Joy McCorriston,Michael Harrower,Louise Martin et al.
Joy McCorriston et al.
At the cusp of food production, Near Eastern societies adopted new territorial practices, including archaeologically visible sedentism and nonsedentary social defenses more challenging to identify archaeologically. New archaeological and pa...
Rituals of creativity: tradition, modernity, and the "acoustic unconscious" in a U.S. collegiate jazz music program [0.03%]
创造力仪式:传统、现代与“声觉无意识”在美国一所大学的爵士音乐课程中的体现
Eitan Wilf
Eitan Wilf
In this article, I seek to complicate the distinction between imitation and creativity, which has played a dominant role in the modern imaginary and anthropological theory. I focus on a U.S. collegiate jazz music program, in which jazz educ...
Instant noodles as an antifriction device: making the BOP with PPP in PNG [0.03%]
方便面在PNG的PPP Bottom of the Pyramid中的作用:一项摩擦减少实验
Frederick Errington,Tatsuro Fujikura,Deborah Gewertz
Frederick Errington
Focusing primarily, but not exclusively, on urban and periurban Papua New Guinea (PNG), we discuss the significance of instant ramen noodles to those now known as the “bottom of the pyramid” (BOP). Although instant noodles are remarkable ...
Ethnographic empathy and the social context of rights: “rescuing” Maasai girls from early marriage [0.03%]
民族移情与权利的社会语境:“解救”早婚的马赛族少女
Caroline S Archambault
Caroline S Archambault
Esther is one of many young Maasai girls in Kenya "rescued" from early marriage. Her story is conventionally portrayed (trans)nationally and locally as a struggle between conservative pastoral patriarchs and the individual right of young gi...
Scents of place: the dysplacement of a First Nations community in Canada [0.03%]
异地的气味——加拿大一个原住民社区的分离感与身份感
Deborah Davis Jackson
Deborah Davis Jackson
Here I explore how the experience of place at a First Nations reserve in Ontario, located in the middle of Canada's "Chemical Valley," is disrupted by the extraordinary levels of pollution found there. In so doing, I give special attention ...
Forced disappearance in an era of globalization: biopolitics, shadow networks, and imagined worlds [0.03%]
全球化时代的被迫失踪问题:生物政治、灰色网络与虚拟世界
Ralph Rozema
Ralph Rozema
In this article, I argue that the practice of forced disappearance of persons on the part of paramilitary groups has become linked to specific processes of globalization. Global flows related to biopolitics, global crime networks, and dehum...
Jan de Ruiter,Gavin Weston,Stephen M Lyon
Jan de Ruiter
Popular academic ideas linking physiological adaptations to social behaviors are spreading disconcertingly into wider societal contexts. In this article, we note our skepticism with one particularly popular—in our view, problematic—suppos...
Who has time for Ćejf? Postsocialist migration and slow coffee in neoliberal Chicago [0.03%]
谁有时间聊天儿?论后社会主义移民与芝加哥的慢节奏生活
Ana Croegaert
Ana Croegaert
The official end to communism in Eastern Europe marked the onset of major migratory movements. Perhaps the most abrupt of these population shifts was the displacement of more than two million people in Yugoslavia's violent dissolution. Much...
Claiming space for an engaged anthropology: spatial inequality and social exclusion [0.03%]
参与式人类学的空间诉求——空间不平等与社会排斥
Setha M Low
Setha M Low
I use the concept of “engaged anthropology” to frame a discussion of how “spatializing culture” uncovers systems of exclusion that are hidden or naturalized and thus rendered invisible to other methodological approaches. “Claiming Spac...
Framing postpartum hemorrhage as a consequence of human placental biology: an evolutionary and comparative perspective [0.03%]
从进化和比较的角度看产后出血是人类胎盘生物学的一个结果
Elizabeth T Abrams,Julienne N Rutherford
Elizabeth T Abrams
Postpartum hemorrhage (PPH), the leading cause of maternal mortality worldwide, is responsible for 35 percent of maternal deaths. Proximately, PPH results from the failure of the placenta to separate from the uterine wall properly, most oft...