roles and workplaces in which to use their education. Anthropology presents particular challenges: while students may enroll in economics if their institution has no undergraduate business
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How Studying Anthropology Changes Students Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-02-24 Maria Kitchin, Emily Ding, Colette A. Nortman, Gina Hunter, William Roberts
Student research fellows at three universities (Illinois State University, St. Mary's College of Maryland, and Wheaton College) conducted ethnographic research among peers in anthropology programs to better understand students’ experiences in the major and their career goals. In this article, we highlight student narratives of personal and intellectual growth. We found that current majors had more
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“There's a Lot You Can Do with It”: Anthropology Undergraduates Talk about Their Professional Futures Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Colette A. Nortman, Maria Kitchin, Victoria L. Kvitek, William Roberts, Gina Hunter
What do anthropology students think about their professional future? In what ways does the study of anthropology provide competencies or skills that will be useful in the workplace? Research fellows from Illinois State University, Indiana University, and St. Mary's College of Maryland conducted individual interviews, focus groups, or surveys of alumni or graduating seniors to examine narratives about
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Student Researchers’ Reflections on the AAA Undergraduate Fellowship Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-02-10 Palmyra Jackson, Daniel Ginsberg, Angela D. Storey
When the American Anthropological Association offered its Undergraduate Research Fellows program in 2019–2020, the intent was not only to obtain ethnographic insights into the college-workforce transition for anthropology majors, but also to provide a meaningful educational experience to the participating student-researchers. Previously (Ginsberg and Jackson, this issue), we have situated the fellowship
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“Hooked”: How Undergraduate Students Become Anthropology Majors Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-02-10 Victoria L. Kvitek, Maria Cora, Anastasia Jhoslien, Briana M. Lee, Angela D. Storey
How and why do undergraduate students decide to become anthropology majors? We explore this question through mixed methods research conducted by undergraduate students at two public universities in the United States and one in New Zealand. We found that students often discovered anthropology once in college and many spoke about it as a dynamic major through which they might enact change. The major
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Protocols for Conducting Drone Fieldwork in Togo, West Africa Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-09-30 Colin Thor West, Rajah Saparapa, Koff Nomedji, Devon Maloney, Aaron Moody
Fieldwork is a hallmark of anthropology and the experience of being in the field features prominently in scholarly works. The processes by which anthropologists obtain permission to conduct fieldwork, however, are rarely described. The study presented here discusses in substantial detail how a research project in Togo, West Africa obtained official authorization to conduct un-crewed aerial vehicle
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The Concept of Cultural Attachment and Its Policy Applications Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-09-18 Kevin Preister, James A. Kent
The concept of cultural attachment is in the vernacular in the Appalachian region of the United States and served to stimulate policy attention to the concept when a 765 kV electric transmission line was proposed through Peters Mountain on the border between Virginia and West Virginia. The environmental impact statement of the U.S. Forest Service examined the extent of cultural attachment in the project
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Why College Students Don't Access Resources for Food Insecurity: Stigma and Perceptions of Need Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-09-09 Nicole Peterson, Andrea Freidus, Dmitry Tereshenko
Attempts to understand college student food insecurity have primarily focused on demographic characteristics associated with higher rates of food insecurity, and have recommended improving awareness of and access to resources such as campus food pantries. We argue in this article that this emphasis on individual-level factors and efforts can lead to stigma or shame for many of those using pantries
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Lost in Plain Sight: How Current Burial Practices Impact Migrant Death Investigation in South Texas Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-06-29 Molly A. Kaplan, M. Katherine Spradley
High rates of migrant fatalities at the U.S. southern border represent an ongoing mass disaster that is the product of Prevention through Deterrence policies funneling migrants into remote and deadly terrain. Due to a fragmented, underresourced, and overwhelmed medicolegal system in South Texas, the majority of unidentified migrant decedents recovered in the region are buried without proper investigation
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On Witnessing, Standing with, and Collaborating: Thoughts on Expertise, Knowledge Production, and the Ethics of Compensation Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-04 Jennifer Burrell
Anthropologists have struggled with the issue of how to “give back” to the people who have welcomed us, collaborated with us, and become our friends. Expert witnessing for the asylum cases of members of communities that have opened their doors to us is one way of addressing uneven relationships and power dynamics. I provide expertise for cases almost exclusively from a place where I have worked for
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From Quantitative Fact to Discursive Practice: Techniques for Asserting the Reliability of Anthropological Knowledge in Expert Testimony Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-02-07 Leila Rodriguez
Unlike other expert witnesses, cultural anthropologists must not only provide expert evidence on the case but also convince judges of its validity for meeting the Daubert standard. In this article, I juxtapose two expert testimony reports I have written in criminal and asylum cases. For the first, I conducted cultural consensus analysis, a formal quantitative technique, to gather data on beliefs about
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Enabling or Subverting Legal Violence? Expert Witnesses in Immigration Proceedings Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-02-07 Lauren Heidbrink
Do expert witnesses enable legal violence by participating in a repressive immigration system? Drawing from over 20 years of court watching, accompaniment, and expert witness testimony, this article discusses some of the complications, contradictions, and ethical dilemmas in applying anthropological knowledge to immigration proceedings particularly for child applicants. For example, how might we effectively
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Using Theory and Ethnography for Asylum Seekers Fleeing Gendered Violence Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-02-07 Lynn Stephen
This article focuses on how to use ethnography and theory to disrupt binaries between “state” and “non-state” actors and violence and “private” and “public” actors and violence. I also touch on expanded use of the political opinion basis for asylum in relation to women resisting violence and immigrant rights activists who are undocumented.
