[{"id": "ca-1100", "words": "9639", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "68", "author": "O'Neill, Bruce", "title": "Cast Aside: Boredom, Downward Mobility, and Homelessness in Post-Communist Bucharest", "date": "2014", "keywords": "boredom; bucharest; city; communism; consumption; day; economy; homeless; life; nescaf\u00e9; new; press; public; radu; romania; romanians; sense; shelter; state; university; work; world", "summary": "Boredom is a traumatizing social relationship born out of having been cast aside, and it materializes through the practices and shelter infrastructure that keeps homeless persons sitting at the margins of the city.11 Again, boredom abounds amongst the homeless because they are excluded from the consumer-based activities and spaces that are now central to contemporary city life.12 It is little wonder that the trauma of downward mobility in Romania takes meaningful shape around the denial of consumption. To be sure, boredom also exerted a deathly dull force upon homeless persons living on the street.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-1126", "words": "7560", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "63", "author": "Dumit, Joseph", "title": "Writing the Implosion: Teaching the World One Thing at a Time", "date": "2014", "keywords": "connections; deleuze; dimensions; foucault; haraway; histories; implosion; kinds; knowledge; new; process; ways; world", "summary": "\u2026 And just as a way of waking up in the morning, I would ask people to unpack objects, to take a chocolate croissant and lead me through flour and chocolate and butter and sugar and coffee and connect us to world histories that way. Necessary for some of us, but not enough to properly wake up to the connectedness of the world, to our connectedness to world histories.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-1133", "words": "9154", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "59", "author": "Weiss, Hadas", "title": "Homeownership in Israel: The Social Costs of Middle-Class Debt", "date": "2014", "keywords": "bank; borrowers; capital; class; credit; debt; estate; home; homeownership; housing; interest; investments; israel; market; mortgage; nis; parents; paying; prices; public; purchase; security", "summary": "Addressing their predicament, economist Yaakov Sheinin (2011) makes the following assessment: Housing prices have not spiked due to housing shortages, as conventional wisdom would have it, but due to the sheer escalation of housing prices, which recommends real-estate as a good investment.4 People buy homes anticipating their rising value. Seeking further insight into the economic irrationality of housing investments, I observed twenty-some mortgage transactions at two banks (Le\u2019umi and Tfachot) and a private mortgage consultancy (Matan).", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-1146", "words": "10337", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "52", "author": "Hickel, Jason", "title": "Xenophobia in South Africa: Order, Chaos, and the Moral Economy of Witchcraft", "date": "2014", "keywords": "africa; africans; anomie; cato; chaos; foreigners; globalization; ideas; immigrants; manor; order; people; press; south; south africa; university; violence; witchcraft; work; xenophobia", "summary": "\u201cXenophobia\u201d in South Africa \u201cXenophobia\u201d in South Africa: Over the following weeks, similar riots erupted in other informal settlements around Johannesburg, as well as in settlements around Durban and Cape Town, South Africa\u2019s two other major cities.1 Tens of thousands of African immigrants\u2014irrespective of their actual legal status\u2014were harassed all across the country in mass eviction campaigns led by angry vigilante mobs comprised mostly of unemployed young males, despite the efforts of community members and local leaders to stop them.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-1172", "words": "9426", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "57", "author": "Millar, Kathleen M.", "title": "The Precarious Present: Wageless Labor and Disrupted Life in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil", "date": "2014", "keywords": "autonomy; brazil; catadores; dump; employment; experience; garbage; gramacho; job; labor; life; new; press; rio; rose; social; time; university; work; worker", "summary": "Like other catadores, Rose had insisted many times that she would leave the garbage if she could: \u201cThe dump is pure suffering.\u201d During the first decade of the dump\u2019s existence, the few hundred catadores who collected there were mostly migrants from the rural Northeast who came to Jardim Gramacho from other dumps that had closed\u2014\u201cfollowing the garbage,\u201d as they recounted.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-1190", "words": "9343", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "43", "author": "Shoshan, Nitzan", "title": "Managing Hate: Political Delinquency and Affective Governance in Germany", "date": "2014", "keywords": "affective; body; contemporary; delinquent; extremist; film; germany; gino; governance; hate; language; national; new; press; right; social; therapy; tomasky; university; violence; work; york", "summary": "These perspectives populate a contested terrain of explanatory frameworks and interventionist procedures, each with its own intellectual and political genealogy, that are expounded and brought to bear upon young political delinquents in today\u2019s Germany. Below, I consider three modalities through which the management of hate governs and, more specifically, aims to reform young right extremists.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-1217", "words": "9522", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "59", "author": "D'Avella, Nicholas", "title": "Ecologies of Investment: Crisis Histories and Brick Futures in Argentina", "date": "2014", "keywords": "argentine; banks; bricks; crisis; currency; dollars; ecology; economic; estate; investment; mariela; money; new; past; people; peso; savings; university; value", "summary": "Recall the frigate Libertad, impounded in Ghana at the behest of a Wall Street investment fund, suggesting that investment banks might share with Argentines an ecological sensibility of a world full of possible and opportunistic connection. Unlike economies in which dollars circulate alongside national currencies, in Argentina dollars have never been used for everyday transactions.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-1228", "words": "8730", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "45", "author": "Ahmad, Tania", "title": "Socialities of Indignation: Denouncing Party Politics in Karachi", "date": "2014", "keywords": "chaudhry; city; confinement; events; government; home; indignation; karachi; mqm; news; pakistan; party; people; politics; residents; television; university; urban; violence", "summary": "In condemning the brutality of political parties in general, and of the MQM in particular, residents generated a discursive space constituted through negation. Staying indoors during periods of possible urban unrest was common for Karachi residents, and strikes called by political parties or last-minute holidays announced by the government in anticipation of possible disturbances in the city frequently influenced the decision not to go outside.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-1231", "words": "10506", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "62", "author": "Mittermaier, Amira", "title": "Bread, Freedom, Social Justice: The Egyptian Uprising and a Sufi Khidma", "date": "2014", "keywords": "egypt; egyptian; ethics; food; future; giving; god; guests; justice; khidma; need; nura; people; present; press; square; tahrir; time; university; work", "summary": "Other khidmas are open all year round. Uncertain and increasingly skeptical, those still protesting continued repeating three central demands\u2014\u201cbread, freedom, social justice\u201d (\u2018a\u012bsh, hurriyya, \u2018ad\u0101la igtim\u0101\u2018iyya)\u2014yet with more and more friction around what these demands meant and mounting concern that they might have become empty slogans.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-1238", "words": "9047", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "64", "author": "Nouvet, Elys\u00e9e", "title": "Some Carry On, Some Stay in Bed: (In)convenient Affects and Agency in Neoliberal Nicaragua", "date": "2014", "keywords": "affects; barrio; body; context; day; food; juana; life; mita; new; nicaragua; power; press; residents; social; suffering; university; violence; work", "summary": "What qualifies a mode of living, pushed to the limits in a context of social suffering, as \u201ccritical\u201d of the status quo or as fodder for political transformation? My work is influenced by the scholarship on social suffering in anthropology, with its focus on the unequal geography, and social and political work, of distress in particular contexts.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-1275", "words": "9364", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "50", "author": "Roy, Arpita", "title": "Ethnography and Theory of the Signature in Physics", "date": "2014", "keywords": "background; form; higgs; human; material; new; particle; photons; physicists; physics; press; science; signal; signature; signs; things; university", "summary": "In his essay \u201cSignature Event Context,\u201d Derrida looks at signatures in the everyday context and ascribes \u201citerability\u201d as their primary specification. Characteristic patterns of decay formed by particles subsequent to collisions, such as a Higgs boson decaying into two energetic photons, are termed signatures and constitute the chief unit of discovery in particle physics.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-1283", "words": "10341", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "65", "author": "Dave, Naisargi N.", "title": "Witness: Humans, Animals, and the Politics of Becoming", "date": "2014", "keywords": "activists; animal; death; delhi; erika; eyes; gandhi; human; india; maneka; new; politics; press; rogers; satija; skin; subject; university; witnessing", "summary": "In the case of animal activists, it is a skin also inhabited by the animal. By telling stories from the perspective of animal activists who identify with progressive rather than conservative causes (see also Leela Gandhi 2006), and from theoretical perspectives other than that of how power reproduces itself in predictable ways, I hope to show that there are and must be other ways we conceive of human-animal engagements in India, ways that are not predetermined or fully determined by Hindu nationalism.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-1285", "words": "9086", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "57", "author": "Rees, Tobias", "title": "Humanity/Plan; or, On the \"Stateless\" Today (Also Being an Anthropology of Global Health)", "date": "2014", "keywords": "biological; enterprise; form; global; health; humanity; humans; nation; new; plan; politics; press; research; state; stateless; university; world", "summary": "They transformed a given (all humans constitute the totality of humanity) into a provincial, historical, contingent phenomenon, thereby engendering the possibility of an anthropology of humanity; one that grounds in an ethnographic exploration of a set of actors\u2014the practitioners of humanity\u2014that, despite its extraordinary significance, is usually nowhere accounted for, one that calls for a meticulous epistemology of humanity plans (Chakrabarty 2000). Gehlen 1973; Kohn 1944; L\u00e9vi-Strauss 1952; Niezen 2008).8 What I found as well, and this came as a major surprise, was that most of the authors who first wrote about humanity actually understood their texts as humanity plans (Krajewski 2006).", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-1317", "words": "9682", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "58", "author": "Jacobsen-Bia, Kristina", "title": "Radmilla\u2019s Voice: Music Genre, Blood Quantum, and Belonging on the Navajo Nation", "date": "2014", "keywords": "american; band; blood; country; din\u00e9; genre; identity; indian; language; miss; music; nation; native; navajo; new; press; quantum; race; radmilla; reservation; singing; sound; university; voice; white", "summary": "Radmilla Cody, Miss Navajo Nation, 1997\u20131998. As one Din\u00e9 critic has noted, \u201cAlthough Miss Navajo Nation embodies Navajo cultural values associated with ideal womanhood, we must also acknowledge that beauty pageants are rooted in white middle-class values that present femininity as values of chastity, morality, and virtue\u201d (Denetdale 2006, 20).", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-1319", "words": "9797", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "57", "author": "Beliso-De Jes\u00fas, Aisha", "title": "Santer\u00eda Copresence and the Making of African Diaspora Bodies", "date": "2014", "keywords": "african; bodies; body; copresences; cuba; diaspora; fanon; fermina; form; habitus; lucum\u00ed; making; matanzas; new; orisha; practitioners; press; religion; santer\u00eda; spirits; university; world", "summary": "Multiple heterogeneous cosmologies are incorporated within copresence body logics, and reordered as part of Santer\u00eda\u2019s sixth sense (Guerts 2003). I argue that blackness cannot be removed from Santer\u00eda copresences\u2019 formations of body worlds.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-1359", "words": "9523", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "55", "author": "Tamarkin, Noah", "title": "Genetic Diaspora: Producing Knowledge of Genes and Jews in Rural South Africa", "date": "2014", "keywords": "africa; american; connection; culture; diaspora; dna; history; jewish; jews; knowledge; lemba; mpaketsane; people; press; research; south; studies; study; university", "summary": "This idea neutralizes concerns that Abrami had raised at the recapture seminars that modern Jews determined descent from the mother, while Lemba Jewish DNA was derived from men only. In this article, by privileging the perspectives of Lemba South Africans and the historical and ethnographic contexts through which Lemba genetic data emerged and circulated, I offer an alternative reading of the social and political significance of DNA.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-1361", "words": "10170", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "55", "author": "Cole, Jennifer", "title": "Working Mis/Understandings: The Tangled Relationship between Kinship, Franco-Malagasy Binational Marriages, and the French State", "date": "2014", "keywords": "families; family; france; french; husbands; kin; kinship; madagascar; malagasy; marriage; press; relations; state; university; vola; wives; women; working", "summary": "These husbands generally complain that changes in French society have made French women \u201cegotistical\u201d (trop \u00e9go\u00efste) or \u201ctoo individual\u201d (trop individuelle), by which they usually mean that women are too materialistic and no longer interested in fulfilling traditional gender roles within the household, a complaint that echoes those leveled at modern French women after World War I (Camiscioli 2009). Fearful that they will be accused of using marriage to obtain citizenship and its material benefits, Malagasy women need to explain their ongoing commitments to their Malagasy kin in ways that their husbands and French families will recognize and interpret as morally legitimate.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-1451", "words": "9101", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "56", "author": "Droney, Damien", "title": "Ironies of Laboratory Work during Ghana's Second Age of Optimism", "date": "2014", "keywords": "african; ampofo; centre; equipment; ghana; laboratories; laboratory; medical; medicine; modern; modernity; press; research; science; time; university; work", "summary": "It is recalled as a reaction to Ampofo\u2019s experience of racism and as an announcement of the arrival of modern African science. His most visible legacy was the Centre for Scientific Research into Plant Medicine, a demonstration of the emergence of modern African science.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-1507", "words": "574", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "46", "author": "Weiss, Brad", "title": "Opening Access: Publics, Publication, and a Path to Inclusion", "date": "2014", "keywords": "access; sca", "summary": "In August 2012, the AAA director of publications, Oona Schmid, proposed that one of the publishing sections be permitted to become open access for the duration of the Wiley-Blackwell contract, which expires in December 2017. Our board formed a task force, including some real experts on publishing and open access, and the group determined that it would be worthwhile to pursue this possibility.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-1509", "words": "1834", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "46", "author": "Allison, Anne; Piot, Charles", "title": "Editors\u2019 Note on \u201cNeoliberal Futures\u201d", "date": "2014", "keywords": "future; labor; life; neoliberalism; work", "summary": "The line between job and life\u2014or in Hoffman\u2019s case, death\u2014is porous, much as it is for the Japanese cell-phone novelists described by Gabriella Lukacs (28:1), writers who draw on lives of suffering and pain to produce novels that, posted on cell-phones, entertain fast-paced commuter-consumers in urban Japan. While the materiality of everyday life is both fractured and in continual flux, people dream nonetheless; not so much of making fortunes as of having a modicum of security for or with family.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-1529", "words": "10395", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "60", "author": "Kivland, Chelsey L.", "title": "Becoming a Force in the Zone: Hedonopolitics, Masculinity, and the Quest for Respect on Haiti\u2019s Streets", "date": "2014", "keywords": "base; beach; day; feeling; force; good; haiti; leaders; male; men; new; party; pleasure; power; press; respect; sovereignty; state; street; university; women; yves; zapzap; zone", "summary": "In this article, I argue that insofar as displays of good feeling embodied political power, the production of programs full of feeling\u2014what Feld (1988) would call \u201cfeelingful\u201d programs\u2014represented efforts to perform sovereign agency and power. Of greater importance was the way it allowed them to act as pleasure providers for the zone, and in turn, to make a show of political power.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-1533", "words": "11444", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "51", "author": "Jackson, Jason Baird; Anderson, Ryan", "title": "Anthropology and Open Access", "date": "2014", "keywords": "aaa; access; american; anthropologists; anthropology; author; gold; green; issues; journal; publishers; publishing; research; scholars; society; system; university; way; work", "summary": "Suber (2004b) notes that there are two main vehicles for \u201cdelivering OA to research articles, OA journals (\u2018gold OA\u2019) and OA repositories (\u2018green OA\u2019).\u201d Like their \u201ctoll access\u201d counterparts, OA journals usually engage in peer review (for articles), have editors and editorial boards, regular publication schedules, and all the rest of the inhered apparatus of scholarly journal publishing.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-1569", "words": "8809", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "51", "author": "Dahl, Bianca", "title": "\u201cToo Fat to Be an Orphan\u201d: The Moral Semiotics of Food Aid in Botswana", "date": "2014", "keywords": "aids; bathusi; bodies; botswana; children; fat; feeding; food; foreign; government; kefilwe; kinship; orphans; people; relatives; resources; villagers", "summary": "Appropriating the Ugandan example, fat AIDS describes the complex that gives rise to fat orphans. Young attendees at Bathusi themselves began to self-consciously play with the stereotypes of starving versus fat orphans.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-1573", "words": "10118", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "54", "author": "Appel, Hannah", "title": "Occupy Wall Street and the Economic Imagination", "date": "2014", "keywords": "alt; andrew; banking; capitalism; crisis; debt; finance; financial; group; ideas; imagination; list; mortgage; new; occupy; patrick; people; possibility; public; street; wall; work", "summary": "As was common to other Alt Banking participants as well, he recontextualized the assumptions and uses of his expertise, making them newly available for debate and repurposing. A self-identified Wall Street trader came down one lunch hour with a ream of goldenrod paper containing six ideas \u201cfrom the minds of gainfully employed Wall Street economists and traders,\u201d as the heading read: ban private campaign finance; restrict time spent on political campaigns; redesign the tax code; fix the revolving door between Wall Street and regulators and make lying perjury; clean up the mortgage mess; shake up the banking system.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-1593", "words": "9228", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "56", "author": "Rubin, Joshua D.", "title": "Making Art from Uncertainty: Magic and Its Politics in South African Rugby", "date": "2014", "keywords": "adorno; africa; apartheid; bulls; danie; maak; magic; players; press; rugby; south; sport; state; team; uncertainty; university; vas", "summary": "In response to the spontaneous, unprecedented situations that rugby continually offers up, then, Bulls players are instructed to respond with safe, predictable actions. It is no coincidence, then, that the words Bulls players and management use most regularly to describe their style include dominant, precise, and structured.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-1597", "words": "9227", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "48", "author": "Watanabe, Chika", "title": "Muddy Labor: A Japanese Aid Ethic of Collective Intimacy in Myanmar", "date": "2014", "keywords": "aid; center; collective; development; intimacy; japanese; labor; members; myanmar; oisca; people; press; staff; trainees; training; university; work; workers", "summary": "My argument is thus specifically about Japanese aid in Asia, and more concretely, in Myanmar. This aid ethic and its implications might differ for Japanese aid in other parts of the world.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-1603", "words": "12451", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "55", "author": "Briggs, Charles L.", "title": "Dear Dr. Freud", "date": "2014", "keywords": "anthropology; briggs; death; enrique; epidemic; freud; health; laments; macotera; mamerto; melancholia; mourning; muaina; new; poetics; press; process; reality; testing; time; university; words; work", "summary": "Your essay helped me think through poetic and acoustic features of the laments, the demands they made on listeners, and what they can tell us about the work of mourning and anthropology. My goal is to reflect on my engagement with \u201cMourning and Melancholia\u201d and the particular forms of mourning I encountered, not to position myself as critiquing psychoanalysis or anthropology.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-1611", "words": "9973", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "44", "author": "Sturm, Circe", "title": "Race, Sovereignty, and Civil Rights: Understanding the Cherokee Freedmen Controversy", "date": "2014", "keywords": "american; blood; cherokee; cherokee freedmen; cherokee nation; citizenship; court; election; federal; freedmen; indian; nation; people; race; rights; sovereignty; tribal", "summary": "For many Cherokee, the logic of hypodescent, or the so-called one-drop rule, that overdetermines the social and racial classification of African descendants in the United States, creates a situation in which Cherokee Freedmen citizens threaten the Cherokee Nation\u2019s status as a tribe of Indians more than do Cherokee-white descendants or any other admixtures. This is the long-standing situation of the Cherokee Freedmen, the descendants of African Cherokee slaves once held by Cherokee slave owners.1 Despite a treaty in 1866 between the Cherokee Nation and the U.S. government granting them full tribal citizenship (Treaty with the Cherokee, 1866, 14 Stat. 799), Cherokee Freedmen continue to be one of the most marginalized communities within Native North America.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-1651", "words": "5640", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "46", "author": "Kelty, Christopher", "title": "Beyond Copyright and Technology: What Open Access Can Tell Us about Precarity, Authority, Innovation, and Automation in the University Today", "date": "2014", "keywords": "access; anthropology; labor; open; people; publishing; research; university; work", "summary": "AA/CP: Why do you think anthropologists have been slow to embrace open access? CK: I think anthropologists have actually been rather enthusiastic supporters of open access\u2014at least compared to some other disciplines in the humanities that have ignored it completely or adopted stances toward it that are even more conservative.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-1657", "words": "8007", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "47", "author": "Mangiafico, Paolo; Smith, Kevin L.", "title": "Reason, Risk, and Reward: Models for Libraries and Other Stakeholders in an Evolving Scholarly Publishing Ecosystem", "date": "2014", "keywords": "access; authors; journal; libraries; model; potential; process; publishing; research; services; support; work", "summary": "The transition to support digital scholarship, open access, and library publishing is simply the current mode with which libraries are adapting their mission to support teaching, learning, and research to the digital age. With these COPE monies the most vexing question about funding for open access and library publishing comes in to play.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-1667", "words": "8340", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "50", "author": "Buckley, Liam", "title": "Photography and Photo-Elicitation after Colonialism", "date": "2014", "keywords": "aesthetic; anthropology; colonial; content; data; edwards; elicitation; gambia; history; images; interviews; life; local; new; past; people; photographs; press; university", "summary": "While colonial photographs appear frequently on the international scene in public venues such as galleries and exhibits (Banthall 1992; Thorner 2008), there has been little contemporary Gambian interest in the colonial period. This belief that the colonial photographs might serve as vessels for postcolonial histories\u2014as opposed to being objects of aesthetic contemplation\u2014has its roots in the way that colonial photographs first emerged as objects of academic inquiry.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-1677", "words": "9143", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "47", "author": "Kenner, Ali", "title": "Designing Digital Infrastructure: Four Considerations for Scholarly Publishing Projects", "date": "2014", "keywords": "access; anthropology; content; digital; editorial; infrastructure; journal; media; ojs; online; platform; publishing; support; work", "summary": "Now that CA is self-publishing, however, OJS and Typhoon (the open-source platform built for CA Online v.2) have become integrated beyond these referential links. By the time CA Online v.2 launched in 2012, the legacy site had more than seven hundred pages of content.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-1687", "words": "11083", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "52", "author": "Fisher, Daniel T.", "title": "An Urban Frontier: Respatializing Government in Remote Northern Australia", "date": "2015", "keywords": "aboriginal; australia; campers; camps; city; communities; country; darwin; government; grass; intervention; mile; northern; patrol; people; press; remote; settler; space; state; territory", "summary": "This essay draws on research with such Aboriginal campers and their advocates in Darwin to argue that governmental initiatives associated with the NTER and their mediatization in a broader settler-Australian domain as scandal and humanitarian anxiety both legislate and elicit the wild status that now accrues to such urban camps and settlements.7 To do so, the essay brings an ethnographic lens to the sociospatial complexity of government in the Northern Territory, placing an ethnographic critique of emergency response and intervention into dialogue with spatial dimensions of sovereignty and alterity. Although there is some dispute around the demographic analysis of Indigenous urban migration, with some seeing little substantive change in quantitative terms (Taylor and Carson 2009; but see Fisher 2012; Lea 2012a), in Darwin Indigenous people and settler Australians alike experience these camps and bush spaces as much more crowded today than a decade ago, and the town itself as overrun with these seemingly \u201chomeless\u201d Indigenous campers.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-1691", "words": "6158", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "55", "author": "Elfenbein, Timothy W.", "title": "Cultural Anthropology and the Infrastructure of Publishing", "date": "2014", "keywords": "aaa; access; anthropology; article; content; files; journal; metadata; new; open; publishing; sca; website", "summary": "Cultural Anthropology website, March 11. Only after we have created and corrected all the article records, uploaded the final files, and built journal issues from them will we be able to publish the content on our website.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-1699", "words": "568", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "40", "author": "Piot, Charlie; Allison, Anne", "title": "Editors\u2019 Introduction: Open Access", "date": "2014", "keywords": "access", "summary": "We would like to thank former Cultural Anthropology editors Kim and Mike Fortun for their tireless efforts in promoting open access. At the same time, we asked authors to assume that many today remain under-informed about open access\u2014not only about its politics but also its defining features\u2014and that this special issue might serve as a primer or go-to issue for the Society of Cultural Anthropology\u2019s membership, and for the American Anthropological Association more broadly, as it considers future publishing options.1 We feel that the authors have delivered on this agenda, and brilliantly so.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-1701", "words": "2238", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "40", "author": "Anthropology, Cultural", "title": "Glossary of Open Access Terms", "date": "2014", "keywords": "access; content; data; language; march; publishing; text", "summary": "Open access comes in two degrees: gratis OA, which is free online access, and libre OA, which is free online access plus some additional usage rights. Massive Open Online Course (MOOC): \u201cAn online course aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-1745", "words": "10975", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "51", "author": "Makley, Charlene", "title": "The Sociopolitical Lives of Dead Bodies: Tibetan Self-Immolation Protest as Mass Media", "date": "2015", "keywords": "bodies; body; chinese; death; immolation; immolators; lama; life; mass; media; monks; new; phuntshok; prc; protest; protesters; self; state; tibetan; violence", "summary": "These inherently intersubjective dynamics would move us away from taking Tibetan immolators (living or dead) as singular voices and entail instead a consideration of the mediated addressivity of their performances (Bakhtin 1981; Lempert 2012; Lempert and Silverstein 2012). As such, the bodies of Tibetan immolators speak to a highly discomfiting, indeed horrifying, necropolitics at the heart of Sino-Tibetan relations, the power and efficacy of violence and untimely death in the face of competing claims to Buddhist compassion or state-led humanitarianism.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-1747", "words": "9897", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "52", "author": "Jusionyte, Ieva", "title": "States of Camouflage", "date": "2015", "keywords": "ambulance; anthropology; argentina; border; camouflage; chief; corruption; crime; department; emergency; fire; firefighters; frontier; iguaz\u00fa; law; moretti; paraguay; practices; press; public; security; state; statecraft; university", "summary": "Other state practices are formally authorized as genuine but are equally deceptive: the prefecture, gendarmerie, and customs officials, among others responsible for law enforcement on the border, facilitating and covering up contraband. Grappling with the question of state legitimacy in the face of forgeries, corruption within its own procedures, and the mimesis of its structures, Veena Das (2004, 245) writes that this \u201citerability\u201d of state practices for illegitimate purposes \u201cbecomes not a sign of vulnerability but a mode of circulation through which power is produced.\u201d", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-1759", "words": "9005", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "44", "author": "Stavrianakis, Anthony", "title": "From Anthropologist to Actant (and back to Anthropology): Position, Impasse, and Observation in Sociotechnical Collaboration", "date": "2015", "keywords": "collaboration; engagement; erik; observation; order; position; practice; problem; project; protocol; research; science; scientists; stir; work", "summary": "To diagnose the significance of this particular case of STIR for an anthropology of collaborative practice, I briefly situate the case of STIR within a broader configuration and a comparative instance of social scientist collaboration with scientific expertise: Vololona Rabeharisoa and Michel Callon\u2019s (1999) engagement with the French Muscular Dystrophy Association (AFM). The method aimed to inflect laboratory scientists\u2019 reflexivity to augment their capacity to integrate sociotechnical issues into their practice through the redescription of scientific practice and the demonstration of contingency.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-1791", "words": "11295", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "54", "author": "Carr, E. Summerson", "title": "Occupation Bedbug: Or, the Urgency and Agency of Professional Pragmatism", "date": "2015", "keywords": "action; actors; agency; american; bedbugs; coworkers; ends; harm; haven; human; new; participants; people; peter; professionals; social; thinking; university; work; workers", "summary": "If Peter and his coworkers at U-Haven are preoccupied with bedbugs, they are certainly not the only ones. As one of Peter\u2019s coworkers succinctly put it, \u201cYou can do everything right and still have bedbugs.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-1799", "words": "9103", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "57", "author": "Mazzarella, William", "title": "Totalitarian Tears: Does the Crowd Really Mean It?", "date": "2015", "keywords": "crowds; crying; december; jong; kim; korea; koreans; mass; new; north; north korea; press; state; subject; tears; university; university press; world; york", "summary": "Demick, Barbara 2010 Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea New York: Spiegel and Grau. As absorbing and often disturbing as this literature is, I realized early on that the integrity of my analysis demanded that I rigorously resist any temptation to mine it for the truth about North Korea.5 At the risk of stating the obvious, and out of respect for actually existing North Koreans, I must emphasize that I made this choice because my essay is not about North Korea.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-1809", "words": "10043", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "69", "author": "Solomon, Harris", "title": "The Taste No Chef Can Give: Processing Street Food in Mumbai", "date": "2015", "keywords": "alok; cart; city; food; india; mahesh; maza; mumbai; new; party; pattern; pav; politics; press; processing; sena; shiv; shiv sena; shiv vada; street; taste; university; vada; vada pav", "summary": "His move toward selling Shiv vada pav was a relatively recent one, even though his family had been longtime supporters of the Shiv Sena. To grow business, Maza focused on \u201cnew markets\u201d in Maharashtra\u2019s interior untouched by Shiv vada pav\u2014away from the city streets.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-1819", "words": "11555", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "45", "author": "Jasarevic, Larisa", "title": "The Thing in a Jar: Mushrooms and Ontological Speculations in Post-Yugoslavia", "date": "2015", "keywords": "bodies; bosnia; care; fermentation; food; forms; gift; gljiva; health; home; human; jars; kefir; kombucha; matter; medicine; mushroom; online; post; postsocialist; press; tea; things; tibetan; university; wonder", "summary": "They nurture and distribute mushroom jars with a reverence for the regional tradition of doma\u0107e foods and medicine. Somewhat less reverently, people translated and mixed stories of the medicine\u2019s proper name, calling it Tibetan mushroom, mushroom from the Caucasus, Japanese mushroom, kombucha, tea or kefir mushrooms.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-1849", "words": "9737", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "52", "author": "Fearnley, Lyle", "title": "Wild Goose Chase: The Displacement of Influenza Research in the Fields of Poyang Lake, China", "date": "2015", "keywords": "birds; breeding; china; field; geese; influenza; knowledge; laboratory; lake; new; newman; nih; poultry; poyang; press; production; research; science; university; viruses; wild; wildness", "summary": "As funding for wild bird studies grew, the FAO hired Newman to coordinate international research on the role of wild birds in avian influenza. Following the movement from laboratory to field, encounters with wild bird breeders forced influenza researchers to study the natural world as an artifact of human practices.4 Making scientific knowledge in the field does not bring society into the laboratory in response to a politics of participation, but rather demands that scientists exit the laboratory and build new methods for understanding the creative practices transforming the natural world.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-1853", "words": "10086", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "62", "author": "Kwon, June Hee", "title": "The Work of Waiting: Love and Money in Korean Chinese Transnational Migration", "date": "2015", "keywords": "china; chinese; korean; life; love; migration; money; new; remittances; time; university; waiting; wife; work; yanbian", "summary": "REMITTANCE AS TRANSFORMATIVE POWER Even as most Korean Chinese remained undocumented in Korea and thus were prohibited from moving freely between China and Korea, Korean Chinese families expected remittances to continue to flow to Yanbian, even if there was always the risk that they might be interrupted or cease altogether (as in Ms. Li\u2019s experience). Despite wide variations, Korean Chinese international marriages illustrated a strong tendency, especially at the early stage of Korean Chinese migration from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s: marriages usually occur between lower-class Korean men (rural farmers and urban low\u2013working class) who cannot find Korean brides, and Korean Chinese women who seek a way to enter and work in Korea.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-1857", "words": "8906", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "58", "author": "Miller, Daniel", "title": "The Tragic Denouement of English Sociality", "date": "2015", "keywords": "community; english; evidence; family; friends; hospice; isolation; kinship; london; media; narrative; patients; people; sociality; village", "summary": "Village people don\u2019t come and visit me \u2018cos they never have.\u201d Yet equally common is the opposite response, which leads English people to feel that it would be especially intrusive to interfere in what is an intimate and private matter.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-1879", "words": "9397", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "61", "author": "Choi, Vivian Y.", "title": "Anticipatory States: Tsunami, War, and Insecurity in Sri Lanka", "date": "2015", "keywords": "anticipation; disaster; government; lanka; ltte; management; nation; national; new; people; press; risk; security; sri; sri lanka; state; tamil; tsunami; university; war; warning", "summary": "It was July, the season for the annual Kataragama festival and the Pada Yatra, an annual walking pilgrimage that starts in May in northeastern Sri Lanka and ends in July in Kataragama, a city in southeastern Sri Lanka famed for its multi-faith temples and festivals. For the people I knew in eastern Sri Lanka, the possibility of a disastrous future depended on what they knew and had experienced in the past.