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‘‘A dream of guru came to me’’: Meanings of dreaming about spiritual teacher for Chinese Indonesian Buddhists Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Stanley Khu, Izmy Khumairoh
Based on an ethnographic study among Chinese Indonesians who practice Tibetan Buddhism, we analyze doctrinal beliefs and meanings associated with the appearance of spiritual teacher in dreams. The most common meanings conveyed in their narratives were the beliefs that Guru‐related dreams signify successful spiritual practice, a prophetic insight into future events, and an encouragement for further
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Culture as response Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Michael Schnegg
To explain cultural diversity, many theories refer to the social construction of reality. In this telling, we frame the world to make it meaningful. In my analysis of what people in Namibia and Germany know about “SARS‐Cov‐2” and “climate change,” I propose an anti‐constructivist alternative. Drawing on the work of the phenomenologist Bernhard Waldenfels, I argue that experience comes first and exceeds
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Cultivating empathy and compassion: Lived experiences of engagement with cognitively‐based compassion training in the US Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Sara McConnell, Brendan Richard Ozawa‐de Silva, Chikako Ozawa‐de Silva
This qualitative study presents an analysis of data taken from 16 participants who were interviewed during and 1 year after they attended a course in Cognitively‐Based Compassion Training (CBCT), a meditation course that seeks to help participants cultivate empathy and compassion. The study sought to examine what benefits, if any, participants in a CBCT course reported with regard to their understanding
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“I want the world back”: Pandemic loneliness, bodies, and places Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Michelle Anne Parsons, Katherine A. Mason, Heather M. Wurtz, Sarah S. Willen
Psychology has tended to conceptualize loneliness as a lack of intimate and social relationships. This analysis draws on the journal entries of 100 participants in the Pandemic Journaling Project (PJP; a research study and online journaling platform that invited participants to chronicle their experiences during the COVID‐19 pandemic) to illustrate a more foundational sense of loneliness as a lack
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Reimagining Disabled Futurities: Of Personhood, Communication, and Intersubjectivity Sensory Futures: Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in India Michele Ilana Friedner, Minnesota, MN: University of Minnesota Press. 2022. ix+288 pp.Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer, Minnesota, MN: University of Minnesota Press. 2020. xiii+316 pp. Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2024-02-04 Priyasha Choudhary, Shubha Ranganathan
This book review essay tries to bring together two extremely pivotal books to understand how we can reimagine dominant modes of communication and how debunking the normative ideas surrounding it helps us to cognize personhood and intersubjectivity better. Michele Friedner's ‘Sensory Futures’ and Wolf-Meyer's ‘Unraveling’ are both critical attempts that try to understand how the sensory and neurological
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A continuum of “normal” experience: Positioning mental health struggles as human experiences in the university context Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Adrianna Nicole Wiley
This article explores how university students with mental health struggles engage in “illness-identity” work, the process by which an individual resituates their self in relation to their illness, using a phenomenological approach. Grounded in 24 semi-structured interviews with Canadian university students between the ages of 18 and 24 years who self-identify as experiencing mental health struggles
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Moral conflict in a (post)war story: Narrative as enactment of and reflection on moral injury Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Robin Conley Riner, Bryan D. Carnes
This article examines the discursive construction of moral conflict in a military veteran's (post)war story. By closely examining the linguistic details of a single veteran's narrative of war, this article addresses how moral conflict is revealed in shifts among varying modes of morality: from the conventional moral dispositions of the military, in which soldiers are socialized into acting, often violently
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Moorea lagoon fishers’ mental maps: An exploratory analysis of Polynesian spatial knowledge Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2023-12-23 Teriitutea Quesnot, Émilie Schmitter, Jean Wencélius, Tamatoa Bambridge
This empirical study builds upon prior research concerning cultural influences on spatial mental representations in Oceania. A comprehensive examination of 93 mental maps sourced from 59 lagoon fishers of Moorea (French Polynesia) reveals interesting facts about the way they organize and share their spatial knowledge. Firstly, consistent with previous studies across Oceania, Polynesian fishers exhibit
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Atmospheres: The multisensoriality of spatially extended emotions Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Patrick Eisenlohr
In this essay, I introduce an analytic of atmosphere as a way to bridge the gap between the phenomenology of the felt-body and the anthropology of the senses. This analytic of atmospheres as multisensoriality partially aligns with, but also differs from other anthropological approaches to multisensoriality or the anthropology of the senses. Examining the meaningfulness of atmospheres as spatially extended
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Home as the Third Place: Stories of movement among immigrant caregivers in an intercultural Chilean city Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2023-12-09 Verónica Mingo, Jayanthi Mistry
Parenting practices are inherently related to the sociocultural and material contexts in which children and their caregivers live. Rooted in sociocultural perspectives, this research contributes to the study of contextualized caregiving by ethnographically examining the daily caregiving practices of seven low-income immigrant mothers and their young children. Research participants all live in a precarious
