The clock-drawing test: reading temporalities of dementia from clinical chart notes [0.03%]
钟绘测验:从临床记录中解读痴呆的时间性
Janelle S Taylor
Janelle S Taylor
The clock-drawing test, a cognitive screening test widely used clinically, is here taken as a window onto forms of temporality present in clinical encounters involving dementia. Drawing on close reading of clinical notes from their medical ...
Ethnographic closeness: methodological reflections on the interplay of engagement and detachment in immersive ethnographic research [0.03%]
浸入式民族志研究中的参与与抽离:方法反思
Caitlin Pilbeam,Trisha Greenhalgh,Caroline M Potter
Caitlin Pilbeam
With the reflexive turn in the social sciences, emotional engagement is an inevitable and crucial part of data-gathering and analysis. However, there is a glaring gap in methodological discussions to this end. Presenting ethnographic resear...
Relocating the future: biographical objects, aspiration, and repair in urban Taipei [0.03%]
迁移的未来——台北城市变迁中的传记性物件、抱负与修复
Elisa Tamburo
Elisa Tamburo
How might urban relocation unfold as a time of social reproduction? Taking the case of Zhongxin Village in Taipei, a military settlement that was relocated in 2016, I show in this article that while mainland Chinese veterans experienced the...
Daniel Miller,Pauline Garvey
Daniel Miller
This article argues that a population of relatively affluent retired people in a small Irish town have employed the possibilities of grandparenting to resolve many of the tensions of contemporary kinship. This includes the tension between t...
Luke Heslop,Laura Jeffery
Luke Heslop
This article engages critically with concepts of 'skill', 'expertise', and 'capacity' as they operate as markers of distinction and domination and shape migratory labour relations among road construction workers from across South Asia in th...
Avian preparedness: simulations of bird diseases and reverse scenarios of extinction in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore [0.03%]
禽类防范:香港、台湾和新加坡的鸟类疾病模拟及反灭绝方案
Frédéric Keck
Frédéric Keck
This article describes relations between humans, animals, artefacts, and pathogens in simulations of disasters, taking bird diseases in three Chinese sentinel posts as ethnographic cases. Drawing on distinctions between simulation, ritual, ...
'Homework' and Transnational Adoption Screening in Spain: The Co-Production of Home and Family [0.03%]
跨国收养审查与西班牙的“家庭作业”:家庭与居家的共生产
Jessaca B Leinaweaver,Diana Marre,Susan E Frekko
Jessaca B Leinaweaver
Ellen Block
Ellen Block
HIV/AIDS has devastated families in rural Lesotho, leaving many children orphaned. Families have adapted to the increase in the number of orphans and HIV-positive children in ways that provide children with the best possible care. Though lo...
On gifts, payments and disputes: divorce and changing family structures in contemporary Britain [0.03%]
论馈赠、付款和争议:当代英国的离婚与变化中的家庭结构
B Simpson
B Simpson
"This article considers ethnographic data collected among divorcing men and women in Britain and adopts a Maussian view of exchange in order to understand the cultural dimensions of divorce in more depth. I argue that divorcing men and wome...
Female spirit cults as a window on gender relations in the highlands of Papua New Guinea [0.03%]
女性精神崇拜透视巴布亚新几内亚高原地区的两性关系
P J Stewart,A Strathern
P J Stewart
Early writings on male cults in the highlands of Papua New Guinea tended to stress the exclusion of women and the collective agency of men. Looking at a subset of these cults from the Western and Southern Highlands Provinces, centering on F...