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-1883", "words": "9845", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "48", "author": "Shapiro, Nicholas", "title": "Attuning to the Chemosphere: Domestic Formaldehyde, Bodily Reasoning, and the Chemical Sublime", "date": "2015", "keywords": "air; bodies; body; chemical; chemical sublime; environmental; exposure; formaldehyde; harriett; health; homes; human; knowledge; levels; linda; nancy; new; press; process; space; sublime; symptoms; time; university; world", "summary": "My purview then widens to discuss the larger sensorium of corporeal domestic air-quality perception and the instrumental use of sensitized bodies to identify the sources of domestic chemical exposure. Couple recovering from domestic chemical exposure.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-1899", "words": "10552", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "51", "author": "Muir, Sarah", "title": "The Currency of Failure: Money and Middle-Class Critique in Post-Crisis Buenos Aires", "date": "2015", "keywords": "aires; argentina; buenos; class; country; crisis; critique; currency; devaluation; dollar; loss; middle; money; new; peg; people; peso; press; public; self; social; university; value; world", "summary": "As with other financial crises, the shifting grounds of social life elicited commentaries that comprehended those shifts as incomprehensible. Post-crisis Buenos Aires was a place, it should be emphasized, where suspicious interpretation constituted a common social practice, not only in interviews with U.S. anthropologists but also in newspaper editorials, radio programs, dinner party conversations, and all manner of formal and informal media.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-1919", "words": "9665", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "46", "author": "Bautista, Julius", "title": "Export-Quality Martyrs: Roman Catholicism and Transnational Labor in the Philippines", "date": "2015", "keywords": "catholic; church; economy; export; filipino; flagellation; labor; migrant; new; ofws; overseas; pampanga; passion; philippines; press; ritual; sacrifice; self; state; university; workers", "summary": "In this sense, I will show how acts of transnational OFW sacrifice\u2014in their associations with Christ-like martyrdom\u2014are effectively endorsed by prominent voices from within both the church and the state as a form of pious mimesis. I emphasize here the corporeal dimension of this linkage by examining OFW labor in terms of embodied comportments of self-discipline, particularly those inculcated in the process of recruitment and predeployment training.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-1927", "words": "827", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "33", "author": "Allison, Anne; Piot, Charles", "title": "Editors' Farewell", "date": "2014", "keywords": "anthropology; journal", "summary": "This includes our two wonderful managing editors, Ali Kenner and Tim Elfenbein, without whom we could not have operated and who did so much for the website and the transition to OA; all the authors who gave us their best and then worked to make their contributions even better, and also those whose submissions did not make it into the journal (despite many being top quality); the reviewers who so generously gave of their time and wrote such substantive reviews; our editorial board who provided advice, reviews, and camaraderie during annual get-togethers at the AAAs; those graduate students of ours who worked as editorial assistants (Spencer, Brian, Nadia, Leigh, and Brian); Vani Subramanian who has produced one magical cover after another for the journal; the fastidious attention given the manuscripts by our copyeditors (Lisl, Sara, and Petra); the deans at Duke University who generously provided financial support and teaching release; the stable of graduate student interns from departments around the country who have been amazingly creative and generous in the labor they have given to produce content for the website; the members of the Society for Cultural Anthropology board who have given the journal and us as editors such continuous and thoughtful support; and all of you as readers who\u2014in reading the journal and website\u2014have kept Cultural Anthropology running as a site of excellence and innovation in the field today. Though we were right about the workload (and what does it say about the labor of editing academic journals these days that our predecessors were also a couple and our successors a collective of three?), we\u2019ve immensely enjoyed the intellectual engagement, the excitement of working with authors writing with such diverse theoretical palettes about such varied terrain, and the challenge of trying to keep tempo with the times\u2014of trying to keep anthropology and the journal in sync with the world we inhabit.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-1929", "words": "1460", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "64", "author": "Shankman, Paul; Berlant, Lauren; Robins, Steven; Hirschkind, Charles; Pandian, Anand", "title": "Playlists: Cinematic Anthropology", "date": "2014", "keywords": "documentary; earth; film; john; moore; summer; university", "summary": "What Faroki Taught (Jill Godmillow, 1968): A remake of Harun Farocki\u2019s black and white, German film Inextinguishable Fire (1969), about Vietnam, napalm, bureaucracy, the centrality of conversation to politics, the question of state violence as counter-revolutionary and what that means for revolutionary imaginaries whose reparativity involves destruction. STEVEN ROBINS (Stellenbosch University) Roger and Me (1989): Michael Moore\u2019s classic agitprop documentary, with a difference. Documentaries about the wrenching dilemmas facing people on tiny islands in the Pacific that are threatened by climate change and related problems.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-1935", "words": "9040", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "61", "author": "Echeverri Zuluaga, Jonathan", "title": "Errance and Elsewheres among Africans Waiting to Restart Their Journeys in Dakar, Senegal", "date": "2015", "keywords": "africans; country; dakar; destination; errance; home; interlocutors; jim; journeys; life; money; movement; people; place; press; states; time; travel; university; visa", "summary": "Later on, during the colonial period, division between French and British territories carved corridors and imposed barriers for movement, at times favoring movement within colonies, and at other times movement across them. Suspension also appears as narratives of other times and spaces that translate into an emptying of the present: doomsday prophecies among evangelicals that turn the near future into a time in which action to transform current living conditions is not encouraged (Guyer 2007); stories shared among youth about lands with greener pastures located beyond the African continent (Melly 2011); or feelings influenced by religion about ejection from a space of life and a sense of being thrown into an \u201cout-of-this-world\u201d temporality (Pandolfo 2007, 347\u201348).", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-1975", "words": "10473", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "45", "author": "Sanabria, Emilia", "title": "Circulating Ignorance: Complexity and Agnogenesis in the Obesity \u201cEpidemic\u201d", "date": "2015", "keywords": "behavior; complexity; education; evidence; food; france; health; ignorance; individual; industry; information; interventions; knowing; knowledge; nutrition; obesity; policy; problem; public; regulation; research; science; system", "summary": "Critical scholars are calling attention to the fact that scientific evidence concerning public health interventions constitutes only one voice in a much larger conversation. Public health interventions have essentially targeted the rational mind, providing it with information that in the emergent competing view cannot be operationalized because of the irruption of precognitive drives.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-1979", "words": "1966", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "43", "author": "Boyer, Dominic; Faubion, James; Howe, Cymene", "title": "Editors\u2019 Introduction to 30.1: Circles Not Pyramids", "date": "2015", "keywords": "access; anthropology; content; journal; publication", "summary": "Editors\u2019 Introduction to 30.1 Editors\u2019 Introduction to 30.1: Circles Not Pyramids DOMINIC BOYER JAMES FAUBION CYMENE HOWE Rice University Editorial collective, Cultural Anthropology (2015\u20132018) This is our first issue as editors of Cultural Anthropology, but more importantly, the issue in which the journal turns thirty, old enough to understand its place in the world, but still young enough to dream of better years ahead.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-1981", "words": "1931", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "26", "author": "Marcus, George", "title": "Editorial Curation and the Durability of Anthropological Ideas In a Time of Ambient Innovation: A Comment on the Thirtieth Year of Cultural Anthropology", "date": "2015", "keywords": "anthropology; critique; editorial; journal; research", "summary": "The theory tendencies, applications, and topical concerns of the so-called postmodern (poststructuralist?) era eminently prepared anthropology for its various engagements through fealty to fieldwork in a world in which speed of change has become a defining characteristic and challenge to the deliberate slowness and patience that constitutes the essence of anthropological research. It is to manage the relative slowness of anthropological research as a key positive value with a sensation of a sometimes unbearably sped-up pace of contemporary events and changing conditions of existence, normatively keyed to acting by innovation, and in which the analytic default is to concentrate reflective, value-laden critical thinking on the temporality of the emergent or the detectable near future.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-1983", "words": "11540", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "56", "author": "Chance, Kerry Ryan", "title": "\u201cWhere there is fire, there is politics\u201d: Ungovernability and Material Life in Urban South Africa", "date": "2015", "keywords": "abahlali; africa; anc; apartheid; burning; chicago; community; electricity; fire; kennedy; liberation; life; members; new; people; politics; poor; power; press; residents; road; settlements; shack; south; state; university; university press; urban", "summary": "Official statistics suggest that shack fires happen ten times per day throughout the country, with one death resulting every other day. In Abahlali-affiliated settlements, shack fires are the subject of summits and gatherings attended by thousands.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2039", "words": "10170", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "49", "author": "Poggiali, Lisa", "title": "Seeing (from) Digital Peripheries: Technology and Transparency in Kenya\u2019s Silicon Savannah", "date": "2016", "keywords": "digital; expertise; information; kenya; mappers; mapping; maps; mmp; muhimu; nairobi; new; poor; press; residents; slum; technologies; technology; time; transparency; university; work; world", "summary": "Rather, digital mapping technologies have been primarily used in citizen-led movements to counter existing versions of state record keeping. Below I briefly discuss how digital technologies came to embody the shared dreams that animated Kenya\u2019s ambitious development plans, while at the same time they also expressed and reproduced class-based hierarchies.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2047", "words": "9601", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "54", "author": "Funahashi, Daena Aki", "title": "Rule by Good People: Health Governance and the Violence of Moral Authority in Thailand", "date": "2015", "keywords": "democracy; dharma; experts; good; governance; health; hiap; knowledge; new; panya; people; politics; power; public; tch; thai; thailand; thaksin; yok", "summary": "BIOMEDICAL UNIVERSALISM AND ITS ANTIPOLITICS In looking at how HiAP as a global movement enabled Thai conservative health experts to position themselves as good people unmoved by national party politics, I build on anthropological examinations of how interventions made in the name of humanitarian and/or biomedical necessity nonetheless deploy their own political and moral reasoning (Fassin 2011; Pandolfi 2003; Ticktin 2011). In Thailand, the HiAP initiative as a legal mandate gave health experts jurisdiction over all aspects of public policymaking that affected national well-being.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2089", "words": "3085", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "56", "author": "Hulme, Mike", "title": "Better Weather?: The Cultivation of the Sky", "date": "2015", "keywords": "atmosphere; climate; cultivation; human; idea; sky; weather", "summary": "THE TROUBLE WITH WEATHER To start this brief investigation, we must think some more about weather. With this context established, it is possible to reflect on the range of human projects of atmospheric cultivation.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2091", "words": "4313", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "52", "author": "Keck, Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric", "title": "Liberating Sick Birds: Poststructuralist Perspectives on the Biopolitics of Avian Influenza", "date": "2015", "keywords": "animals; birds; cows; disease; humans; influenza; live; l\u00e9vi; species; strauss", "summary": "Since it is impossible to prevent wild birds from flying, killing live chickens presents a way to stop the disease at the densest site of interaction between humans and birds. In the biosociality of sentinel birds, a paradoxically equipped freedom produces signals on threats that range from trans-individual contagion to species extinction, and in practices that simultaneously connect and distance humans and birds.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2099", "words": "4041", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "42", "author": "Battaglia, Debbora; Valentine, David; Olson, Valerie", "title": "Relational Space: An Earthly Installation", "date": "2015", "keywords": "anthropological; anthropology; battaglia; cosmos; earth; human; life; new; olson; relations; space; university; valentine", "summary": "That said, terrestrially life-threatening outer space is physically and socially connected with terrestrial spaces and extends anthropological research environments. In effect, people\u2019s investments of intellectual, affective, and material resources for moving off Earth\u2014embodied, via remote-sensing, or in dreams\u2014provoke, in no uncertain terms, a recasting of central (and deeply connected) arguments concerning discourses of inter-being relations of nature (where space natures bring cultures up against limits of sovereignty, colonization, resource management, even human material attachments to the sun and its environments) or of the human (as post-earthling kinship across species figures alternatives to the \u201chuman-machine partnership\u201d", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2109", "words": "5559", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "53", "author": "Choy, Timothy; Zee, Jerry", "title": "Condition\u2014Suspension", "date": "2015", "keywords": "air; anthropology; atmospheric; attention; condition; earth; medium; mushroom; new; press; sand; suspension; things; tunnel; university; wind", "summary": "tries to stick with something becoming atmospheric\u201d (Stewart 2011, 454), streaking it with modes of atmospheric suspension. These are emergent and relational potencies of substances and air conditions.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2111", "words": "1979", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "56", "author": "Howe, Cymene", "title": "Life Above Earth: An Introduction", "date": "2015", "keywords": "air; earth; human; life; press; sky; university", "summary": "Sometimes these are questions of phenomenological dwelling, being in weather-worlds (Ingold 2007), or being attuned to atmospheric movements not as inert context but as a force field affectively shaping human life (Stewart 2011, 452). The detritus of our carbonized practices bind sky and earth life together, opening us up to a redrafting of the future.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2113", "words": "9631", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "59", "author": "Wolf-Meyer, Matthew", "title": "Our Master\u2019s Voice, the Practice of Melancholy, and Minor Sciences", "date": "2015", "keywords": "arturo; deleuze; guattari; lacan; lacanian; mourning; nev; practice; psychoanalysis; sciences; seminar; society; university; work", "summary": "I have been drawn to their conceptualization of minor sciences and literatures through my work on alternatives to dominant American forms of neuroscience, in no small part because the category of minor science provides a means to think through knowledge production and practice and their relation to power; the concept of minor science provides a means to take seriously the expertise of those who are sometimes cast as nonexperts by those in power. Moreover, I am interested in further perverting the category of minor sciences, much as Deleuze has claimed to do to his philosophical forebears, by putting minor science into dialogue with psychoanalytic attention to mourning and melancholia.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2121", "words": "2511", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "45", "author": "Segal, Daniel A.", "title": "Some Reflections on Editing with Contrarian Sensibilities", "date": "2015", "keywords": "anthropology; editor; history; journal; work; world", "summary": "As editor, I sought to nudge cultural anthropology in these closely related directions by giving editorial preference to work that was at once historical and anthropological.3 A third and final target of my editorial preferences was work that brought cultural anthropological perspectives to bear on the immediately newsworthy, producing a regular feature in the journal under the heading \u201cIn The News.\u201d4 Editing the journal was thus a singular opportunity both to learn from good research in cultural anthropology and to get a sense of what questions and issues were grabbing the discipline\u2019s attention.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2123", "words": "2285", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "48", "author": "Myers, Fred", "title": "Cultural Anthropology, 1992\u20131996", "date": "2015", "keywords": "anthropology; journal; new; work", "summary": "This was not standard practice for scholarly journals, but given the mission of Cultural Anthropology, I continued this editorial prerogative as George had established it. Cultural Anthropology, 1992\u20131996 Cultural Anthropology, 1992\u20131996 FRED MYERS New York University I became the second editor of Cultural Anthropology in 1991, with my first issue published in 1992.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2129", "words": "10266", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "44", "author": "Lyons, Kristina Marie", "title": "Decomposition as Life Politics: Soils, Selva, and Small Farmers under the Gun of the U.S.\u2013Colombia War on Drugs", "date": "2015", "keywords": "amazonian; coca; colombia; conditions; death; development; farmers; farms; human; life; living; plants; policy; practices; press; putumayo; seeds; selva; soils; state; territory; university; war; world", "summary": "These kinds of farms that fall in line with conventional state-based forms of property acquisition can easily slip away, working against the continuation of rural life in the territory. Killing is posed within a \u201cfuture perfect\u201d tense (Povinelli 2011a, 167) as a necessary redemptive mode of birth that will bring new beings and domains of social life\u2014in this case, the geopolitical intervention of liberal moralities, such as rule of law, culture of legality, public health, and licit capitalist-based economies\u2014into existence.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2131", "words": "10190", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "49", "author": "Zigon, Jarrett", "title": "What is a Situation?: An Assemblic Ethnography of the Drug War", "date": "2015", "keywords": "2013; assemblic; bud; drug; drug war; movement; new; police; politics; situation; terrance; users; vancouver; war situation; world", "summary": "As the 1980s came to an end, it became increasingly difficult to discern precisely the distinction between drug war and Cold War military operations. But if Situationists saw the first political task as the construction of situations from which political experiment and play could begin (e.g., Debord 2006), then the anti\u2013drug war movement begins by disclosing already existing situations that must be permanently transformed so as to build new worlds in which drug users can dwell.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2135", "words": "10302", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "55", "author": "Besky, Sarah", "title": "The Future of Price: Communicative Infrastructures and the Financialization of Indian Tea", "date": "2015", "keywords": "auction; board; brokers; buyer; india; infrastructure; knowledge; kolkata; lots; market; new; numbers; outcry; press; price; system; taste; tea; tea board; trade; trading; university", "summary": "In this essay, I describe how, in 2009, tea brokers in Kolkata experienced a renewed effort by the Tea Board of India, the government regulator of the tea trade, to convert auctioning from a face-to-face outcry process to a face-to-computer digital one. Company profiles of tea brokers tend to include brokers\u2019 interests in cricket, football, and badminton, as well as theater and travel.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2169", "words": "10366", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "64", "author": "Garcia, Angela", "title": "The Blue Years: An Ethnography of a Prison Archive", "date": "2016", "keywords": "addiction; anthropology; archive; ashley; bernadette; eugenia; heroin; history; letters; mexico; mother; new; press; prison; research; time; university; way; women; work; writing", "summary": "CORRESPONDENCE This article offers an ethnographic account of an archive of prison letters written by three generations of women: Bernadette, her mother Eugenia, and Bernadette\u2019s daughter, Ashley. The archive of prison letters offers another way to conceive of this history of rupture, displacement, and connection experienced by Hispano families.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2205", "words": "4966", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "56", "author": "Anusas, Mike; Ingold, Tim", "title": "The Charge against Electricity", "date": "2015", "keywords": "charge; conduction; defense; design; electricity; insulation; life; lines; materials; power; prosecution; world", "summary": "In this practice of life electricity has been active throughout the eons of organic evolution. Electricity lines often run high overhead across unpopulated areas so as to be as far as possible from the sphere of everyday perception.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2217", "words": "11872", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "50", "author": "Blanchette, Alex", "title": "Herding Species: Biosecurity, Posthuman Labor, and the American Industrial Pig", "date": "2015", "keywords": "animal; barns; biosecurity; disease; factory; farm; forms; health; herd; hog; human; industrial; labor; life; managers; new; people; pigs; porcine; pork; press; production; region; species; university; work; workers", "summary": "The indoor confinement of farm animals is itself often justified in the face of the viral threat of unpredictable contact with beings such as wild geese, whose risky biologies make for key natural reservoirs of zoonotic disease (Fearnley 2015). Senior managers repeated an identical stock phrase whenever I asked them to define their role: \u201cWe work on the Herd,\u201d they would claim, \u201cwhile hourly employees and farm managers work with the Herd.\u201d", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2267", "words": "10651", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "44", "author": "P\u00e9rez, Federico", "title": "Excavating Legal Landscapes: Juridical Archaeology and the Politics of Bureaucratic Materiality in Bogot\u00e1, Colombia", "date": "2016", "keywords": "archaeology; authority; bogot\u00e1; building; bureaucrats; city; department; development; experts; javier; law; laws; new; planning; practice; rafael; regulations; state; urban", "summary": "She stressed the technical acumen of these hypothetical elders, implying that they would resolve all confusion and vagaries of legal practice by establishing the city\u2019s definitive legal truths. In Bogot\u00e1, the putative materiality of the legal topography\u2014its sedimented quality as a corpus that must be excavated\u2014emerges as a strategic idiom that allows experts to obscure and contest legal practice.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2295", "words": "10753", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "47", "author": "Weszkalnys, Gisa", "title": "Geology, Potentiality, Speculation: On the Indeterminacy of First Oil", "date": "2015", "keywords": "capital; company; drilling; erhc; exploration; future; hellinger; industry; investment; markets; matter; new; oil; pause; petroleum; potential; potentiality; production; pr\u00edncipe; resources; state; stp; s\u00e3o; tom\u00e9; university; value; years", "summary": "I show that first oil is a protracted and precarious achievement based on a speculative epistemology and reliant on specific technical, legal, and commercial practices and devices with surprisingly incongruous effects. FIRST OIL The phenomenon of first oil makes the notion of indeterminate potential readily apparent.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2315", "words": "8972", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "58", "author": "Alexandrakis, Othon", "title": "Incidental Activism: Graffiti and Political Possibility in Athens, Greece", "date": "2016", "keywords": "aris; athens; crew; crisis; graffiti; greek; group; interlocutors; lives; mainstream; new; normative; press; tassos; thomas; university; writers; writing", "summary": "The process of self-determination Aris, Thomas, and Tassos engaged in fostered among them a sense of belonging to society, albeit as outsiders, rather than a sense of having-in-common with other graffiti writers. The media depicted graffiti writers as ordinary young people.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2317", "words": "3301", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "41", "author": "Fortun, Kim; Fortun, Mike", "title": "An Infrastructural Moment in the Human Sciences", "date": "2015", "keywords": "access; anthropology; essay; form; infrastructure; journal; publishing; time", "summary": "\u2014T. W. Adorno, \u201cThe Essay as Form\u201d Very early in our tenure as coeditors of Cultural Anthropology (2005\u20132010), before we began our years-long, nagging push for open access\u2014an issue about which we had almost no awareness at the time1\u2014we had a seemingly more minor and short-lived nagging struggle with the journal\u2019s copyeditor (whose work overall we greatly appreciated). If anything made Cultural Anthropology different from other journals in anthropology, it was its openness to more open forms of writing, its openness to methodological, conceptual, and textual experimentation.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2337", "words": "9601", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "45", "author": "Stout, Noelle", "title": "#Indebted: Disciplining the Moral Valence of Mortgage Debt Online", "date": "2015", "keywords": "american; class; crash; credit; debt; default; digital; foreclosure; forums; homeowners; lenders; media; mortgage; new; online; participants; press; publics; sacramento; underwater; university; users", "summary": "In her research on Michigan\u2019s foreclosure crisis, for example, Anna Jefferson (2013) found that homeowners produced narratives of walking away from mortgage debt as a moral critique of corporate greed and government ineptitude. Once online, many homeowners began to rethink their obligations to repay mortgage debts as they came to grasp the role of Wall Street investment firms in triggering the crash, a process that online participants often detailed in their posts.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2347", "words": "10082", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "52", "author": "Trapp, Micah M.", "title": "You-Will-Kill-Me-Beans: Taste and the Politics of Necessity in Humanitarian Aid", "date": "2016", "keywords": "aid; beans; buduburam; camp; cooking; corn; food; food aid; gloria; humanitarianism; liberians; life; necessity; new; politics; reason; refugee; refugee food; rice; taste", "summary": "A TASTE FOR SUFFERING Taste occupies a contentious place in humanitarian food aid. Corn, or banku, more specifically, as an emblematic refugee food demonstrates the ways in which refugees did not inherently acquire a taste for necessity, but relied on taste as a means of collectively navigating and responding to humanitarian food aid.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2371", "words": "10375", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "47", "author": "Tambar, Kabir", "title": "Brotherhood in Dispossession: State Violence and the Ethics of Expectation in Turkey", "date": "2015", "keywords": "2013; demirta\u015f; gezi; history; kurdish; majority; minority; mothers; nation; new; police; press; protests; public; speech; state; state violence; turkey; university; violence", "summary": "About ten minutes into his discussion, Demirta\u015f (2013) indicated that this sort of state violence did not only apply to Kurds. For Demirta\u015f, many of those looking from the debris of Gezi\u2019s barricades were members of the Turkish majority who might not have previously viewed state violence in the Kurdish provinces with much sympathy or comprehension.2 To look from Gezi, in the assessment of Demirta\u015f, was to be granted the opportunity for historical insight.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2377", "words": "5509", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "56", "author": "Gupta, Akhil", "title": "An Anthropology of Electricity from the Global South", "date": "2015", "keywords": "electricity; energy; global; grid; india; life; people; power; quality; south; supply; use", "summary": "We thus have to reimagine electricity use in the future that does not simply seek to extend the patterns of the present. The centrality of lighting has meant that the biopolitical project has been especially visible in the form taken by electricity infrastructures.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2379", "words": "3237", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "46", "author": "Winther, Tanja; Wilhite, Harold", "title": "Tentacles of Modernity: Why Electricity Needs Anthropology", "date": "2015", "keywords": "development; electricity; electrification; energy; new; people; time; uroa; village", "summary": "Electricity is also associated with the provider, normally the state, and the arrival of electricity affects the state-citizen relationship in crucial ways. In Uroa electricity strengthened the standing of Islam, the villagers\u2019 religious practices, and their affiliation with global Islamic networks (Winther 2008).", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2407", "words": "4069", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "43", "author": "\u00d6zden-Schilling, Canay", "title": "Economy Electric", "date": "2015", "keywords": "demand; economic; electricity; engineering; grid; markets; models; new; researchers; supply; time", "summary": "In 1996, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission invented the concept of electricity markets\u2014computational processes, operated by nonprofit transmission operators, by which participants\u2019 bids and offers are computed to generate prices binding for all. While meteorological expertise can now be harvested to improve electricity markets, science helps less with the treatment of other supply and demand factors than do professional experience and common sense.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2411", "words": "10893", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "43", "author": "Lamoreaux, Janelle", "title": "What if the Environment is a Person? Lineages of Epigenetic Science in a Toxic China", "date": "2016", "keywords": "china; chinese; detox; disease; environment; epigenetics; gene; generations; health; individual; lab; lin; new; person; press; research; responsibility; science; scientists; studies; understanding; university", "summary": "In this article, and during my own ethnographic research, I have tried to remain attentive to both the ways in which epigenetic research practices and findings may continue a long line of medical practice and moral discourse that individualizes maternal responsibility for disease, as well as to the possibility that epigenetic research may simultaneously contest that very kind of individualization. Epigenetic research often studies the way in which DNA expression is influenced by extragenetic factors that might have previously been deemed social or environmental, and therefore insignificant to genetic processes.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2415", "words": "3313", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "44", "author": "Boyer, Dominic", "title": "Anthropology Electric", "date": "2015", "keywords": "anthropology; electrical; electricity; energy; flows; freud; grid; power; process; work", "summary": "Electrical energy charges, flows, and systematicity became key analytic analogies for Freud as he designed his metapsychological schema. This is not an idle question because electricity already works us.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2425", "words": "2206", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "45", "author": "Allison, Anne; Piot, Charles", "title": "Editing the Times", "date": "2015", "keywords": "anthropology; journal; publishing; series; spots; times; website", "summary": "Hot Spots series, Cultural Anthropology website, February 2. http://www.culanth.org/fieldsights/208-revolution-and-counter-revolution-in-egypt-a-year-after-january-25th Fortun, Kim, and Mike Fortun 2015 Hot Spots series, Cultural Anthropology website, July 27.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2449", "words": "10538", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "48", "author": "Kim, Eleana J.", "title": "Toward an Anthropology of Landmines: Rogue Infrastructure and Military Waste in the Korean DMZ", "date": "2016", "keywords": "agency; area; border; ccz; cheongjeon; dmz; human; kim; korean; landmines; lee; military; mines; nature; people; residents; rogue; south; state; u.s; victims; war", "summary": "The normalization of this militarized citizenship became, in the course of Mr. Lee\u2019s testimony, closely tied to a vision of the United States as a rogue power, articulated in a forceful critique of Bill Clinton\u2019s ignorance of U.S. mines existing in areas outside of the DMZ. Now, instead of being no-go zones or abject wastelands, minefields had transformed into tantalizing spaces of human crossing, predicated on an understanding of mines as actants whose agency could be anticipated and even overcome.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2457", "words": "10396", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "59", "author": "Archambault, Julie Soleil", "title": "Taking Love Seriously in Human-Plant Relations in Mozambique: Toward an Anthropology of Affective Encounters", "date": "2016", "keywords": "affective; anthropology; commodification; encounters; gardeners; gardening; human; inhambane; intimacy; kenneth; love; lovers; men; new; people; plants; press; relations; university", "summary": "In other words, what plant lovers emphasized was not so much the transgression of a discrete sphere of exchange (Ferguson 1990; Shipton 1989) as the reaffirmation of a personal stance, one driven by an affective connection with plants that was experienced and imagined as based on true love and that therefore precluded seeing plants for their commercial value. In the rare cases when plant lovers did end up exchanging plants for money, they turned to the language of the gift to palliate this transgression.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2461", "words": "7099", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "62", "author": "Pine, Jason", "title": "Last Chance Incorporated", "date": "2016", "keywords": "benjamin; capitalism; deleuze; human; life; man; matter; meth; missouri; new; objects; press; production; products; things; time; town; university; walmart; work; world; york", "summary": "\u201cA life,\u201d for Deleuze (2011b, 29), \u201cis everywhere, in all the moments that a given living subject goes through and that are measured by given lived objects: an immanent life carrying with it the events of singularities that are merely actualized in subjects and objects.\u201d The repetitions count object time toward a vanishing point, the dwelling place of an unfathomable magnanimous source.21 Sam Walton, the late founder of the company, was driven more by competition than by money.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2527", "words": "8826", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "57", "author": "Kilroy-Marac, Katie", "title": "A Magical Reorientation of the Modern: Professional Organizers and Thingly Care in Contemporary North America", "date": "2016", "keywords": "clients; disorder; hoarding; life; material; new; north; objects; organizers; people; pos; press; stuff; things; university; work", "summary": "In his introduction to The Social Life of Things, Arjun Appadurai (1986, 5) shook material objects from the tree of anthropological convention by challenging the discipline\u2019s \u201ctendency to excessively sociologize transactions in things.\u201d A seemingly simple question had led me to seek out and talk to POs in Toronto: how, in North America and at this particular historical moment, are we to manage and be with our ever-expanding world of material things?", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2543", "words": "10340", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "54", "author": "Samimian-Darash, Limor", "title": "Practicing Uncertainty: Scenario-Based Preparedness Exercises in Israel", "date": "2016", "keywords": "administration; event; exercise; future; governing; incidents; israel; new; participants; point; preparedness; reality; risk; scenario; security; situation; turning; uncertainty; university; war", "summary": "The analysis of Turning Point scenarios adds to more recent studies that track the emergence of forms of securing the future that speak to a nonquantifiable mode of governing, one that responds to the problem of uncertainty rather than risk (O\u2019Malley 2004; Samimian-Darash and Rabinow 2015). However, as several authorities explained to me, Turning Point scenarios are selected and designed to create a plausible event.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2551", "words": "10132", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "57", "author": "Thorkelson, Eli", "title": "The Infinite Rounds of the Stubborn: Reparative Futures at a French Political Protest", "date": "2016", "keywords": "anthropology; form; french; future; government; hope; march; marchers; new; paris; people; politics; press; public; ronde; social; space; state; stubbornness; time; university", "summary": "The Infinite Rounds of the Stubborn The Infinite Rounds of the Stubborn: Reparative Futures at a French Political Protest ELI THORKELSON Whittier College http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4409-3301 If futures are always plural, then we might reasonably expect that any given cultural formation of the future is in dialogue with other futures, or in conflict with them.1 Gustav Peebles (2008, 238), in an analysis of the nationalist politics of paper currency, has suggested that \u201cthe state, long recognized as a colonizer both of the past and of physical territory . . . Or can futures be decolonized, as it were?", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2575", "words": "10429", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "58", "author": "Venkat, Bharat Jayram", "title": "Scenes of Commitment", "date": "2017", "keywords": "clinic; commitment; daughter; ethics; hiv; life; mother; new; patients; prabhakar; press; reasoning; sendhil; tamil; therapy; treatment; university; vasudevan; vijay", "summary": "Yet, as I will discuss below, this submersion of therapeutic commitment into everyday life paradoxically generated the conditions under which the priority of therapy could itself be suspended as other commitments came to the fore. However, it is important to note that Dumont generally thought about hierarchy in terms of the relationship between caste groups, and social strata more generally, whereas I am retooling his concept to think about the relationship between ethical commitments.