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In the shadows of gratitude: On mooded spaces of vulnerability and care Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Jason Danely
Gratitude is a ubiquitous phenomenon in everyday social interactions, yet it has received relatively little attention within anthropology. Past approaches to gratitude have focused on its practical expressions within exchange relationships. In contrast, this article considers the phenomenology of gratitude as a moral mood. Drawing on ethnographic episodes of gratitude between older care-recipients
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Collective moods in Western Isles structures of being Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Marybeth MacPhee
This paper develops a relational framework to interpret ethnographic data on the way residents of a community-owned estate in the Western Isles of Scotland evaluated and contributed to collective quality of life. The analysis compares conversations with community development professionals and crofters to identify social and cultural structures influencing their contrasting interpretations of locally
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Divine trauma: Schizophrenia and unresolved realities in South India Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Anjana Bala
This article explores the relationship between schizophrenia, divine encounters, and therapeutics based on ethnographic research in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Contributing to a long history of single-subject ethnographies in psychological anthropology, this article narrates the events leading up to the diagnosis and the emerging life worlds post-diagnosis of an interlocutor I call Dhruv. I depart
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Embodying intimacy in everyday interaction: A biolinguistic study of long-term partners in the Southeastern United States Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Sonya E. Pritzker, Jason A. DeCaro, Baili Gall, Lawrence T. Monocello, Joshua R. Pederson
Drawing on linguistic and biocultural anthropological perspectives on embodiment, this paper advances a “biolinguistic” approach to ethnographic research on intimacy, attending simultaneously to the co-constitutive interactive, psychophysiological, and phenomenological processes that emerge in everyday embodied interaction between long-term, cohabitating romantic partners. Through concurrent attention
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Editorial: The solidarity imperative and changes at Ethos Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Greg Downey
Journals are the product of intellectual communities; a publication's health mirrors the field it represents. Current developments in the human sciences, especially the replication crisis and growing awareness of problems with cross-cultural generalization, create opportunities for psychological anthropologists to speak to a broader audience within academia. However, to take advantage of these opportunities
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Classification, selfhood, and culture in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Neil Krishan Aggarwal
For decades, social scientists have critiqued the construction of knowledge in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). However, they have not conducted research with an alternate classification from psychoanalytic and psychodynamic practitioners known as the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM), which is beginning to disseminate globally
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Postmemory dreaming: Nightmares of war in third-generation descendants of Polish and Russian survivors of World War II Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Wojciech Owczarski
Various manifestations of intergenerational memory transmission have been discussed in many scientific fields. Surprisingly, little attention has been paid to these phenomena in the context of dreams. Yet, the sphere of dreaming seems the most informative illustration of how the tragic past influenced the second and third-generation descendants of trauma survivors. Based on my talks with two descendants
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Between us: Facilitated decision-making in the relational experience of profound intellectual disability Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Aaron J. Jackson
This article situates an analysis of facilitated decision-making in the lived relational experience of caring for someone with a profound intellectual disability. Drawing from the experiences of a father and daughter residing in Boston, Massachusetts, I highlight the emotional dynamics and expressions of ableism that reverberate through social institutions and intersubjective relationships in shaping
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Taming the nafs: Unbounded spirits and mental illness in militarized Pakistan Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2023-09-16 Sanaullah Khan
In Pakistan, jinn afflictions reveal the maddening effects of displacement, economic inequality, and household conflicts. In this article, I consider how healers treat conditions of the nafs (soul), specifically its impurity and corruption through material desires, as enhancing the susceptibility of clients to jinn affliction where healers prescribe engagement in pietistic activities and active remembrance
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White shirts as sacred amulets: “World-making” and “self-making” during the Burmese political festival Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Seinenu M. Thein-Lemelson
Drawing upon Stanley J. Tambiah's idea of “world conquerors” and “world renouncers,” this article examines the Burmese political festival (nainganyei pwe) as a ritual, affective, and material space where former political prisoners reinterpret violence and engage in forms of collective and personal “world-making.” The article focuses on one practice in particular: the ritual wearing of white shirts
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Correction to “Flucht nach vorne (seeking refuge in the future): Trauma, agency, and the fantasy of onward flight among refugees in Berlin” Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2023-09-09
Bialas, Ulrike, and Sohail, Jagat. 2022. “ Flucht nach vorne (seeking refuge in the future): Trauma, agency, and the fantasy of onward flight among refugees in Berlin.” Ethos 50: 480– 495. https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.12369 The name of the author of the following article was misspelled as Ulrike Bialis in place of Ulrike Bialas. We apologize for this error.
