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30 Jun 2024: For example, Buddhists in Sri Lanka are encouraged to cultivate ‘mindfulness of death’ (maranasañña) which, as Langer (2007: 53) suggests, is aimed at ‘the final liberation’ and disengagement from society. ... The most absolute form of

30 Jun 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 ... As such, they effectively function

30 Jun 2024: Nowadays, Indigenous media ranges from national television broadcast programs to radio, experimental arts, documentaries, and narrative film. ... Clearly there are no firm or final answers to these broad questions, which by necessity should return time

30 Jun 2024: The final section will turn to the larger questions of the implications for the nature of anthropology and humanity. ... This will be the subject of the final section. How we do anthropology digitally.

30 Jun 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

30 Jun 2024: Quantification practices have often themselves become the link between populations and the local, national, or international entities that govern their economic, social, and physical wellbeing. ... Under the guise of ‘good governance’, they are often

30 Jun 2024: Hence ‘debt […] generates […] economic and political rents’: regular payments someone receives simply because of owning something (Roitman 2005, 74). ... This mode of economic extraction takes place through financial and commercial relations,

30 Jun 2024: Sometimes it is used to distinguish relations of sociability (the tenor of interactions, transactions, obligations between persons) from relations of an institutional or systemic kind: economic, political, gender relations, as when ... Deleuze calls it a

30 Jun 2024: At issue was a ‘process of demoralization begun by economic exploitation and the loss of political autonomy’ (AAA 1947: 541). ... the attractions of a short-cut via judicially enforceable social and economic rights’ (2006: 80).

30 Jun 2024: 2019; Yates-Doerr 2011). However, this framing ignores the social, economic, and political contexts that impact the diabetes experiences of many patients. ... traction in anthropological diabetes research, as it provides a framework for understanding the

30 Jun 2024: Anthropologists have also highlighted the role played by houses in producing a distinctive mode of economic organisation, known as the ‘house economy’ (Gudeman & Rivera 1990) or the ‘domestic mode of production’ ... A final tension worth

30 Jun 2024: These constituted movements that amplified causes which spoke not only to economic and class-related goals, but also to civil rights, ethics, and alternative ways of inhabiting the world. ... Paradoxically, processes aimed at consensual decision-making

30 Jun 2024: plan for the final stages of life and death (Long 2005; Seale and van der Geest 2004; Zaman et al. ... Geneva: World Health Organization. ———. 2002. National cancer control programmes: Policies and managerial guidelines, 2nd ed.

30 Jun 2024: It refers to a form of capitalism ascendant since the 1970s but informed by post-war economic philosophical ideas. ... As Harvey notes, the ‘increasing social inequality’ is observable in national income distribution.

30 Jun 2024: The occurrence of sharing behaviour cannot be sufficiently explained by the economic and ecological pressures of a resource situation, even though these play a role. ... Wenzel, G. Hovesrud-Broda & N. Kishigami, 7-26. Osaka: National Museum of

30 Jun 2024: Often this is commensurate with the territoriality of the state, in which national borders become sites of heightened surveillance, historically through an alliance of sensory and documentary forms (Baĭburin 2021; Breckenridge ... In the UK, for example,

30 Jun 2024: contagions and potential pandemics whose vectors of transmission do not adhere to national boundaries(Caduff 2014). ... the experience of wellness) to being a proxy for economic growth and development.

30 Jun 2024: efficacy</strong></h2> <p>Discourses on nationalism and national medicine are often interlaced with debates about modernity (Croizier 1968; Khan 2006). ... In other words, scholars highlight that the efficacy of biomedicine is embedded in its social and

30 Jun 2024: In his final two lecture series at the Collège de France, Foucault sought to clarify this relationship between subject and context by turning to a very specific aspect of self-cultivation ... and broadcast both at the site of the street performance and

30 Jun 2024: These constituted movements that amplified causes which spoke not only to economic and class-related goals, but also to civil rights, ethics, and alternative ways of inhabiting the world. ... Paradoxically, processes aimed at consensual decision-making