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2589", "words": "10612", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "52", "author": "Vaughn, Sarah E.", "title": "Disappearing Mangroves: The Epistemic Politics of Climate Adaptation in Guyana", "date": "2017", "keywords": "adaptation; change; climate; climate adaptation; consultants; defense; engineers; expertise; experts; forests; gmrp; guyana; mangroves; model; mudbanks; new; participants; planting; press; research; sea; shore; time; university", "summary": "So, too, have the new economies in tourism and luxury real estate that infringe on mangrove forests. In turn, slaves and indentured laborers toiled on plantations, which influenced where engineers preserved mangrove forests or built seawalls (Rodney 1981, 31\u201333).", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2593", "words": "10522", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "50", "author": "Blaser, Mario", "title": "Is Another Cosmopolitics Possible?", "date": "2016", "keywords": "at\u00eeku; ban; caribou; concerns; cosmopolitics; differences; government; hunters; hunting; innu; issue; labrador; land; latour; matter; politics; project; world", "summary": "In short, in the report, Innu concerns were split (and implicitly ranked) according to supposedly commonsense criteria that distinguish reliable environmental information from cultural beliefs. In splitting Innu concerns between acceptable and unacceptable, or between those that could stand alongside science-based knowledge and those that were just \u201ccultural,\u201d we can see the work of reasonable politics.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2599", "words": "1127", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "51", "author": "LaFlamme, Marcel", "title": "On the Problem of the Namesake", "date": "2015", "keywords": "anthropology; orcid; problem", "summary": "ORCID is administered by a member-based nonprofit organization that is committed to privacy and interoperability, and scholars can create ORCID identifiers free of charge. To date, more than 1.8 million researchers around the world have signed up, and publishers large and small are beginning to incorporate ORCID identifiers into their production processes.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2615", "words": "10493", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "57", "author": "Feldman, Ilana", "title": "Humanitarian Care and the Ends of Life: The Politics of Aging and Dying in a Palestinian Refugee Camp", "date": "2017", "keywords": "camp; care; conditions; death; dying; experience; health; humanitarian; lebanon; life; lives; palestine; palestinians; people; refugees; services; unrwa", "summary": "To be sure, there are many sources of constraint on Palestinian lives. This abandonment of Palestinian life can be understood in biopolitical terms as disallowing life \u201cto the point of death\u201d (Foucault 1990, 138).27 But Palestinians mostly do not feel generically disregarded, but targeted as political subjects.28 They have demands, for both services and sovereignty, and view the abandonment of Palestinian subjects as a project to undermine their capacity to press these claims.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2637", "words": "11575", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "44", "author": "Kelly, Ann H.; Lezaun, Javier", "title": "The Wild Indoors: Room-Spaces of Scientific Inquiry", "date": "2017", "keywords": "area; attention; clark; entomological; entomologists; environment; facility; human; inquiry; insectary; interior; laboratory; mosquitoes; new; release; research; researchers; room; semifield; space; station; traps; university; world; zetek", "summary": "Yet what gives this particular place its distinctive identity, and what ultimately allows it to support and sustain an experimental mosquito population, is not so much the qualities of its container\u2014its semiporous perimeter of mosquito netting and the polyethylene roof\u2014but its interior decor, the assortment of devices, built structures, plants, animals, and ready-made objects scattered across the facility in an attempt to help mosquitoes feel \u201cat home\u201d in it. Filing insectary trays with Evian water to mollify a prickly colony, arranging and rearranging the potted plants and clay pots in a semifield station hoping to facilitate mosquito breeding, selecting the most appealing corner of the porch to hang a trap\u2014these minute operations underscore the labor but also the intense optimism that sustain the effort to fix mosquitoes, albeit momentarily, into objects of scientific attention.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2683", "words": "10902", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "52", "author": "Stone, Nomi", "title": "Living the Laughscream: Human Technology and Affective Maneuvers in the Iraq War", "date": "2017", "keywords": "affect; american; culture; iraq; iraqis; laughter; middle; military; new; players; press; role; simulations; soldiers; technologies; training; u.s; university; war; wartime", "summary": "Military cultural trainings, at bottom, seek to prepare the soldier \u201cfor the real thing.\u201d In 2011, I began formal fieldwork in what I describe as the extended Iraq warscape, stretching from U.S. military simulations to Iraqi refugee neighborhoods in Amman, and crisscrossing through military institutions of Washington, D.C.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2759", "words": "10452", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "52", "author": "Sopranzetti, Claudio", "title": "Framed by Freedom: Emancipation and Oppression in Post-Fordist Thailand", "date": "2017", "keywords": "adun; bangkok; boon; capital; control; crisis; drivers; freedom; itsaraph\u0101p; labor; life; motorcycle; new; press; state; thailand; university; village; workers; york", "summary": "Despite her laudable attempt to connect conceptions of personal freedom with larger economic, social, and political restructurings, her reading\u2014following an argument proposed by Nikolas Rose\u2014concludes that freedom is reworked from an emancipating force to an oppressive one, one in which subjects are obliged to take part. 12. These echoes are deliberate and, while they cannot be further explored in the context of this article, provide a backdrop and an implicit comparison to my argument.17 Even though they take specific forms in different contexts, these apparent contradictions largely revolve around allowing free flows and activities only insofar as they can be transformed into legible aggregate flows, and externalizing social relations\u2014such as exploitation or job security\u2014to individual entrepreneurship by fostering individual freedom.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2787", "words": "3178", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "47", "author": "Sobo, Elisa J.", "title": "Theorizing (Vaccine) Refusal: Through the Looking Glass", "date": "2016", "keywords": "anthropology; health; parents; refusal; resistance; school; sobo; vaccination; vaccine", "summary": "Further comparison, between and within groups, revealed vaccine refusal as a complex, multifaceted, processual activity\u2014something that the layperson\u2019s use of the phrase vaccine refusal, with its categorical focus on the rejecting aspect, failed to account for. Ortner argues that hesitance to explore such things, perhaps for fear of undermining the political aims of study participants, has led to the creation of a superficial and impoverished record that, along with being partial, has stunted the growth and development of resistance-related theory.1 It is the same with vaccine refusal: although all parents who are not in full conformity with vaccine recommendations/requirements have traditionally been lumped together as \u201crefusers,\u201d great diversity exists within the lot.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2789", "words": "3363", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "59", "author": "Simpson, Audra", "title": "Consent\u2019s Revenge", "date": "2016", "keywords": "consent; land; people; political; press; refusal; settler; university", "summary": "That context includes a settler suspicion of Indigenous peoples, and at times, as we saw during the so-called Oka Crisis of 1990, a deep hatred for Mohawks.5 How then to describe or theorize that which is cognizant of its own space of articulation? Indigenous peoples are grappling with the fiction of justice while pushing for justice.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2791", "words": "3255", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "49", "author": "Weiss, Erica", "title": "Refusal as Act, Refusal as Abstention", "date": "2016", "keywords": "abstention; military; public; refusal; refusers; state", "summary": "In contrast to public military refusal, abstention avoids the state\u2019s resistance trap, which dooms public refusal to be claimed and co-opted by the state. While public military refusal can be understood as resistance, refusal as abstention should be understood as an affirmative investment in another possibility.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2793", "words": "3253", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "59", "author": "McGranahan, Carole", "title": "Refusal and the Gift of Citizenship", "date": "2016", "keywords": "citizenship; gift; government; hope; india; refusal; tibetans", "summary": "At the heart of this essay (and of my larger project on refugee citizenship) are Tibetan refusals of others\u2019 expectations of them. This is how a change in citizenship refusal is explained, not as conditional on the political promise or power of any given country\u2019s passport, but as a condition of living one\u2019s life, and as a possibility present only in some places.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2795", "words": "2386", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "51", "author": "McGranahan, Carole", "title": "Theorizing Refusal: An Introduction", "date": "2016", "keywords": "press; refusal; resistance; simpson; state; university", "summary": "We now find ourselves in a different time, engaging with a different sort of ethnographic refusal, a time in which interpretive refusal might actually illuminate ethnography rather than flatten it (Simpson 2007, 2014; see also TallBear 2013). These theses are not discrete, but instead blur and blend into one another despite being generated out of four distinct cases\u2014military refusal in Israel, vaccine refusal in the United States, citizenship refusal by Tibetan refugees in South Asia, and ethnographic refusals by Kahnaw\u00e0:ke Mohawks in North America.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2799", "words": "662", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "34", "author": "Allison, Anne; Boyer, Dominic; Piot, Charles", "title": "Financing Open Access: Introducing Friends of Cultural Anthropology", "date": "2016", "keywords": "access; anthropology; journal", "summary": "Since open access is, above all, a collaborative venture, we would welcome your help in building out Friends of Cultural Anthropology into a sustainable, vibrant organization. Financing Open Access: Introducing Friends of Cultural Anthropology Financing Open Access: Introducing Friends of Cultural Anthropology ANNE ALLISON Duke University http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8626-9550 DOMINIC BOYER Rice University http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8944-406X CHARLES PIOT Duke University http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9166-9935 While Cultural Anthropology\u2019s move to open access has been positive in an abundance of ways, challenges remain.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2827", "words": "10463", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "69", "author": "Tsai, Yen-Ling; Carbonell, Isabelle; Chevrier, Joelle; Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt", "title": "Golden Snail Opera: The More-than-Human Performance of Friendly Farming on Taiwan\u2019s Lanyang Plain", "date": "2016", "keywords": "anthropology; farmers; farming; film; ghosts; history; kinds; knowledge; new; opera; paddy; press; rice; science; snails; taiwan; text; university; video; water; work; world; yilan", "summary": "Are there differences between newcomers, such as golden snails, and old residents? When the season comes, golden snails invade our work and jokes, and even our dreams.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2829", "words": "10805", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "57", "author": "Helmreich, Stefan", "title": "Gravity\u2019s Reverb: Listening to Space-Time, or Articulating the Sounds of Gravitational-Wave Detection", "date": "2016", "keywords": "audio; chirp; data; david; detection; hearing; hughes; human; ligo; listening; music; new; noise; press; reverb; science; scientists; signal; sound; space; time; universe; university; waves; york", "summary": "SIMULATION When David Kaiser and I listened to Scott Hughes\u2019s simulated gravitational-wave sounds, Hughes (n.d.) pointed back to his website, which provided an analogical warrant for posing gravitational waves as akin to sound waves: The waves that [gravitational waves] generate will have wavelengths of thousands or tens of thousands of kilometers. Although these waves are not acoustic pressure waves (like ordinary sound waves in air)\u2014but are theorized, rather, as squeezes and stretches in the very stuff of space-time\u2014their frequencies, captured by detection instruments, coincidentally map onto the human auditory range (though, by the time they arrive at Earth, at vanishingly low amplitudes, one one-thousandth the diameter of a proton, much diminished from their initial, gargantuan sizes).2 Scientists like Hughes have employed acoustic analogies to anticipate what gravitational waves might sound like to a detector, and have been creating audio simulations of possible discovery events.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2833", "words": "10736", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "56", "author": "Zee, Jerry C.", "title": "Holding Patterns: Sand and Political Time at China\u2019s Desert Shores", "date": "2017", "keywords": "anthropology; china; chinese; control; desert; desertification; dunes; engineering; forms; future; landscape; minqin; new; politics; press; process; processes; sand; species; state; succession; time; university; university press", "summary": "The paths on the institute\u2019s grounds curve and meander through what Li Ming says were sand dunes just years earlier. Loosed on the wind, desert sands gather into dunes that flow like a slow liquid, land swallowing land.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2867", "words": "969", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "48", "author": "Manalansan IV, Martin F.", "title": "Queer Anthropology: An Introduction", "date": "2016", "keywords": "anthropology; queer; studies", "summary": "As Margot Weiss (2016, 634) elegantly puts it in her essay, queer studies and queer anthropology are about dreaming of a utopic world(s) to enable ways to imagine, think, or desire \u201cotherwise.\u201d Thus, to mark the field not only in terms of what it is but also in terms of what it can be lies at the core of what I have described as the aspirational and desiring orientation of queer studies and queer anthropology.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2869", "words": "3474", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "51", "author": "Lewin, Ellen", "title": "Who\u2019s Queer? What\u2019s Queer? Queer Anthropology through the Lens of Ethnography", "date": "2016", "keywords": "anthropology; gay; gender; lesbian; mothers; people; queer; women", "summary": "As I later considered Weston\u2019s findings, which are very solidly grounded in ethnographic investigation but which mainly focus on gay people who are not parents, I could only conclude that parenthood changed the meaning of kinship for gay and lesbian people from the emphasis on the chosen-families model to something much more similar to what nongay people who had children embraced. Queer Anthropology through the Lens of Ethnography ELLEN LEWIN University of Iowa http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2911-0628 I would like to use this space to explore the utility of queer nomenclature for understanding the lives of many real-world people with nonheteronormative sexual or gender identities and presentations, asking whether a field of inquiry many choose to label as \u201cqueer anthropology\u201d can adequately represent the full diversity of the populations we study.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2871", "words": "3565", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "39", "author": "Morgensen, Scott L.", "title": "Encountering Indeterminacy: Colonial Contexts and Queer Imagining", "date": "2016", "keywords": "anthropology; colonial; gender; knowledge; power; press; queer; university; university press; white", "summary": "Citing critical insights in Black studies and Black feminist thought, Allen (2011, 187, 97) defies the racist optics placed on Black life by arguing \u201cthat inhering in these small, intimate, troubled spaces is a powerful and virtually unexplored ground for political possibilities\u201d where erotic subjectivity \u201cworks towards not only transgressing but transcending and finally transforming hegemonies of global capital, the state, and of bourgeois, limited, and limiting notions of gender, sexuality, and blackness.\u201d Without preemptively folding these works into queer anthropology, as opposed to other categories to which they may belong, I indicate their capacity to breach or circumvent the tensions that appear once queer and anthropology meet. Traversing the imbrications of anthropology and coloniality, queer anthropology advances beyond concerns about defining an object to congeal around concerns of context and method.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2873", "words": "3725", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "46", "author": "Allen, Jafari Sinclaire", "title": "One View from a Deterritorialized Realm: How Black/Queer Renarrativizes Anthropological Analysis", "date": "2016", "keywords": "anthropology; black; new; politics; queer; race; sex; sexuality; studies; work; york", "summary": "In the wake of the state-sanctioned police executions of Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, Mike Brown, and others,2 and the domestic-terror assassination of Black churchgoers at the historic church of one of the nation\u2019s most famous slave insurrectionists, and also in a moment in which there is at once unprecedented visibility of Black queer and trans people and record numbers of unsolved murders of Black and Brown trans women in the United States and elsewhere, Cohen draws out another dimension of what I called a \u201ccosmetic, evacuated reflex chant.\u201d And as scholars writing on lesbian and gay studies and, later, queer studies \u201cin the house of anthropology\u201d (Weston 1993; Boellstorff 2007a) have shown, anthropological contributions to what came to be known as queer studies predates the emergence of queer as a term of art.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2875", "words": "4790", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "57", "author": "Weiss, Margot", "title": "Always After: Desiring Queerness, Desiring Anthropology", "date": "2016", "keywords": "anthropology; desire; gay; identity; lesbian; new; press; queer; studies; university", "summary": "I know I do in the classroom, and the same holds true for most of the new essays and monographs in queer anthropology (for a review of new queer anthropology, see Weiss 2016). \u2014Tim Ingold What is queer in queer anthropology today?", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2891", "words": "10750", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "47", "author": "Graeter, Stefanie", "title": "To Revive an Abundant Life: Catholic Science and Neoextractivist Politics in Peru\u2019s Mantaro Valley", "date": "2017", "keywords": "archbishop; catholic; church; company; environmental; exposure; jim\u00e9nez; knowledge; lead; life; mantaro; mining; oroya; peru; politics; practices; press; project; research; revive; rights; science; state; study; university", "summary": "I knew little about Mantaro Revive at the time, only that it was connected to a transnational network of organizations campaigning against lead contamination in the nearby city of La Oroya. Alongside scientific measurements, members of Mantaro Revive held policy workshops in urban centers and remote hamlets, sustained health programs in La Oroya, and attended political events in Lima.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2919", "words": "10415", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "56", "author": "N\u00fa\u00f1ez, Jorge", "title": "A Clinical Economy of Speculation: Financial Trading and Gambling Disorder in Spain", "date": "2017", "keywords": "2013; anthropology; credit; crisis; debt; disorder; economy; finance; freelance; gambling; market; new; nuria; press; problem; public; silvia; social; spain; spanish; speculation; stock; time; traders; trading; university", "summary": "This article concerns itself with Silvia and the clinical economy of her transformation from financial trader to problem gambler. This article develops the concept of a clinical economy of speculation, which refers to \u201cthe exchange of symptoms for diagnosis and treatments\u201d (Davis 2010, 155) through which the category of the problem gambler is repurposed to include financial traders.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-2977", "words": "10554", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "48", "author": "Cors\u00edn Jim\u00e9nez, Alberto", "title": "Auto-Construction Redux: The City as Method", "date": "2017", "keywords": "auto; campo; city; community; construction; dazzle; holston; learning; madrid; method; new; people; periphery; self; slum; social; space; specific; story; theory; urban; urbanism", "summary": "Cities 1, no. 6: 575\u201379. They have provided a conceptual sensibility for framing the messy entanglements of material energies, affective relations, political capacities, and social creativity that make up city life.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3065", "words": "10239", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "55", "author": "Raschig, Megan", "title": "Triggering Change: Police Homicides, Community Healing, and the Emergent Eventfulness of the New Civil Rights", "date": "2017", "keywords": "colectiva; conditions; death; east; healing; homicides; life; lives; new; police; protest; salinas; shi; state; tara; time; triggers; world; yesi", "summary": "Today\u2019s New Civil Rights movement gestures toward an increasingly perceptible and intolerable critical node of contention: the enervation, disposability, and ungrievability of black life, and the institutionalization of a racist and dehumanizing gaze that perceives black life as an inherent threat to other life in general, and to white privilege in particular (Day 2015; Butler 2015). HEALING HISTORY AND RECALIBRATING ETHICAL ACTION IN SALINAS As I would learn, Hern\u00e1ndez\u2019s officer-involved death provoked a temporal tripwire for both Shi and Tara, in the sense that what happened to make them stop and keep them at that corner was not just one particular death, but a sudden, jangling cacophony of many other deaths already endured and left unresolved, lives shrugged off or taken by the police.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3109", "words": "1844", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "40", "author": "Boyer, Dominic; Faubion, James; Howe, Cymene; LaFlamme, Marcel", "title": "Sound + Vision: Experimenting with the Anthropological Research Article of the Future", "date": "2016", "keywords": "anthropological; anthropology; new; research; sound; vision", "summary": "We find it interesting that despite the abundance of filmic, photographic, and sonic material that most anthropologists now generate in the course of fieldwork, we have not yet really committed ourselves as a discipline to exploring new multimodal forms of anthropological research publication. Experimenting with the Anthropological Research Article of the Future DOMINIC BOYER http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8944-406X JAMES FAUBION http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0847-3008 CYMENE HOWE http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9361-3812 MARCEL LAFLAMME http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7489-4233 Rice University Are we satisfied with the conventional media for anthropological research and publication?", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3141", "words": "1758", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "94", "author": "Caduff, Carlo", "title": "Speed Crash Course", "date": "2017", "keywords": "course; crash; speed; stop; time", "summary": "MY PAGE-TURNER COLLECTION On speed you must read . . . but I must accelerate) Virilio: Speed and Politics Kundera: Slowness Wolin: What Time Is It? Duffy: The Speed Handbook Kerouac:", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3143", "words": "2657", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "48", "author": "Duclos, Vincent", "title": "Inhabiting Media: An Anthropology of Life in Digital Speed", "date": "2017", "keywords": "life; mcluhan; media; nazaryan; new; press; speed; time", "summary": "Building on Nazaryan\u2019s dramatization of connected existence, this essay approaches digital speed not only in terms of mediality\u2014speed as circulation and transmission\u2014but also of habitability: speed as shock and habituation. My aim is to conceptually and practically explore the articulation of digital speed and of specific life forms.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3145", "words": "2720", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "51", "author": "Nguyen, Vinh-Kim", "title": "Viral Speed: Infrastructure, Connectivity, Ontogeny; or, Notes on the Molecular Epidemiology of Epidemics", "date": "2017", "keywords": "ebola; epidemic; partners; speed; transmission", "summary": "Controversy over using molecular phylogenetic analyses to infer epidemic origins is best exemplified in the debates around the origins of HIV, which began when a British journalist, Edward Hooper, argued that contaminated batches of oral polio vaccine inadvertently spread the virus in the 1950s: a hypothesis that has since been largely discredited by molecular epidemiologists who instead point to rapid urbanization, railways, and sex-ratio imbalances that shifted sexual networks (e.g., Faria et al. 2014). Most epidemics are believed to originate when a microorganism crosses the species barrier, leaving an animal host reservoir (such as the chimpanzee for HIV\u2019s simian ancestor, or bats for Ebola virus) to infect humans.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3147", "words": "2451", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "47", "author": "Far\u00edas, Ignacio", "title": "An Idiotic Catalyst: Accelerating the Slowing Down of Thinking and Action", "date": "2017", "keywords": "city; idiot; processes; slowing; space; speed; time", "summary": "The project team is responsible for giving cities recommendations on cocreation processes and, in particular, the implementation of such processes in the German city of Munich. AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF CHANGING GEARS Coming back to the anthropology of speed, it seems that the crucial issue would be to pay attention to the articulation of different speeds in specific settings of practice.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3151", "words": "3957", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "46", "author": "Duclos, Vincent; Criado, Tom\u00e1s S\u00e1nchez; Nguyen, Vinh-Kim", "title": "Speed: An Introduction", "date": "2017", "keywords": "anthropology; future; life; new; press; speed; things; time; university; way; world", "summary": "To put it in a nutshell, they do not see speed as the enemy: rather, it is the paralysis produced by capitalist speed and its capture of everything indeterminate. We ask: How can different forms of speed temporalize futures and shape the present conditions of knowledge and life in certain ways and not others?", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3157", "words": "10610", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "57", "author": "Bocci, Paolo", "title": "Tangles of Care: Killing Goats to Save Tortoises on the Gal\u00e1pagos Islands", "date": "2017", "keywords": "animals; campaign; care; conservation; eradication; gal\u00e1pagos; goats; human; hunters; hunting; isabela; islands; judas; killing; life; multispecies; nature; new; park; population; practices; press; species; tortoises; university", "summary": "As a sustained and sophisticated intervention into an animal species, goat eradication on the Gal\u00e1pagos was unprecedented in magnitude, but not in typology of conservation care. Unlike the biblical figure, Judas goats were not aware of the scheme in which they were protagonists, but the result was the same.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3175", "words": "11525", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "50", "author": "Appel, Hannah", "title": "Toward an Ethnography of the National Economy", "date": "2017", "keywords": "anthropology; conference; country; curse; economic; economies; economy; gdp; global; guinea; history; money; national; new; oil; power; press; princeton; resource; sector; state; theory; university; world", "summary": "In the conclusion, I open out the theoretical and methodological implications of ethnographic attention to the national economy form: lest we be tempted to imagine Equatorial Guinea as exceptional (which, of course, it is in some ways) or generalize only to other African economies or economies of the global South, we need only think about Brexit in relation to the European Union or the collision course between the Anthropocene and economic growth (most often calculated nationally) to begin to imagine the ethnographic possibilities of national economies more generally, as perhaps the most privileged epistemological and political object of our unevenly shared modernity. Taking a series of national economic conferences in Equatorial Guinea as a point of departure, I trace how and to what effects Equatorial Guinea\u2019s national economy was imagined and reproduced through economic theory and desire, futurity and dystopia, state and corporate power.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3207", "words": "2113", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "47", "author": "White, Daniel", "title": "Affect: An Introduction", "date": "2017", "keywords": "affect; collection; emotion; gap; theory; world", "summary": "Finally, Kathleen Stewart (2007), with characteristic elegance, has demonstrated how projects of knowing affect are inextricably tied to our motivations for and modes of writing about it. Affect Affect: An Introduction DANIEL WHITE Hosei University http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2866-6587 This Retrospectives collection offers a look at what the concept of affect has contributed to anthropology in the recent past and where it might take us in the near future.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3209", "words": "4100", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "47", "author": "Lutz, Catherine", "title": "What Matters", "date": "2017", "keywords": "affect; affective; anthropology; emotion; life; new; press; theory; university; work", "summary": "Sometimes affect is treated as a synonym of emotion, sometimes as a kind of master category that includes specific feelings and emotions, and sometimes as an inchoate feeling or intensity that stands in contrast to emotions, which are then defined narrowly as objects of discrete and linguistically coded meanings. We could focus more on the work that emotion and emotions do as forms of sociality and embodied experience (Jones 2004; Martin 2013).", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3211", "words": "3725", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "55", "author": "Mazzarella, William", "title": "Sense out of Sense: Notes on the Affect/Ethics Impasse", "date": "2017", "keywords": "affect; durham; ethics; hume; press; smith; university; university press; york", "summary": "One useful way to begin grappling with these genealogies is to revisit that moment in the mid-eighteenth century when moral philosophers like David Hume and Adam Smith were trying to make sense of the place of affect in a then nascent mass-mediated society.1 The human capacity to be empathetically affected\u2014Hume and Smith called it \u201csympathy\u201d\u2014appeared to them as a kind of pharmakon of modern citizenship: at once an obstacle to and a condition of possibility for ethics in a society of strangers. Marshall, David 1984 \u201cAdam Smith and the Theatricality of Moral Sentiments.\u201d", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3213", "words": "1929", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "43", "author": "Navaro, Yael", "title": "Diversifying Affect", "date": "2017", "keywords": "affect; fieldwork; new; press; university", "summary": "Many recent engagements with affect theory have therefore inadvertently been repetitive, reiterating by now well-rehearsed analyses about the distinction between affect and the emotions, referring to the particularly nondiscursive qualities of the former and the linguistic embedment of the latter. The serendipitous is coincidental and relies on the generation of unexpected affects of intimacy and attachment between strangers, sui generis, across and against augmenting political divides.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3215", "words": "2277", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "51", "author": "Stewart, Kathleen", "title": "In the World that Affect Proposed", "date": "2017", "keywords": "affect; place; studies; things; thought; world", "summary": "The ethnography of such things has to be both nimble and patient, jumping with the unexpected event but also waiting for something to throw together. Anthropological objects became things that shimmered out of molten states or lay nascent in an atmosphere.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3227", "words": "11114", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "58", "author": "Kunreuther, Laura", "title": "Sounds of Democracy: Performance, Protest, and Political Subjectivity", "date": "2018", "keywords": "activists; ashmina; baluwatar; crying; democracy; kathmandu; media; nepal; new; noise; occupy; people; performance; politics; press; protest; public; radio; silence; sound; university; voice; \u0101w\u0101j", "summary": "In many philosophical discussions of democracy, metaphors of political voice almost always refer to discursive speech, analytic or reasoned discourse. Crowds on the street and noise are typically juxtaposed with a silent and rational reading public, and both are disavowed in discussions about political voice.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3229", "words": "9966", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "53", "author": "Sojoyner, Damien M.", "title": "Another Life is Possible: Black Fugitivity and Enclosed Places", "date": "2017", "keywords": "angeles; california; class; devon; education; forms; fugitivity; los; marley; places; press; refusal; school; state; students; violence; youth", "summary": "Rooted in a liberal tradition of social progress, the current realities of Black education are mired in a brutal system of punitive containment and curricular evisceration that I argue forms the basis of an enclosed place. Framed by the backdrop of unrelenting liberal narratives of individualism, upward social mobility, and race-blind/neutral school governing mandates, the article reckons with the material and ideological conditions produced within sites of Black education that belie the mythical facade of advancement, inclusion, and civility within liberal discursive practices.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3328", "words": "10574", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "62", "author": "Roberts, Elizabeth F. S.", "title": "What Gets Inside: Violent Entanglements and Toxic Boundaries in Mexico City", "date": "2017", "keywords": "boundaries; city; colonia; colonia perif\u00e9rico; dam; drugs; entanglement; health; inside; life; mexico; nati; people; perif\u00e9rico; police; press; public; se\u00f1ora; soda; university; war; water; world", "summary": "Colonia Perif\u00e9rico residents tell of shopping-mall developers coming around a few years ago, but losing interest because of the stench and reputation. Like most Colonia Perif\u00e9rico residents I know, she is concerned with living well in the reality she inhabits.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3334", "words": "10558", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "58", "author": "Luna, Sarah", "title": "Affective Atmospheres of Terror on the Mexico\u2013U.S. Border: Rumors of Violence in Reynosa\u2019s Prostitution Zone", "date": "2018", "keywords": "affective; bodies; border; drug; eva; fear; mexico; missionaries; narco; organizations; people; power; press; reynosa; rumors; sex; sex workers; stories; terror; university; violence; workers", "summary": "Rumors like the one Eva narrated have shaped affective atmospheres of terror, especially as Reynosa has become further militarized by the Mexican state in what was officially an attempt to combat narco-trafficking and its attendant torture, killings, and threats.3 As Reynosa residents spread rumors of violence, borders between narco-controlled territory and state-controlled territory shifted in and through their bodies. The second part of my discussion examines how Reynosa residents generally, and sex workers specifically, changed their spatial practices in response to both affective atmospheres of terror and the content of rumors.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3369", "words": "11895", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "56", "author": "Hecht, Gabrielle", "title": "Interscalar Vehicles for an African Anthropocene: On Waste, Temporality, and Violence", "date": "2018", "keywords": "african; anthropocene; atomic; cea; comuf; france; french; future; gabon; gabonese; human; kuroda; modernity; mounana; new; oklo; power; press; reactors; research; scale; time; university; uranium; waste; years", "summary": "Oklo thus fit into the full temporal range of Anthropocene claims. Anthropocene scholars note that industrial capitalism has long relied on \u201ccheap nature\u201d", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3395", "words": "9479", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "50", "author": "Yarrow, Thomas", "title": "Remains of the Future: Rethinking the Space and Time of Ruination through the Volta Resettlement Project, Ghana", "date": "2017", "keywords": "development; future; ghana; house; life; modernity; modernization; new; nkrumah; plan; present; press; project; resettlement; ruination; sense; time; university; volta", "summary": "Project staff, including town managers, extension workers, and welfare officers were laid off, compensation claims were often left unsettled, and support to complete resettlement houses was largely withdrawn. Resettlement townships were conceptualized as functionally integrated units in which social, ethnic, and economic differences were subsumed under a regional and national logic of development.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3431", "words": "12006", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "48", "author": "Berry, Maya J.; Ch\u00e1vez Arg\u00fcelles, Claudia; Cordis, Shanya; Ihmoud, Sarah; Vel\u00e1squez Estrada, Elizabeth", "title": "Toward a Fugitive Anthropology: Gender, Race, and Violence in the Field", "date": "2017", "keywords": "activist; anthropologists; anthropology; bodies; body; colonial; experiences; feminist; field; fieldwork; gang; gender; gendered; methods; power; praxis; press; research; researchers; space; state; university; violence; women", "summary": "Women researchers can be accepted as political allies, but this alliance does not entail horizontal dialogues within the framework of gender equality. I had also internalized the idea that black women cannot afford to draw any more attention to our already hypervisible bodies.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3445", "words": "10057", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "54", "author": "Mathews, Andrew S.", "title": "Landscapes and Throughscapes in Italian Forest Worlds: Thinking Dramatically about the Anthropocene", "date": "2018", "keywords": "anthropocene; change; chestnut; disease; encounters; farmers; forest; form; histories; history; landscape; monti; multiple; new; patterns; peasant; pisani; plant; practices; terraces; throughscapes; trees; world", "summary": "Echoes of conflicts over property and landscape are present in tree form. From these encounters I learn to produce a drawing that summarizes my perception of human\u2013plant and plant\u2013nonhuman interaction as they manifest in tree form.