Nikhil Anand
Nikhil Anand
In Mumbai, most all residents are delivered their daily supply of water for a few hours every day, on a water supply schedule. Subject to a more precarious supply than the city's upper-class residents, the city's settlers have to consistent...
Lonely drinking fountains and comforting coolers: paradoxes of water value and ironies of water use [0.03%]
孤独的饮水机与慰藉的直饮机：用水价值的悖论和用水行为的讽刺
Martha Kaplan
Martha Kaplan
This article focuses ethnographically on Americans and technologies of drinking water, as tokens of and vehicles for health, agency, and surprising kinds of community. Journalists and water scholars have argued that bottled water is a mater...
Making time for the children: self-temporalization and the cultivation of the antisuicidal subject in south India [0.03%]
留出时间给孩子：南印度的主体反自杀培养与自我时间化
Jocelyn Lim Chua
Jocelyn Lim Chua
This article examines suicide prevention among children in India's “suicide capital” of Kerala to interrogate the ways temporalization practices inform the cultivation of ethical, life-avowing subjects in late capitalism. As economic libe...
Symptoms of another life: time, possibility, and domestic relations in Chile's credit economy [0.03%]
时光、可能性与家庭关系：智利信用经济下的另一种生活症状
Clara Han
Clara Han
In this article, I explore the synergy and disjunctures of the consumer credit system and care for the mentally ill and addicted in the lifeworlds of the urban poor in Santiago, Chile. In Chile, the expansion of the credit system has had a ...
Chris Garces
Chris Garces
This essay examines inmate "crucifixion protests" in Ecuador's largest prison during 2003-04. It shows how the preventively incarcerated-of whom there are thousands-managed to effectively denounce their extralegal confinement by embodying t...
"They come in peasants and leave citizens": urban villages and the making of Shenzhen, China [0.03%]
"他们进村时是农民，离开时是市民"——城市村庄与中国的深圳制造
Jonathan Bach
Jonathan Bach
This essay examines the ongoing process of postsocialist transformation at the intersection of cultural and economic forces in an urban environment through the example of the so-called "urban villages"(chengzhongcun) in Shenzhen, China, a b...
Prendas-Ngangas-Enquisos: turbulence and the influence of the dead in Cuban-Kongo material culture [0.03%]
动荡与影响：古巴-刚果物质文化中的灵魂和鬼魂
Todd Ramón Ochoa
Todd Ramón Ochoa
Cuban-Kongo praise of the dead in Havana turns insistently around complex agglomerations of materials called "prendas,""ngangas," and "enquisos." This article addresses the ontological status of "prendas-ngangas-enquisos," which practitione...