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Searching for meaning during the pandemic: Delivery riders’ motivations in keeping the city of Wuhan running Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Guangxu Ji, Huiwen Zhai, Daming Zhou, Christopher Lavender
This article explores the motivations behind the moral code of delivery rider migrant workers who served in Wuhan, China, during the pandemic. Based on ethnographic research, we analyze how riders experienced the challenging situation of everyday work. Influenced by socialist and neoliberal contexts, the riders’ actions reflect diversified moral values combining individualistic and collectivist ethics
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Between “devoted mothers” and “disability advocates”: When Korean mothers of developmentally disabled adults become committed to social change Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Junghun Oh
This study explores how mothers of children who are young adults with developmental disabilities in South Korea experience identity strain and tension when they engage in advocacy on behalf of their children. Based on in-depth interviews with 20 mothers in Korea who are members of parents’ advocacy groups, this article found that women experienced feelings of tension that arose when they deviated from
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Shaping hope in everyday life: Experiences of veteran spouses with post-deployment mental health issues Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2023-09-03 Nadine Goeree, Natashe Lemos Dekker, Yvon de Reuver, Joris F. G. Haagen, Eric Vermetten
While spouses of military veterans have not been directly exposed to threats during deployment, they often experience a substantial post-deployment-related health burden while living with and caring for a partner with deployment-related mental health issues. Drawing from in-depth interviews, this study examined how female spouses of military veterans deal with the psychosocial effects of deployment
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The landscapes of lives II: How social actors navigate dynamic action landscapes Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Carol M. Worthman, Constance Cummings, Daniel Lende
Our previous companion article situated practices in a socio-ecological framework to propose action landscapes as person-specific fields of possible practices that are place- and time-contingent. Here we expand this approach to social actors as they navigate complex, fluid social worlds to pursue meaningful lives. Embodiment, social homeostasis, and social interactions shape actors’ abilities to enact
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Secularize, psychologize, neoliberalize: The entangled Jewish self of North American Jews Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Rachel Werczberger
This article unpacks the construction of the Jewish spiritual self in three current projects of Jewish spirituality in North America—Jewish mindfulness, the neo-Musar movement, and the nascent Positive Judaism—and explores their relations with the neoliberal economic regime and ideology. Based on the content analysis of 30 popular online and offline texts, among them promotional websites, podcasts
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The limits of “no limits”: Young women's entrepreneurial performance and the gendered conquest of the self Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Patricia Amigot-Leache, Carlota Carretero-García, Amparo Serrano-Pascual
Numerous programs have been set up to support women entrepreneurs on the basis that inequality results from incompatibilities between gendered emotional culture and the affective governmentality of the entrepreneurial paradigm. In the context of Spanish entrepreneurial training programs, this article identifies technologies of the self in young women's narratives of successful entrepreneurship. Using
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Fear of terrorism: Recognizing scenarios of potential danger in urban space Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Stine Ilum
This article is about the fear of terrorism. The few and mainly quantitative studies on the topic have categorized people as afraid or not afraid, treating fear as a known constant detached from time and space. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Copenhagen, Denmark, this article argues instead that the fear of terrorism is momentary and transient; it flares up as flashes of fear. These flashes are
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Promoting global ECD top-down and bottom-up Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Seth Oppong
Early childhood science and intervention (ECSI) or simply early childhood development (ECD) is now a multi-billion-dollar industry that seeks to export one form of family model, parenting practices, and perspective of child development to the rest of the world. This practice occurs through the efforts of agencies such as the World Health Organization, United Nations Children's Fund, the World Bank
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Rape, ritual, rupture, and repair: Decentering Euro-American logics of trauma and healing in an analytic autoethnography of the five years after my rape in Sierra Leone Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Luisa Theresia Schneider
Responses to the trauma of rape vary. People find different responses helpful and a multiplicity of trauma theories should be considered. Through an autoethnography and critical phenomenology of myself and my collaborators in Sierra Leone after I was raped there, I analyze how subjective and cultural frames for managing rape impact an individual's processing of the experience; how they shape ideas
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The landscapes of lives I: An action landscape approach to practices and the interface of individual and society Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Carol M. Worthman, Constance A. Cummings, Daniel Lende
