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The Search for a Usable Past: Reflections on Cuba’s Cultural Heritage
Get PDFIn the much-anticipated Cuban Cultural Heritage: A Rebel Past for a Revolutionary Nation, author Pablo Alonso González (2018) combines material culture, cultural heritage, history, and comparative politics in an appealing and sophisticated manner. The ambitious and detailed study examines the development of heritage form and content from 1902 to 2014, analyzing how particular processes and ideologies shaped architecture, monuments, public spaces, museums, national narratives, and the performance of national identity
Two heads are better than one: a brief demonstration of the value of interdisciplinary approaches to archaeological inquiry at Teopancazco
Get PDFMultiethnicity and Migration at Teopancazco provides its readers with a glimpse into the socioeconomic fabric of Classic period (CE 200–550) Teopancazco, a residential compound situated in the southeast corner of Teotihuacan, Mexico. The authors achieve this by revealing the life histories of Teopancazco’s residents by adopting an interdisciplinary approach. Drawing upon the disciplines of osteology, biogeochemistry, genetics and archaeology, the authors were able to robustly support their interpretation of Teopancazco as a multiethnic and multicultural district, with a corporate economic structure that was administered by an intermediate elite (Chapter One)
Crafting an Engaged Urban Anthropology
Get PDFThere has been a growing recognition within anthropology over the past two decades about the need to more seriously engage with topics and issues that are of more direct relevance to the everyday realities of the general public. By producing knowledge that is useful for solving real-world social problems and making research more accessible to non-academic audiences, anthropology, according to these appeals, can play a greater role in influencing matters of societal concern. In parallel,as more and more regions around the world are witnessing accelerating rates of urban growth, we have also seen a garnering of scholarly interest to link anthropology with challenges related to city life
Producing Difference Between Anthropology and Ethnography
No full textBook Reviewed: Heywood, Paolo. 2018. After Difference: Queer Activism in Italy and Anthropological Theory. New York: Berghahn Books
At the Crossroads of Care Work and Conversion: How Female Migrant Domestic Workers are Reworking Islam in the Arab Gulf
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"Statehood or Sovereignty? Unearthing Hawaiian History and Politics through the Lens of the Contemporary Sovereignty Movement"
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Disciplinary Progress, Progressivism, and Professionalism: Re-politicizing D/development paths forward
Get PDFKaty Gardner and David Lewis build off of their earlier edition of this book in a clear and accessible manner to review the pertinent literature in light of two decades of changes within and outside of the development context. They revisit old debates within anthropology between the applied and academic aspects of the discipline in an attempt to reconcile these through the myriad of challenges anthropologists and other social observers face in the form of neoliberalism, including its cooptation of radical critiques. Anthropology and Development: Challenges for the Twenty-First Century provides an excellent overview of development. There is clear discussion of the development of development both within and outside of Anthropology; highlighted by the decision include a Glossary (separated into two sections: 1. Development jargon and 2. Anthropological jargon) and list of acronyms prior to the Prelude of the book. The text highlights many of the issues, debates, case studies, theories, and ethical considerations that I addressed this past semester in my teaching of Applied Anthropology. The book would make an excellent accompaniment to many undergraduate Anthropology classes that seek to demonstrate the value of ethnography to re-politicize Development, progress narratives, and neoliberalism generally.
Can the ethnographic film and Psychological anthropology become allies?
No full textThis review is related to the book Afflictions: Steps Toward a Visual Psychological Anthropology (Culture, Mind, and Society). It discusses and complements the work presented in Afflictions: Culture and Mental Illness in Indonesi
Heritage-making
Get PDFReview of Christoph Brumann and David Berliner, World Heritage on the Ground: Ethnographic Perspectives (New York, Berghahn, 2016)