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Language, Religion, and Learning to Embrace the Human Lifecourse
Get PDFEmbracing Age is a masterful ethnography of convent life illuminating the linguistic, psychological, and cultural processes that shape the late-life experiences of Franciscan sisters in the American midwest. It is a 188-page, soft-cover volume in the Global Perspectives on Aging series, edited by Sarah Lamb. The author, Dr. Anna Corwin, a linguistic and psychological anthropologist, draws from a decade of ethnographic visits to the assisted living and infirmary halls of a Catholic convent to unveil the sociolinguistic and historical contexts that support nuns’ well-being through the lifecourse
The Agricultural Dilemma: How Not to Feed the World
Get PDFIn The Agricultural Dilemma, Stone asserts that Malthus got it backwards: before industrialization, farmers skillfully intensified agriculture, increasing food production when population density required it. Stone debates neo-Malthusians (those who believe we must industrialize agriculture to prevent starvation due to population outstripping the food supply) with overwhelming evidence that intensification is a more sustainable and just strategy. Industrialized agriculture is characterized by appropriation, subsidies, and overproduction. Stone shows when scientists, government, and industry were most active in calling for industrialization to help farmers or the hungry, they were struggling to store or utilize overproduction; industrialization did not increase the rate agricultural yields grew by; and industrialization disproportionately benefitted the wealthiest farmers even when its advocates claimed it would help the poor. 
Film review of Americaville
No full textThis captivating documentary is about the lived experiences of wealthy Chinese urbanites trying to escape increasingly uninhabitable Beijing due to air pollution and overcrowding. For those who are interested in China’s rapid urbanization, this documentary is an intriguing and intimate exploration of how this group of people pursue happiness while grappling with some dire consequences of China’s fervid urbanization
Why We Should Care About the Radical Origins of Anthropology
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To Love and To Kill: Everyday Moralities in the Parallel Lives of Human and Non-human Laboratory Animals
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The artworld(s) of the Mesoamerican antiquities market
Get PDF"The artworld(s) of the Mesoamerican antiquities market" critically reviews the edited volume "The Market for Mesoamerica. Reflections on the sale of Pre-Columbian antiquities", by Cara Tremain and Donna Yates (eds.) (2019). This review helps contextualizing the book within its theoretical framework (Actor-Network Theory, and Theory of Entanglement) and clarifying the thematic interrelation of the chapters. The reorganization of the content contributes to identify the actors (looters, local authorities, middlemen, dealers, collectors, museums, as well as scholars) and the actants participating in the mutually-dependent network of the market for Mesoamerican antiquities.
Metamorphic sublime, mimetic excess, re-enchantment of nature: the meltdown as a chronicle of contemporaneity
Get PDFReview of the book Mastery of non-Mastery in the Age of Meltdown, by Michael Taussig
Energy Anthropology
Get PDFTRISTAN LOLOUM, SIMONE ABRAM, and NATHALIE ORTAR, eds. 2021. Ethnographies of Power: A Political Anthropology of Energy. EASA Series 42. New York, N.Y: Berghahn Books, pp. 212, ISBN 978-1-78920-97