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Embracing uncertainty: porous and actionable responses to climate change at the borders of Indigenous and scientific expertise(s) in Siberia Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Olga Ulturgasheva, Mally Stelmaszyk
This article explores uncertainty as an onto‐epistemological concept that reveals integrative capacities of Indigenous and scientific knowledge. Looking at official scientific approaches to climate change in Russia, it traces how Indigenous peoples in Siberia navigate their lives as they continue to witness anthropogenic causes of climatic degradation intertwined with forceful denial of Indigenous
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Tongue, tape, and time: caring masculinities in the practice of electrical repair and maintenance work in India's Sundarbans Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Silvia Pergetti
In forest‐fringe areas of India's Sundarbans, young men at the intersection of low caste and class become invested in electrical repair and maintenance work – as a gendering practice that enacts a specific logic of care. This work takes embodied knowledge (tongue), thoughtful improvisation (tape), and lifelong commitment (time) to fragile things and people in need. Tongue, tape, and time make the difference
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Reconfiguring gender, kinship, and spirituality: space‐ and place‐making in Muslim Malaysia Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Viola Thimm
In the public and private spaces of Malaysia's capitalist cities, Malay women abide by a stricter Islamic dress code than they do in rural areas. Hence, in this local context, spatial public/private and ‘placial’ rural/urban order are of importance for gender identifications and practices. These orders imply influences on gendered forms of embodiment in the form of dress codes. This research examines
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Violence as a lens to Viking societies: A comparison of Norway and Denmark Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 Jan Bill, David Jacobson, Susanne Nagel, Lisa Mariann Strand
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Volumetric citizenship American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 Eli Elinoff
In Thailand, the volatile period from 2019 to 2023 was marked by changing material and political atmospheres. Air pollution, the COVID‐19 pandemic, and government restrictions on speech transformed how Thai citizens breathed and how they related to the monarchy. Understanding this period as a history of breath reconceptualizes the citizen‐body as volumetric, recasting politics as an intermaterial practice
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Staying with the blackout: an insecure anthropology of energy Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 Canay Özden‐Schilling
In the twenty‐first century, blackouts have settled into a familiar sequence of events in the fully electrified world. After jolting publics into a sudden awareness of energy assemblages, they gradually disappear from public memory. This article is an exercise in dwelling on blackouts that have already begun to recede from public memory so as to better conceptualize ‘energy security’ as an object of
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Refusals of noncitizenship American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-25 Peter Nyers
This commentary explores the politics of refusal as it plays out in struggles for citizenship. Refusals of noncitizenship involve a dialectic of negation and affirmation. They are at once acts of protest against an injustice or wrong, while also generative of new forms of political subjectivity and community. The refusals of noncitizenship found in the articles of this special forum involve acts of
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Accommodating agriculture at al-Khayran: Economic relations and settlement practices in the earliest agricultural communities of the southern Levant Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 Matthew V. Kroot
Early agricultural practices are often viewed as such a radical transformation that they not only structured and drove the long-term development of subsistence economies, but also required a dramatic reorganization of how community-wide economic relations were reckoned and enacted. This article examines how data derived from loci of economic production can inform us about the structure of economic
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The current economy: Electricity markets and techno‐economics By CanayÖzden‐Schilling. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021. 205 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 Dean Chahim
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What does it mean to be a citizen in the contemporary moment? American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 Neha Vora
This commentary on the set of articles for the “Citizenship, Solidarity, and Nonbelonging” forum considers ways that relationships between states and residents are being reconfigured in the wake of environmental, technological, and economic changes. It also questions the concept of liberal citizenship as a framework for understanding contemporary political subjectivity.