Practices occupy the intersection of human behavior with its personal and societal dimensions, operating in social theory as bridges between high-order cultural features and on-the-ground dynamics that reciprocally shape the conditions of everyday life and animate human experience. Yet precisely how this bridging occurs remains underspecified. We address that gap in this and a companion article (Worthman
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Tuning the self: Revisiting health inequities through the lens of social interaction Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Alexandra Brandt Ryborg Jønsson, Olivia Spalletta
In this article, we examine the subjective experiences of people who, according to their education level and income, belong to the lowest social classes—indicators that are commonly associated with poor health behaviors and poor health status. Drawing on 18 months of fieldwork among white, working-class people in Denmark, we draw attention to the negative stereotypes connected to health inequities
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Seeing, being seen, and the semiotics of perspective Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Constantine V. Nakassis
Building upon work in visual studies and art history on symbolic perspective, film studies on structures of looking, and linguistic anthropology on entextualization and ideology, this article explores the semiotics of vision/visibility and perspective. In particular, I focus on ethnographic data from the cinema of Tamil Nadu, India, wherein (being seen) seeing a film image and being seen in a film
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Fairness, partner choice, and punishment: An ethnographic study of cooperative behavior among children in Helsinki, Finland Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Maija-Eliina Sequeira
This article draws upon ethnographic fieldwork among children in Helsinki, Finland, to determine how cooperative behaviors unfold in their everyday lives. Two concepts—fairness and partner choice—emerged as particularly relevant, and related behaviors were examined in the context of ongoing debates regarding cooperation in human societies. Children consistently invoked fairness as an important moral
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“Kapit” at “Bahay” concepts of Filipino neighboring: A cultural revalidation Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Jimbo M. Fatalla
The neighbor concept and relations vary across spatial and temporal milieux. My fieldwork in a rural residential barangay in Marinduque province revalidates the Filipino concept of kapitbahay through the locals’ social interaction and sense of community. Using the pagtatanong-tanong (asking questions) cross-indigenous interview involving ten permanent residents reveals the kapitbahay as a threefold
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Poetics and panic Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Peter G. Stromberg
Authors in the pragmatic and phenomenological traditions offer several distinct but overlapping theories of meaning. Drawing on a number of these theories, I analyze the speech of a panic sufferer, as he recounts an attack of panic and as he has one, in order to contrast the enactment of meaning with its paralysis. This material offers an opportunity to deepen our understanding of the construction
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Becoming the mother of a transgender child: Ethical self-formation and moral moods of mothers in transition Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Galia Plotkin Amrami
Matters of parenting transgender children are ascendant on the cultural landscape. Based on interviews with Israeli mothers of transgender children between the ages of 8–24 I explore how the process of the child's gender affirmation intersects with maternal subjectivities, and how mothers internalize the morally-loaded narratives of good mothering in contemporary Israel. I illustrate that when children
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Feeding, food, and attachment: An underestimated relationship? Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2023-01-31 Wiebke Johanna Schmidt, Heidi Keller, Mariano Rosabal-Coto, Karina Fallas Gamboa, Carolina Solís Guillén, Esteban Durán Delgado
According to attachment theory, feeding, including breastfeeding, plays only a marginal role in relationship formation. However, studies—especially in rural traditional non-Western contexts—repeatedly demonstrate that feeding can be an important attachment mechanism. We interviewed 30 urban, middle-class families with 6-to-19-month-old infants in the surrounding greater metropolitan area of San José
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Growing up in Nso: Changes and continuities in children's relational networks during the first three years of life Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2023-01-31 Bettina Lamm, Wiebke Johanna Schmidt, Melody Ngaidzeyuf Ndzenyuiy, Heidi Keller
It is an undisputed fact among attachment researchers that children need stability and continuity in their caregiving environment for optimal developmental outcomes. However, anthropological studies show that informal and often temporally limited kinship-based foster care, including changes of children's primary caregivers, is widespread in some cultural contexts and considered normative and thus beneficial
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Femme populism: Vulnerability and desire in Argentine political aesthetics Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2023-01-31 Julia Fierman
This article focuses on the role of vulnerability and desire in populist politics. I examine the political aesthetics of Argentine populism by analyzing media and supporters’ representations of Argentine politician Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. The populist leader tends to conjure the image of the strongman who is either an avuncular man of the people or a muscular, industrious worker. In contrast
