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Together We Rise
Get PDFThis documentary is about human's rights and democracy. It illustrates, in the context of the Women's March, reasons that motivate people to walk to assert their rights
The Sociopolitical Shaping of Heritage Landscapes
Get PDFExtractive activities in regions with significant heritage values seems to be globally on the rise. Anthropology defines heritage as a social construction in everyday practices. Baird explores how heritage is mobilized, for what purpose and acknowledges systems at play as well as the multiple relations and significations across time and space. She studies the heritage landscapes as sites of contestation in several contemporary contexts, including urban, post-colonial and Indigenous landscapes, wilderness areas, archaeological sites, marine environments, and temple complexes. According to Baird, heritage landscapes are scenes where issues of preservation are inserted in sociopolitical contexts.
Robo Sapiens Japanicus: Robots, Gender, Family, and the Japanese Nation
Get PDFJennifer Robertson’s most recent book on robots in Japan is an easy-to read ethnography-based overview of the ways that the national robotics policies in Japan are shaping the contemporary Japanese society as well as the ways that the neo-traditionalist society shapes robots
Visions of Care in a Time of Medical Multiplicity
Get PDFRamah McKay’s Medicine in the Meantime: The Work of Care in Mozambique (2018) is concerned with the tensions embedded in Mozambique’s health system across governmental institutions, non-governmental organizations, transnational clinicians, local volunteers, and patients with chronic illness. McKay’s ethnography traces the competing visions of care for patients in Mozambique within a health system marked by institutional multiplicity, complicated political legacies, and economic uncertainty. Medicine in the Meantime explores the in-between spaces elicited by the co-existence of public health frameworks and humanitarian medical models, helping critical medical anthropology elucidate the complicated support networks contemporary citizens and patients must navigate
The Complexity of What is not a bone
Get PDFReview of:Klaus, Haagen D., Amanda R. Harvey, and Mark N. Cohen. Bones of complexity: Bioarchaeological case studies of social organization and skeletal biology. University Press of Florida, 2017.
Articulation as a Political Act? On a Study of Palestinian Shrines
Get PDFBones of Contention will be valuable to historians and archaeologists, as much as social scientists, although it does require a particular kind of reading (at times, against its own grain)
Rites of Participation: Popular Encounters and Democratic Ritual in Brazil
Get PDFPolitical anthropologists and ethnographers often address the limits to citizen power, in terms of the material and symbolic barriers ordinary people encounter in their attempts to have a say in the rule of the state. Victor Albert's recent book, The Limits of Citizen Power: Participatory Entanglements and the State (Pluto Press) invites readers to consider the question from a different perspective. The limits of citizen power suggest not opposition or suppression of the people from an external force, but rather an internal limit of citizenship, one that may be immanent to citizenship itself as a social form
An EthnoGRAPHIC Entrance
Get PDFBook Review of Lissa: A Story About Medical Promise, Friendship, and Revolutio
What does an international anthropology of the US say about the global practice of the discipline?
Get PDFThis edited collection contributes to the framing of a global anthropology in the 21st century as it poses a question and a mystery to readers. The question, whether the US can be “othered”, seems to me to help reflect on the practice of anthropology globally. From the outset, we get the sense that the question is preliminary answered negatively, thus unveiling the mystery—that the US has not been the site of long-term fieldwork nor the object of specialization by anthropologists from abroad
#StillHuman: Re-Imagining the Ageing Self
Get PDFEnding Ageism, or How Not To Shoot Old People, the latest book by distinguished age-critic Margaret Morganroth Gullette, describes ageist ideology and its effects, and proffers an array of approaches to bring about change. In this artfully composed work, Gullette focuses on the United States, the site of many of her personal revelations and case studies, while drawing on an interdisciplinary body of artistic and scholarly thought. Ageism must be taken seriously, like other isms – racism and sexism – because it is, Gullette reminds us, a category that is socially constructed in the same way, with equally dire consequences for humanity