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Ancestral commons theorized: The entanglement of cosmology, community and landscape use in Bronze Age Northern Europe Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-22 Mark Haughton, Mette Løvschal
The emergence of open, disturbed grazing landscapes across Early Bronze Age Northern Europe coincided with a boom in the building of monumental barrows, often placed in linear arrangements. The co-emergence of landscape and monument forms suggests an intimate link between cosmology, communities and pasture, which has not featured prominently in prehistoric narratives. We propose and explore a framework
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Cultural Literacy as Mission and Product Current Anthropology (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-14 Julie Valk
Current Anthropology, Ahead of Print.
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Urban structure, spatial equilibrium, and social inequality at Ancient Teotihuacan Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-14 Dean M. Blumenfeld, Rudolf Cesaretti, Anne Sherfield, Angela C. Huster, José Lobo, Michael E. Smith
This study employs canonical methods and theory from urban economics and economic geography to analyze the urban structure of the ancient city of Teotihuacan. We present evidence that Teotihuacan’s overall configuration, which includes spatial patterning in land use, demography, and social class, reveals density gradients that are consistent with the assumptions of urban . In general, spatial equilibrium
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Beyond identification: Human use of animal dung in the past Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-14 Shira Gur-Arieh, Marco Madella
Animal dung is still considered a secondary by-product of domestication, even though a growing body of evidence is showing that humans recognized its properties as fuel and fertilizer and utilized dung prior to—and alongside—the process of animal domestication. In this paper, we review the advancements made in dung identification over the last decades and suggest a multi-proxy workflow for fast screening
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The materiality and temporality of St. Lawrence Iroquoian incorporation in late precolonial northern Iroquoia Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-14 Jonathan Micon, Jennifer Birch
Research on regional depopulation is often framed around identifying external causal factors and subsequent effects on adjacent societies. This has been the case for studies of the depopulation of the St. Lawrence River Valley (SLRV) of northeastern North America. During the sixteenth century CE, an estimated 8,000–10,000 St. Lawrence Iroquoians (SLI) left the valley in response to climatic and social
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Make Shift Current Anthropology (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-12 Kathryn Takabvirwa
Current Anthropology, Ahead of Print.
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Moorings Current Anthropology (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-11 N. J. Enfield, Charles H. P. Zuckerman
Current Anthropology, Ahead of Print.
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The Evolution of Gender Dimorphism in the Human Voice Current Anthropology (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-07 Nicholas Bannan, Robin Dunbar, Joshua Bamford
Current Anthropology, Ahead of Print.
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Conditional Cash Transfers and the Produced Poor in Indonesia Current Anthropology (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Robbie Peters
Current Anthropology, Ahead of Print.
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Beyond Uniformity: Technical and historical dynamics among pottery traditions in the Falémé Valley, eastern Senegal Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-05 Adrien Delvoye, Anne Mayor, Ndèye Sokhna Guèye
Ceramic traditions are constantly evolving, but the pace of change is variable and not all stages of the are affected in the same way, depending on the causes of borrowing, abandonment, or innovation. Few ethnoarchaeological studies in Africa have focused on a detailed understanding of these dynamics, which are important for the interpretation of past societies. Our study was conducted from 2012 to
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Reconsidering narratives of household social inequality Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-26 Ian Kuijt
The emergence of social inequality is one of, if not the, most important research question in anthropological archaeology. Social inequality within different types of households is relational, between individuals as well as within communities, multidimensional, multi-scalar, and is measured in degrees instead of merely being present or absent. In exploring how archaeologists develop narratives of inequality
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Corrections to “Managing the ‘hot spots’: Health care, policing, and the governance of poverty in the US” American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-25
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How Is Space Culturally Transformed? Religious and Aesthetic Creativity in Walled Spaces Current Anthropology (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Elisa Farinacci, Nurit Stadler
Current Anthropology, Ahead of Print.
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Fence Me In Current Anthropology (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 David Flood
Current Anthropology, Ahead of Print.
