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13 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

13 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

13 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

13 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.

13 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

13 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

13 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,

13 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

13 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).

13 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