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29 Jun 2024: This line of thought opened significant questions about the nature of consciousness, agency, and knowledge in resistance and political struggle. ... Equally, there is concern about the ways in which protest movements are represented and perhaps even

29 Jun 2024: The starting point of much anthropological scholarship on voice has been the attempt to destabilise a number of powerful assumptions about it. ... Barber 2007; Finnegan 2007). The emerging anthropology of voice equally contributes to dispelling engrained

29 Jun 2024: Voice in Euro-American modernity. The starting point of much anthropological scholarship on voice has been the attempt to destabilise a number of powerful assumptions about it. ... Barber 2007; Finnegan 2007). The emerging anthropology of voice equally

29 Jun 2024: Additionally, there are seating arrangements, dress codes, and tacit rules about the order in which foods should be consumed (Douglas 1972). ... However, it is surprising that while the potlatch is always called a ‘feast’, very little of this

29 Jun 2024: and phenotypical features to a discourse about the culture and religion of ‘racial others’. ... That anthropological scholarship about race and racism has overwhelmingly focused on Western contexts should not blind us to the fact that while racism is

29 Jun 2024: This entry spans the changing politics of writing anthropology from the late nineteenth century, when Victorian natural science notions about texts as objective was the model for scholarship, to the 1970s, ... London: Routledge. Eriksen, T.H. 1994. The

29 Jun 2024: The revival of interest in the photo-essay, and more broadly the critical use of photographs in anthropological scholarship, is one such recent development in visual anthropology. ... The effect of the move towards multimodal anthropology has not only

29 Jun 2024: Particularly significant has been a study of the systemic erasure of memory about the <em>yanggongju,</em> Korean women who acted as sex workers for US servicemen during the Korean War, ... The scholarship on haunting silences further contributes to

29 Jun 2024: Before ethnographic fieldwork was an established part of anthropological practice, anthropologists depended upon photographs from explorers and missionaries for key details about the populations they studied. ... Photography does not just act upon

29 Jun 2024: A common principle is that talking openly about the end of life between patients, families, and professionals improves decision making, whereby the patient’s knowledge that they are dying is thought ... family, and dying patients, asking who knew about

29 Jun 2024: Anthropologists, as we shall see, have different stories to tell about money.</p> <p>In the early twentieth century, anthropologists promoted empirical fieldwork as a method to avoid researchers’ biases and ... Could, then, any object in circulation

29 Jun 2024: 1995. “The resurrection of the house amongst the Zafimaniry of Madagascar.” In <em>About the house: Lévi-Strauss and beyond, </em>edited by Janet Carsten and Stephen Hugh-Jones, 69–83. ... 1995. <em>About the house: Lévi-Strauss and beyond</em>.

29 Jun 2024: Before ethnographic fieldwork was an established part of anthropological practice, anthropologists depended upon photographs from explorers and missionaries for key details about the populations they studied. ... Photography does not just act upon

29 Jun 2024: However, it did foreshadow later arguments about the social construction of race (Fleuhr-Lobban 2000). ... That anthropological scholarship about race and racism has overwhelmingly focused on Western contexts should not blind us to the fact that while

29 Jun 2024: A Curtisian hesitation about identifying debt with reciprocity creates space to attend to debt’s violent and exploitative tendencies, as can be seen in a wave of anthropological scholarship since 2008 ... Often, microfinance loans are targeted at women

29 Jun 2024: A Curtisian hesitation about identifying debt with reciprocity creates space to attend to debt’s violent and exploitative tendencies, as can be seen in a wave of anthropological scholarship since 2008 ... Often, microfinance loans are targeted at women

29 Jun 2024: This is not just a matter of terminology. With the term we have seen the emergence of a much broader set of concerns about the appropriate techniques and practice of governmentality ... Across these disciplinary boundaries, scholars are held together by

29 Jun 2024: However, it did foreshadow later arguments about the social construction of race (Fleuhr-Lobban 2000). ... That anthropological scholarship about race and racism has overwhelmingly focused on Western contexts should not blind us to the fact that while

29 Jun 2024: However, it did foreshadow later arguments about the social construction of race (Fleuhr-Lobban 2000). ... That anthropological scholarship about race and racism has overwhelmingly focused on Western contexts should not blind us to the fact that while

29 Jun 2024: This happened routinely in Egyptian-ruled Gaza, when grassroots complaints about the lack of currency in circulation led to behind-the-scenes instructions for banks to produce more (Feldman 2015). ... Yet these health tracking apps can also be situated