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Conclusion: General and Particular Challenges of Expert Witnessing Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-02-06 M. Gabriela Torres, Tatianna Staszkow
The concluding reflection of the special section “Expert Witnessing in Asylum Practice” puts the particular challenges for anthropologists in context. It highlights the ways that issues of essentialism are particular to our discipline and points to current and future general challenges for expert witnesses working in the U.S. asylum system.
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Dilemmas of Immigrant Asylum Claims for Expert Witnesses Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-02-04 Nathan P. Jones, Howard Campbell
Expert witnesses are key players in immigration asylum proceedings. In many cases, their testimony is the difference between prompt deportation and some form of relief. However, political and economic structures overdetermine the factual and legal dimensions of immigrant asylum claims. The U.S. immigration system from its inception has been heavily politicized and discriminatory. The problem has become
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Particular Social Group Trouble: Producing Categories of “Unworthy” Asylum Seekers Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-02-04 Amelia Frank-Vitale
Developing ethnographic knowledge is largely about understanding and retaining nuance, complexity, and, even, contradiction. In the asylum courtroom, however, the law looks for certainty, clear percentages of likelihood of harm, and general, essential claims that a given people/country are a particular way. In this essay, I reflect on the ways in which the asylum system, by requiring that individuals
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When Violence Is neither “Personal” nor “General” Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-01-31 Sarah England
In this essay, I use a case of testifying as an expert witness to argue that the anthropological focus on multicausality, context, and the social/cultural origins of persecution is useful and necessary in asylum cases. The government attorney argued that the persecutor's violence was “personal,” related only to his alcoholism, not the victim's identity as his wife. I argued that regardless of his personal
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Expert Witnessing in the Asylum Economy Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-01-28 Ellen Moodie
Homeland Security lawyers routinely ask experts in immigration court cases about compensation for their labor. The suggestion is that if money has been exchanged, perhaps their opinions have been bought. Meanwhile, pro bono offerings can be seen as “activism”—motivated beyond the court-framed “truth.” Even as I offer many declarations pro bono, I have come to recognize, uneasily, my role in an extended
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Practical Considerations for Serving as an Expert Witness for Central American Asylum Cases Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-01-27 Brent Metz
The decision for academics, especially ethnographers whose contributions involve rapport and friendship, to serve as expert witnesses, particularly for the growing numbers of applicants from northern Central America, should involve ethical and professional considerations. While expert witnesses do not determine the veracity of individual cases, they should at least reflect when people from populations
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Introduction: Changes and Challenges in Expert Witnessing Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-01-27 James Phillips
This Introduction highlights the dynamic nature of expert witnessing by highlighting some of the major areas of change and challenge: Our understanding of the immigrant and the asylum seeker reflected in changing legal categorizations, changing conditions in sending and receiving countries, and the changing and expanding field of anthropology that provides new critiques, materials, and perspectives
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Truth and Responsibility in Expert Witnessing Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-01-19 Whitney L. Duncan, Beatriz Reyes-Foster
Providing expert testimony in asylum proceedings for mentally ill Mexicans, we are regularly asked to reduce individual subjects to diagnostic categories and an entire country to one of its most dysfunctional institutions. How, attorneys and judges ask us, does Mexican “culture”—through its institutions and psychiatric hospitals—treat the mentally ill? To adjudicators of asylum claims, there must be
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Competing Versions of Reality in Honduras: State Theory as a Tool for the Anthropologist Expert Witness Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-01-17 Jordan Levy
In this article, I explore some challenges and strategies for anthropologist expert witnesses working on cases where home-country governments depict an overall more positive situation than what the applicants claim. Drawing upon an anonymized Honduran asylum case, I discuss the utility of state theory for debunking fallacious home-government sources that downplay dangerous situations while exaggerating
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Participatory Action Research with Immigrant Youth in Tokyo: Possibilities and Challenges of Ibasho Creation Project Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Tomoko Tokunaga, Isabel Machado Da Silva, Mengyuan Fu
The last decade saw a 32 percent increase in the number of immigrant children and youth in Japan and the educational difficulties they experienced. Part-time high schools have played a critical role in furthering equity and inclusion by securing ibasho (places where one feels comfortable, safe, and accepted) toward these students. Drawing on the participatory action research approach, we collaborated
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Participatory Action Research in Education: Benefits and Tensions Across Contexts Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-12-24 Jim Sosnowski, Tomoko Tokunaga, Sarah A. Evans
This special section examines the enactment of participatory action research (PAR) across three distinct educational contexts: a public library program for teens, an after-school program in Japan, and a prison-based adult language and literacy program. This introduction provides an overview of the principles associated with PAR and outlines potential tensions and challenges associated with partnering
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“We Need People to be Woken Up and See This!” Teens Learning Through Critical Analysis Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-12-17 Sarah A. Evans