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“Poor brain development” in the global South? Challenging the science of early childhood interventions Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2023-01-31 Gabriel Scheidecker, Nandita Chaudhary, Heidi Keller, Francesca Mezzenzana, David F. Lancy
Global Early Childhood Development (ECD)—an applied field with the aim to improve the “brain structure and function” of future generations in the global South—has moved to the center of international development. Global ECD rests heavily on evidence claims about widespread cognitive, social, and emotional deficits in the global South and the benefits of changing parenting practices in order to optimize
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Mommy brain in the United States Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2023-01-18 Valerie Miller, Marcy Price-Crist
Women undergo profound psychological and cognitive shifts throughout their life course, and motherhood entails dramatic mind–body adjustments. Growing maternal responsibilities and evidence from social sciences suggest motherhood enhances cognitive functioning, but mothers typically claim otherwise. This article uses maternal life stories to reveal cultural schemas of mommy brain as told by mothers
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Tangible pasts: Memory practices among children and adolescents in Germany, an affect-theoretical approach Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2023-01-18 Birgitt Röttger-Rössler, Franziska Seise
This article highlights the ontogeny of autobiographical memory and its sociocultural foundations as an important and underrepresented field of research in psychological anthropology. It discusses the results of an explorative photovoice study on the emotional experiences of children and adolescents. Our study discovered that memory practices play a major role in young people's daily lives. Participants
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Decolonizing affect: Resonance as an ethnographic technique Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2023-01-14 Anna Iskra
This article is a call to decolonize affect theory through deepening its engagement with fieldwork conducted in the global South. It examines the native Chinese concept of ganying, or resonance, as an ethnographic technique by engaging with the author's fieldwork experiences among Body Mind Spirit practitioners in China. Participating in ganying captures the formation of affective atmospheres through
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What it is to see: Artificial vision as constitutive interaction Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2023-01-04 Cordelia Erickson-Davis
Visual prosthesis (VP) devices—devices that electrically stimulate the visual system with the goal of restoring vision to individuals who have lost it—are the literal construal of the orthodox theory of vision that holds that perception is an “indirect” process. In this theory, vision is an image- and sensation-based reconstructive process of representation: a type of information processing that is
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Attaching shame to hierarchy and hierarchy to some versions of attachment Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2023-01-01 Ward Keeler
Attachment theory sees individual autonomy as childrearing practices’ appropriate goal. But many people in the world do not share attachments theorists’ validation of autonomy. They instead believe that they should train their children into behavior appropriate to hierarchical relationships, ones predicated on differences in obligations and privileges. Their childrearing techniques therefore include
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Civil melancholia: Yemenite Jews’ responses to the kidnapping of their children Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2023-01-01 Tova Gamliel, Haim Hazan
During Yemenite Jews’ stay in Israeli transit camps during 1948–1950, many of their children disappeared in the so-called “Yemenite Children Affair,” undermining the immigrants’ faith in the redemptive ethos of Zionism. To better understand this collective trauma, we return to the original Freudian conceptualization of melancholia as “failed mourning,” locating it within the ethnographic context of
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Subjects to freedom: The entanglements of desire in Upland Indonesia Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2023-01-01 Aurora Donzelli
This article draws on fieldwork in upland Indonesia to explore how discursive genres mediate political and affective transformations. Since the millennium, IMF-driven governance reforms have disseminated novel ideals of transparent accountability, representative democracy, and individual entrepreneurialism, which at once presuppose and generate a market-oriented subject endowed with the freedom to
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Flucht nach vorne (seeking refuge in the future): Trauma, agency, and the fantasy of onward flight among refugees in Berlin Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2023-01-01 Ulrike Bialas, Jagat Sohail
This article is based on fieldwork we each conducted with refugees in Berlin between 2016 and 2021. We were both puzzled by our interlocutors’ repeated professed desires to leave Germany, often when their lives here were improving. We wondered how they could possibly fantasize about repeating the experiences of their initial flight, which were deeply wounding and traumatic. We argue against a reading
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More than visual: The apprenticeship of skilled visions Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2022-12-25 Cristina Grasseni