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3457", "words": "10615", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "65", "author": "Cooper, Jessica", "title": "Unruly Affects: Attempts at Control and All That Escapes from an American Mental Health Court", "date": "2018", "keywords": "authority; bakhtin; chronotope; court; evan; harriet; health; health court; jurisdiction; law; life; mental; mother; movement; space; state; time; university", "summary": "Keeping Harriet around would showcase the impasses of the court\u2019s logic, those parts of Harriet\u2019s story over which the court lost narrative control. It was at the end of the second day that I spent with Harriet\u2014before she threatened suicide, but after she had told me that court supervision \u201cfeels like death\u201d\u2014that", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3462", "words": "10435", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "51", "author": "Cons, Jason", "title": "Staging Climate Security: Resilience and Heterodystopia in the Bangladesh Borderlands", "date": "2018", "keywords": "bangladesh; change; climate; climate change; development; future; global; house; interventions; munshiganj; new; pani; press; projects; region; residents; resilience; security; spaces; university; ways; york", "summary": "The heterodystopias I explore speak in the name of resilience, but they also speak to a broader set of anxieties about the future by taking the delta as a demonstration site for climate development. Figure 2 gives some sense of the density of new climate projects in the area.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3478", "words": "4546", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "41", "author": "Shapiro, Nicholas; Kirksey, Eben", "title": "Chemo-Ethnography: An Introduction", "date": "2017", "keywords": "anthropology; chemical; chemo; communities; durham; ethnographers; life; new; press; science; sensing; social; species; starting; states; university; university press", "summary": "Sensing technologies and collaborations with allies in other disciplines are also allowing ethnographers to study chemical species in water, soil, air, human bodies, and emergent ecological assemblages. In contrast to biological species, which are relatively stable (see Kirksey 2015), chemical species may quickly change state.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3479", "words": "3596", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "44", "author": "Murphy, Michelle", "title": "Alterlife and Decolonial Chemical Relations", "date": "2017", "keywords": "2013; alterlife; bodies; chemical; damage; environmental; land; pcbs; relations; research; violence; water", "summary": "As a result, the infrastructure of chemical relations that surround and make us largely resides in the realm of the imperceptible (Murphy 2006). It marks an invitation to find other ways of shining critical light on the infernal entanglements of settler-colonial capitalism as expressed through chemical relations, and at the same time a call to direct creative energy toward decolonial possibilities.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3480", "words": "3476", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "66", "author": "Povinelli, Elizabeth A.", "title": "Fires, Fogs, Winds", "date": "2017", "keywords": "chemicals; desire; fire; forms; karrabing; kodak; new; running; water; winds; york", "summary": "The company also provides storm damage cleanup and restoration services for various disasters, such as flooding caused by heavy rains, hurricanes and tidal surges, tornados and wind damage, ice and snowstorms, and wild fires. Neighborhoods burn, whether from wild fires or demolition crews.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3482", "words": "10641", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "51", "author": "Sherouse, Perry Maxfield Waldman", "title": "Where the Sidewalk Ends: Automobility and Shame in Tbilisi, Georgia", "date": "2018", "keywords": "activists; cars; city; culture; european; forms; georgia; new; order; parking; pedestrian; press; public; shame; sidewalk; social; soviet; space; stopkham; street; tbilisi; university; urban; york", "summary": "The present-day dismal friction of Tbilisi sidewalks is rooted in an uneasy relationship to twentieth-century state socialism, which incorporated many material and ideological elements from the nineteenth-century European liberal city. The company\u2019s practices provoked public frustration and a new focus on the forms of authority governing street and sidewalk parking.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3489", "words": "11281", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "54", "author": "Ahmann, Chloe", "title": "\u201cIt\u2019s exhausting to create an event out of nothing\u201d: Slow Violence and the Manipulation of Time", "date": "2018", "keywords": "attention; baltimore; bay; campaign; curtis; december; effects; environmental; events; history; incinerator; mde; new; people; press; project; residents; response; state; time; university; violence; work; years", "summary": "Without disputing these scholars\u2019 observations (on which my own analysis is partially dependent), I offer a different set of tools\u2014tools that, beyond depicting time and perceptibility as mechanisms of social control, also specify how those hamstrung by slow violence work time to alter their conditions. Beginning in the 1800s, factories concentrated in Curtis Bay thanks to land-use regulations that pushed nuisances (waste, industry, contagious disease) to the urban periphery.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3491", "words": "2403", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "39", "author": "Kauanui, J. K\u0113haulani", "title": "Sovereignty: An Introduction", "date": "2017", "keywords": "anthropology; authority; forms; power; sovereignty; state", "summary": "Bishara (2017, 350) shows that even though they have not ultimately restructured state sovereignty, these assertions \u201cchallenge the legitimacy of state authorities, create new forms of collectivity, and forge new ideas of how power should function, even though they have not ultimately restructured state power.\u201d In recent years, cultural anthropologists studying the global crisis of the nation-state as the primary vehicle of sovereign power have taken up the critical reevaluation of sovereignty engendered by Agamben\u2019s work, inspiring new lines of inquiry and challenges to the foundational assumptions about state power in a range of ethnographic studies.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3492", "words": "3709", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "49", "author": "Bonilla, Yarimar", "title": "Unsettling Sovereignty", "date": "2017", "keywords": "anthropology; durham; forms; global; n.c; power; press; sovereignty; state; university; university press", "summary": "As a result, postcolonial sovereignty more often than not resulted in enduring forms of non-sovereignty (Bonilla 2013, 2015). Yet the move to cast these political forms as mutations or exceptions problematically reinscribes the classic model of political sovereignty as an actually existing relationship\u2014a measurable quality of states\u2014rather than viewing it as a discursive figure produced through the colonial encounter.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3493", "words": "3476", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "38", "author": "Sturm, Circe", "title": "Reflections on the Anthropology of Sovereignty and Settler Colonialism: Lessons from Native North America", "date": "2017", "keywords": "colonialism; forms; native; press; settler; sovereignty; state; university", "summary": "We can extend this list to include indigeneity as well, understood here not merely as a distinct racial, social, or cultural identity, but rather as an explicitly political subjectivity tied to the experience of living in the shadow of settler colonialism with an everyday sense of ongoing territorial invasion and dispossession (Rifkin 2009).2 By maintaining these distinctions in our analyses of modern forms of biopower and following their through line, if you will, we are able to recognize not only how such distinctions are used to target particular kinds of human beings for bare life but also how they condition other forms of sovereign violence, such as sexual violence in the case of gender, slavery in the case of race, and settler colonialism in the case of indigeneity (Simpson 2011).3 With indigeneity and settler colonialism as added lenses, we see that policies intent on social and political death, such as assimilation, missionization, relocation, allotment, termination, and even political incorporation via citizenship, were all designed to eliminate indigenous assertions of sovereignty over the land. Reflections on the Anthropology of Sovereignty and Settler Colonialism Reflections on the Anthropology of Sovereignty and Settler Colonialism: Lessons from Native North America CIRCE STURM University of Texas at Austin http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3300-7965 Any consideration of what sovereignty has come to mean in Native North America, as a conceptual framework that names a particular kind of lived indigenous experience, has to be understood within the context of settler colonialism.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3494", "words": "3587", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "53", "author": "Bishara, Amahl", "title": "Sovereignty and Popular Sovereignty for Palestinians and Beyond", "date": "2017", "keywords": "forms; israel; new; palestinian; press; resistance; sovereignty; state; university; university press; violence", "summary": "Palestinians and many others in the Middle East see evidence every day of the essential violence at the heart of state sovereignty, that \u201cthe ultimate expression of sovereignty resides, to a large degree, in the power and the capacity to dictate who may live and who must die\u201d (Mbembe 2003, 11). Other major state and organizational donors that visibly fund infrastructure like roads also signpost the gaps in Palestinian sovereignty (A. Bishara 2015), even as the funding of the PA\u2019s security apparatus by the United States and other countries (see Sayigh 2011) has given it attributes of a police state without the sovereignty.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3495", "words": "3051", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "40", "author": "Clarke, Kamari Maxine", "title": "Rethinking Sovereignty through Hashtag Publics: The New Body Politics", "date": "2017", "keywords": "authority; body; new; power; sovereignty; state; violence", "summary": "The answers to these questions raise considerations about the consequences of such new technologies\u2014especially as we specify which bodies, and through what body politics. Rethinking Sovereignty through Hashtag Publics Rethinking Sovereignty through Hashtag Publics: The New Body Politics KAMARI MAXINE CLARKE Carleton University http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4910-548X Modern conceptions of sovereignty have come a long way, and anthropology has been centrally engaged in multidisciplinary conversations about the nature of sovereignty, including those related to notions of political authority and reconfigurations of body politics.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3496", "words": "116", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "58", "author": "Anthropology, Cultural", "title": "Amendment to \u201cGolden Snail Opera\u201d", "date": "2017", "keywords": "snail", "summary": "Amendment to \u201cGolden Snail Opera\u201d Amendment to \u201cGolden Snail Opera\u201d Tsai, Yen-Ling, Isabelle Carbonell, Joelle Chevrier, and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. The authors wish to make the following amendment to the published article: On p. 540, under Scene One in the Notes section, the following sentence has been added to the note that begins the ontic status of their practical interactions: \u201cOur project draws, in particular, on Elaine Gan\u2019s (2016) pioneering work on wet rice agriculture, multispecies life, and temporality.\u201d", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3503", "words": "10202", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "53", "author": "Eisenlohr, Patrick", "title": "Suggestions of Movement: Voice and Sonic Atmospheres in Mauritian Muslim Devotional Practices", "date": "2018", "keywords": "affect; atmospheres; body; devotional; dimensions; effects; felt; islamic; khwan; mauritian; movement; na\u2018t; press; prophet; sonic; sound; space; suggestions; university; voice", "summary": "In my examples, the meanings generated by sonic movement and the discursive aspects of recitation align, but there remains a difference in kind. While multiplicity of meaning certainly also pertains to discourse, especially poetic discourse, the latter qualifies the meaning generated in sonic movement as Islamic, and even sectarian, in a much more specific way.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3505", "words": "13289", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "46", "author": "Moll, Yasmin", "title": "Television is Not Radio: Theologies of Mediation in the Egyptian Islamic Revival", "date": "2018", "keywords": "da\u2018wa; egypt; entertainment; forms; god; hosny; human; iqraa; islamic; life; media; movement; muslim; new; piety; pious; preachers; press; producers; religion; revivalists; salafi; secular; television; theology; tradition; university", "summary": "Working with him laid down yet another stone on the ambitious road television preachers like Hosny were paving: changing what Islamic media looks and sounds like. In doing so, the New Preachers and their producers straddle distinct standards of moral probity, commercial success, and sensuous pleasure as their programs expand what counts as \u201cIslamic media\u201d and why.1", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3521", "words": "11663", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "52", "author": "Stoetzer, Bettina", "title": "Ruderal Ecologies: Rethinking Nature, Migration, and the Urban Landscape in Berlin", "date": "2018", "keywords": "anthropology; berlin; cities; city; ecologies; ecology; environments; europe; garden; gecekondu; human; infrastructure; life; nation; nature; new; osman; people; plants; press; rubble; ruderal; ruins; university; war; york", "summary": "The life cycles of sticky goosefoot and other plants revealed that Berlin, like other cities, had become hotter (Sukopp and Wurzel 2003, 70). As in many other cities across Europe, public discourse and policy located the source of these inequalities in migrants themselves,10 especially in their presumed lack of economic productivity and sense of disconnection, which leaves traces of dereliction in the urban landscape\u2014for example, by barbecuing in the city\u2019s parks and leaving garbage behind.11 Metaphors of parallel worlds and social hot spots (soziale Brennpunkte) emphasize a sense of lurking danger: the danger of fire breaking loose, the threat of wilderness imposing itself on the civilized city.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3574", "words": "10384", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "53", "author": "Chao, Sophie", "title": "In the Shadow of the Palm: Dispersed Ontologies among Marind, West Papua", "date": "2018", "keywords": "anthropology; bian; care; forest; human; instance; khalaoyam; land; life; marind; merauke; multispecies; new; oil; oil palm; palm; papua; plant; plantations; press; relations; sawit; time; university; university press; york", "summary": "Yet at the same time as many Khalaoyam community members struggle to curb the expansion of oil palm, they have learned from their urban kin and NGO workers that they themselves routinely use and consume foods and goods that contain palm oil\u2014instant noodles, ketchup, shampoo, and soap, for instance. While foreign plume-hunters decimated bird of paradise populations in the forest (Swadling 1996, 176\u201399), viral and bacterial organisms ravaged Marind communities in the form of influenza and lymphogranuloma venereum (van Baal 1966, 24\u201325).8 With the influx of Indonesian officials, settlers, and military forces following the transfer of the administration of West Papua to the Republic of Indonesia in 1963, large-scale landscape conversions continued in the form of rice cultivation, oil palm plantations, and mining and logging concessions (Monbiot 1989;", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3592", "words": "10541", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "62", "author": "Denyer Willis, Laurie", "title": "\u201cIt smells like a thousand angels marching\u201d: The Salvific Sensorium in Rio de Janeiro\u2019s Western Sub\u00farbios", "date": "2018", "keywords": "2015; american; anthropology; body; divine; experience; fragrance; god; milene; new; people; press; rio; sensorium; smell; space; sub\u00farbios; university; university press; waste; water; work", "summary": "The salvific sensorium wafts, hardens, dissipates, and returns, dependent on a multitude of spatial sensations, distinctions, and tangible things like waste fragrance and recycled bottles. Pentecostals in Rio\u2019s western sub\u00farbios often think of waste fragrance as a way that God, via divine gifts of grace, enters homes and lives and enables a different conception of life (Denyer Willis 2017; cf.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3646", "words": "10702", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "60", "author": "Degani, Michael", "title": "Shock Humor: Zaniness and the Freedom of Permanent Improvisation in Urban Tanzania", "date": "2018", "keywords": "comedy; dar; electricians; electricity; freedom; improvisation; issa; kishoka; labor; life; new; play; power; press; salaam; sense; state; tanesco; university; work; working; zaniness; zany", "summary": "\u201cIn their purest form,\u201d Daniel Harris (2000, 117) observes, zany comedies are \u201cstructureless journeys through worlds of dangerous and volatile objects. The presence of zany characters and situations in cities like Dar es Salaam certainly stands as a corrective to the Eurocentrism of much critical and cultural theory.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3661", "words": "2188", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "40", "author": "Lempert, William", "title": "Indigenous Media Futures: An Introduction", "date": "2018", "keywords": "collection; film; future; history; media; press; university; video", "summary": "THE FUTURE OF INDIGENOUS MEDIA Until recently, Indigenous media has been closely associated with film and video. THE FUTURE IN INDIGENOUS MEDIA While some of the most cutting-edge forms of Indigenous media engage the future\u2014as demonstrated in TimeTraveller\u2122\u2014most of the explicitly speculative projects are science-fiction films.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3662", "words": "3338", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "53", "author": "Dowell, Kristin L.", "title": "Digital Sutures: Experimental Stop-Motion Animation as Future Horizon of Indigenous Cinema", "date": "2018", "keywords": "amanda; ancestors; faces; film; grandmother; indigo; moon; strong", "summary": "Indigo utilizes the strengths of stop-motion animation, combined with hand-drawn illustration and digital animation techniques, to create an Indigenous world that reflects a vivid rendering of the space of oral tradition, all the while anchoring the power of Indigenous futures within Indigenous knowledge and teachings. This affirmation of identity, connection to ancestors, and the recentering of Indigenous history offers a vibrant example of what Faye Ginsburg (2002) calls \u201cscreen memories.\u201d", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3663", "words": "3138", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "48", "author": "Hennessy, Kate; Smith, Trudi Lynn; Hogue, Tarah", "title": "ARCTICNOISE and Broadcasting Futures: Geronimo Inutiq Remixes the Igloolik Isuma Archive", "date": "2018", "keywords": "archive; arcticnoise; gallery; geronimo; grunt; igloolik; inutiq; media; north; work", "summary": "McLuhan\u2019s articulation of the DEW Line as medium for transformations and potential futures has resonance with histories of communication infrastructures and Indigenous media production in the Arctic. Inutiq\u2019s response to Gould\u2019s radio documentary also references a history of Indigenous media production that appropriated the infrastructures of communication technologies originally created to serve colonial, national, and international Cold War political agendas.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3664", "words": "3267", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "57", "author": "Fisher, Daniel", "title": "Untidy Times: Alexis Wright, Extinction, and the Politics of Apprehension", "date": "2018", "keywords": "australia; book; future; narrative; swan; time; work; wright", "summary": "Children like Warren are thus not simply avatars of a reproductive futurity (see Ginsburg and Rapp 1995; Edelman 2004) but captive to the investment in Aboriginal futures of both Aboriginal and settler agencies. In Carpentaria Wright develops a narrative voice that embraces colloquial Aboriginal English, drawing on the speech poetics of the Northern Territory to tell a story about a fictional conflict between a mining corporation and a small, northern Australian town.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3665", "words": "3120", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "45", "author": "Lempert, William", "title": "Generative Hope in the Postapocalyptic Present", "date": "2018", "keywords": "aboriginal; communities; dunba; film; future; hope; media; people; present", "summary": "Such projects provide immersive platforms for addressing the structural silencing of Aboriginal futures through critical mediations on how and, just as importantly, when Indigenous people are imagined. Indigenous futures are not only vital for Aboriginal people; they also provide valuable insight into global challenges.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3666", "words": "3066", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "37", "author": "Ginsburg, Faye", "title": "The Road Forward", "date": "2018", "keywords": "anthropology; australia; canada; cultural; film; future; media; video; work", "summary": "It came from Amalia C\u00f3rdova, the curator of Latinx and Indigenous digital and emerging media at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife, an important scholar and advocate of Indigenous media in Latin America and a fellow supporter of the work of the remarkable Brazilian collective Video nas Aldeias (VnA), arguably the most successful and robust of Indigenous media groups on the planet (Aufderheide 1995). In the important works addressed by each contributor to this collection on Indigenous media futures, we have the privilege to learn how books, films, animations, archives, and installations are being used to build powerful alternative imaginaries for contemporary Indigenous lives.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3669", "words": "11371", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "56", "author": "Hannig, Anita", "title": "Author(iz)ing Death: Medical Aid-in-Dying and the Morality of Suicide", "date": "2019", "keywords": "act; agency; aid; assisted; death; dignity; dying; end; illness; law; life; medicine; oregon; patients; right; self; state; suicide; united", "summary": "In carving out a form of willful death that sits in a category of its own, activists can gesture to the complex medico-technical, bureaucratic, and legal assemblage that has come to govern assisted deaths and that has led to their routinization in states that permit them. To better appreciate how aid-in-dying has been positioned against suicide as a form of intentional death, the next section revisits key approaches in the anthropological study of suicide, followed by a brief historical framing of assisted death in the broader context of the medicalization of dying.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3682", "words": "11136", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "56", "author": "Langwick, Stacey Ann", "title": "A Politics of Habitability: Plants, Healing, and Sovereignty in a Toxic World", "date": "2018", "keywords": "africa; bodies; dawa; food; gardens; healing; health; human; life; new; nguya; people; plants; politics; press; relations; spaces; support; tanzania; therapeutic; toxicity; trmega; university; ways; work", "summary": "TRMEGA garden, as viewed upon entering the compound at Maji ya Chai. Statistics on the market and on industry growth, however, do not capture the work of TRMEGA gardens or elucidate their alliances with food sovereignty movements.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3691", "words": "10670", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "48", "author": "Wanderer, Emily", "title": "The Axolotl in Global Circuits of Knowledge Production: Producing Multispecies Potentiality", "date": "2018", "keywords": "animals; axolotl; biological; biology; care; forms; human; lab; life; mexico; new; newsletter; practices; press; refuge; regeneration; research; scientists; species; university; wild; xochimilco; zambrano", "summary": "Once in the laboratory, it was remade as a model organism, a process that transformed axolotl life cycles, bodies, and genetics. CARE OF THE AMPHIBIAN The flexibility and potentialities of the axolotl become evident only through the labor that scientists devote to axolotls as laboratory animals, work that has both enabled knowledge production and reshaped axolotl life.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3693", "words": "10327", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "58", "author": "Miller, Alyssa", "title": "Kin-Work in a Time of Jihad: Sustaining Bonds of Filiation and Care for Tunisian Foreign Combatants", "date": "2018", "keywords": "bilal; combatants; faisal; families; family; home; iqbal; jihad; kin; kinship; life; mother; muhammad; national; new; press; public; ratta; son; state; syria; thoraya; tunisian; university; work", "summary": "In Tunisian families, sons are expected to treat their fathers with respect, and as a consequence, their relationship is often formal and distant (White 2004). While I do not wish to suggest that Muslim families around the Mediterranean conform to any particular type, the intrafamily relationships described by White ring true to my understanding of Tunisian family dynamics.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3711", "words": "10089", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "53", "author": "Kyriakides, Theodoros", "title": "Directing the Future of Gene Therapy in Cyprus: Breakthroughs, Subjunctivities, and the Pragmatics of Narrative", "date": "2018", "keywords": "breakthrough; cing; cypriot; cyprus; future; gene; gene therapy; health; hope; new; patients; pta; state; subjunctivity; thalassemia; therapy; time; treatment; uncertainty", "summary": "Gene therapy is a technology that involves the introduction of therapeutic genes into the human body to replace mutations causing disorders (Addison 2017). This article, stemming from research conducted with a thalassemia patients\u2019 association in Cyprus from July 2012 to September 2013, explores how the political and epistemic uncertainty surrounding the promise of breakthroughs in gene therapy is harnessed to particular political objectives and narratives of the future.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3716", "words": "8936", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "65", "author": "O\u2019Neill, Kevin Lewis", "title": "On the Importance of Wolves", "date": "2018", "keywords": "care; center; christian; city; drug; guatemala; health; hugo; life; manuel; new; pastor; press; rehabilitation; roof; sheep; state; university; wolf; wolves; years", "summary": "Tom\u00e1s blushed as the pastor directed my attention to Manuel. \u201cThis is a little more difficult to explain,\u201d he admitted, \u201cbut Manuel smoked marijuana, and now he believes that angels visit him.\u201d", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3728", "words": "11844", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "50", "author": "Sadjadi, Sahar", "title": "Deep in the Brain: Identity and Authenticity in Pediatric Gender Transition", "date": "2019", "keywords": "american; body; brain; century; children; clinicians; cultural; gender; gender identity; human; individual; nature; new; press; puberty; self; sex; soul; transgender; transgender children; transition; treatment; united; university", "summary": "I show how the current clinical enactment of gender identity has relied on processes of (psycho-)medicalization, individualization, thingification, and internalization. I analyze contemporary scientific conceptualizations of the brain as the location of gender identity in relation to Western metaphysical conceptions of the body and the soul, and to modern accounts of the self as interiority and psychic depth.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3732", "words": "9623", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "59", "author": "Petryna, Adriana", "title": "Wildfires at the Edges of Science: Horizoning Work amid Runaway Change", "date": "2018", "keywords": "armstrong; behavior; change; climate; conditions; fire; firefighters; forest; national; new; path; petrilli; press; science; spread; time; university; way; wildfire; wildland; work", "summary": "Such fires occur in a range of inoperability (currently estimated as 2 percent of fires occurring in the United States) for which, according to Jolly, \u201cno matter what you do, you\u2019re not actually going to effect change.\u201d Such fires actually move around based on the areas of highest fuel availability or areas of driest fuels, and do not, therefore, always conform to models of predictable spread.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3764", "words": "4165", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "40", "author": "Lowrie, Ian", "title": "Algorithms and Automation: An Introduction", "date": "2018", "keywords": "algorithms; anthropology; assemblages; automation; data; forms; human; labor; new; processes; social", "summary": "This would be, at best, premature: as the contributions collected here amply demonstrate, algorithmic assemblages remain thoroughly integrated with and reliant on myriad forms of human labor for their function, despite my insistence on the genuine novelty and power of algorithmic automation. Not all automation is algorithmic, but all algorithms automate, and the extension of algorithmic automation from purely mathematical and computational terrains to extended sociotechnical infrastructures has produced profound, ongoing, and open-ended transformations in the organization and function of contemporary social worlds.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3765", "words": "2844", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "51", "author": "Ekbia, Hamid R.; Nardi, Bonnie A.", "title": "From Form to Content", "date": "2018", "keywords": "algorithms; automation; content; data; form; labor; new; process; uber", "summary": "Although classic cases of repositioning occurred in the past by serendipity, automated algorithms are now being developed for a systematic search, including \u201cbig-data analytics that can now uncover molecular similarities between diseases; computational models that can predict which compounds might take advantage of those similarities; and high-throughput screening systems that can quickly test many drugs against different cell lines\u201d (Nosengo 2016, 315). A new set of issues arises, however, when automated algorithms are applied to human affairs such as romance and dating.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3766", "words": "2540", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "58", "author": "Nafus, Dawn", "title": "Exploration or Algorithm? The Undone Science Before the Algorithms", "date": "2018", "keywords": "algorithm; data; design; people; science; value", "summary": "So much for data science as an esoteric skill only relevant to the privileged. The instances of travel that brought oxygen into someone\u2019s bloodstream, or the construction sounds that distressed an Alzheimer\u2019s sufferer and her daughter, will never be found in an armchair version of data science.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3767", "words": "4071", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "57", "author": "Seaver, Nick", "title": "What Should an Anthropology of Algorithms Do?", "date": "2018", "keywords": "algorithms; analog; anthropology; brad; human; new; people; press; software; systems", "summary": "We can readily see how the worlds of reference of the people working within algorithmic systems\u2014what they anticipate and are sensitive to, their habitus and common sense\u2014come to matter in those systems\u2019 functioning, and thus how diversity in these settings is not only a matter of equitable representation but also one of functional, technical consequence (see Noble 2018). Whether that made anthropology a complementary counterpart or a perfectly positioned antagonist to algorithmic systems, our role was determined in advance by the very phenomenon we set out to study (Seaver 2015).", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3855", "words": "10283", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "63", "author": "Danely, Jason", "title": "The Limits of Dwelling and the Unwitnessed Death", "date": "2019", "keywords": "ambulance; care; community; death; dwelling; family; home; houses; japan; japanese; kodokushi; life; living; minseiiin; people; person; san; society; solo", "summary": "Scams often promise to make older homes fit for older persons considering a future where they will need more supportive modifications, and so home improvement becomes a means of asserting autonomy over aging, even as it leaves them more vulnerable to predatory schemes. \u201cThere are a lot of old people that live down there.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3858", "words": "10536", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "58", "author": "Samet, Robert", "title": "The Subject of Wrongs: Crime, Populism, and Venezuela\u2019s Punitive Turn", "date": "2019", "keywords": "america; anthropology; ch\u00e1vez; crime; government; latin; new; people; politics; populism; president; press; project; security; social; spear; state; suffering; turn; university; venezuela; victimhood; victims; wrongs; york", "summary": "Most of the scholarship on this subject assumes that crime victims are passive, fearful creatures.12 At least in theory high rates of violent crime should have gone hand in hand with a retreat from public space, a distrust of strangers, a demobilization of the populace, and a defensive posture toward the future. It was in this capacity, as subjects of wrong, that crime victims fulfilled a symbolic function not unlike charisma.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3860", "words": "10353", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "54", "author": "Zengin, Asl\u0131", "title": "The Afterlife of Gender: Sovereignty, Intimacy and Muslim Funerals of Transgender People in Turkey", "date": "2019", "keywords": "blood; blood family; body; burial; dead; death; deceased; family; friends; funeral; gender; life; people; sex; sibel; sovereignty; state; trans; transgender; turkey; women", "summary": "To understand the alliance between blood families and the state, we must first unpack state and Islamic regulations behind death rituals and practices of mourning in Turkey, both of which define the blood family as the primary holder of obligations for and rights to the deceased. Blood families and spouses have de facto sovereignty over these decisions, unless a will exists that specifies particular death rights and practices.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3915", "words": "12222", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "63", "author": "Hunleth, Jean", "title": "Zambian Children\u2019s Imaginal Caring: On Fantasy, Play, and Anticipation in an Epidemic", "date": "2019", "keywords": "abby; care; caring; children; clinic; drawing; family; father; george; gift; hospital; house; mother; paul; person; play; research; role; university", "summary": "Other children presented drawn accounts of loved ones\u2019 hospitalizations well after they occurred and included themselves in the images. Here, I point out that such regimes of anticipation (Adams, Murphy, and Clarke 2009) are not unidirectional, but that Paul, and other children, were actively using them to encourage the types of behaviors and emotions they wanted to produce in their guardians.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3918", "words": "4395", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "57", "author": "Hart, Keith", "title": "After 2008: Market Fundamentalism at the Crossroads", "date": "2018", "keywords": "american; economy; europe; home; market; percent; power; states; trade; united; west; world", "summary": "The bulwarks of American global hegemony are rather world market share, all of those weapons and bases, the world currency, and intellectual property (recall that the United States\u2019s leading exports are movies, music, and software). The Italian Risorgimento, too, was backed by the industrialists of Milan and Turin, who wanted a national home market devoid of fragmented jurisdictions and the abolition of Austrian restrictions on their access to world trade.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3919", "words": "3695", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "46", "author": "Rudnyckyj, Daromir", "title": "Crisis Effects", "date": "2018", "keywords": "bank; crisis; debt; experts; finance; financial; islamic; malaysia; press; university", "summary": "Islamic finance experts asserted a technical justification for Islamic finance that emphasized the superiority of economic arrangements premised on partnership and investment, rather than interest-based lending (Mirakhor and Bao 2013). In the wake of the second crisis Islamic finance experts engaged in a project to change the technical devices characteristic of Islamic finance from ones based on debt to ones instead based on investment.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3920", "words": "4211", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "54", "author": "Zaloom, Caitlin", "title": "A Right to the Future: Student Debt and the Politics of Crisis", "date": "2018", "keywords": "activists; chile; chilean; debt; education; future; loans; new; right; student; tuition", "summary": "They \u201cdeleveraged\u201d in all areas but one: student debt. Student debt has become a key point of relation between the government and young adult citizens.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3931", "words": "10606", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "56", "author": "Meneley, Anne", "title": "Walk This Way: Fitbit and Other Kinds of Walking in Palestine", "date": "2019", "keywords": "bank; body; checkpoint; east; father; fitbit; israel; jerusalem; land; life; palestine; palestinian; people; press; self; shehadeh; steps; surveillance; walking; walks; way; west", "summary": "Setting out to walk along the Separation Wall, the British comedian Mark Thomas (2011) describes his interaction with Shatha Group walkers who view their walking endeavors as an effort to escape from the infrastructures of control.6 Shehadeh wrote a brief introduction to Walking Palestine: Twenty-Five Journeys into the West Bank, a guidebook by Stefan Szepesi (2012), while working with Tony Blair\u2019s Office of the Quartet on facilitating the now defunct peace process. The joint foreigners/Palestinians group he started, called Walking Palestine, now has considerably more than the initial two hundred members.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3954", "words": "10787", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "60", "author": "Hales, Molly", "title": "Animating Relations: Digitally Mediated Intimacies between the Living and the Dead", "date": "2019", "keywords": "animation; app; characters; database; dead; death; erin; life; media; memory; mom; mother; new; patricia; press; relationship; sightings; university", "summary": "Animating Relations Animating Relations: Digitally Mediated Intimacies between the Living and the Dead MOLLY HALES University of California, San Francisco https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9883-342X Shortly after her mother Patricia\u2019s unexpected death, Erin set out to digitally track her persistent presence by recording each time that Patricia made an appearance in her life.1 The app included space to indicate the date and time, the location, and what Erin was doing when a memory of her mother arose.