The continued dearth of realistic, culturally diverse characters in children's literature corresponds with the lack of diversity among those who create, publish, and review books. To address this problem, the researcher collaborated with six culturally diverse high school aged girls for a participatory action research (PAR) project that involved critical analysis of children's picture books that mirrored
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Shifting Subjectivities and Shifting Teaching: Participatory Action Research in Prison Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-12-17 Jim Sosnowski, Bryan Dean, Pablo Mendoza, Orlando Mayorga
Research focused on minoritized communities has predominantly been conducted by individuals associated with universities who have little connection to or investment in these communities beyond their research agenda. Oftentimes, this research benefits the researcher more than the community. This study of a peer-taught, prison-based, adult language, and literacy program challenged traditional research
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Anthropology by Data Science Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-12-17 Stephen Paff
This essay explores how to broaden the scope of what constitutes anthropological and ethnographic research by cross-fertilizing with data science. I discuss four types of relationships anthropologists have sought to foster with data science: anthropology of data science, anthropology over data science, anthropology with data science, and, the least developed of the four, anthropology by data science
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Building Community Through Ethnography in Action to Catalyze Student, Faculty, and Community Collaborations Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-11-11 Penske McCormack, Zoi Johns, Kassandra Neiss, Kamila Kinyon, Alejandro Cerón
Since its initial conception in 2017, the University of Denver Ethnography Lab (DUEL) has aimed to catalyze collaborations between students, faculty, and community organizations. Inspired by community–campus partnerships implemented in the past across the United States, DUEL seeks to cultivate a community of practice centered on ethnography in action, and to draw on strengths and opportunities specific
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Experiences and Effects of Food Insecurity Among Recently Resettled Refugees from the Congo Wars Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-10-11 Roberta D. Baer, Emily Holbrook, Renice Obure, Dillon Mahoney
Recently resettled refugees from the Congo Wars continue to struggle with food insecurity that, in many cases, extends to before their camp and war-time experiences. Beginning in 2016, a team from the University of South Florida has studied dietary adaptation and nutritional status among refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Population census data, in-depth interviews with household heads
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Integrating Praxis Through the Research Process: Caregivers for Older Americans During the COVID-19 Pandemic Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-09-09 Andrea Freidus, Dena Shenk, Christin Wolf
While applied anthropological research is sometimes envisioned as a linear process, we present an alternative view based on our research with frontline workers providing long-term care (LTC) for older adults during COVID-19. We completed a rapid qualitative assessment in central North Carolina from May to November 2020. We conducted data analysis as we continued to collect data and implemented activities
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The Challenges of Identifying Juvenile Soldiers in the Spanish Civil War Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 María Benito Sánchez, Miguel Mezquida Fenández, Javier Iglesias-Bexiga, Alejandro Calpe Vicente, Azahara Martínez Vallejo, María Fortuna Murillo
Every conflict referred to as a war results in the horror of loss and death. This is true of any war, and the Spanish Civil War is a good example. Many people disappeared and were never found again, mainly because nobody ever looked for them. There were several counteroffensives on the eastern war front in Spain's Levante region during 1938, which, although ending in Pyrrhic victories for the Republican
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Collaboration as Process: The Making of a Partnership to Serve At‐Risk Youths of Haitian Descent Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-03-08 Louis Herns Marcelin, Richard Dembo, Toni Cela, Catherimarty Burgos, Morris Copeland, Bryan Page
The increasingly intractable nature of many social problems has given rise to cross‐institutional and interdisciplinary collaborations in order to respond to social problems that no single entity can resolve on its own. One value of anthropology lies in its capacity to provide culturally tailored strategies for successful collaboration between different stakeholders in communities, across disciplinary
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Getting to Education to Get to Health: A Culture of Health Intervention in Orange, New Jersey Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-03-08 Katherine T. McCaffrey, Mindy Thomson Fullilove
In this essay, we tackle the challenge of adapting the dominant way we think about health in the United States—through an individualistic, technocratic, biomedical lens—to address social problems rooted in structural inequality. As scholar activists, the authors participated in a coalition effort to improve community health in a postindustrial New Jersey city. Adopting a social determinants of health
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It's Not Just Academic: The Importance of Program Development in Applied Anthropology Education Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-04-03 Emily K. Brunson, Keri Vacanti Brondo, Toni J. Copeland, Doug Henry
In this article we consider applied anthropology as it exists at the program level. While individual faculty can promote applied training, sustainability in applied education is only possible when entire faculties—and the college and university administrations that provide the necessary financial, structural, and social support—are committed to this approach. While many options for program development
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Teaching and Learning Through Class Projects: Improving Fruit and Vegetable Consumption Among Schoolchildren Annals of Anthropological Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-04-03 Toni Copeland
Participation in research prepares students for conducting future projects, academic, and professional success. Service learning combines classroom instruction with meaningful community engagement. This article presents an example of a class project that combined service learning and research to increase knowledge of and familiarity with fruits and vegetables through hands‐on food identification. The