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19 May 2024: This entry has foregrounded global environmental, colonial, and economic crises as examples, and it forecasts that anthropology will never cease to find new monsters.

19 May 2024: Because feasts are important at multiple levels of experience simultaneously (biological, economic, political, cosmological, social), they tend to realise fundamental characteristics of the world. ... The Amazonian Kuikuro also ritually test drinks for

19 May 2024: When patients failed to take their medications, healthcare professionals regarded them as non-compliant, and responded by implementing powerful technologies of surveillance: random tests were performed, such as urine testing or

19 May 2024: This theory was put to test, and eventually challenged, by the 1898 Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits (Haddon 1901; Herle and Rouse 1998; Sullivan 2012), which also sought more generally ... Social scientists have pointed to the

19 May 2024: This theory was put to test, and eventually challenged, by the 1898 Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits (Haddon 1901; Herle and Rouse 1998; Sullivan 2012), which also sought more generally ... Social scientists have pointed to the

19 May 2024: political and economic anthropology, material culture studies, science and technology studies, and the anthropology of the state to interrogate, in a huge range of places and contexts, what infrastructures are, how ... 2017). Whilst the method of

19 May 2024: The end of history’ (see below) has come and gone. Socialism still persists in various incarnations as a powerful political and economic challenge to late capitalism and liberalism. ... To shoehorn postsocialism into the narrow rubric of area studies

19 May 2024: to the borders of nation states, as humanitarian aid distributes it across regions in light of sharp global economic inequalities. ... The relational and hard-to-measure qualities of care often make it hard to justify in quantitative or economic terms.

19 May 2024: realms of global governance, economics, and health shape our lived experience and institutions. ... Under the guise of ‘good governance’, they are often aimed at increasing economic efficiency.

19 May 2024: Social scientists have pointed to the impact of neoliberal attitudes on social and economic stressors such as unemployment in relation to the rapid increase in ‘mental health problems’. ... In an age of psychopharmacology, the ‘pharmaceutical