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3955", "words": "10534", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "49", "author": "Anderson, Samuel Mark", "title": "A Disarmament Program for Witches: The Prospective Politics of Antiwitchcraft, Postwarcraft, and Rebrandcraft in Sierra Leone", "date": "2019", "keywords": "brand; chicago; ddr; disarmament; government; healers; international; kabba; leone; new; people; power; press; public; rebranding; sierra; sierra leone; slithu; state; transformation; union; university; violence; witch; witchcraft; witches", "summary": "Yet to dismiss such sweeping conjunctions as mere bombast would be to discount Kabba\u2019s skill for integrating local and foreign languages of power, a vital art in contemporary Sierra Leone. In 2010, he orchestrated a spectacular launching ceremony during which Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma presented him with a staff of authority akin to that of a paramount chief, enabling Kabba to claim that the post was his for life.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3956", "words": "2311", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "43", "author": "Andaya, Elise", "title": "\u201cI\u2019m building a wall around my uterus\u201d: Abortion Politics and the Politics of Othering in Trump\u2019s America", "date": "2019", "keywords": "abortion; politics; reproduction; rights; state; trump; walls", "summary": "The image provokes a consideration of walls and reproductive politics in Trump\u2019s America. Using walls and uteruses as points of departure, I offer some initial reflections on the increasingly punitive nature of reproductive politics in the United States and its relation to emergent state and national preoccupations.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3957", "words": "2853", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "47", "author": "Cromer, Risa", "title": "Jane Doe", "date": "2019", "keywords": "abortion; administration; america; christian; doe; interest; politics; trump", "summary": "The protective walls the Trump administration attempted to build between Jane Doe and her own uterus, to borrow Elise Andaya\u2019s (2019) insightful metaphor, parallel the symbolic and material walls that Trump strives to build around the United States to ensure that white Christian America comes first. In an accompanying statement on the ruling in Garza v. Hargan (874 F.3d 735 [D.C. Cir. 2017]), though, Kavanaugh had argued that permitting Doe\u2019s abortion would authorize \u201ca new right for unlawful immigrant minors in U.S. government detention to obtain immediate abortion on demand,\u201d revealing how he will likely side in immigration and abortion cases brought before him on the Supreme Court.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3958", "words": "2858", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "49", "author": "Davis, D\u00e1na-Ain", "title": "Trump, Race, and Reproduction in the Afterlife of Slavery", "date": "2019", "keywords": "abortion; afterlife; birth; control; reproduction; slavery; united; white; women", "summary": "According to the March of Dimes (2017), Black women are 49 percent more likely to give birth prematurely, and their infants twice as likely to die than white women and their infants. From their perspective, the medical system treats Black women as disposable and irrelevant.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3959", "words": "2421", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "45", "author": "Sufrin, Carolyn", "title": "When the Punishment is Pregnancy: Carceral Restriction of Abortion in the United States", "date": "2019", "keywords": "abortion; health; pregnancy; prison; reproduction; women", "summary": "THE JUDICIALIZATION OF PRISON ABORTIONS No data exist on the frequency of abortions among incarcerated women in the United States. Despite prohibitive policies and a statistical amnesia about prison abortions, the judicial record from dozens of lawsuits clearly indicates that incarcerated women retain their constitutional right to abortion (Kasdan 2009).", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3960", "words": "2683", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "57", "author": "Franklin, Sarah", "title": "Nostalgic Nationalism: How a Discourse of Sacrificial Reproduction Helped Fuel Brexit Britain", "date": "2019", "keywords": "brexit; figure; franklin; photo; sarah; village; war; weather", "summary": "Reproducing a tradition of local dance troupes that has seen a revival in the twentieth century, Morris dancers are a common sight at village fayres, including groups that continue to use black face paint as part of their attire, in spite of many protests against this practice. These are the same values that inform longstanding institutions of aristocratic land ownership, agricultural stewardship, and the conventions of rural English village life.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3961", "words": "2010", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "38", "author": "Franklin, Sarah; Ginsburg, Faye", "title": "Reproductive Politics in the Age of Trump and Brexit", "date": "2019", "keywords": "abortion; britain; politics; reproduction; trump; white", "summary": "In her insightful analysis of walls and uteruses, inspired by a woman holding a protest sign that proclaimed \u201cI\u2019m building a wall around my uterus and making the GOP pay,\u201d Elise Andaya (2019) exposes the internal coherence in the rhetoric of (non)belonging, insularity, and danger that underlies Trump effects from reproductive politics to immigration, from state militarization to the strengthening of Stand Your Ground laws. Following the historian and literary scholar Saidiya Hartman, D\u00e1na-Ain Davis (2019) analyzes reproductive politics under Trump as yet another iteration of the afterlife of slavery.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3971", "words": "3479", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "49", "author": "LaFlamme, Marcel; Boyer, Dominic", "title": "Toward Adversary Anthropologies, or, How to Build Your Own Revolutionary Infrastructure", "date": "2018", "keywords": "access; anthropology; hannerz; journal; new; project; publishing; scholars; system; time", "summary": "Path One: Starting a journal The model of journal publishing with which most of us are familiar involves soliciting manuscripts that are reviewed on an exclusive and anonymous basis by a small number of reviewers selected by the journal\u2019s editors. Scholarly blogs like Allegra Lab, Anthrodendum, Footnotes, and Somatosphere have meanwhile lapped journals as the liveliest nodes of disciplinary debate, publishing vital scholarship but also constituting publics whose participants can find allies for bold political programs.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3974", "words": "1445", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "50", "author": "Howe, Cymene; Faubion, James; Boyer, Dominic", "title": "Circling Back", "date": "2018", "keywords": "anthropology; editors; introduction; journal; work", "summary": "Hot Spots series, Cultural Anthropology website, December 22. Hot Spots series, Cultural Anthropology website, September 26.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-3999", "words": "11447", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "47", "author": "Escall\u00f3n, Maria Fernanda", "title": "Rights, Inequality, and Afro-Descendant Heritage in Brazil", "date": "2019", "keywords": "afro; brazil; brazilian; communities; cultural; dos; dos palmares; groups; heritage; history; inhabitants; land; multiculturalism; national; palmares; park; policies; press; quilombo; recognition; residents; rights; serra; site; situation; state; university", "summary": "Specifically, I analyze the policies protecting contemporary maroon descendants and sites to reveal why Palmares residents making claims on their land and heritage fall outside of state recognition. Though the park\u2019s touristic success is debatable, the importance of Quilombo dos Palmares as an icon of Brazilian culture continues to grow.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4003", "words": "11236", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "55", "author": "Morris, Meghan L.", "title": "Speculative Fields: Property in the Shadow of Post-Conflict Colombia", "date": "2019", "keywords": "claim; colombia; conflict; farmers; future; land; landholders; past; peace; people; plot; possession; post; property; restitution; shadow; speculation; state; title; urab\u00e1; violence; war", "summary": "The time, however, was also one of war on many levels, from processes of land possession and dispossession like those on Cristina and Ernesto\u2019s farm, to daily news of paramilitary death threats, guerrilla violence, narco-trafficking, and political corruption. People reworked historical forms of land possession to negotiate the uncertainties around these regimes\u2014and, more broadly, the space between war and peace in which they proliferated.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4012", "words": "11001", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "46", "author": "Zhang, Amy", "title": "Circularity and Enclosures: Metabolizing Waste with the Black Soldier Fly", "date": "2020", "keywords": "animal; bsf; china; cities; cycle; fly; human; industrial; insects; labor; larvae; life; management; metabolic; nature; new; press; processes; production; project; university; value; waste; work", "summary": "In 2013, during the time of my research in Guangzhou, as the city lacked an infrastructure to sustainably process urban organic waste, both the municipal state and citizens (including critics of WTE incinerators as well as waste entrepreneurs) were undertaking initiatives to identify a suitable treatment technology for organics. ABSTRACT This essay traces a scientific pilot project to transform the black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) into a biotechnology to treat urban organic waste in accordance with the dominant cultural logics of an ecologically modern approach to waste management in contemporary China.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4023", "words": "12023", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "60", "author": "Moran-Thomas, Amy", "title": "What is Communicable? Unaccounted Injuries and \u201cCatching\u201d Diabetes in an Illegible Epidemic", "date": "2019", "keywords": "amputation; belize; care; communicable; diabetes; diabetic; disease; elizabeth; feet; foot; grace; health; hyperbaric; injuries; limb; new; non; patients; people; percent; press; public; team; time; university; world; york", "summary": "She was trying hard to train others, since no one in this southern district of Belize\u2014which also had no endocrinologist or podiatrist\u2014had received specialty training in diabetes foot care. Long after she officially retired, Nurse Elizabeth had kept going to the hospital to help with diabetes foot care.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4028", "words": "11758", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "57", "author": "Daswani, Girish", "title": "On Cynicism: Activist and Artistic Responses to Corruption in Ghana", "date": "2020", "keywords": "activism; activists; artists; bright; change; class; corruption; cynicism; dey; ghana; ghanaians; golda; good; government; occupyghana; people; politics; power; press; protest; state; university; wanlov; work", "summary": "In reference to Fela Kuti\u2019s 1978 musical performance in Accra (especially his song \u201cZombie\u201d), Bright stated that it was music that \u201cinspired the audience to hit the street and riot against what was then very corrupt practices in Ghana government.\u201d For Wanlov, postcolonial Ghana reincarnated colonial evils that had never been fully expelled.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4064", "words": "11272", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "48", "author": "Scaramelli, Caterina", "title": "The Delta is Dead: Moral Ecologies of Infrastructure in Turkey", "date": "2019", "keywords": "anthropology; area; claims; conservation; delta; ecologies; ecology; environmental; erdal; fishermen; fishing; gediz; homa; infrastructure; izmir; lagoon; marshes; national; new; practices; press; relations; research; residents; salt; studies; s\u0131k\u0131; transformations; turkey; university; water; wetland; work", "summary": "These were questions of infrastructural moral ecology. This analytic proves helpful for understanding how, and why, people confront and respond to environmental transformations in an infrastructural world.3 Building on recent work highlighting the interconnections of ecology and infrastructure (Carse 2012; Anand, Gupta, and Appel 2018; Stoetzer 2018), and on notions of moral economy (Scott 1977; Muehlebach 2012; see also Thompson 1971), I call for a more expansive anthropological interrogation of moral ecology.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4066", "words": "11100", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "44", "author": "Theodossopoulos, Dimitrios", "title": "Solidarity Dilemmas in Times of Austerity: Auto-ethnographic Interventions", "date": "2020", "keywords": "anthropological; anthropology; austerity; authorial; compromise; crisis; el\u00e9ni; ethnographic; greece; greek; humanitarian; initiatives; marxist; mih\u00e1lis; new; patras; politics; press; resistance; rozakou; self; solidarity; theodossopoulos; university", "summary": "Such nuanced local views can help us appreciate that solidarity initiatives in Greece generate a political awareness nurturing a productive self-critique: participating in humanitarian solidarity is not a radical break from neoliberal austerity, and many solidarians are self-aware of these limitations (Cabot 2013, 2014). In this article, I test the effectiveness of the analytical tool introduced here against a set of irresolvable dilemmas that emerged from the context of humanitarian solidarity initiatives in austerity-stricken Greece.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4069", "words": "11183", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "69", "author": "Barnes, Jessica; Taher, Mariam", "title": "Care and Conveyance: Buying Baladi Bread in Cairo", "date": "2019", "keywords": "bag; bakeries; bakery; baladi; baladi bread; booth; bread; care; customer; egypt; fayza; food; good; government; handling; home; loaves; mariam; people; practices; quality; university; woman", "summary": "The bread the customer is purchasing is a particular kind of bread, known as baladi bread, which is subsidized by the government and eaten by the majority of Egyptians (according to the government\u2019s statistics, around 85 percent) on a daily basis (see figure 1).2 The card the customer hands over is a ration card, which entitles him to five loaves of baladi bread a day for each member of his family.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4073", "words": "11388", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "58", "author": "Monroe, Kristin V.", "title": "Masculinity, Migration, and Forced Conscription in the Syrian War", "date": "2020", "keywords": "age; conflict; conscription; doha; gulf; home; labor; life; lives; men; migration; military; qatar; regime; service; state; syria; syrians; time; university; war; work; working", "summary": "Rami\u2019s blunt and plaintive \u201cI\u2019m a shisha boy\u201d was one of the many moments in my conversations with Syrian men living and working in Doha that cut through the ways we commonly think about the long war in Syria. By looking closely at how the war has altered the life trajectories of and produced distinct modes of vulnerability for military-age men, I develop an argument about how, although they avoid fighting by going to work in Qatar, the lives of a group of Syrian men remain defined by conscription.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4074", "words": "11647", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "55", "author": "Laidlaw, James; Mair, Jonathan", "title": "Imperfect Accomplishment: The Fo Guang Shan Short-Term Monastic Retreat and Ethical Pedagogy in Humanistic Buddhism", "date": "2019", "keywords": "anthropology; buddhism; cultivation; ethical; ethics; guang; guang shan; life; monastic; new; participants; people; practice; preceptees; press; retreat; ritual; self; shan; taiwan; university", "summary": "Fo Guang Shan practice clearly constitutes an ethical project in this sense. FO GUANG SHAN AND HUMANISTIC BUDDHISM Based in Taiwan but global in reach, Fo Guang Shan claims around two million registered members and more than two hundred temples in twenty-nine countries worldwide.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4082", "words": "635", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "32", "author": "Weiss, Brad; Paxson, Heather; Nelson, Christopher", "title": "Editors\u2019 Introduction", "date": "2019", "keywords": "anthropology; journal", "summary": "Every bit as important has been the indispensable work of our editorial staff, managing editor Marcel LaFlamme and editorial assistant Jessica Lockrem, as well as the leadership and member support of the Society for Cultural Anthropology, the section of the American Anthropological Association that remains committed to publishing an open-access journal and to investing in the scholarly infrastructure that makes this possible. Editors\u2019 Introduction Editors\u2019 Introduction BRAD WEISS College of William and Mary https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3795-0064 HEATHER PAXSON Massachusetts Institute of Technology https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8429-5429 CHRISTOPHER NELSON University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-3185 What is your vision for Cultural Anthropology?", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4087", "words": "10960", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "60", "author": "Newell, Sasha", "title": "Ethnography in a Shell Game: Turtles All the Way Down in Abidjan", "date": "2019", "keywords": "abidjan; boniface; chicago; deception; dedy; frame; issa; money; narrative; new; newell; officer; opacity; people; police; press; scam; situation; social; story; university; way", "summary": "Dedy, at the center of my fieldwork in 2001, had been a tautly muscled man always ready to leap physically into an argument between strangers in hopes of making some money or at least an ally from the underdog whom he always defended. Boniface qualified himself as a \u201cboss,\u201d or upper class, while Dedy no longer had a home, but both were among my most trusted friends, people I had relied on during my earlier fieldwork to protect me from being conned, robbed, or otherwise harmed.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4105", "words": "11662", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "53", "author": "Wilhelm-Solomon, Matthew", "title": "The City Otherwise: The Deferred Emergency of Occupation in Inner-City Johannesburg", "date": "2020", "keywords": "accommodation; africa; building; case; city; court; emergency; eviction; form; housing; inner; johannesburg; life; occupations; police; potentiality; povinelli; residents; south; spaces; station; tea; urban", "summary": "Unlawful occupations offer residents spaces in which they can \u201cown\u201d the city. Both spoke to the continued challenge of unlawful urban occupations in post-apartheid South Africa.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4115", "words": "11145", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "41", "author": "Da\u011fta\u0219, Se\u00e7il", "title": "The Civilizations Choir of Antakya: The Politics of Religious Tolerance and Minority Representation at the National Margins of Turkey", "date": "2020", "keywords": "alawi; antakya; choir; christian; citizenship; civilizations; civilizations choir; community; cultural; culture; jewish; members; minority; nation; orthodox; ottoman; performance; politics; press; public; representation; singing; songs; tolerance; turkey; turkish; university", "summary": "\u201cWHICH SONGS?\u201d: The Choice and Performance of Religious Verses The Civilizations Choir presents music as a bridge between religious communities and as a means to transcend communal boundaries. When asked to comment on them, local residents often assured me of the authenticity of such representations by referring to their neighbors, school friends, and business partners who belonged to different religious communities or (as did the vice-governor) to the physical proximity of Sunni mosques, Alawi tombs, and churches of various denominations.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4121", "words": "11091", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "56", "author": "Bize, Amiel", "title": "The Right to the Remainder: Gleaning in the Fuel Economies of East Africa\u2019s Northern Corridor", "date": "2020", "keywords": "containers; dealers; distribution; drivers; economic; economies; economy; exchange; fuel; gaakwen; gleaning; kenya; leftover; profit; remainder; right; roadside; sense; share; trade; truck; unit; university; use; value", "summary": "The circulation of fuel through unregulated channels and at prices lower than those determined by the regulatory body undermined the authority of the set price and the collection of levies subsumed into fuel prices. Further, fuel dealers often \u201cextended\u201d siphoned petrol by diluting it with kerosene, which is taxed at a lower rate and therefore less expensive\u2014the government estimates that 80 percent of kerosene bought in the country is used to adulterate petrol, though this figure remains disputed (Okoth 2018).", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4137", "words": "10450", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "52", "author": "Zoanni, Tyler", "title": "Appearances of Disability and Christianity in Uganda", "date": "2019", "keywords": "appearance; arendt; children; christian; disabilities; disability; efforts; forms; life; l\u2019arche; maimuna; new; nudipu; organizations; people; persons; politics; press; public; representation; sct; self; studies; uganda; university", "summary": "These comparisons bring into view the different modes of disability appearance that L\u2019Arche and SCT foster, while underlining something they share: the construal of people with cognitive disabilities as \u201cchildren,\u201d as Maimuna herself put it above. Even as Christian paternalism in the face of cognitive disability may prove repugnant to a liberal vision of disability politics, I argue that it sustains a form of disability appearance otherwise not possible in Uganda.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4139", "words": "10278", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "51", "author": "Weichselbraun, Anna", "title": "Of Broken Seals and Broken Promises: Attributing Intention at the IAEA", "date": "2019", "keywords": "agency; august; board; governors; iaea; infrastructure; inspectors; iran; material; meaning; metal; new; nuclear; press; safeguards; seals; sign; state; time; university; uranium", "summary": "Global actors interpreted the fact that Iran broke IAEA seals as an act of \u201cbrinkmanship\u201d (Beeston 2005), signaling that the country no longer wanted to cooperate with the ostensibly generous international efforts to limit its nuclear program (\u201cOffer by Europe Would Give Iran Nuclear Future\u201d In a period of nineteen months, the Iranians removed IAEA seals from two of their facilities three times and replaced them once.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4146", "words": "12108", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "47", "author": "Ford, Andrea", "title": "Birthing from Within: Nature, Technology, and Self-Making in Silicon Valley Childbearing", "date": "2020", "keywords": "birth; birthing; body; california; childbearing; culture; doula; jasmine; knowing; knowledge; labor; making; nature; new; people; person; press; primordial; self; silicon; silicon valley; technology; university; valley; women", "summary": "My decision to use gender-neutral terms in my analytic voice marks not only a political stance, in solidarity with trans/queer politics and to avoid reifying birth as an essential component of womanhood, but a reflection of the gender-neutral virtues that inform Silicon Valley birth culture. Designing the Innate Jasmine\u2019s Birthing from Within course exemplified the pragmatic idealism of Silicon Valley birth culture by critiquing medically managed birth while taking advantage of its presence.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4151", "words": "11092", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "49", "author": "Mariner, Kathryn A.", "title": "\u201cWho you are in these pieces of paper\u201d: Imagining Future Kinship through Auto/Biographical Adoption Documents in the United States", "date": "2019", "keywords": "adoption; agency; birth; child; children; documents; family; file; future; kinning; kinship; mother; paperwork; parents; past; present; process; profiles", "summary": "In the absence of more widely (and externally) recognizable biological substance and embodiment, adoption documents become the material that not only transforms kinship but also dictates and marks one\u2019s progress (or lack thereof) along the way to parenthood. While adoption documents certainly serve to link individuals and their histories bureaucratically to the state, the documents I discuss here are significant for their ability to create newly (p)re-kinned subjects heavily invested in potent imagined futures.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4167", "words": "10895", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "60", "author": "Seale-Feldman, Aidan", "title": "The Work of Disaster: Building Back Otherwise in Post-Earthquake Nepal", "date": "2020", "keywords": "anthropology; bina; building; care; counseling; crisis; development; disaster; earthquake; event; group; health; humanitarian; intervention; life; nepal; new; people; press; suffering; time; university; work; world", "summary": "This would become a problem for humanitarian mental health interventions in the aftermath of the earthquake, which had to contend with the fact that they would be providing people with brief access to care in regions that otherwise did not have such resources regularly available. From 2014 to 2016, I conducted fieldwork on global mental health and psychosocial transformations in Nepal, living and working among small farming communities, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) for mental health and counseling, psychiatrists, psychosocial counselors, and development and humanitarian aid workers.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4169", "words": "10235", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "61", "author": "Seo, Bo Kyeong", "title": "Populist Becoming: The Red Shirt Movement and Political Affliction in Thailand", "date": "2019", "keywords": "bangkok; chiang; crowd; democracy; democratic; food; life; mai; military; movement; new; people; politics; populist; protest; red; sense; shirts; thai; thailand; thaksin", "summary": "Thongchai Winichakul\u2019s (2010) vivid description written at the height of the protest captures the sense of horror projected onto Red Shirt protesters. 16. As this event exhibits both the voluntary and induced aspects of the Red Shirts\u2019 mobilization,9 people\u2019s emotional attachment to the plutocrat confirms the criticism that they are not proper liberal citizen subjects who embody the democratic ideals of deliberative participation.10 In the Bangkok-centered elite view, this staged manifestation of trust and longing for Thaksin proves the conviction that Red Shirt supporters are credulous rural masses lacking sophistication or civil competence.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4170", "words": "11189", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "55", "author": "Harris, Tina", "title": "Air Pressure: Temporal Hierarchies in Nepali Aviation", "date": "2021", "keywords": "air; aircraft; airlines; airport; aviation; controllers; flights; flying; future; global; industry; infrastructure; international; nepal; new; passengers; pilots; pressure; runway; space; time; traffic; weather; work; world", "summary": "A representative from the Nepal branch of a large international airline also used the idea of global aviation time to vent his frustration with uncertainty in Nepali politics: At these moments, infrastructural hierarchies and temporal hierarchies overlap through both forms of air pressure\u2019s effects, edging Nepali actors further out of the global discussion of aviation futures, though the idea of global aviation time is harnessed to express nationalistic frustration with the ways these structures are shaped: why shouldn\u2019t Nepali airlines and individuals be prioritized in these circumstances at the expense of other carriers?", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4171", "words": "11109", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "52", "author": "Mulligan, Jessica M.; Brunson, Emily K.", "title": "Structures of Resentment: On Feeling\u2014and Being\u2014Left Behind by Health Care Reform", "date": "2020", "keywords": "aca; access; allison; care; coverage; florida; health; health care; insurance; law; medicaid; new; people; policies; policy; reform; resentment; sharon; state; structures; violet; white; york", "summary": "It is these less visible and less spectacular machinations of white rage that we call resentment policies. Resentment emotions solidify into resentment policies (which in turn fuel more resentment emotions) when elected officials and private actors (like corporations) promulgate rules, programs, and eligibility criteria that limit access to social services and public goods to only those deemed \u201cdeserving\u201d; impose burdens and costs on eligible beneficiaries that discourage the uptake of services; naturalize inequalities and make them seem inevitable; and shame or vilify those in need of services, thereby transforming our interdependencies into \u201cburdens.\u201d", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4175", "words": "11980", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "56", "author": "Amrute, Sareeta", "title": "Immigrant Sensibilities in Tech Worlds: Sensing Hate, Capturing Dissensus", "date": "2020", "keywords": "amrita; asian; capital; crimes; dissensus; distribution; fanon; green; hate; immigrant; incidents; labor; law; new; philip; politics; press; ranci\u00e8re; seattle; sensate; senses; sensible; state; tech; university; work", "summary": "To wit, IT professionals from India and China are both targeted for harassment within a political climate increasingly hostile to immigrants as job takers and separated out as upper class (and within the South Asian context and often for themselves, upper-caste subjects) from other Asian immigrants, as well as Latinx, Native, and Black bodies (Lye 2004; Mu\u00f1oz 2007; Chun 2011; Halewood 2011; Amrute 2020). I show how forms of evidence about hate incidents circulate in Asian immigrant communities.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4191", "words": "10451", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "56", "author": "Jaramillo, Pablo", "title": "Mining Leftovers: Making Futures on the Margins of Capitalism", "date": "2020", "keywords": "company; conchos; extraction; future; gases; gold; leftovers; life; marmato; mineral; miners; mining; people; process; rubble; scale; scale miners; scale mining; sense; time; town; way", "summary": "Amid the risks caused by insecurity and crisis, small-scale miners create a sense of future through their affective (and always material) engagement with the leftovers of gold mining, feeding their own lives in the margins of global financial capitalism. At the same time, they all try to come to terms with the fact that bureaucrats, large-scale mining companies, and the leaders of other social movements that oppose gold mining deem their lives outdated, impossible, and futureless.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4206", "words": "11890", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "52", "author": "Rubin, Jonah S.", "title": "Exhuming Dead Persons: Forensic Science and the Making of Post-fascist Publics in Spain", "date": "2020", "keywords": "activists; dead; democracy; dignity; exhumations; franco; grave; history; human; justice; legal; mass; memory; new; personhood; persons; press; public; remains; rights; science; spain; state; university; victims; violence", "summary": "Although forensic exhumations produce vast quantities of new information, they cannot, strictly speaking, confirm the stories families tell about their loved ones. This essay examines how Spanish activists use forensic exhumations to transform the political status of Franco\u2019s victims.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4211", "words": "11196", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "53", "author": "Bloch, Leigh", "title": "Animate Earth, Settler Ruins: Mound Landscapes and Decolonial Futures in the Native South", "date": "2020", "keywords": "american; ancestors; archaeology; bloch; care; community; futures; landscapes; life; mound; native; new; people; place; power; practices; press; pvlvcekolv; ruins; settler; site; states; time; university", "summary": "Pvlvcekolv people, like Indigenous people elsewhere, are concerned about the threat of cultural loss. Wary of assimilating Indigenous peoples into a \u201cshared now\u201d of modernity defined by colonial encompassment, Rifkin is interested in other kinds of time.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4213", "words": "10788", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "52", "author": "Ma, Zhiying", "title": "Biopolitical Paternalism and Its Maternal Supplements: Kinship Correlates of Community Mental Health Governance in China", "date": "2020", "keywords": "caregivers; china; cmhps; community; confinement; family; governance; health; home; management; members; mental; paternalism; patients; people; practices; program; public; state", "summary": "They are intensely uncomfortable with aspects of institutionalization, such as the crowded ward, the physical discomfort, the staff\u2019s neglect, possible bullying from other patients, and so on. Aimed at building a nationwide mental health infrastructure that extends beyond psychiatric hospitals and reaches patients living at home, the 686 Program trains general practitioners and nurses to visit patients regularly, monitor their symptoms and risks of violence, and offer them necessary treatment.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4245", "words": "10613", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "53", "author": "Meiu, George Paul", "title": "Underlayers of Citizenship: Queer Objects, Intimate Exposures, and the Rescue Rush in Kenya", "date": "2020", "keywords": "african; bodies; citizenship; diapers; discourses; homosexual; kenya; leaders; life; men; national; people; press; progress; public; rumors; sex; sexuality; university; women; work; workers", "summary": "The strong capacity of diaper discourses to evoke a simultaneous destruction of bodies and polities made them appealing as a means to govern sexuality through moral panics. What makes diaper discourses so evocative in the present?", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4318", "words": "11722", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "62", "author": "Wright, Andrea", "title": "Making Kin from Gold: Dowry, Gender, and Indian Labor Migration to the Gulf", "date": "2020", "keywords": "dowry; families; family; gift; gold; gulf; indian; kinship; labor; marriage; migrants; migration; money; new; oil; pandeya; press; sisters; substance; university; university press; women; work; workers; yogesh", "summary": "Today, Indian gold merchants in Dubai characterize the city as a \u201cgolden frontier\u201d of India. The gift of gold and gold\u2019s position as a kinship substance demonstrate how kinship and gender are defined, understood, and enacted within Indian migrant families in the Gulf.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4336", "words": "11008", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "49", "author": "Pia, Andrea E.", "title": "Jurisprudential Massage: Legal Fictions, Sectarian Citizenship, and the Epistemics of Dissent in Post-socialist China", "date": "2020", "keywords": "2013; cases; china; citizenship; contemporary; disputants; dispute; dissent; fictions; justice; law; massage; mediation; mediators; oxford; party; people; press; resolution; rules; stability; state; university", "summary": "Legal mediation works the same way. Dispute mediation eases the mounting governmental frustration with judicial litigation while providing disgruntled citizens with a first venue of extrajudicial redress.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4340", "words": "13152", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "38", "author": "Bakker Kellogg, Sarah", "title": "A Racial-Religious Imagination: Syriac Christians, Iconic Bodies, and the Sensory Politics of Ethical Difference in the Netherlands", "date": "2021", "keywords": "body; christian; christianity; cultural; culture; difference; dutch; ethical; ethics; europe; european; history; life; muslim; netherlands; new; orthodox; politics; power; press; race; relations; religion; reproduction; social; state; syriac; university", "summary": "Twenty-first-century Dutch cosmopolitan nationalism is today explicitly staked on the public discourse of normen en waarden, reasserted by Prime Minister J. P. Balkenende in 2002 in an effort to restabilize Dutch social relations after the assassination of the anti-Islamic provocateur and politician Pim Fortuyn. Instead, she identified Syriac Orthodox difference with Muslim difference, which she, in turn, constructed as a psychological problem to be solved by surrendering \u201ctraditional\u201d parental authority over individual socialization to the state.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4347", "words": "11504", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "58", "author": "Donovan, Kevin P.", "title": "Magendo: Arbitrage and Ambiguity on an East African Frontier", "date": "2021", "keywords": "african; arbitrage; border; buyers; chepkube; chicago; coffee; day; economy; frontier; kenya; magendo; market; money; new; night; people; period; press; residents; time; trade; uganda; ugandans; university; wealth", "summary": "This impermanence allowed Kenyan frontier residents to mediate exchange between the brief visits of Ugandans and the bulk exporters of magendo coffee from Kenya. Others turned to cooperative agricultural societies, using their collectively held cash as an advance to purchase magendo coffee.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4368", "words": "11555", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "47", "author": "Williamson, Eliza", "title": "Habilitating Bodyminds, Caring for Potential: Disability Therapeutics after Zika in Bahia, Brazil", "date": "2024", "keywords": "anthropology; bahia; bodyminds; brain; brazil; bruno; care; children; development; disability; future; habilitative; health; intervention; lizinha; maria; mothers; parents; people; potential; press; rehabilitation; sara; technologies; time; university; work; zika", "summary": "While some have emphasized how biomedical therapeutic technologies like disaggregated, synthetic birth-control hormones, become modalities of self-care, bodymind enhancement, and even social mobility, scant attention has been paid to technologies of (re)habilitation for children, much less for disabled children (cf. In large part, the importance of such intervention was framed as an investment in the country\u2019s future, since advocates argued that in the long term, disabled children would become not just unproductive citizens but financial burdens on the state (Lobo 2009, 374).", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4372", "words": "12169", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "49", "author": "M\u00fcller, Juliane", "title": "The Limits of Corporate Chains and Brand Management: \u201cLoyalty\u201d and the Efficacy of Vernacular Markets in the Andes", "date": "2021", "keywords": "2013; anthropology; bolivia; brand; business; commercial; corporations; economic; economy; electronics; employees; goods; market; marketing; multinationals; paz; prices; products; retail; sales; samsung; social; traders; university; value; vernacular", "summary": "They represent about 1.5 to 2 million people (of a total population of 11.5 million) who are, in one way or another, involved in trading and related activities.9 Whereas electronics traders share their principal organizational forms and terms of political engagement with traders of food and less expensive manufactured products such as clothes and furniture, some important particularities exist. Electronics traders have constructed commercial areas and shopping precincts for customers looking for original brand-name goods.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4381", "words": "11801", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "55", "author": "Novacich, Samuel Elliott", "title": "\u201cMasking\u201d Makeup: Cosmetics and Constructions of Race in Rio de Janeiro", "date": "2021", "keywords": "aesthetic; artists; beauty; black; body; brazil; clients; color; constructions; makeup; mask; material; new; nose; practices; press; priscila; race; rio; signs; skin; surface; transformation; university; workshop", "summary": "As I will illustrate in the pages to come, there is disagreement between makeup artists and a tension exists throughout the industry between an aesthetic sensibility that focuses on beautification and another that prizes transformation. Makeup artists and enthusiasts who relish transformative aesthetics, on the other hand, seem to do so based on the belief that appearance is itself foundational to personhood, and that in fact all appearance constitutes a mask.