Search Results - "Annual review of anthropology"

The Datafication of Health by Ruckenstein, Minna, Schüll, Natasha Dow

“…Over the past decade, data-intensive logics and practices have come to affect domains of contemporary life ranging from marketing and policy making to…”
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The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure by Larkin, Brian

“…Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste,…”
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Precarity, Precariousness, and Vulnerability by Han, Clara

“…This review examines precarity through two foci. First, I focus on related terms of the lumpenproletariat and informal economy, each of which have left their…”
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Chronotopes, Scales, and Complexity in the Study of Language in Society by Blommaert, Jan

“…Recent developments in the study of language in society have moved the field increasingly away from linear models toward complex models. The complexity of…”
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Anthropology of Ontologies by Kohn, Eduardo

“…The turn to ontology, often associated with the recent works of Philippe Descola, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, and Bruno Latour, but evident in many other…”
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The Anthropology of Populism: Beyond the Liberal Settlement by Mazzarella, William

“…This article suggests that although there is not much of an explicitly defined anthropology of populism, anthropologists have nevertheless been working for…”
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The Anthropology of Ethics and Morality by Mattingly, Cheryl, Throop, Jason

“…Anthropologists have sustained a varied and active engagement with ethics throughout the field's history. In light of this long-standing engagement, what marks…”
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Three Waves of Variation Study: The Emergence of Meaning in the Study of Sociolinguistic Variation by Eckert, Penelope

“…The treatment of social meaning in sociolinguistic variation has come in three waves of analytic practice. The first wave of variation studies established…”
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Toward an Ecology of Materials by Ingold, Tim

“…Both material culture studies and ecological anthropology are concerned with the material conditions of social and cultural life. Yet despite advances in each…”
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Soylent Is People, and WEIRD Is White: Biological Anthropology, Whiteness, and the Limits of the WEIRD by Clancy, Kathryn B.H, Davis, Jenny L

“…WEIRD populations, or those categorized as Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic, are sampled in the majority of quantitative human subjects…”
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Multisensory Anthropology by Howes, David

“…The senses are made, not given. Multisensory anthropology focuses on the variable boundaries, differential elaboration, and many different ways of combining…”
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Anthropology of Aging and Care by Buch, Elana D

“…In concert with lengthening life spans, emerging forms of care in later life reflect complex and diverse social changes. Embracing a polysemic understanding of…”
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Time as Technique by Bear, Laura

“…A rapprochement between the anthropology of history and the anthropology of capitalism has created a temporal turn. This temporal turn has generated new…”
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Documents and Bureaucracy by Hull, Matthew S

“…This review surveys anthropological and other social research on bureaucratic documents. The fundamental insight of this literature is that documents are not…”
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The Commodification of Language by Heller, Monica

“…Although language can always be analyzed as a commodity, its salience as a resource with exchange value has increased with the growing importance of language…”
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Archaeologies of Ontology by Alberti, Benjamin

“…Bruno Latour and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro provided the initial impetus for explicitly ontological research in archaeology. Their impact on archaeologists,…”
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The Anthropology of Mining: The Social and Environmental Impacts of Resource Extraction in the Mineral Age by Jacka, Jerry K

“…This article examines the social and environmental costs of living in the mineral age, wherein contemporary global livelihoods depend almost completely on the…”
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Policing Borders, Producing Boundaries. The Governmentality of Immigration in Dark Times by Fassin, Didier

“…The governmentality of immigration has become a crucial issue of contemporary societies. Ironically, although globalization meant facilitated circulation of…”
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Social Network Analysis in Archaeology by Mills, Barbara J

“…Social network analysis (SNA) in archaeology has become important for a range of theoretical and methodological approaches that can more generally be…”
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Transnational Humanitarianism by Ticktin, Miriam

“…This review traces anthropological studies of humanitarianism starting in the late 1980s, when humanitarianism began to take shape as a particular moral and…”
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