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Being dead otherwise By Anne Allison. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 256 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-11 Shunsuke Nozawa
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A history of false hope: Investigative commissions in Palestine By LoriAllen. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. 432 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-11 Hilla Dayan
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Gendered fortunes: Divination, precarity, and affect in postsecular Turkey By Zeynep K. Korkman. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 276 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-11 Tatiana Rabinovich
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Meaningless citizenship: Iraqi refugees and the welfare state By Sally WesleyBonet. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 256 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-11 Zachary Sheldon
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Zar: Spirit possession, music, and healing rituals in Egypt By Hager ElHadidi. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2016. 180 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-11 John Schaefer
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A book of waves By Stefan Helmreich. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 411 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-11 Ignacio Farías, Brett Mommersteeg
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The feel of algorithms By MinnaRuckenstein. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 223 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-11 Spencer Kaplan
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Composing violence: The limits of exposure and the making of minorities By MoyukhChatterjee. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 184 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-11 Suvir Kaul
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Passport entanglements: Protection, care, and precarious migrations By Nicole Constable. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. 260 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-11 Mahmoud Keshavarz
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A filtered life: Social media on a college campus By Nicole Taylor and Mimi Nichter. New York: Routledge, 2022. 210 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-11 Patricia G. Lange
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Native agency: Indians in the Bureau of Indian Affairs By Valerie Lambert. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 376 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-11 Jason Younker
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Racial Optics of Escalation Current Anthropology (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Sonia N. Das, Hyemin Lee
Current Anthropology, Ahead of Print.
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Dialogues: decolonizing anthropology in/with Japan Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Sachiko Kubota, Shuhei Kimura, mai ishihara, Sara Park, Byung‐Ho Chung, Motoji Matsuda, Rima Higa, Tsuyoshi Kitamura, Soumhya Venkatesan, Yoshinobu Ota, Chip Colwell
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Columbia plateau socio-political organization as seen through an anarchist framework: Conflict as resistence to centralization Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-04 James W. Brown, Steve Hackenberger
The Columbia-Fraser Plateau of Northwestern North America was inhabited by complex hunter-gatherer populations throughout the Late Holocene. Archaeological studies have typically characterized these peoples as having corporate households and wealth inequality. Ethnographic accounts emphasize the societies of this region as egalitarian communities and pacifist. In this paper we compare radiocarbon dates
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Customary ‘child selling’ and the ‘untouched mother’ in Western Odisha, India: understanding the legitimatization of caste hierarchy Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Minaketan Bag, Kishor K. Podh
The place of mothers is respected in all societies irrespective of their social, cultural, and geographical differences. The mother‐child relationship is considered one of the most sacred in the world. This article explores the age‐old customary ‘child selling’ prevalent in Western Odisha, a voluntary and non‐remunerative practice of childcare during infancy to save children from illness and Yama,
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Zimmer‐Tamakoshi, Laura (ed.). First fieldwork: Pacific anthropology 1960‐1985. x, 251 pp., map, illus., bibliogrs. Honolulu: Univ. of Hawai‘i Press, 2021. £30.95 (paper) Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Andrew J. Strathern, Pamela J. Stewart (Strathern)
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Population, culture history, and the dynamics of change in European prehistory★ Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Stephen Shennan
Despite many attacks on its shortcomings, culture history has remained in practice the dominant framework for describing and interpreting European prehistory. It has gained even more salience in recent years because the new information coming from ancient DNA about the genetic ancestry of individuals in prehistory seems to show that this correlates closely with the cultural affiliation of the archaeological
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Wool they, won’t they: Zooarchaeological perspectives on the political and subsistence economies of wool in northern Mesopotamia Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Max D. Price, Jesse Wolfhagen
An important facet in the study of complex societies involves documenting how the extraction of resources to support political structures (the political economy) impacted the subsistence economy of everyday life. Caprine production was a central feature of ancient Mesopotamian subsistence, while ancient texts reveal that wool was centrally important to the region’s political economies. It has long
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The grammar of a hunger strike: nonviolence and biopolitics in Manipur, India Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Sayantan Saha Roy
What are the potentialities and limits of nonviolence as a method of resistance against modern biopolitics? This article offers an ethnographic account of Irom Sharmila's sixteen‐year‐long hunger strike against the continued state of emergency in the Indian state of Manipur. It interrogates how she envisioned the protest, the objectives that she set, and how her protest came to an end. This article
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Well‐being in the context of Indigenous heritage management: A Hach Winik perspective from Metzabok, Chiapas, Mexico Economic Anthropology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Christopher Hernandez, Armando Valenzuela Gómez
In this article, we examine what local well‐being means in the contexts of collaborative heritage management and national development in Mexico. Driven by the request of Lacandon Mayas (including the second author) who live in Puerto Bello Metzabok, Chiapas, Mexico, in 2018, we engaged in archeological consolidation and heritage management to promote local tourism and sustainable economic development
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Juries and Prosecutors in an Era of Mass Incarceration Current Anthropology (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Richard Ashby Wilson
Current Anthropology, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 391-392, April 2024.