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4386", "words": "10957", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "49", "author": "Routon, Erin", "title": "Legal Care and Friction in Family Detention", "date": "2021", "keywords": "advocates; asylum; care; children; clients; detainees; detention; encounters; facilities; facility; family; family detention; immigration; law; new; press; spaces; university; work", "summary": "Family detention legal advocates are infinitely tireless, creative, and, above all, caring individuals engaged in what is objectively heartbreaking work. The metaphor of friction appears, again, particularly suited for understanding the sorts of encounters and relationships borne out of legal care work in this environment.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4394", "words": "11614", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "59", "author": "Middleton, Townsend", "title": "Becoming-After: The Lives and Politics of Quinine\u2019s Remains", "date": "2021", "keywords": "anthropology; cinchona; cinchona plantations; colonial; darjeeling; factory; future; government; india; industry; land; life; new; plantations; politics; present; press; quinine; remains; time; university; workers; world", "summary": "Yet, despite not having produced a dose in decades, government cinchona plantations first established by the British in the nineteenth century still exist in the Darjeeling hills\u2014albeit in a dilapidated state. Today, little market exists for Indian quinine, but government cinchona plantations established by the British remain in Darjeeling.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4398", "words": "11541", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "55", "author": "Sur, Malini", "title": "Time at Its Margins: Cattle Smuggling across the India-Bangladesh Border", "date": "2020", "keywords": "alibaba; animals; assam; bangladesh; bangladesh border; border; cattle; chand; chars; clear; cow; india; national; new; people; press; signal; smuggling; state; time; traders; troops; university; violence; workers", "summary": "Yet cattle times are controlled not by bovine life cycles, but by the actions of affluent, \u201canimal tax\u201d paying Bangladeshi traders who demand cattle in a hurry and Bangladeshi troops who legalize cattle. These values are fundamental to pastoral and agrarian life, and by sustaining marginal communities in the borderland chars, they remain intrinsic to the experience of border times.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4412", "words": "11221", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "48", "author": "Giudici, Daniela", "title": "Beyond Compassionate Aid: Precarious Bureaucrats and Dutiful Asylum Seekers in Italy", "date": "2021", "keywords": "aid; anthropology; asylum; asylum seekers; crisis; european; forms; italian; italy; migrants; migration; new; politics; public; reception; reception workers; refugee; rights; seekers; services; social; state; system; welfare; workers", "summary": "Yet as the emergency regime became, once again, a structural feature of migrant management (Campesi 2018), the already fragile allegiance of asylum workers to state institutions began to crack, laying bare underlying tensions (Giudici 2020). By bringing together the plight of asylum workers and refugees\u2019 claims, these recent political struggles work to shape an alternative discourse on Others, one based not on the intrinsic asymmetries of compassion (see also Arendt 2006), but rather on shared mechanisms of oppression.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4432", "words": "1849", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "53", "author": "Cubellis, Lauren", "title": "Gestures of Care and Recognition: An Introduction", "date": "2020", "keywords": "anthropology; care; essays; recognition; university", "summary": "To think about the way absence becomes its own marker of care, we began thinking with the concept of trace\u2014the remnant by which a former presence is indexed, the absence that remains, and how this absent presence is recognized. An Introduction LAUREN CUBELLIS Washington University in St. Louis https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8355-7490 In this collection of essays, we propose an opening for anthropological conversations about care.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4433", "words": "3495", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "66", "author": "Stevenson, Lisa", "title": "Looking Away", "date": "2020", "keywords": "barthes; berger; kautaq; photograph; seeing; way", "summary": "The agents responsible for the administration of the Canadian Arctic hoped that sending photographs of patients in hospital home to family members would lessen the trials of separation\u2014in that sense the photographs are material evidence of the Canadian state\u2019s belated attempt to care for Inuit in hospital. The descriptions of the negatives, contact sheets, and photographs stored in the MacMaster Archives are revealing in how little they say: \u201cEskimos\u201d 1955 \u201cEskimos with Dr. Rabinowitz\u201d \u201cEskimos on Wards\u201d Oct. 1955", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4434", "words": "3471", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "59", "author": "Cubellis, Lauren", "title": "Sympathetic Care", "date": "2020", "keywords": "care; daniel; family; otto; role; trainees; word", "summary": "The focus on words reveals that no singular narrative exists by which clinicians, clients, or families can make sense of crisis, and the vulnerability of infusing the role play with trainees\u2019 own experiences is an embodied lesson in rendering clinical assessment less certain. The remaining three\u2014Otto, Marthe, and Anne\u2014take on the roles of family members.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4435", "words": "3178", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "53", "author": "MacLeish, Ken", "title": "Care and the Nonhuman Politics of Veteran Drunk Driving", "date": "2020", "keywords": "animal; care; court; driving; military; participants; story; university; veteran; war", "summary": "Veteran treatment courts are explicitly premised on a tight causal linkage between military service, mental illness, and lawbreaking. Court participants are subject to regular drug and alcohol testing, evening curfews, and the threat of incarceration if they violate program rules.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4436", "words": "3235", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "59", "author": "Wool, Zo\u00eb", "title": "Mourning, Affect, Sociality: On the Possibilities of Open Grief", "date": "2020", "keywords": "affect; death; feeling; grief; jason; press; university", "summary": "It is a powerful book of life and death that refuses the diagnostic categories of normative grief altogether. In referring to a \u201cweak theory\u201d here I am invoking Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick\u2019s (2003) elaboration of Silvan S. Tomkins\u2019s (2008) work on strong versus weak affect theories.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4438", "words": "3588", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "63", "author": "Lancione, Michele", "title": "Underground Inscriptions", "date": "2020", "keywords": "andra; bucharest; care; city; home; life; politics; radu; underground", "summary": "Although we were just a few years apart in age, we did not have much in common: he was one of the many copii str\u0103zi living on the streets,1 I was an Erasmus student; he was pumping a synthetic colorant (Aurolac) from a plastic bag, while I did not even smoke; he had a past marked by a history of violence and institutionalization, while I was a working-class kid who had never experienced such life conditions. Some moments of suspension: in between life, aboveground and below; in between homing and uninhabitability.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4443", "words": "10799", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "57", "author": "Eisenstein, Anna", "title": "On Waiting Willfully in Urban Uganda: Toward an Anthropology of Pace", "date": "2021", "keywords": "abigail; africa; chicago; children; course; family; god; life; marriage; married; mbarara; new; pace; press; relationships; time; uganda; university; university press; urban; waiting; way; women", "summary": "For instance, Mende women in rural Gambia utilize contraceptives to time their pregnancies in such a way as to maximize the number of divinely allotted children they will bring forth successfully (Bledsoe 2002); Catholic nuns in Uganda organize their orphanage budgets in light of their faith in divine providence (Scherz 2013); and young women in urban Morocco beautify themselves so as to precipitate the kind of conjugal future they hope God has destined for them (Elliot 2016). International development projects of population control in Uganda have specifically targeted how women spend their time as a site of intervention, seeking to train young women away from \u201cidling\u201d (understood to lead to sex and pregnancy, early and often) and instead convert them into productive economic subjects (Moore 2018).", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4449", "words": "10883", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "48", "author": "White, Daniel; Katsuno, Hirofumi", "title": "Toward an Affective Sense of Life: Artificial Intelligence, Animacy, and Amusement at a Robot Pet Memorial Service in Japan", "date": "2021", "keywords": "affect; affective; aibo; amusement; animacy; engineers; entertainment; feeling; human; japan; japanese; kuy\u014d; life; new; objects; robot; sense; sony; technology; things; university; users; way", "summary": "We suggest this sense of life can be observed as an emic principle of robot design and applied as an etic description of how robot users sense robot animacy through a mode of relating that privileges feeling. Accordingly, while robot users may not always see new forms of artificial life as eliciting or deserving love, affection, or memorialization, we ultimately propose that understanding how artificial agents are designed to seek out intimacy through technosocial means requires in part the operationalization of affect to probe how the pleasures of amusement interlock emerging markets in entertainment robots with new research agendas in artificial intelligence.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4453", "words": "11456", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "55", "author": "High, Mette Marie", "title": "Utopias of Oil: Private Equity and Entrepreneurial Ambition in the U.S. Oil and Gas Industry", "date": "2022", "keywords": "capital; capitalism; colorado; companies; company; energy; entrepreneurs; equity; firms; gas; gas industry; industry; investment; investors; management; mark; money; new; oil; state; time; work; world", "summary": "ABSTRACT At a time of a \u201cprivate equity oil rush,\u201d this essay explores how oil industry entrepreneurs with ambitions of setting up their own oil-production companies are encouraged to \u201cdream big\u201d\u2014yet are ultimately disciplined and let down\u2014by private equity finance in the state of Colorado in the United States. During the period of oil capital, this expansion and reproduction was fueled by cheap and readily available sources of oil.\u201d 8.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4461", "words": "11214", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "60", "author": "Pearson, Heath", "title": "Work without Labor: Life in the Surround of a Rural Prison Town", "date": "2021", "keywords": "black; cliptown; confinement; jersey; labor; land; life; new; people; police; prison; regime; seabrook; shakes; space; spot; state; structure; technologies; work; workers; york", "summary": "While Gilmore\u2019s study remains persuasive, there is a problem with viewing Cliptown prisons as a fix: it suggests, even if unintentionally, that prisons are an external technology to the function of state and capital. site of aggressively one-sided, racial gendered warfare,\u201d and on Cedric J. Robinson\u2019s (2007, xii) \u201cracial regimes,\u201d which are \u201cconstructed social systems in which race is proposed as a justification for the relations of power,\u201d I reframe Cliptown prisons as only the current manifestation of sites that mystify and legitimate white-masculinist warfare through the continual adaptation of technologies of confinement that enable the political economy to function.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4463", "words": "11541", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "60", "author": "Bryant, Rebecca", "title": "Sovereignty in Drag: On Fakes, Foreclosure, and Unbecoming States", "date": "2021", "keywords": "bryant; butler; citizens; cypriots; cyprus; engagement; flag; greek; island; north; press; pseudo; real; recognition; roc; south; sovereignty; state; trnc; turkish; university", "summary": "Believers in what is usually called the declaratory view of state sovereignty, such as Denkta\u015f, would argue that something that looks and acts like a state is obviously a state. Being a strong believer in state sovereignty himself, this is also likely how Denkta\u015f understood the agitated caller\u2019s expressions of disbelief.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4468", "words": "11643", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "52", "author": "Reisman, Emily", "title": "Plants, Pathogens, and the Politics of Care: Xylella fastidiosa and the Intra-active Breakdown of Mallorca\u2019s Almond Ecology", "date": "2021", "keywords": "agriculture; almond; anthropology; care; change; disease; epidemic; farmers; fastidiosa; human; intra; island; landscape; maintenance; mallorca; ministry; new; people; plant; politics; press; relations; spain; tourism; trees; university; water; work; xylella; years", "summary": "MODERNIST CARE: Irrigated Hopes In 2018, irrigation was emerging as a new form of almond tree care, an act once considered unthinkable for such a drought-resistant species. The hillsides beyond were dotted with a contrast of vibrant carob trees and decaying almond trees navigated by a small flock of sheep.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4567", "words": "10378", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "48", "author": "Kallius, Annastiina; Adriaans, Rik", "title": "The Meme Radar: Locating Liberalism in Illiberal Hungary", "date": "2022", "keywords": "anthropology; budapest; culture; european; fidesz; figure; government; hungarian; hungary; johanna; julian; liberalism; media; memes; new; orb\u00e1n; party; politics; propaganda; regime; soros; state; students; university; youth", "summary": "In Hungary in the late 2010s, however, political memes were not the prerogative of the far-right, which controlled both the government and public media, but rather of the oppositional minority that identified with liberalism. In a recent study of political memes in Singapore, Wee Yang Soh (2020) draws on linguistic anthropology to argue that, indeed, context determines what memes are, and their social implications.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4666", "words": "11212", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "57", "author": "Fogarty-Valenzuela, Benjamin", "title": "Pedagogies of Prohibition: Time, Education, and the War on Drugs in Rio de Janeiro\u2019s Zona Norte", "date": "2022", "keywords": "anthropology; brazil; class; day; desocupa\u00e7\u00e3o; drug; education; life; norte; pedagogies; pedagogy; people; police; press; prohibition; public; punctuality; rodrigo; school; social; students; time; tropa; university; war; way; work; young; youth", "summary": "This article attempts to comprehend such solutions, paying particular attention to the way they marry pedagogy with efforts to enforce drug prohibition. In this sense, it departs from a widespread consensus across much of the literature on youth governance and drug prohibition in urban Brazil and across the Americas that focuses, for good reason, on the spatial dimensions of governance.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4709", "words": "2677", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "47", "author": "El Dardiry, Giulia; Hermez, Sami", "title": "Critical Security and Anthropology from the Middle East", "date": "2020", "keywords": "anthropology; east; in)security; life; middle; people; security; state", "summary": "Security seems to interact in varied and mismatched ways with daily life in a region overdetermined by security discourse. Second, the pervasiveness and intensity of security discourses in academia and the world at large make a direct and explicit engagement with the concept necessary, even\u2014and perhaps especially\u2014if one\u2019s aim is to ultimately move beyond it.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4710", "words": "2746", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "41", "author": "Porter, Ross", "title": "Security against the State in Revolutionary Yemen", "date": "2020", "keywords": "people; revolution; revolutionaries; securitization; security; state", "summary": "The revolutionary individual, in this case, is the self-empowered object of state securitization. For a Crisis of Politics Considering the importance attached to safeguarding the revolutionary present against the specter of the past, and specifically a past in which state securitization had been dressed in politically neutralizing garb (e.g., \u201cstability\u201d), it seems hardly surprising that calls by international mediators for reconciliation, dialogue, and negotiation (\u201cpolitical solutions\u201d) fell on deaf ears.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4711", "words": "2512", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "57", "author": "Rubaii, Kali", "title": "Trust without Confidence: Moving Medicine with Dirty Hands", "date": "2020", "keywords": "medication; nanoor; network; people; trust", "summary": "Based on ethnographic fieldwork in 2014 and 2015, as well as the author\u2019s participation in this network, the essay introduces enunciatory trust, or trust without confidence, as an analytical framework for surviving (in)security in Iraq. Enunciatory trust is a prevailing way in which insecurity makes material conditions for endurance possible: when trust is not a feeling or a structure, one acts and speaks as if one feels trust, simply because it is necessary.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4712", "words": "2394", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "40", "author": "Y\u0131ld\u0131z, Emrah", "title": "Nested (In)Securities: Commodity and Currency Circuits in an Iran under Sanctions", "date": "2020", "keywords": "european; iran; iranians; mohsen; rial; sanctions", "summary": "Sanctions have thus in effect formed a regional and trans-border \u201csphere of exchange\u201d with attendant special-purpose moneys (Bohannan 1959)\u2014commodities with intrinsic value that can serve as media of exchange in a specific context. SANCTIONS, CURRENCIES, AND COMMODITIES In international relations scholarship on global governance, the employment of sanctions\u2014defined as unilateral or collective action taken against a state considered in violation of international law\u2014has been celebrated as a diplomatic technology designed to compel the targeted country to conform to global norms (Cortright and Lopez 2000). ABSTRACT This essay uses a conversation with an Iranian interlocutor to explore the political economy of Iranian sanctions and the creative improvisations they produce on dynamic economic grounds\u2014characterized by an increasingly soft and devaluing national currency, the Iranian rial.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4713", "words": "2409", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "57", "author": "Allan, Diana", "title": "The Long Turning: A Palestinian Refugee in Belgium", "date": "2020", "keywords": "anthropology; asylum; cultural; insecurity; life; refugee; suhaila", "summary": "While camp life is reflexively associated with stasis and stagnation, dizzying mobility has also been central to the refugee experience, making forced movement both the cause and imagined solution to insecurity. For Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, decades of war\u2014civil, regional, and internecine\u2014have made the loss of home and its regeneration a way of life; rupture is routine, anticipated, prepared for.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4714", "words": "2137", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "56", "author": "Li, Darryl", "title": "The Spy Who Came In from the South", "date": "2020", "keywords": "bosnia; intelligence; muhammad; spy; state; university", "summary": "Many of these threads proved difficult to trace further or verify, which is why I was rather startled when Muhammad (not his real name, of course) in straightforward terms told me about having been a spy. We met in a detention center for migrants outside Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Muhammad was fighting his deportation to Algeria, the country of his birth, after having been labeled a threat to national security.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4743", "words": "9978", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "56", "author": "Peebles, Gustav", "title": "Banking on Digital Money: Swedish Cashlessness and the Fraying Currency Tether", "date": "2021", "keywords": "bank; banking; cash; central; credit; currency; debt; infrastructure; krona; money; national; new; payment; people; press; public; riksbank; state; sweden; swedish; system; university", "summary": "The former serve as \u201cbanks\u201d for central bank money, whereas the latter serve as banks for commercial bank money. In other words, the dangerous irony of the e-krona could be that it would finally cause the citizenry to start noticing the difference between central bank money and commercial bank money that lies at the heart of national money\u2019s misrecognition mechanism as described above (see also, e.g., Sparbankernas Riksf\u00f6rbund 2018, 2).", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4748", "words": "10902", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "56", "author": "Strange, Stuart Earle", "title": "Vengeful Animals, Involuntary Mourning, and the Ethics of Ndyuka Autonomy", "date": "2021", "keywords": "animals; autonomy; collective; death; den; ethics; family; forest; grief; human; kunu; life; mourning; ndyuka; people; press; relations; responsibility; snake; spirits; university", "summary": "Ndyuka animal kunu consequently lend witness to a human obligation to \u201chold open space in the world for other living beings\u201d (Van Dooren 2014, 33). Animal kunu, the subject of this article, terrorize those to whom they attribute their unjust deaths, thereby forcing Ndyukas to recognize that humans are neither uniquely aware of death nor capable of exerting the \u201ccontrol over mortality\u201d (Mbembe 2003, 12) at the heart of dominant Euro-American political-economic practice.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4776", "words": "13061", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "46", "author": "Hong, Emily", "title": "The Multiply Produced Film: Collaboration, Ethnography, and Feminist Epistemology", "date": "2021", "keywords": "anthropologists; anthropology; autonomy; black; campaign; class; collaboration; commodity; dynamics; ethnographic; exchange; feminist; film; filmmaking; gift; living; milton; press; production; solidarity; stanley; university; value; wage; work", "summary": "Our increasingly overlapping exchanges continued after completing film production. Though I focus on ethnographic film, the \u201cmultiply produced\u201d offers an approach to thinking about the broader asymmetrical dynamics of the ethnographic method in and beyond the field, once knowledge relations become sutured into material objects.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4779", "words": "11547", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "53", "author": "Williamson Fa, Stefan", "title": "Voices of Sorrow and Joy: Cultivating Relations with the Unseen in Muslim Devotion", "date": "2022", "keywords": "ali; beings; beyt; ehl; family; figures; human; imam; intimacy; islam; love; meclis; mersiye; press; prophet; recitation; relations; religious; shi\u02bfi; sonic; sound; university; voice; world", "summary": "Co-presences are intimately sensed as beings, treated as a person, fed and paid honors, and they offer advice, perceive, and provide evidence of their existence in ways that resonate with Shi\u02bfi relations with the Ehl-i Beyt. Like human relations, these relationships are cultivated over time through practice, including sharing birthday cake and vocal recitation, which enables, generates, and sustains a sense of closeness and affinity.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4801", "words": "11198", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "52", "author": "Weiss, Joseph", "title": "Not Built to Last: Military Occupation and Ruination under Settler Colonialism", "date": "2021", "keywords": "base; colonial; communities; community; gwaii; haida; haida gwaii; land; masset; military; occupation; people; personnel; presence; press; settler; territory; time; university; violence", "summary": "Former Haida Base employees with whom I spoke expressed to me their frustrations with friends and family who didn\u2019t understand their choice of employment or, even more distressingly, resented the financial benefits and privileged forms of access that military employment brought. One of the most dramatic and yet simultaneously most intimate consequences of the sustained presence of military officers were the relationships\u2014and sometimes marriages\u2014that developed between military personnel, their families, and Haida community members.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4805", "words": "11795", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "59", "author": "Hardin, Jessica", "title": "Life before Vegetables: Nutrition, Cash, and Subjunctive Health in Samoa", "date": "2021", "keywords": "cash; consumption; families; family; food; global; hardin; health; household; land; life; meal; new; nutrition; pacific; people; plantation; press; relations; samoa; subjunctive; tanu; university; university press; vailea; vegetables", "summary": "DOI: 10.14506/ca36.3.08 LIFE BEFORE VEGETABLES: Nutrition, Cash, and Subjunctive Health in Samoa JESSICA HARDIN Rochester Institute of Technology https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5340-2933 Proverbs 15:17 Better to eat vegetables with people you love than to eat the finest meat where there is hate. Reflecting global efforts directed by the World Health Organization and the United Nations\u2019 Food and Agricultural Organization to prevent conditions like diabetes, vegetable consumption has come to play a starring role in Samoan public health materials as the only means of combating chronic sickness.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4807", "words": "11179", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "52", "author": "Seaver, Nick", "title": "Care and Scale: Decorrelative Ethics in Algorithmic Recommendation", "date": "2021", "keywords": "care; companies; company; data; decorrelation; ethics; figure; human; huron; music; new; people; press; recommendation; scale; systems; values; vectors; whitman; work; world; yams", "summary": "Care work is necessary to produce any sort of world, not only the ones we might deem desirable. Like Whitman\u2019s decorrelation of care from scale, this transformation opens up a space of analytic possibility: it makes it possible to see care in sites of violence or harm, like rape crisis centers (Mulla 2014), and to recognize that locations full of good feeling may be careless, such as international circuits of care work that exclude and oppress (Murphy 2015).7 It has also facilitated studies of care that leave the prototypical dyadic scenes of caring and follow care \u201cacross many scales and dimensions\u201d (Mattern 2018): caring for ecosystems, populations, or infrastructures (Stevenson 2014; Bocci 2017; Ishii 2017).", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4818", "words": "11416", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Katzenstein, Jessica", "title": "Officer Safety Time: Police Scenario Training and Thinking Threat First", "date": "2025", "keywords": "academy; anthropology; black; command; cultural; fear; officer; officer safety; police; policing; presence; press; recruits; reform; safety; safety time; scenario; state; subjunctive; temporality; threat; time; training; university; violence; \ufffd \ufffd", "summary": "Some current scholarship on police training similarly treats it in isola- tion from the political functions of police, pronouncing the effectiveness of vari- ous pedagogies or suggesting methods for \u201cculture\u201d change. By contrast, ethnographers of police from less practice-ori- ented traditions have largely decentered reformist questions in favor of exploring political processes of subjectivization, such as how police trainings reproduce hegemonic masculinity (Kraska 1996; Prokos and Padavic 2002), generate so- cio-techno professional subjects (Akarsu 2018; Larkins and Dur\u00e3o 2023; Stalcup and Hahn 2016), translate human rights discourse (Bab\u00fcl 2017), socialize offi- cers into a \u201cdanger imperative\u201d and construct police warriors (Sierra-Ar\u00e9valo 2021; Simon 2023), script police violence (Anderson 2021; Aushana 2020), and mold a \u201ctranscendental postracial \u2018blue identity\u2019\u201d founded in white supremacy (Beliso-De Jes\u00fas 2020, 146\u201347).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ca-4828", "words": "12296", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "48", "author": "Kalshoven, Petra Tjitske", "title": "The Fish Is in the Water and the Water Is in the Fish: Symbiosis in a Nuclear Whale Fall", "date": "2022", "keywords": "carcass; chain; community; company; cumbria; decommissioning; dependency; fall; fish; impact; industry; jobs; nda; new; nuclear; risk; sellafield; site; supply; waste; wcssg; west; west cumbria; whale; work", "summary": "This frame emphasizes local agency, conceiving of nuclear communities as well-informed, with the nuclear a recognized part of their cultural identity, pride, and well-being. Taking care of nuclear waste (retrieving contaminated objects and radioactive materials from legacy buildings and making and storing waste packages) has become SL\u2019s core business.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4838", "words": "12035", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "61", "author": "Govindrajan, Radhika", "title": "Labors of Love: On the Political Economies and Ethics of Bovine Politics in Himalayan India", "date": "2021", "keywords": "cow; cows; gau; govindrajan; hindu; india; labor; love; mata; milk; mother; nation; politics; prem; press; protection; rakshaks; seva; state; university; violence; women; work", "summary": "Kanha was one of the most charismatic faces of a contemporary gau-raksha (cow-protection) movement, rooted in Hindu supremacist ideology, that has, over the past decade, authorized and enacted unremitting, sometimes fatal violence against Dalits (formerly known as \u201cUntouchables\u201d), Muslims, and other religious minorities identified as threats to the cow and a supposedly beleaguered Hindu nation that can only be united and secure under the maternal leadership of Gau-Mata (Gundimeda 2009; Contractor 2018; Govindrajan 2018; Imran 2018; Adcock and Govindrajan 2019). As historians have noted, this project of cow-protection, with its emphasis on the sacred inviolability of the cow\u2019s life, stood at odds with everyday rural economies in which cattle rearing, trade, slaughter, and consumption were inextricably intertwined (Chowdhury 1996;", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4853", "words": "3307", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "41", "author": "Biehl, Jo\u00e3o; Neiburg, Federico", "title": "Oikography: Ethnographies of House-ing in Critical Times", "date": "2021", "keywords": "anthropology; casas; home; house; ing; material; new; oikography; oikos; people; space; times; university", "summary": "Houses are thus treated both in the singular (because peoples operate with the concept of the house or my home, and ideas of singularity and belonging matter) and in the plural (because lives happen along and among houses and because houses territorialize political collectives). Oikography essays explore the reciprocal process of people making houses and houses making people amid ongoing calamity: the 2010 Haitian earthquake and cholera outbreak, racialized police violence in Rio de Janeiro\u2019s favelas, malarial control in impoverished Tanzanian communities, the irradiated post-Fukushima Japan, and the displacement of Amazonian communities by a hydroelectric dam.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4869", "words": "11494", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "51", "author": "Schuster, Caroline E.", "title": "Weedy Finance: Weather Insurance and Parametric Life on Unstable Grounds", "date": "2021", "keywords": "agronomists; climate; company; crop; data; derivatives; development; farmers; finance; grounds; index; insurance; insurtech; life; model; nelson; paraguay; parcel; plants; risk; sesame; social; weather; weeds; wilfrido; world; year", "summary": "The purpose of this article is to develop an account of how Paraguayan practices of weed management engage financial forms and to show how weediness (rather than crops) marks out the grounds through which weather insurance becomes imbued with value. What intrigues me about how weediness registers within financial practices such as weather insurance is how it triggers an inversion of expected sources of value and profit.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4894", "words": "10669", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "56", "author": "Dharia, Namita Vijay", "title": "Embodied Urbanisms: Corruption and the Ecologies of Eating and Excreting in India's Real Estate Economies", "date": "2021", "keywords": "american; anthropology; bodies; body; capital; caste; corruption; development; dominant; eating; economic; economy; estate; food; gurgaon; india; labor; land; new; politics; press; public; region; sewage; university; urban; work", "summary": "we see sensoriality as power, as a mode through which to articulate our voice and claim space in the world, then the imaginations, critiques, and experiences of body politics in Gurgaon constitute a battle over power in urban real estate economies. Linked to ideas of financial gain, corruption is fundamental to real estate economies.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4922", "words": "10621", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "44", "author": "Firoz, Malay", "title": "Quantifying Vulnerability: Humanitarian Datafication and the Neophilia of Integrated Power", "date": "2024", "keywords": "aid; assessment; assistance; data; datafication; family; food; household; humanitarian; indexing; information; journal; lebanon; mahmoud; new; organizations; press; questions; refugees; system; technology; unhcr; university; vulnerability; wfp; work; world", "summary": "VASyR provided policymakers with a quantitative formula to rank refugee households in terms of vulnerability scores\u2014from \u201clow\u201d to \u201csevere\u201d\u2014which could then be used to project a comprehensive national overview of refugee vulnerability and prioritize the neediest families for targeted assistance, such as cash vouchers and shelter rehabilitation. By telescoping outward from the ethnographic moment of refugee assessment, to the datasets that determine which refugees are assessed, the transfiguration of vulnerability into algorithmic values, the retrenchment of targeted aid on the basis of those values, and the broader ecosystem of interlinked data systems into which vulnerability indexing feeds, this article shows how the datafication of humanitarianism adds successive layers of abstraction that precipitate a growing integration and centralization of humanitarian power. ENCOUNTERS WITH A DATA BUREAUCRAT On a sunny July morning, I met with Mahmoud, a young Syrian aid worker, at his INGO\u2019s field office in Kouaikhat, a small town in Lebanon\u2019s northern governorate of Akkar.1 Mahmoud was tasked with conducting household vulnerability assessments among Syrian refugees and had agreed to take me along.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4923", "words": "10861", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "60", "author": "Thompson, David", "title": "Evasion: Prison Escapes and the Predicament of Incarceration in Rio de Janeiro", "date": "2023", "keywords": "2020; apartment; black; brazil; brazilian; diana; escape; evasion; freedom; gender; hillary; imprisonment; incarceration; janeiro; movement; people; prison; project; rio; sentence; state; system; time; trans; university", "summary": "Such a movement unsettles familiar tropes of prison escapes because it represents neither a heroic dash toward freedom nor a scandalous failure of custody. Although my fieldwork brought me into other prisons designated for men, I never entered Crispim Ventino.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4924", "words": "11330", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "46", "author": "Morimoto, Ryo", "title": "A Wild Boar Chase: Ecology of Harm and Half-Life Politics in Coastal Fukushima", "date": "2022", "keywords": "boars; contaminants; decontamination; ecology; environment; evacuation; fukushima; government; human; land; life; locals; model; nuclear; postfallout; press; radiation; radioactive; relationality; residents; tengo; things; waste; wildlife", "summary": "In this process, the wildlife incinerators in costal Fukushima encapsulate the complex interdependence between the government remediation policy, which chases radioactive boars away from the evacuation zone, and locals\u2019 desire for regional recovery, which marks wild boars as \u201cobstacles\u201d to be removed and isolated. A few million bags are still waiting to be transferred to an interim waste-isolation site around the nuclear power plant.12 After Gotanda and Watanabe successfully cremated the four boars, Nakata invited me to check out the back room, where the ashes of radioactive boars are kept isolated.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4958", "words": "9225", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "67", "author": "Jacka, Jerry", "title": "Place, Time, and Affect: Changing Landscapes around a New Guinea Mining Area", "date": "2022", "keywords": "affect; clan; fear; forest; house; men; mining; new; night; people; place; porgera; porgerans; reciprocity; spirits; time; valley; warfare", "summary": "Anxieties about night spirits exemplify a concern with breaches in reciprocity and the consequences of undermining reciprocal exchanges. To this end, I am interested in how the oscillations between day and night have an affective dimension to them and, in turn, how these can inform our understanding of changes in the landscape over time.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4959", "words": "11317", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "61", "author": "Hammering, Klaus K. Y.", "title": "Gambling, Dignity, and the Narcotic of Time in Tokyo\u2019s Day-Laborer District, San\u2019ya", "date": "2022", "keywords": "akira; benjamin; construction; day; debt; experience; form; gambler; gambling; group; horses; labor; man; men; money; numbers; press; san\u2019ya; time; work", "summary": "So too, when dust particles flew in the air, San\u2019ya day laborers either turned their faces or wrapped a towel over their mouths. Yet as gambling races proper, they demonstrated the qualities of precipitation and jeopardy\u2014of missing the mark\u2014that Benjamin discerns in gambling, or that Sch\u00fcll explicates as the \u201chook\u201d that initiates the fledgling gambler\u2019s repetition compulsion.16 With horses, this moment did not arrive until the end of the race, when the animals accelerated into a sprint, and at WINS, the final seconds of a race were therefore accompanied by loud shouting and exultation.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4960", "words": "10692", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "47", "author": "Friedner, Michele Ilana", "title": "From Hoping to Expecting: Cochlear Implantation and Habilitation in India", "date": "2022", "keywords": "auditory; avt; children; cochlear; croft; deaf; disability; families; habilitation; hearing; implant; implantation; india; language; life; listening; normal; parents; potentiality; therapists; university", "summary": "In an interview, one audiologist rhetorically asked if implanted children should be compared with other deaf children or to hearing children. However, he knows (he does not hope; he knows) that in the future, other deaf children will accomplish more than he has.