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9 Jul 2024: Three key lessons. The anthropology of science today is a complex and diverse field, which is not easy to systematize or order into ‘schools’. ... However, one might point to a number of key debates which arose over the past twenty or so years since

9 Jul 2024: One asked about the role of animals as material, economic, and political resources for humans in society. ... In sum, it is hard to speak of a primacy of the economic.

9 Jul 2024: economic approaches that attended to the systemic conditions that drive institutionalised forms of inequality, racialised violence, carceral governance, and social control. ... Ciccarone 2018. Opioid crisis: no easy fix to its social and economic

9 Jul 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. ... economic restructuring of the 1980s), it is arguable that it had

9 Jul 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).

9 Jul 2024: Rappaport held that cultures were instrumental for the satisfaction of people’s needs, be it through religious, economic, or kinship practices. ... In this way, resilience can even be grounded in toxic entanglements between people and chronic economic

9 Jul 2024: These findings flagged the drudgery and labour-intensive economic regimes that industrialization had introduced into (most) people’s lives. ... in particular with some modern subcultures, without necessarily being as integrated into larger encompassing

9 Jul 2024: Medical and economic anthropology have explored sharia’s role in responses to the challenges of new global technologies such as assisted reproduction and novel financial instruments. ... Asad, 205-56. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press. Bishara, F.

9 Jul 2024: as an instrument of economic development, diplomacy or national security (Petryna and Biehl 2013, 7). ... Lessons from the past show that pandemics start and end with environmental changes, but they do not provide models on how to anticipate the next

9 Jul 2024: Modern social sciences have assumed that supra-local units of study follow concentric units of political, social, economic, or cultural order. ... with the advent of steam shipping and national economic consolidation projects (Horden & Purcell 2000: 3).

9 Jul 2024: Related post-Marxist approaches have further illuminated magic’s relation with political-economic dynamics, such as the rapid development of capitalist markets disrupting pre-existing social arrangements and spreading anxieties across ... The useful

9 Jul 2024: ideas, sought to uncover the material – that is, economic, biological, environmental – determinants of sociocultural phenomena. ... However, from an etic perspective, local economic and ecological conditions led farmers to actively cull male calves

9 Jul 2024: 5]. This is the lesson of his Iatmul ethnography. There is nothing contingent about how Iatmul elder brother and younger brother are related as a pair, hence the necessity of their ... Sometimes it is used to distinguish relations of sociability (the

9 Jul 2024: the consequence of economic needs and the ecological distribution of resources but rather it is instrumental in producing the underlying social conditions in the first place. ... The occurrence of sharing behaviour cannot be sufficiently explained by the

9 Jul 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

9 Jul 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

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9 Jul 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

9 Jul 2024: It refers to a form of capitalism ascendant since the 1970s but informed by post-war economic philosophical ideas. ... Such theorists were frequently influenced by Marxist concepts, and often focused on neoliberalism as a political economic structure or

9 Jul 2024: Its history and theoretical purchase have been shaped by theoretical shifts within the discipline and by wider political-economic transformations. ... On the other hand, it may have partially reflected the political economic conditions in American and