Search Results - "American anthropologist"

The Case for Letting Anthropology Burn: Sociocultural Anthropology in 2019 by Jobson, Ryan Cecil

“…ABSTRACT This essay principally meditates on the scholarship published by sociocultural anthropologists in 2019. In 2019, the field of anthropology confronted…”
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Special Section: Anthropology of White Supremacy by M. Beliso‐De Jesús, Aisha, Pierre, Jemima

“…To speak of global white supremacy is to point to the racial dimensions of an international power system that includes an ideology of white (broadly defined )…”
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The Racial Vernaculars of Development: A View from West Africa by Pierre, Jemima

“…ABSTRACT This article argues that the vernacular of development, as deployed in and about African communities, is a racial vernacular. It is a racial…”
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Decolonizing US anthropology by Gupta, Akhil, Stoolman, Jessie

“…After Ferguson, Standing Rock, the Black Lives Matter protests, and the crisis of refugees at the US southern border, there have been renewed calls for a…”
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Signaling Safety: Characterizing Fieldwork Experiences and Their Implications for Career Trajectories by Nelson, Robin G., Rutherford, Julienne N., Hinde, Katie, Clancy, Kathryn B. H.

“…ABSTRACT Numerous studies use quantitative measures to evaluate retention, advancement, and success in academic settings. Such approaches, however, present…”
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Intergenerational Intimacy and Descending Familism in Rural North China by Yan, Yunxiang

“…ABSTRACT Based on evidence drawn from longitudinal fieldwork over three decades, in this study I unpack the complex connections among the development of…”
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Time and the Migrant Other: European Border Controls and the Temporal Economics of Illegality by Andersson, Ruben

“…The Western world's borders increasingly seem like a battleground where a new kind of "threat" is repelled—the so-called "illegal migrant." At Europe's…”
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Raciontologies: Rethinking Anthropological Accounts of Institutional Racism and Enactments of White Supremacy in the United States by Rosa, Jonathan, Díaz, Vanessa

“…ABSTRACT This article presents a theory of raciontologies—the fundamentally racialized grounding of various states of being—that sheds light on complex forms…”
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Multimodality: An Invitation by Collins, Samuel Gerald, Durington, Matthew, Gill, Harjant

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Obstetric Racism: Naming and Identifying a Way Out of Black Women's Adverse Medical Experiences by Scott, Karen A., Davis, Dána‐Ain

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Acculturation and Health: The Moderating Role of Sociocultural Context by Fox, Molly, Thayer, Zaneta M., Wadhwa, Pathik D.

“…ABSTRACT Acculturation represents an important construct for elucidating the determinants and consequences of health disparities in minority populations…”
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Introduction: Multimodal Anthropology and the Politics of Invention by Dattatreyan, Ethiraj Gabriel, Marrero‐Guillamón, Isaac

“…This introduction and the articles included in this special series (spread across several issues of this journal) theorize the possibilities--and…”
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A Rabbi of One's Own? Navigating Religious Authority and Ethical Freedom in Everyday Judaism by Taragin‐Zeller, Lea

“…ABSTRACT This article examines the varying ways religious devotees utilize, negotiate, embrace, and reject religious authorities in their everyday lives…”
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Between privileges and precariousness: Remaking whiteness in China's teaching English as a second language industry by Lan, Shanshan

“… This research examines the multiple and contradictory racialization of white identities in China's booming ESL (English as a second language) industry. China…”
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Myths of Meritocracy, Friendship, and Fun Work: Class and Gender in North American Academic Communities by Leighton, Mary

“…ABSTRACT Using the example of Andean archaeology, this article focuses on subtle forms of inequality that arise when academic communities are conceptualized as…”
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Water sharing is a distressing form of reciprocity: Shame, upset, anger, and conflict over water in twenty cross‐cultural sites by Wutich, Amber, Rosinger, Asher, Brewis, Alexandra, Beresford, Melissa, Young, Sera

“…Anthropological theories of reciprocity suggest it enhances prestige, social solidarity, and material security. Yet, some ethnographic cases suggest that water…”
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Tentacular Faces: Race and the Return of the Phenotype in Forensic Identification by M'charek, Amade

“…ABSTRACT The face, just like DNA, is taken to represent a unique individual. This article proposes to move beyond this representational model and to attend to…”
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Historical Ecology of Cultural Keystone Places of the Northwest Coast by Lepofsky, Dana, Armstrong, Chelsey Geralda, Greening, Spencer, Jackley, Julia, Carpenter, Jennifer, Guernsey, Brenda, Mathews, Darcy, Turner, Nancy J.

“…ABSTRACT For many Indigenous peoples, their traditional lands are archives of their histories, from the deepest of time to recent memories and actions. These…”
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Woman the hunter: The archaeological evidence by Lacy, Sarah, Ocobock, Cara

“…The Paleo‐fantasy of a deep history to a sexual division of labor, often described as “Man the Hunter and Woman the Gatherer,” continues to dominate the…”
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When Did the Swahili Become Maritime? by Fleisher, Jeffrey, Lane, Paul, LaViolette, Adria, Horton, Mark, Pollard, Edward, Morales, Eréndira Quintana, Vernet, Thomas, Christie, Annalisa, Wynne-Jones, Stephanie

“…In this article, we examine an assumption about the historic Swahili of the eastern African coast: that they were a maritime society from their beginnings in…”
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