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4962", "words": "13331", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "58", "author": "Goldstein, Ruth", "title": "Life in Traffic: Riddling Field Notes on the Political Economy of \u201cSex\u201d and Nature", "date": "2022", "keywords": "coca; colonial; dios; earth; economies; economy; exchange; forest; gender; gold; goldstein; highway; human; interoce\u00e1nica; kuka; life; maca; madre; mines; mining; nature; new; people; peru; plants; press; rain; relations; riddle; road; rubin; sex; traffic; trafficking; university; women; workers", "summary": "Resonant with forms of reproductive labor like embryo exchange, sex traffic \u201cbetween women\u201d exists (Roberts 2012): sex work often funds tuition, schoolbooks, or a family member\u2019s surgery. Mulas, the agent explained, can traffic drugs, gold, or other women\u2014and they might also be the commodity trafficked.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4968", "words": "11582", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "48", "author": "Melly, Caroline", "title": "The Weightless State: PowerPoint and the Everyday Work of Making Senegal Matter", "date": "2023", "keywords": "africa; agency; apix; colleagues; elhadji; information; investment; investors; material; members; new; office; paper; powerpoint; presentations; press; senegal; senegalese; slides; staff; state; time; transparency; university; ways; work", "summary": "As they stashed piles of papers from view, downloaded and circulated PowerPoint files, selected subdued colors and standard fonts, connected cords, entered passwords, tightly framed bullet points, and finessed their oral presentations, APIX staff members made Senegal matter in specific and consequential ways\u2014they gave the small African state substantive form, and they made that form worthy of attention. Moussa was excited to be able to translate his skills in marketing and design into state work\u2014tinkering with layouts for promotional materials, helping produce radio advertisements, collaborating on translations, and, of course, assembling PowerPoint presentations.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4980", "words": "157", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "37", "author": "Anthropology, Cultural", "title": "Erratum for \u201cWalk This Way\u201d", "date": "2021", "keywords": "anthropology", "summary": "\u00a9 American Anthropological Association 2021. Cultural Anthropology journal content published since 2014 is freely available to download, save, reproduce, and transmit for noncommercial, scholarly, and educational purposes.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4987", "words": "10808", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "61", "author": "Stonington, Scott", "title": "Ontological Collateral: The Entanglement of \u201cCancer Pain\u201d and \u201cChronic Non-Cancer Pain\u201d in Thailand", "date": "2022", "keywords": "cancer; cancer pain; category; chronic; clinic; disease; home; hospital; life; mind; nongyao; opioids; pain; patients; press; suchart; thailand; university", "summary": "[English], of treating \u201ccancer pain,\u201d [English] will force Thailand to accept the West\u2019s category of \u201cchronic pain\u201d Before the mid-2000s, no opioids had been allowed out of hospitals in Thailand, but a new movement had emerged, arguing that those with cancer pain required special, aggressive out-of-hospital pain management.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-4989", "words": "11610", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "45", "author": "Kumaki, Hiroko", "title": "Suspending Nuclearity: Ecologics of Planting Seeds after the Nuclear Fallout in Fukushima, Japan", "date": "2022", "keywords": "accident; community; ecologics; environment; evacuation; farmers; food; fukushima; health; japan; land; life; nuclear; nuclearity; people; place; projects; radiation; radioactive; relationships; ways", "summary": "International institutions, the government, and health practitioners have shaped the nuclearity of Fukushima through technoscientific and medical debates on how to detect radiation and assess the potential health effects caused by radiation exposure (FMU 2013; Fukushima Prefecture 2022a; ICRP 2020; Ministry of Environment 2017a, 2017b). Against governmental claims of safety, their practices underscored the health risks of radiation exposure, encouraging separation from anything that had to do with radiation.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5006", "words": "10686", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "49", "author": "Saffitz, Jane", "title": "Spectacle: The Semiotics of Albinism in Tanzania", "date": "2025", "keywords": "africa; albinism; albino; anthropology; body; darkness; dawa; healers; interventions; lightness; miners; mining; nsembi; nyota; parts; people; practices; press; rights; spectacle; stakeholders; sukuma; tanzania; university; value; violence; yakobo", "summary": "Here I am thinking of lightness neither in terms of whiteness, racial or otherwise (Bashkow 2006; Redfield 2012), nor of relative degrees of weightiness (Munn 1986).5 Rather, lightness evokes illumination and visibility as requisite qualities for seeing, coveted by albinism stakeholders and by healers and extractive laborers. Negative valuations of darkness took on particular significance for albinism stakeholders, many of whom are devout Christians.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "ca-5029", "words": "13685", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "54", "author": "Raheja, Natasha", "title": "Governing by Proximity: State Performance and Migrant Citizenship on the India-Pakistan Border", "date": "2022", "keywords": "anthropology; camp; caste; citizenship; digital; face; governance; governing; government; high; hindu; hope; india; jodhpur; journal; migrants; migration; national; new; officers; officials; pakistani; people; performance; politicians; politics; power; press; proximity; recognition; refugee; south; state; university; university press", "summary": "Today, Pakistani Hindu migrants claim Indian citizenship based on their status in Pakistan, where they experience targeted anti-Hindu, casteist exclusion as a religious minority (Jaffrelot 2020; Schaflechner 2020; Mahmood 2014; Yet BJP politicians\u2019 governance by proximity also exposes the distinction between nationalist narrative and substantive recognition for Pakistani Hindu migrants, even while ostensibly seeking to close this gap.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5047", "words": "12815", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "68", "author": "Zuckerman, Charles", "title": "When Ethics Can't Be Found: Evaluative Gaps in Ordinary Life", "date": "2022", "keywords": "anthropology; b\u00f2\u00f8; claim; ethics; evaluations; face; funeral; gossip; house; kham; life; lights; man2; money; moo; paa; people; ph\u00f2\u00f2; press; salina; signs; sii; thiang; thii; time; university", "summary": "Ph\u00f2\u00f2 Thiang\u2019s desire to keep the finances at the funeral \u201ctransparent\u201d (c\u00e8\u00e8ng4) also came into evidence in the way he gave Kham money to buy lights for Paa\u2019s casket\u2014he wrote the amount down, made sure he handed the money directly to Kham, and even suggested a store to buy them from. A week later, she told me that although she never called Kham qaaj4 or \u201colder brother,\u201d even though she technically should, she also did not use the dis-honorific title bak2 to Kham\u2019s face.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5066", "words": "10687", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "60", "author": "Weiss, Hadas", "title": "From Desire to Endurance: Hanging on in a Spanish Village", "date": "2022", "keywords": "children; collier; desire; duty; employment; endurance; family; future; house; ideology; jobs; los; olivos; people; property; residents; spain; time; value; villagers; work", "summary": "Jane Collier (1997) wrote that Los Olivos residents and former residents in the 1980s knew they were disadvantaged in the national labor market. Los Olivos residents are hardly typical of the Spanish population at large.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5067", "words": "10410", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "53", "author": "McGill, Kenneth", "title": "Spectacle, Value, and Basic Income; Or, Labor and the \u201cMaddening State\u201d", "date": "2022", "keywords": "abjection; hartz; income; labor; life; micha; people; protest; public; ralph; spectacle; state; value; way; work", "summary": "A basic income monetarily supports activities that cannot be transformed into commodity values through a rationalized inclusion in social state policy. Because they suggest that labor might be more than supplemented by state-led redistribution, basic income policies trouble this arrangement.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5072", "words": "11077", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "49", "author": "Kurti\u00e7, Ekin ", "title": "Infrastructural Decay: Maintenance Ecologies and Labor in the \u00c7oruh Basin", "date": "2023", "keywords": "construction; control; dams; decay; ecologies; erosion; forest; foresters; human; infrastructure; labor; landscapes; long; maintenance; nature; practices; press; project; rehabilitation; soil; trees; turkey; university; uplands; villagers; work; \u00e7oruh", "summary": "The master plan defines villagers as \u201cthe main party responsible for the increasingly accelerated soil erosion occurring in many places of the \u00c7oruh River Watershed,\u201d given that, \u201csince old times, forest villagers have destroyed the forests for the purposes of procuring firewood and fodder, overgrazed the pastures, and converted the sloping pastures into cultivated lands\u201d (Pacific Consultants International 2004, 5\u20131). Criminalizing accounts about forest villagers degrading the environment have remained consistent since Turkey\u2019s early republican period (\u00d6zkan 2013).", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5077", "words": "11113", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "51", "author": "Gonz\u00e1lez Jim\u00e9nez, Alejandra", "title": "Economy of Favors: Tiered Labor Systems on Mexico\u2019s Car Assembly Lines", "date": "2024", "keywords": "assembly; autoworkers; car; chain; economy; factory; favors; global; labor; labor system; lines; logistics; logistics workers; lupita; mexico; new; parts; press; production; supply; system; university; workers; workforces; working", "summary": "She is one of hundreds of logistics workers who, across three daily shifts, distribute auto parts inside Volkswagen Mexico (VWM), the German transnational car corporation headquartered in Puebla, 106 kilometers south of Mexico City.1 Gloves, however, are a scarce item for logistics workers.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5092", "words": "11803", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "55", "author": "Khatchadourian, Lori", "title": "Life Extempore: Trials of Ruination in the Twilight Zone of Soviet Industry", "date": "2022", "keywords": "armenia; business; capital; capitalism; chemist; economy; extempore; factories; factory; glass; hayk; khimik; knitting; life; machines; market; material; new; press; ruination; ruins; salvage; soviet; things; time; trials; university; use; value; work", "summary": "In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, extempore (in English), from the Latin ex tempore\u2014literally meaning \u201cout of time\u201d\u2014could refer to practices of everyday life; \u2018life extempore\u2019 in this obsolete sense meant a life in which decisions were made in the moment, in accordance with the needs of the present, with little preparation.1 I want to dust off this anachronism and tinker with its semantic scope because I think that with a little work, it can condense the distinct temporal dispositions and improvisational practices of the former Soviet proletariat whose livlihoods depend on revaluing the persistent material world of decommissioned Soviet factories. Unlike industrial ruins in the West, decommissioned Soviet factories are not places abandoned by the \u201csystemic operation\u201d of capital\u2019s boom-and-bust cycles (Gonz\u00e1lez-Ruibal 2019, 32); rather, they constitute sites of destruction on which capitalism has been parasitically feeding.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5097", "words": "10880", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "53", "author": "Woodard, Lauren", "title": "\u201cAs if I Were an Illegal\u201d: Racial Passing in Immigrant Russia", "date": "2022", "keywords": "belonging; central; citizenship; compatriots; ethnicity; immigrants; language; maxim; migration; minju; officials; passing; people; post; press; race; russian; russianness; samir; soviet; union; university; white", "summary": "As I demonstrate below, many immigrants in Russia cannot pass as white, ethnic Russians; rather, they thwart accusations of illegality by choosing ethnic Russian names, adapting their accent, and changing their clothing to claim Russian citizenship through the multiethnic but still marked category of rossiianin (Russian citizen). In the past thirty years, these debates have been shaped by narratives of ethnic Russian genocide, the reemergence of the Russian Orthodox Church, and the rise of Russian conservatism (Oushakine 2009; Bassin, Glebov, and Laruelle 2015; Suslov and Uzlaner 2019).", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5100", "words": "10909", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "47", "author": "Borodina, Svetlana", "title": "Intercorporeal Togetherness: On Russian Blind Activists\u2019 Technology of Disability Inclusion", "date": "2022", "keywords": "activists; alex; blind; bodyminds; disabilities; disability; exclusion; inclusion; inklyuziya; instructors; intercorporeal; making; new; participants; people; person; press; russia; social; students; togetherness; university; university press; work; workshop", "summary": "Lana held several seminars, webinars, and conversations over coffee and WhatsApp with other blind people, where she shared time and again her path to becoming a blind guide:7 how important it was to use a white cane, what kinds of questions she asked, and how she maintained her appearance. A kind and reliable woman with no prior experience of communicating with blind people, Vika responded quickly but used a surprisingly stern tone: \u201cI will help out on one condition: I will drive them wherever you need me to, but do not make me talk to or interact with anyone.\u201d", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5106", "words": "9590", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "50", "author": "Leon-Quijano, Camilo", "title": "Why Do \u201cGood\u201d Pictures Matter in Anthropology?", "date": "2022", "keywords": "anthropology; approach; camera; des; edwards; ethnographic; experience; field; good; history; image; paris; photograph; picture; practices; press; relationship; representation; sarcelles; use; visual; work", "summary": "The central argument is that good pictures in anthropology will always be relative, incomplete, uncertain, sometimes inconsistent, and contradictory. Good pictures are experienced pictures.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5117", "words": "10420", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "49", "author": "Shani, Liron", "title": "Predatory Fleas, Sterile Flies, and the Settlers : Agricultural Infrastructure and the Challenge of Alien-Native Dichotomies in Israel/Palestine", "date": "2023", "keywords": "agriculture; alien; arava; colonialism; control; desert; flies; fly; growers; human; infrastructure; insects; israel; land; native; non; palestine; project; region; settlement; settler; species; state", "summary": "I show agricultural infrastructure to be a political enterprise: it establishes hierarchical boundaries between communities and strengthens land control. Yet a focus on the various dimensions of agricultural infrastructure within a given context of settler colonialism contributes a more nuanced approach than forcing dichotomous contrasts between alien versus native, settler versus local.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5119", "words": "11534", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "62", "author": "Bedi, Tarini", "title": "Bumpy Roads, Dusty Air: Gadbad and the Sensate Ecologies of Driving Work in Contemporary Mumbai", "date": "2023", "keywords": "cars; chillia; city; dhairya; drivers; driving; ecologies; gadbad; karim; labor; life; mumbai; naka; rashid; roads; sensate; social; taxi; water; work", "summary": "[roz-roz ka gadbad] the summer and rain make to the traffic and roads,\u201d sighs Mumbai taxi driver Rashid as we bump to a halt at a busy city junction.1 Rashid is a veteran Mumbai taxi wallah, from a family of hereditary, Muslim taxi drivers and mechanics known as chillia. Moreover, sensate ecologies of driving are not just ecological or cognitive orientations but also social and public categories that are collectively understood and practiced by hereditary Mumbai taxi drivers.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5126", "words": "3208", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "45", "author": "Strong, Thomas; Trnka, Susanna; Wynn, L. L.", "title": "\u201cL\u2019enfer, c\u2019est les autres\u201d: Proximity as an Ethical Problem during COVID-19", "date": "2021", "keywords": "anthropology; care; covid-19; ethical; ethics; new; press; proximity; social; university", "summary": "In considering how the state galvanized collective engagement in COVID-19 restrictions in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Trnka (2021) focuses on the mobilization of different publics in enacting ethical proximities that distance \u201cothers\u201d while keeping \u201cus\u201d together in ways that simultaneously support, extend, and contravene physical distancing regulations. Rouse (2021) analyzes a similar axis of disadvantage in the United States to suggest a rethinking of anthropology\u2019s critiques of biopolitics, indicating how those on the losing side of the \u201cveil\u201d between Black and white Americans struggle to assert their humanity, much less receive state care.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5127", "words": "3246", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "44", "author": "Wynn, L. L.", "title": "The Pandemic Imaginerie: Infectious Bodies and Military-Police Theater in Australia", "date": "2021", "keywords": "anthropology; australia; containment; covid-19; issue; new; pandemic; people; police; social; state", "summary": "As Gracie Mae Bradley (2020) wrote in the Guardian, the police enforcement of COVID-19 laws\u2014which the Australian government assured us would be used with \u201cdiscretion\u201d\u2014necessarily raises the specter of how discretionary enforcement always falls along racial lines. A cluster of infections in a Bondi hostel in late March 2020 led to the neighborhood\u2019s identification as a \u201chotspot\u201d of COVID-19 transmission.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5128", "words": "2779", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "51", "author": "Rouse, Carolyn M.", "title": "Necropolitics versus Biopolitics: Spatialization, White Privilege, and Visibility during a Pandemic", "date": "2021", "keywords": "americans; biopolitics; blacks; covid-19; life; power; state", "summary": "Put starkly, whites in May protested against state biopolitics; Blacks protested against state necropolitics (Mbembe 2003). The juxtapositions reveal how even proximate experiences with state power are akin to a palimpsest, with stories by white Americans typically effacing those of Black Americans.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5131", "words": "3464", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "50", "author": "Trnka, Susanna", "title": "Be Kind: Negotiating Ethical Proximities in Aotearoa/New Zealand during COVID-19", "date": "2021", "keywords": "anthropology; covid-19; emergency; government; lockdown; new; police; press; state; susanna; trnka", "summary": "\u201cNegotiating Risks and Responsibilities during Lockdown: Ethical Reasoning and Affective Experience in Aotearoa New Zealand.\u201d Given that lockdown requires adopting novel kinds of spatial relations, many of the activities over which New Zealanders reasoned and debated, subverted and supported, punished and surveilled concentrated on ethical proximities, not only in terms of maintaining distance but also keeping near that or those one deemed should be close.1 The maintenance of \u201cproper distance\u201d is an ethical act and an ordinary facet of social life (Silverstone 2003).", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5132", "words": "3665", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "58", "author": "Strong, Thomas", "title": "The End of Intimacy", "date": "2021", "keywords": "covid-19; gay; hiv; lockdown; men; new; people; public; sex; time", "summary": "The park has been known to gay men for generations as a place for public sex (Colter et al. 1996), and with all other venues for meeting gay men shut down, the park became, for a time, perhaps the most important social space in queer Dublin: Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, I began to experience a kind of cognitive whiplash as nearly everyone I met reflected on the politics of contagion and risk in ways that gay men\u2014especially those of us who are HIV-positive\u2014have had to think about for most of our lives.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5134", "words": "3354", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "47", "author": "Levine, Susan; Manderson, Lenore", "title": "Proxemics, COVID-19, and the Ethics of Care in South Africa", "date": "2021", "keywords": "africa; anthropology; care; covid-19; ethics; health; levine; manderson; people; south; south africa", "summary": "But how to speak about the unlikely enactment of proxemic rupture across South Africa, without adopting \u201ca sad I expected so much tone,\u201d remains an enduring challenge in writing Africa into anthropology (Wainaina 2005). Ethnographic sensitivity to the relationship between proximity politics and the slow burn of race injustice in South Africa flags how quickly physical distancing, hand washing, and mask wearing has led to changing cultural codes of care along lines of privilege (Ross 2020).", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5147", "words": "11240", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "56", "author": "Hauter, Ashwak", "title": "Fright and the Fraying of Community: Medicine, Borders, Saudi Arabia, Yemen", "date": "2023", "keywords": "afiya; arabia; border; care; community; fear; fracture; fright; god; hospital; hospitality; islamic; medicine; nawfal; omar; physicians; press; saudi; self; soul; university; war; yemen", "summary": "Hearing Omar leads us to understand that attending to \u2018afiya requires more than the hospital can afford, even in its reclaiming of the Islamic Golden Age displayed on the entrance posters. The significant exception was a patient, Omar, who suffered from a case of persistent jaundice.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5163", "words": "10989", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "57", "author": "Bonifacio, Valentina", "title": "Of Feral and Obedient Cows: Colonization as Domestication in the Paraguayan Chaco", "date": "2023", "keywords": "animals; author; beings; carlos; casado; cattle; chaco; colonization; company; cows; domestication; factory; family; feral; forest; human; paraguay; people; puerto; puerto casado; sagua\u2019a; tannin; territory; wild; workers", "summary": "In a similar way, the opposition between local versions of tameness and ferality played a crucial role in shaping ethnic and class boundaries and strategies of domination in the Casado territory. CATTLE AS BIOPOLITICAL POWER By the 1930s, the company town of Puerto Casado had become one of the main centers for tannin production and commercialization in the world, shipping its products mainly to Europe and the United States. That\u2019s something I kept saying: that the people of Casado were anesthetized by Carlos Casado.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5166", "words": "11132", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "48", "author": "Abel, Matthew", "title": "The Struggle For Health: Medical Brokerage and the Power of Care in Brazil\u2019s Amazon Estuary", "date": "2022", "keywords": "abaetetuba; access; amazon; amazonian; american; aviamento; brazil; brokerage; camila; care; century; day; elites; government; health; medicine; merchants; new; power; press; public; riverine; seekers; social; state; sus; system; university; world", "summary": "While Brazil contributed disproportionately to the emerging science of public health, the popular benefits of new technologies were often stymied by policies that limited access to care in an effort to institutionalize new opportunities for private medical markets (Paim 2008). [public health; unequal exchange; biopolitics; Amazon; Brazil] RESUMO Este artigo aborda a rela\u00e7\u00e3o entre a sa\u00fade e o aviamento: um sistema de servid\u00e3o por d\u00edvida que estruturou a economia mercantil ao longo do rio Amazonas durante os s\u00e9culos XIX e XX.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5181", "words": "11417", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "51", "author": "Gillespie, Kelly", "title": "Orders of Protection: Feminist Lessons in Anti-Privatization and Authoritarianism from South Africa", "date": "2022", "keywords": "africa; apartheid; court; felicia; feminist; hill; home; lavender; life; order; police; politics; private; privatization; protection; public; south; state; university; violence; women; work", "summary": "During apartheid, township-based activists worked hard to direct anger and resentment into the anti-apartheid struggle, so as to transform neighborhood violence and insecurity into political action, especially to draw young people into forms of social life and political mobilization that enabled a different set of possibilities and imaginations about how to live and how to relate to one\u2019s context. Even her husband, Lucas, and their two children had been pulled into the organization Felicia runs to halt the high levels of domestic violence in Lavender Hill, a fifty-year-old neighborhood on the Flats of Cape Town.2", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5189", "words": "10321", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "51", "author": "Sheet, Douaa", "title": "National Reconciliation in the Age of New Social Media: The War on Silence in the Tunisian Truth Commission\u2019s Facebook-Mediated Public Hearings", "date": "2023", "keywords": "audience; brahem; circulation; commission; content; facebook; hearings; information; media; national; new; platforms; public; reconciliation; role; silence; social; tdc; testimonies; testimony; truth", "summary": "In brief, in a departure from studies that explore social media platforms mainly through an opposition between the real and the imagined, and from studies that have focused almost exclusively on dissemination, I argue that one of new social media platforms\u2019 defining and yet less analyzed features is their mode of content circulation. The first change that social media platforms bring to the role of testimonies of violence in cohering an imagined collective is that while in Anderson\u2019s study narratives were only passively consumed, now the audience responds and a back-and-forth ensues\u2014new social media platforms have changed the formerly silent relationship between text and audience.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5219", "words": "11481", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "51", "author": "Oguz, Zeynep", "title": "Speculative Undergrounds: Oil\u2019s Absent Presence, Neo-imperial Nationalisms, and Earth Politics in Turkey", "date": "2023", "keywords": "erdo\u011fan; expiration; history; lausanne; life; mosul; murat; neo; new; oil; ottoman; petroleum; politics; presence; press; public; speculations; state; treaty; turkey; underground; university; world", "summary": "As such, I bring together ethnographic research on two seemingly unrelated topics concerning contemporary Turkey: Sensationalized headlines like \u201cHope of Oil Discovery,\u201d \u201cMobil\u2019s Abandoned Wells Leak Oil,\u201d and \u201cCitizens Demand: Unplug Our Future\u201d continued to link petroleum seeps and abandoned wells to an anticipated yet obstructed future of oil discovery and wealth that oil\u2019s absent presence fostered in contemporary Turkey.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5225", "words": "2849", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "57", "author": "Neiburg, Federico", "title": "Multiscale Home: Shifting Landscapes and Living-in-Movement in Haiti", "date": "2021", "keywords": "daphney; haiti; houses; kay; lakou; people; port; prince; street", "summary": "This oikography essay is located at the crossroads of two intellectual traditions: one has shown the vital relational character of Haitian houses (such as the concept of \u201cconfiguration of houses\u201d in Marcelin Here, conditions of prolonged crisis illuminate people\u2019s resilient house-ing responses at the intersection of two dynamics: the vital relational character of Haitian houses and the necessity of mobility for producing new life.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5226", "words": "2674", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "61", "author": "Motta, Eug\u00eania", "title": "The Dying Home: \u201cBad Deaths\u201d and Spatial Inscriptions of Mourning in a Favela", "date": "2021", "keywords": "death; favela; home; house; las; maria; mourning; people; police", "summary": "The enormous number of bad deaths\u2014violent, avoidable, commonplace deaths\u2014produces not only painful inscriptions of mourning on houses but also the combination of youth, masculinity, and Blackness as a mark of death\u2019s potentiality in still living bodies. Bad deaths thus reveal the moral entanglement between families, communities, and the materiality of houses, as well as the severance of these ties in the face of violence and intergenerational loss.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5227", "words": "3020", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "47", "author": "Kelly, Ann H.; Lezaun, Javier", "title": "The Immune Home: Domestic Enclaves, Diffuse Protections", "date": "2021", "keywords": "arnold; chemical; health; home; house; ifakara; malaria; mosquito; ribbons; walls", "summary": "Rural house near Mafinigi, south of Ifakara, January 2020. The relationship between malaria control and the conceptualization of domestic space goes back to the very moment the disease was apprehended as a mosquito-borne infection.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5228", "words": "2663", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "53", "author": "Morimoto, Ryo", "title": "Home Otherwise: Living Archives and Half-Life Politics in Post-Fallout Coastal Fukushima", "date": "2021", "keywords": "altar; fallout; family; home; house; life; naoko; nuclear", "summary": "[\u539f\u5b50\u529b\u707d\u5bb3; \u6c5a\u67d3\u3055\u308c\u305f\u5bb6; \u751f\u653f\u6cbb\u3068\u534a\u6e1b\u671f\u653f\u6cbb; \u8a18\u53f7\u5b66; \u30a2\u30fc\u30ab\u30a4\u30d6\u3068\u7e01] RESUMO Enquanto o desastre nuclear de 2011 no Jap\u00e3o for\u00e7ou os residentes de Fukushima a abandonar suas casas, transformando ecologias familiares em locais de estranhamento, Naoko e [acidente nuclear; casa contaminada; biopol\u00edtica e half-life politics; arquivos e pertencimento; Jap\u00e3o] RESUMEN Mientras el desastre nuclear de 2011 en Jap\u00f3n oblig\u00f3 a los residentes de Fukushima a abandonar sus hogares, transformando ecolog\u00edas familiares en lugares de extra\u00f1amiento, Naoko y sus vecinos siguen invirtiendo en objetos y en relaciones espirituales con sus casas ahora envueltas en la l\u00f3gica de la contaminaci\u00f3n.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5230", "words": "1863", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "51", "author": "da Costa Oliveira, Thiago; Fausto, Carlos", "title": "Amazonian House-ing: A Visual Anthropology Essay", "date": "2021", "keywords": "altamira; figure; house; monte; par\u00e1; photo; urban; visual", "summary": "Esta etnograf\u00eda visual pretende recuperar la perspectiva de los desplazados, dando visibilidad a la casa como \u00edndice de formas de vida y como terreno abierto a la permanente contestaci\u00f3n y amazonizaci\u00f3n. Em Altamira (Par\u00e1, Brasil), a constru\u00e7\u00e3o da terceira maior hidroel\u00e9trica do mundo, a usina de Belo Monte, conduziu ao alagamento de \u00e1reas habitacionais e ao deslocamento de seus moradores para novos assentamentos urbanos coletivos.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5238", "words": "11676", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "52", "author": "Hull, Matthew", "title": "Corporations and States: A Customer-Service Corporation inside the Punjab State Police", "date": "2022", "keywords": "actors; case; center; complaint; coordinators; customer; gupta; helpline; india; new; officers; police; punjab; satisfaction; service; software; staff; state; system; university; women; work; ziqitza", "summary": "While there are many women in the Punjab police and even police stations staffed entirely by women, men far outnumber women in police service. Second, they were to frame the issue of satisfaction in relation to police service rather than to the events themselves and/or the larger socio-political situation.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5239", "words": "12100", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "65", "author": "Ahmann, Chloe", "title": "Uncertainty in Motion: Rumors of a Proxy War in Late Industrial Baltimore", "date": "2023", "keywords": "air; baltimore; group; industrial; knowledge; martha; nick; opponents; place; plant; power; press; project; rumors; south; things; ties; uncertainty; university; waste; work; years", "summary": "Against facile corporate claims that local speech is only rumor and that rumor is not properly political, neighbors implicated absent corporations in a tense battle over local voice, marshaling rumors as strategic speech in a struggle playing out among subalterns. Rumors of a Proxy War in Late Industrial Baltimore CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Vol. 38, Issue 3, pp.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5262", "words": "9561", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "53", "author": "Jensen, Casper", "title": "Circulating Objects, Changing Scales: Circular Cambodian Worlds and Economies", "date": "2023", "keywords": "agency; cambodia; cambridge; change; coconut; economy; green; market; material; new; objects; plastic; practices; press; recycling; relations; scale; things; university; value; waste; worlds; worths", "summary": "In some situations, representatives of different worlds come together to figure out how to change the circulations of the objects and reshape circular worlds. Minimally, it seems that the emergence of circular worlds will depend on emerging coalitions of what Donna Haraway (2004, 77) once called \u201cshifted subjects\u201d committed to significant transformations.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5282", "words": "10523", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "54", "author": "Ojani, Chakad", "title": "The Promise of Fog Capture: Ground-Touching Clouds as a Material (Im)Possibility in Peru", "date": "2023", "keywords": "alejandro; capture; carlos; catchers; city; failure; family; fog; fog catchers; infrastructure; lima; material; ngo; peru; press; project; residents; rosa; state; university; villa; water", "summary": "In brief, fog catchers consist of large plastic nets situated perpendicular to the direction of the wind, filtering the regular inflow of coastal fog and funneling it into a water tank for later distribution (Figure 1). Once the NGO had secured funding from a Dutch water foundation, they collaboratively helped install a series of fog catchers a ten-minute walk from Rosa\u2019s house.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5284", "words": "10440", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "54", "author": "Zuntz, Ann-Christin", "title": "Human Routers: How Syrian Refugee Brokers Build the Infrastructure of Displacement", "date": "2023", "keywords": "brokerage; brokers; business; channels; clients; displacement; faisal; farhan; infrastructure; journal; kingdom; migration; money; new; people; refugee; refugee brokers; routers; studies; syrian; turkey; united; work", "summary": "Drawing on fieldwork with Syrian brokers in Turkey and the United Kingdom, I put forward the novel concepts of a Syrian infrastructure of displacement and of refugee brokers as a particular infrastructural component, namely, as human routers. As I was listening in on Farhan\u2019s conversation, UK-based refugees\u2019 money traveled to their loved ones through material and virtual infrastructures such as banking and roads, but just as much through human connections: a network of Syrian money brokers in different countries.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5295", "words": "10689", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "49", "author": "Pandey, Saumya", "title": "\u201cToo Much\u201d Sand, Not Water: A Geostory of Himalayan Riverine Sediments as \u201cProblem\u201d", "date": "2024", "keywords": "2020; 2022; bengal; colonial; dredging; engineering; engineers; extraction; floodplains; geology; himalayas; history; india; knowledge; kosi; mining; mountains; nepal; press; problem; rivers; sand; science; sediments; university; water", "summary": "Floods, landslides, glacial lake outbursts, dam bursts, and debris flow prompted concerns about what really caused this destruction when clouds violently cracked up over Himalayan rivers. In what follows, I narrate my engagement with engineers who produced fluvial knowledge on Himalayan rivers in Nepal and India in their capacity as current or former government officials or as technical experts on internationally commissioned river projects.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5309", "words": "2955", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "44", "author": "Achtnich, Marthe", "title": "Mobile Livings: On the Bioeconomies of Mobility", "date": "2022", "keywords": "bioeconomy; economic; issue; life; mobility; university; value", "summary": "Such mobilities prompt us to ask a number of pressing questions: Through what arrangements is mobile life, human and nonhuman, economized? In anthropology and the wider social sciences, engagements with mobility have broadly concerned themselves with social, political, and economic dimensions of mobile life and, simultaneously, with how movement and connections across time and space forge economic, political, and social activity (Cresswell 2010; Glick Schiller 2018; Glick Schiller and Salazar 2013; Salazar and Smart 2011).", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5310", "words": "10793", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "43", "author": "Ivry, Tsipy; Ogawa, Maki; Murotsuki, Jun", "title": "Virtuous Indecisiveness: Structural Moral Ambivalence and the Tentative Implementation of Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing in Japan", "date": "2023", "keywords": "ambivalence; anthropology; counseling; counselors; decision; ethics; fetal; ivry; japanese; life; making; nipt; pregnancy; press; technologies; test; testing; university; women", "summary": "This explicit concern with evaluations of the quality of deliberations permeating the arena of NIPT genetic counseling speaks to current anthropological efforts to understand how people endeavor to live a moral life within their glocal moral worlds.5 Underlying the vibrant anthropological debates and disagreements about how to approach the ethical effectively is an understanding of people not as good or bad per se, but as having notions of good and bad according to which they evaluate themselves and others (Laidlaw 2013). This article addresses these questions while drawing on an ethnography of NIPT genetic counseling in Japanese hospitals contextualized within the moral ambivalence toward reproductive technologies traceable across social scales.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5311", "words": "2702", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "55", "author": "Achtnich, Marthe", "title": "Bioeconomy and Migrants\u2019 Lives in Libya", "date": "2022", "keywords": "bioeconomy; libya; life; migrants; semere; state", "summary": "New to Tripoli, Semere and Tigisti did not have strong social networks with other migrants in the city. Eventually, through other migrants who had already left for Europe, Semere and Tigisti found another place to stay.