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The Pleasures of Making Current Anthropology (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 David Howes
Current Anthropology, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 390-391, April 2024.
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Front Matter Current Anthropology (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-24
Current Anthropology, Volume 65, Issue 2, April 2024.
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Front Cover Current Anthropology (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-24
Current Anthropology, Volume 65, Issue 2, April 2024.
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Small work pleasures and two types of well‐being Economic Anthropology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Claudia Strauss
Does wage labor contribute to well‐being beyond providing an income? Well‐being can be understood in eudaimonic terms as the happiness derived from a socially valued life or in hedonic terms as the experience of pleasure. The eudaimonic–hedonic divide is replicated in competing progressive visions of the place of work in a good life. Laborist theories stress the centrality of paid work for a meaningful
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Making home alive again after war: Acoli Kaka’s Indigenous land sovereignties in Northern Uganda Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Lara Rosenoff Gauvin
After the war between the Ugandan government and the Lord's Resistance Army (1986‐2006), 90 per cent of the displaced rural population in Northern Uganda returned to small‐scale farming on their ancestral lands and their systems of communal land stewardship. At the time, there was much debate about transitional justice interventions to address war's violence, but in that same period over 85 per cent
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Love burnout: young women, mobile phones, and delayed marriage in Yaoundé, Cameroon Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Ewa Majczak
This article examines how work towards the promise of love marriage comes to be exhausted. It focuses on young urban women living in Yaoundé, Cameroon, trying to ‘catch’ a husband using digital technologies in which photographs figure prominently. Focusing on the visual production of dating profiles, I show how mobile phones place young women at the centre of their own husband‐catching pursuits. Through
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Feral ecologies of the human deep past: multispecies archaeology and palaeo‐synanthropy Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Shumon T. Hussain
This article articulates recent advances in palaeo‐ecology with the goals and ambitions of multispecies archaeology. It centres the synanthropic nexus as a key context for the study of early human‐animal relationships and argues that its evolution yields important yet currently overlooked dynamics shaping the structure of the archaeological record. I first show how the dominant heuristic of wild versus
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Contested values of grogue in Cabo Verde Economic Anthropology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Brandon D. Lundy, Nancy Hoalst‐Pullen, Mark W. Patterson, Monica H. Swahn
This article explores grogue, a sugarcane‐based distilled spirit of Cabo Verde, and its multifaceted and contested valuations in culture, livelihoods, and well‐being. Despite Cabo Verde's challenging climate, sugarcane agriculture remains significant primarily due to the importance placed on the local production of grogue. The study described in this article investigates how grogue is perceived and
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Productive leisure on the farm American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-20 Camille Frazier
In the context of deepening national concern about the future of farming in India, professionals in Bengaluru's (Bangalore's) booming information technology and related industries are purchasing agricultural land at the edges of the city and farming in their free time. These “techie farmers” invest their money and time in cultivation either (1) to generate idealized agrarian traditions and aesthetics