Skilled vision is more-than-visual because the enskilment of vision happens in intersensorial contexts and because it pertains to the broader formation of aesthetic and ethical sensibilities. Sensory and social apprenticeship coexist in practice. I dwell on the intersensoriality of learning to see in an analytical way and on the sociality and morality of skilled visions, using ethnographic examples
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“I feel terrible and need to exercise to find any sort of joy”: What COVID stay-at-home orders tell us about exercise as vitality politics and entertainment in the United States Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2022-12-25 Katie Rose Hejtmanek, Cara Ocobock
During COVID-19 stay-at-home orders (SaHOs), people faced drastic shifts in their work and home lives. These shifts, in combination with the temporary closure of gyms and fitness centers, led to exercise-routine disruption. We conducted a survey to assess how people were affected by SaHOs in terms of exercise-routine change, feelings about exercise, perceived physical and mental health, as well as
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Demoralizing care: Moral and ethical dilemmas of parenting a young adult who lives with a borderline diagnosis Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2022-12-25 Maureen O'Dougherty
This article theorizes chronic crises of care parents face concerning how to morally/ethically support their young adult child diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD). Grounded in five years’ attendance at a support group for families living with BPD and interviews with parents, the article asks: In the era of deinstitutionalization of those with mental illness, what are the moral/ethical
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Seeking contact: British horsemanship and stances toward knowing and being known by (Animal) others Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2022-12-25 Rosie Jones McVey
What is it like to know and be known by other creatures? And when do people place ethical importance on knowing or being known by other creatures in particular ways? This article brings ethnography of British equestrianism into dialogue with anthropological inquiries into the cultural variability of intersubjective understanding. I will show that riders’ desire for authentic mutual understanding with
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Individuality and community: The limits of social constructivism Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Dan Zahavi
Is selfhood socially constituted and distributed? Although the view has recently been defended by some cognitive scientists, it has long been popular within anthropology and cultural psychology. Whereas older texts by Marcel Mauss, Clifford Geertz, Hazel Rose Markus, and Shinobu Kitayama often contrast a Western conception of a discrete, bounded, and individual self with a non-Western sociocentric
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2021 Condon Prize: Improvising care: A theatrical exploration of Turner syndrome subjectivities Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2022-10-30 A. J. Jones
This article discusses an ethnographic theater project designed to explore how social performances of gender and disability shape the experiences of those with Turner syndrome, a genetic condition causing short stature and infertility. Working alongside two interlocutors with the condition, our rehearsals demonstrate subjectivity to be an ethical, relational, and generative practice of striving for
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Sociocultural and Clinical Aspects of Recovery from First Episode Psychosis in Java, Indonesia: A Follow-Up Case Study Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2022-10-19 M. A. Subandi, Nida Ul Hasanat, Ardian Praptomojati, Byron J. Good
Researchers have observed high rates of recovery from first episode psychosis in some cultural settings. This study explores the course and long-term outcome of a small set of cases of first episode psychoses, focusing on clinical predictors of outcome and local cultural processes supporting recovery in Javanese society in Indonesia. Researchers followed nine individuals with a first episode of psychosis
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Malaise of Indolence: (Dis)Engagements with the Future among Young Migrants in Shanghai Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2022-09-02 Lisa Richaud
Rural-to-urban migrants in China have often been portrayed as striving subjects, living in “suspension” for the sake of the entrepreneurial futures they desire. Drawing on fieldwork conducted alongside young café workers in Shanghai, this article highlights more ambivalent engagements with the future obscured by emphases, within the social sciences, on the intentional, active aspects of subjectivity
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The Mindful Animism of Ideophony in Pastaza and Upper Napo Kichwa Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2022-08-31 Janis Nuckolls
This paper proposes a novel perspective for thinking about ideophones, which are imitative words that communicate sensory perceptions and emotions with linguistic sounds and with so-called “paralinguistic” features, especially gesture and intonation. By considering their performative and depictive qualities with concepts from mindfulness and meditative practices, it is argued that a contemplative,
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Cultivating Ethnographic Sensibilities in Ethnographies of Dying People Ethos (IF 1.146) Pub Date : 2022-08-28 Ignacia Arteaga, Henry Llewellyn
Ethnographers engaged in fieldwork with people who are dying face particular demands concerning the nature and limits of their relationships. Drawing on case studies of two patients in the United Kingdom affected by ultimately fatal brain cancer and bowel cancer, we elaborate on the concept of ethnographic sensibility. We highlight the continual attunement of capacities that guide our participation