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5312", "words": "2730", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "53", "author": "Lucht, Hans", "title": "EU-Driven Border Control in Niger: From Migrants to Gold, Drugs, and Rare Animals", "date": "2022", "keywords": "agadez; border; libya; migrants; migration; mobility; niger", "summary": "From Agadez gold is redirected to Dubai and Delhi via regional markets in Libya, Benin, and Mali (Lucht and Raineri 2019). Instead, local cross-border economies are reshaped by local entrepreneurs who are substituting migrants with less sensitive commodities, such as drugs and rare animals (Lucht and Raineri 2019).", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5313", "words": "2655", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "32", "author": "Reeves, Madeleine", "title": "Vital Labors: Transacting Oocytes across Borders in the Post-Soviet Space", "date": "2022", "keywords": "commissioning; couples; donors; fertility; labor; mobility; services; women", "summary": "Spain, for instance, has become a notable European center for the provision of reproductive services for women and couples from northern and western Europe seeking donor oocytes\u2014the result both of specific histories of liberal regulation of the fertility market (including a de facto commercial market in oocytes and guaranteed anonymity for donors) and specific dynamics of intra-European mobility for leisure and labor (Lafuente Funes 2017). The intensified demand for \u201cAsian\u201d eggs from Chinese commissioning couples has dramatically increased the incentive structure for prospective oocyte donors marked as phenotypically Asian.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5314", "words": "2508", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "47", "author": "Green, Sarah", "title": "The Bioeconomics of Domesticating Zoonoses", "date": "2022", "keywords": "animals; disease; living; new; nonhuman; press; trade; zoonoses", "summary": "Only with the intensive development of animal trade and industrialized farming practices did the scorched-earth approach, one that involves killing every single animal within a given territory, appear acceptable. In the case of nonhuman animal bioeconomic mobilities, a sense of human insecurity arises from a growing awareness of microbes, the living entities that accompany animals and people as they move.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5315", "words": "3100", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "46", "author": "Andersson, Ruben", "title": "The Bioeconomy and the Birth of a \u201cNew Anthropology\u201d", "date": "2022", "keywords": "anthropology; bioeconomy; human; life; migrants; migration; new; surveillance; university", "summary": "Attending to the self-analyses of those at the coalface of today\u2019s growing bioeconomies may help researchers join the fight against encroachments across what may constitute the final frontier of capitalism: embodied human life and the inner sanctum of human vitality. Indeed, many of the bioeconomic processes treated in this Colloquy\u2014especially those targeting vulnerable, exploitable human life\u2014still draw sustenance from the \u201ccoloniality\u201d of power relations surviving territorial colonialism (Ndlovu-Gatsheni 2013).", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5327", "words": "11641", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "55", "author": "Haruyama, Justin", "title": "Anti-Blackness and Moral Repair: The Curse of Ham, Biblical Kinship, and the Limits of Liberalism", "date": "2024", "keywords": "account; african; anthropology; black; christian; curse; francis; god; ham; history; kinship; new; noah; people; press; servants; time; university; white; words; world; york; zambia", "summary": "Francis\u2019s close association in these comments between the help of white people and the help of God reminded me, uncomfortably, of a semi-serious wordplay joke I sometimes heard Nyanja-speakers tell in my presence (Nyanja is the second-most widely spoken language in Zambia): that when white people first came to Zambia, locals named them mzungu because the whites reminded them so much of God (in Nyanja, the word for God is mulungu).4 Francis and I continued conversing for several hours after this point, and I continued raising questions about the ostensibly good character of whites that Francis felt made them so appropriate as masters: for example, the history of brutal racial segregation and economic exploitation in Zambia under British imperialism. \u20141 John 4:20 Francis and I are almost the same age: at the time I met him he was twenty-nine", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5339", "words": "10463", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "59", "author": "Mart\u00ednez, Jos\u00e9 Ciro; Sirri, Omar", "title": "Bureaucraft: Statemakers in Amman and Baghdad", "date": "2023", "keywords": "2013; amman; baghdad; bakers; bread; bureaucracy; checkpoints; dough; goods; government; knowledge; labor; mazen; najib; practices; press; sadiq; security; soldiers; state; university; water; work", "summary": "Iraq\u2019s vehicular geographies are closely implicated in checkpoint labor and soldierly competence. Put differently, checkpoint labor is liminal.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5343", "words": "12529", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "59", "author": "Reumert, Anna", "title": "\u201cLife is a Gamble\u201d: Labors of Mobility, Risk and Return between Sudan and Lebanon", "date": "2023", "keywords": "africa; awadalla; bashir; beirut; border; economy; khartoum; labor; land; lebanon; life; migrant; migration; mobility; people; press; return; risk; south; state; sudan; sudanese; time; university; women; work", "summary": "Some observers see the failure to address the issue of statutory land rights as a missed opportunity, without which the agreement ultimately failed to end the war between militias in southern Sudan and the Sudanese government, preceding the secession of South Sudan a decade later (Babiker 2009; Komey 2008). Mughamara translates from Arabic as \u201cadventure,\u201d \u201cgamble,\u201d and \u201crisk,\u201d and implies in its root form the act of immersion; throwing oneself into something without knowing the outcome.1 This article is based on fieldwork with young migrant returnees who, like Bashir, are sons of subsistence farmers in western Sudan and worked low-skilled service jobs in Lebanon before an economic and political collapse in 2020 forced them to leave.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5365", "words": "1689", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "41", "author": "Makhulu, Anne-Maria; Smith, Christen", "title": "#CiteBlackWomen", "date": "2022", "keywords": "american; anthropological; anthropology; smith; university; women", "summary": "Although the numbers of Black women in anthropology are growing, and our contributions too (e.g., Fields 1995; McClaurin 2001; Harrison 2008; Bolles 2013; Williams 2018), Black women\u2019s scholarship remains relatively invisible in the field as a whole. bell hooks (1991, 153) tells us that Black women have been perceived as \u201call body, no mind,\u201d as \u201cservice workers\u201d and never thinkers.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5366", "words": "3490", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "42", "author": "Harrison, Faye", "title": "Refusing the God Trick: Engaging Black Women\u2019s Knowledge", "date": "2022", "keywords": "african; american; anthropology; black; davis; feminist; harrison; knowledge; new; press; university; women", "summary": "His stories and seminal essays (e.g., Drake 1974, 1978, 1990) on the history of Black scholars in anthropology inspired me to work with colleagues to rescue Black anthropologists, including Drake himself, from oblivion and erasure from collective memory, syllabi, and citations (Harrison 2013, Harrison and Harrison 1999). The book\u2019s preface describes her as a skillful ethnographer responsible for collecting all the data on Black women and for gathering and interpreting the evidence on the Black class system and miscegenation.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5367", "words": "2668", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "56", "author": "Shange, Savannah", "title": "Citation as Ceremony: #SayHerName, #CiteBlackWomen, and the Practice of Reparative Enunciation", "date": "2022", "keywords": "american; citation; citeblackwomen; policy; practice; press; sayhername; university; violence; women", "summary": "There we find #SayHerName, a protest hashtag that resists the invisibilization of violence against Black women amid the swell of activism against spectacular murders of Black boys and men by the state. From vigils to protests to literal Twitter threads, the hashtag stitches together a Black feminist resistance to patriarchal violence that weaves through the Combahee River Collective organizing against murders in Boston in the 1970s and Black women organizing against the Grim Sleeper serial killer in Los Angeles a decade later (Grigsby 2014).2 The ritual listing of these names is a fundamentally citational technology, one that simultaneously calls in our newest ancestors and calls out the structures of violence that stole them from us.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5368", "words": "2841", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "38", "author": "Williams, Bianca", "title": "Black Feminist Citational Praxis and Disciplinary Belonging", "date": "2022", "keywords": "anthropologists; anthropology; belonging; citation; feminist; practices; scholars; women", "summary": "This type of intellectual apartheid and gendering of anthropological knowledge teaches graduate students a variety of lessons, including that the ethnographic isn\u2019t theoretical, and that Black feminist anthropology is singularly useful for teaching about race and gender. It actively constructs a discipline that both benefits from Black feminist anthropology and simultaneously diminishes the value and ingenuity of its work.3 Furthermore, Black graduate students learn about their own belonging in the discipline as they are forced to read for dual degrees: one in the traditional anthropological canon (the white, mainstream discipline) and another in marginalized anthropologies, where Black (feminist) intellectual thought lives.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5369", "words": "3103", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "55", "author": "Smith, Christen", "title": "Citation, Erasure, and Violence: A Memoir", "date": "2022", "keywords": "academy; anthropology; citation; erasure; harrison; power; women; work", "summary": "\u201cBlack women have been participants in higher education for more than a century, but they are almost totally absent from the research literature; rarely is the impact of racism and sexism on black women in academe examined\u201d (Moses 1989). Of the 590 citations we counted in our sample of top-cited articles published in Cultural Anthropology, only 4 were Black women (0.67%), and only 2 were Black women anthropologists (0.33%).3 Even these figures paint only a partial picture of the problem.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5370", "words": "12027", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "53", "author": "Resnick, Elana", "title": "Sustaining Containability: Zero Waste and White Space ", "date": "2024", "keywords": "bins; bulgaria; city; collectors; containability; day; environmental; european; kloshari; labor; new; packaging; people; petko; press; punkts; recycling; recycling bins; romani; sofia; state; sustainability; trash; university; waste; work", "summary": "After EU accession, the punkts of socialist-era recycling continued operations to fulfill EU Zero Waste targets, now as sites where recycling waste was both bought and accounted for in official documents. The material containability of waste bins, I suggest, parallels the containability of the European nation-state as white.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5371", "words": "4104", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "54", "author": "Makhulu, Anne-Maria", "title": "Citing Black Women: From Citational Refusal to Recognition", "date": "2022", "keywords": "american; anthropology; citation; duke; new; press; recognition; university; university press; women; work; york", "summary": "Put differently, Black anthropology has not been recognized as anthropology since the very inception of the professional discipline (see Hurston 1990; Dunham 1994; Green on Primus 2001; cf. And much as Black feminism struggled not only to be heard but also to show the way for mainstream feminism\u2014Lorde\u2019s Sister Outsider being perhaps the most obvious example\u2014Black anthropology struggles for recognition even as Black and other BIPOC anthropologists negotiate processes of double othering, working \u201cHere\u201d and \u201cElsewhere\u201d as \u201cSelves\u201d and \u201cOthers.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5376", "words": "10470", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "48", "author": "Berhane, Fiori", "title": "The Paradox of Humanitarian Recognition: Blackness, Predation, and Non-Statist Solidarities in the Migration of Eritreans to Europe", "date": "2024", "keywords": "asylum; berhe; detention; eritreans; europe; human; italy; libya; migrants; migration; people; policies; press; protection; recognition; refugees; rights; smuggling; state; university; violence", "summary": "Based in Bologna, the group mainly comprised Eritrean men in their thirties who had made the Mediterranean crossing; the group also included Italian academics and journalists sympathetic to the experiences of Eritrean refugees. To address the violence Eritrean refugees face, the activists of the NGO petitioned state actors; they worked to shift public sentiments as producers of media and provided on-the-ground care for refugees experiencing state and community abandonment.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5389", "words": "9003", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "57", "author": "Lasco, Gideon; Mendoza, Jhaki", "title": "Deciphering a Non-meal: Pantawid-Gutom and the Everyday Negotiation of Hunger in the Philippines", "date": "2024", "keywords": "anthropology; categories; culture; food; gutom; hunger; insecurity; interlocutors; lasco; manila; meal; non; nutrition; pantawid; people; philippines; rice; stomach; time; university; urban; work; year", "summary": "Yet when disaster strikes\u2014as in the case of the more than twenty-four typhoons that batter the country annually, people switch to root crops (Bertuso 2019, 82), just as people elsewhere turn to \u201chunger foods\u201d or \u201cfamine foods\u201d in times of crisis (Matalas and Grivetti 2007; Lasco et al. 2023). A portmanteau from the Tagalog (Filipino) words pantawid (something to help bridge or tide over) and gutom (hunger), pantawid-gutom had not previously struck us as anything other than food people consumed between meals.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5394", "words": "10617", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "58", "author": "Smith, Catherine", "title": "Through the Body of the Midwife: Ethos, Labor, and the Cultivation of Trust in Health Care in Yogyakarta, Indonesia", "date": "2023", "keywords": "birth; care; care workers; ethos; forms; health; health care; indonesia; labor; medicine; midwife; midwives; people; practice; siti; system; time; trust; village; women; workers; yogyakarta", "summary": "Although midwives are trained health care workers\u2014and not volunteers\u2014similar sensibilities also likely rationalized the high expectations placed on village midwives to carry out extensive forms of labor beyond their assigned roles. In this article I take up the life histories of midwives like Yanti to examine the critical problem of how interpersonal trust between a practitioner and their patient might translate or fail to translate into a deeper, more generalized trust in health care.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5397", "words": "10781", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "49", "author": "Raza, Shozab", "title": "Conjugated Universalism: From Rural Pakistan to \u201cWorker-Peasant Rule\u201d", "date": "2023", "keywords": "allah; allah baksh; baksh; balochiyat; communist; ikath; kisan; marxism; mazdur; mkp; movement; nationalism; new; pakistan; party; peasant; politics; press; punjab; raj; siraiki; south; universalism; university", "summary": "Baloch, Allah Baksh n.d. DOI: 10.14506/ca38.3.02 CONJUGATED UNIVERSALISM: From Rural Pakistan to \u201cWorker-Peasant Rule\u201d SHOZAB RAZA University of Toronto https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5747-0837 One afternoon as I sat in my apartment in Jampur, a rural town in Pakistan\u2019s peripheral South Punjab region, I got a call from Allah Baksh Baloch.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5403", "words": "11240", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "55", "author": "Wittekind, Courtney", "title": "\u201cTake Our Land\u201d : Fronts, Fraud, and Fake Farmers in a City-to-Come", "date": "2024", "keywords": "2020; background; china; city; city project; cld; demonstrations; development; farmers; journal; land; members; myanmar; new; people; press; project; residents; southwest; state; studies; tin; tun; university; urban; yangon; yangon city", "summary": "Landowners, in particular, hoped to benefit from the project through formal compensation proposals or through the sale of project area land. Demands that the New Yangon City be built \u201cas fast as possible\u201d responded to this ill-fated history, which had left residents anxious to see the project move from plan to reality.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5406", "words": "10857", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "51", "author": "Sandoval-Cervantes, Iv\u00e1n", "title": "Gaining Voice through Injury: Voice and Corporeality in Animal Rights Activism in Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez, Mexico", "date": "2023", "keywords": "abuse; alicia; animal; animalistas; bodies; body; canis; case; city; ciudad; dogs; eco; human; justicia; ju\u00e1rez; mexico; relationship; rescue; state; violence; voice", "summary": "In this article, I highlight the relationship among the construction of voice, animal bodies, and the Mexican justice system. Injured animal bodies, thus, gain a voice that seems unreachable for non-injured animal bodies: their injuries allow their particular stories of abuse to be told.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5409", "words": "10298", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "56", "author": "Aly, Ramy", "title": "The Ordinariness of Ethics and the Extraordinariness of Revolution: Ethical Selves and the Egyptian January Revolution at Home and School", "date": "2024", "keywords": "ahmed; amer; anthropology; egypt; egyptian; ethical; ethics; everyday; family; life; new; people; politics; press; revolution; school; self; time; university", "summary": "Anthropologies of revolution should pluralize and recognize the complex and variable ways that revolutions are experienced. Ethnography relocates revolution from the macro to the everyday, but this does not disconnect it from local cosmologies of kinship, myth, personhood, time, ritual, space, and power, all of which constitute and are reconstituted in revolutions (Cherstich, Holbraad, and Tassi 2020, 14\u201316, 50).", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5412", "words": "10502", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "58", "author": "Jun, EuyRyung", "title": "Grinding the Souls: Politics of Interspecies Pity and the Labor of Care in a South Korean Animal Shelter", "date": "2024", "keywords": "animal; ara; care; dogs; exploitation; human; interspecies; interspecies pity; korea; labor; new; pity; politics; shelter; south; staff; time; university; women; work", "summary": "The pressure for grace then turns ARA shelters into places that actively reproduce feminized labor of the cheap and the flexible (Weeks 2011). That is, although interspecies pity\u2019s blindness to human difference appropriates it to realize its own promise, everyday entanglements such as the ones occurring in ARA shelters are not entirely overshadowed by that coupling of moralization and exploitation.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5416", "words": "10565", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "43", "author": "Hothi, Randeep", "title": "The Massacre and Martyr(dom)s of Oak Creek: On the Problem of Diaspora, the Economy of Agonism, and the Extimacy of Relation-Making", "date": "2024", "keywords": "activists; agonism; american; assembly; community; diaspora; gurdwara; hall; images; langar; making; martyrdom; martyrs; politics; press; sikh; singh; social; solidarity; state; tradition; united; university; violence; white", "summary": "Under the moral-juridical rubric of so-called hate crimes, liberal discourses characteristically understand such violence as matters of criminal trespass, an individuated transgression against and contrary to law, rather than political violence, the structural trespass of the juridico-political regime itself (see Mamdani 2015, 63). For Bal, martyrs instantiate a resistance against state violence that makes possible and conduces the practice of tradition.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5420", "words": "3093", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "34", "author": "McKinson, Kimberley", "title": "(Re)Writing Anthropology and Raising Our Voices from the Academic Margins", "date": "2022", "keywords": "american; anthropology; institutions; margins; minority; percent; students", "summary": "We cannot overstate the critical importance of MSIs to minority student academic success. This means that anthropologists who work at MSIs have a unique opportunity to expose minority students to the discipline and offer to them a critical anthropological lens through which to understand their own experiences, as well as the world around them.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5421", "words": "2929", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "46", "author": "Jenks, Angela", "title": "Archives at the Margins: Toward a Liberatory Pedagogy in Anthropology", "date": "2022", "keywords": "archival; health; knowledge; materials; pedagogy; scl; students", "summary": "Our university sits about 40 miles south of the SCL, and the packet\u2019s materials relate directly to the communities where many students grew up and continue to live. As they read Nelson\u2019s (2016) article and examined the SCL materials, many students expressed surprise at the history they saw.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5422", "words": "3265", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "53", "author": "McKinson, Kimberley", "title": "The Margin Speaks: On the Radical Possibilities of Embodied Knowledge as Decolonial Pedagogy", "date": "2022", "keywords": "anthropology; auto; city; knowledge; new; romani; students", "summary": "As a public, urban, and senior college within the City University of New York (CUNY), John Jay College predominantly serves minority students\u201447 percent Hispanic, 18 percent white, 17 percent Black, 15 percent Asian, and 3 percent other, as well as a significant number of veterans (450 enrolled) and first-generation students (45 percent of students enrolled). John Jay College is attended by students who have learned how to survive at the margins of society, as well as at the academic margins.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5423", "words": "3125", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "52", "author": "Williams, Erica", "title": "Centering Black Women: A Black Feminist Critique of Mainstream Anthropology from the Margins of an HBCU", "date": "2022", "keywords": "anthropology; canon; feminist; new; press; students; university; women", "summary": "In our classrooms, we challenge the white male\u2013dominated canon of anthropology, and propose a counter-canon in which Black women students can see themselves reflected. In Guy-Sheftall\u2019s class, I was introduced to a feminism that explicitly and unapologetically centered Black women.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5424", "words": "3389", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "61", "author": "Trinch, Shonna; Cassidy, Barbara; Suazo, Bianca; Mallol Nunez, Jadeline", "title": "Linguistic Diversity on Center Stage: Rewriting Anthropology from the Margins of an MSI", "date": "2022", "keywords": "college; english; language; new; people; rape; spanish; students", "summary": "Almost a quarter of John Jay College students come from the bottom 20 percent of income earners. With Seeing Rape, college students at an MSI claim authoritative positions about important topics as playwrights.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5426", "words": "9301", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "55", "author": "G\u00f6pfert, Mirco", "title": "Dissonance: Cartooning in Iran, Humor, and the Study of Things That Don\u2019t Match", "date": "2024", "keywords": "2022; anthropology; cartooning; cartoonists; cartoons; dissonance; drawing; elements; experience; flower; humor; iran; iranian; khosravi; new; people; practice; press; public; tehran; theory; university; varesi; way", "summary": "I was immediately struck by the surreal darkness that many cartoons conveyed: visual echoes of Sadegh Hedayat\u2019s writings. Not without cynicism she asserted that drawing cartoons becomes easier when so much incongruity is already built into the world in front of you.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5428", "words": "11234", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "50", "author": "Ulrich, Katie", "title": "The Substitute and the Excuse: Growing Sustainability, Growing Sugarcane in S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil", "date": "2023", "keywords": "biomass; brazil; duke; durham; energy; energy cane; excuse; growth; gustavo; industry; jo\u00e3o; material; n.c; new; practices; press; renewables; research; scientists; sugarcane; sustainability; university; university press; work", "summary": "Maturation begins to unpack the complexities of sugarcane growth as something distinct from sugarcane industry growth. So sugarcane biological growth, curiously, differs from sugarcane industry growth.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5439", "words": "10818", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "59", "author": "Sheldon, Zachary", "title": "The Malicious Game: Friendship, Foresight, and Philosophy at an Iraqi Teahouse in Jordan", "date": "2023", "keywords": "anthropology; arabic; avicenna; board; estimation; experience; future; game; intellect; iraqi; jaakaaroo; jordan; knowledge; life; new; people; philosophy; play; players; playing; press; teahouse; university; wardi", "summary": "And, elsewhere in the region, card games conjure an interactional frame that enables social contact across sectarian divisions (Levy 1999). Older games were swapped out for a new and malicious presence.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5445", "words": "10955", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "46", "author": "Plueckhahn, Rebekah", "title": "Effective Cynicism: Waste, Power, and the Negotiation of Urban Decay and Renewal in Ulaanbaatar", "date": "2024", "keywords": "building; construction; cynicism; land; mongolia; networks; people; power; press; processes; redevelopment; reflections; relations; residents; rubbish; sloterdijk; state; ulaanbaatar; urban; waste", "summary": "They engaged in an acute moral questioning of the potential equitable (or inequitable) portioning of larger urban wholes and the rights of Ulaanbaatar residents dwelling within them. They shared with me their experiences as part of a larger goal to highlight (and have me document through my ethnographic research) the lived experience of Ulaanbaatar residents during this period of transformation.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5452", "words": "10631", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "55", "author": "Opande, Kennedy; Onyango-Ouma, Washington", "title": "In the Shade of Hailstones: Life-Forming Realities among the Luo of Kano, Kenya", "date": "2024", "keywords": "agency; charms; crops; cultural; digging; farmers; force; hailstones; human; kano; life; lives; luo; medicine; people; phenomena; rice; ritual; twins", "summary": "Jane Bennett (2010) and Cymene Howe (2019) provide a basis for the concept of cosmo-juridical agency, which we associate with the Luo connection between hailstone medicines and rituals for newly born twins undertaken to protect and propagate both rice and human life. LIFE-FORMING: On the Nexus of Human Lives, Rituals, Plants, and Natural Phenomena The connection between human life and natural phenomena has received substantial commentary.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5456", "words": "10079", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "44", "author": "Romero Dianderas, Eduardo", "title": "Volumes: The Politics of Calculation in Contemporary Peruvian Amazonia", "date": "2024", "keywords": "abstractions; calculation; century; doyle; forest; formula; industry; logging; logs; loreto; pancho; peru; smalian; state; timber; tropical; volumes; volumetric", "summary": "Instead, I focus on the \u201ccalculation grammars\u201d that inform tropical timber volumes in Loreto as a way to unveil the affective and political dimensions of seemingly mechanistic technical practices in a larger context of intense technocratic transformation (see Ballestero 2015, 266.) In what follows, I first discuss the rise of timber volumetrics, the practice of measuring timber volumes, in modern scientific forestry, and examine a particular volumetric formula, the Doyle Formula, which eventually would come to embroil itself in the economic and political life of Loreto\u2019s tropical logging industry during the twentieth century.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5460", "words": "13991", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Awal, Akanksha", "title": "Love as Enjoyment: Hopelessness, Play, and Desirable Futures in Ghaziabad, India", "date": "2025", "keywords": "anthropology; boyfriend; caste; class; cultural; enjoyment; family; future; ghaziabad; india; jyoti; kind; lead; love; marriage; middle; nagma; new; play; pleasure; press; priyanka; pyaar; relationships; time; university; women", "summary": "Therefore, many if not most of the one hundred middle-class and lower-middle-class young women and twenty men respondents in Ghaziabad, Hapur, and Meerut Districts insisted that they enjoyed without ever having pursued love (pyaar) leading to marriage.15 In moments of quiet reflection, though, they referred to enjoyment as a form of love without a future (see also Dave 2018) and entered arranged marriages. We met regularly in 2015 and 2016 when I was conducting ethnographic research on how education changes women\u2019s ideas of love, marriage, and desirable futures.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ca-5464", "words": "10850", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "57", "author": "Welcome, Leniqueca", "title": "On and In Their Bodies: Masculinist Violence, Criminalization, and Black Womanhood in Trinidad", "date": "2024", "keywords": "bodies; body; caribbean; children; community; death; deja; gendered; grief; life; people; police; shop; son; state; tobago; trinidad; university; violence; women; work", "summary": "In this article, I place in conversation multiple forms of violence against those who occupy the category of poor black woman in Trinidad: the abuse and premature death of these women at the hands of their partners or strangers; the physical and discursive violence against black women by the state; the theft of their children due to inter/intra-community and police violence; and the grief black women are often forced to carry. ABSTRACT In this article, I place in conversation multiple forms of violence against those who occupy the category of poor black woman in Trinidad: the abuse and premature death of these women at the hands of their partners or strangers, the physical and discursive violence against black women by the state, the theft of their children due to inter/intra-community and police violence, and the grief black women are often forced to carry.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5471", "words": "12007", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "48", "author": "Kurian, Amrita", "title": "Flowers of Deception: The Expert\u2019s Nostalgia for a Future\u2019s Past and its Occlusion of Agrarian Labor", "date": "2024", "keywords": "andhra; board; caste; crop; economy; experts; farmers; fcv; fcv tobacco; garu; government; indian; laborers; land; market; new; nostalgia; orobanche; postcolonial; prakasam; press; state; tobacco; tobacco board; tobacco farmers; university; work", "summary": "This is because, although a relatively minor crop by both acreage and number of livelihoods sustained, FCV tobacco remains highly lucrative and contributes significant revenues to tobacco farmers, traders, manufacturers, and the Government of India.3 Thus, despite the stagnation of the global tobacco market in recent decades, India is one of the top three producers of the crop, alongside countries like China and Brazil. Thus, tobacco farmers make for the main recipients of the Board\u2019s knowledge and extension services, which aim to produce a high-quality, standardized FCV tobacco crop for the market and, in doing so, to lift farm incomes.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5485", "words": "10973", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "59", "author": "Lackenby, Nicholas", "title": "Evoking Eternity: Orthodox Co-presence in Post-Yugoslav Central Serbia", "date": "2024", "keywords": "alongside; anthropology; church; dead; death; dimension; eternal; eternity; future; god; history; interlocutors; kraljevo; life; living; new; orthodox; people; present; press; serbia; stefan; thinking; time; town; university; world", "summary": "Contrasting the \u201cSpirit of Eternity\u201d with the \u201cSpirit of Time,\u201d Popovi\u0107 (2005, 147) characterizes time as but a \u201cfragment\u201d of the eternal realm, a fragment that becomes meaningless when disconnected from eternity. When the historian Timothy Snyder (2018, 166) introduces the \u201cpolitics of eternity\u201d as an analytic, he means political projects bereft of forward momentum and innovative content: \u201cEternity takes certain points from the past and portrays them as moments of righteousness, discarding the time in between.\u201d", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5536", "words": "2650", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "31", "author": "C\u00f3rdoba Azc\u00e1rate, Matilde; Cors\u00edn Jim\u00e9nez, Alberto; Elyachar, Julia ; Nucho, Joanne; Simone, AbdouMaliq; Tironi, Manuel; Zia, Ather", "title": "Opening Editorial", "date": "2023", "keywords": "anthropological; anthropology; collective; editorial; editors; journal; scholars; work", "summary": "Cultural Anthropology journal content published since 2014 is freely available to download, save, reproduce, and transmit for noncommercial, scholarly, and educational purposes. As members of the editorial collective of Cultural Anthropology, we stand as humbled witnesses to this crucial moment.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5547", "words": "11390", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "65", "author": "Magee, Siobhan", "title": "Getting Your Ducks in a Row: Marriage, Protection, and Love without Regret in Virginia", "date": "2025", "keywords": "charlottesville; community; death; family; kinship; life; love; marriage; people; place; politics; press; protection; rights; safety; states; threat; time; united; university; virginia; wedding; white", "summary": "My fieldwork took place in the early years of marriage equality, but also in the first year of the first Trump presidency, and people told me they didn\u2019t know what was going to happen next, if there was going to be a backslide, if the right to legal marriage could be taken away. For sure, legal marriage in the United States has always been deadly serious.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "ca-5557", "words": "10766", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "49", "author": "Ghosh, Sahana", "title": "Borderlands as Barracks: Constructing a National Geography of Security in India", "date": "2025", "keywords": "anthropology; barracks; bengal; bop; border; borderlands; bsf; care; family; geography; india; infrastructures; institutions; military; national; press; security; soldiers; state; university; violence; work", "summary": "I explore the social and spatial transformations entailed in making borderlands into barracks, sites where increasing numbers of BSF soldiers come to live and work through ever-expanding infrastructures: outposts with barracks, family quarters, roads to support vehicular movement, watchtowers, checkpoints, and the walls to protect them. In the east, the BOPs proved integral to making the \u201cpatchwork border,\u201d demarcating and occupying national territory (van Schendel 2005) long before India started constructing a fence that has now become the iconic image of border security in this region.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "ca-5558", "words": "10052", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "48", "author": "Nieber, Hanna; Chinig\u00f2, Davide", "title": "Heads in the Stars, Feet on the Ground: Scale and Astronomy Initiatives in Southern Africa", "date": "2025", "keywords": "africa; astronomy; carnarvon; dish; future; ground; karoo; madagascar; project; radio; research; scale; science; ska; south; south africa; space; stars; telescope; vanessa", "summary": "Significantly, to secure land for constructing the core infrastructure, SKA South Africa initiated a program of compulsory land acquisition between 2016 and 2017, resulting in the purchase of more than thirty commercial sheep farms, covering about 130,000 hectares. The thread connecting these three stories is how research on outer space entangles scales of human social life and knowledge-making.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "ca-5565", "words": "9451", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "55", "author": "Lagunas, David", "title": "Desnacionalizaci\u00f3n, reg\u00edmenes visuales y resistencia: Gitanos Americanos en Ciudad de M\u00e9xico", "date": "2024", "keywords": "aires; am\u00e9rica; argentina; as\u00ed; buenos; cal\u00f3s; cdmx; como; comunidad; con; construcci\u00f3n; cual; cuando; cultural; c\u00f3mo; de la; de los; del; desde; ellos; en el; en los; entre; espa\u00f1a; espa\u00f1oles; esta; este; europa; flamenco; gitana; gitanos; grupos; gypsies; han; historia; identidad; lagunas; las; les; los; los cal\u00f3s; los gitanos; m\u00e1s; m\u00e9xico; nacional; otros; para; parte; payos; pa\u00eds; performance; piasere; por; que; quienes; racismo; roma; roman\u00ed; roman\u00edes; ser; siglo; sobre; social; sociales; sociedad; son; sus; tambi\u00e9n; trav\u00e9s; una; y la", "summary": "Depende de las competencias de cada qui\u00e9n, de la personalidad y de la habilidad en la presentaci\u00f3n del argumento, en c\u00f3mo contar una historia y convencer. En Yesenia se muestra al espectador los rasgos protot\u00edpicos: la est\u00e9tica oriental, el colorido vestimentario, las artes de la astrolog\u00eda y la adivinaci\u00f3n, el gusto por", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5569", "words": "9546", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "57", "author": "Hollin, Gregory", "title": "The Wrestler and His World: Precarious Workers, Post-Truth Politics, and Inauthentic Activism", "date": "2024", "keywords": "barrett; count; kayfabe; labor; night; outsiders; politics; post; real; shoot; trump; truth; union; work; wrestlers; wrestling; wwe", "summary": "Worked shoots introduce elements that have historically been off limits for wrestling performance: the existence of other promotions, backstage politics, a recognition of the artifice of pro wrestling. A 2016 piece in the New York Times, for example, asked \u201cis everything wrestling?\u201d (Gordon 2016) and, as of 2020, more than thirty articles had been published examining the relationship between post-truth\u2019s figurehead Donald Trump and pro wrestling (Levi 2020, 15).", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5574", "words": "11191", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "60", "author": "Mathson, Gideon", "title": "Remembering Place: The Temporality of Trauma in Rudraprayag After the 2013 Flash Floods", "date": "2024", "keywords": "caste; compensation; disaster; environment; floods; future; house; june; kedarnath; land; lists; new; past; period; place; present; press; rawat; sense; singh; time; trauma; ukhimath; university; uttarakhand; valley; village", "summary": "This cut of disaster is produced as a \u201ctemporal disjuncture\u201d (Pelling and Norbert 2017), which forms a barricade to passing everyday time and forms a traumatic kernel (Amy 2010), which lasts as durational moment that disjoins itself from the flow of linear time to form a block of memory that perpetually threatens the present with the eruption of its own past-presentness. The historical purpose of the revenue officer during colonial times was the collection of agricultural tax, which has been excluded from the ambit of tax collection in modern India.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5575", "words": "10771", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "46", "author": "D\u00fczel, Esin", "title": "The Afterlife of Sacrifice in the Kurdish Movement", "date": "2024", "keywords": "afterlives; death; debt; everyday; families; forms; gift; kurdish; life; martyrs; movement; new; pkk; politics; revolution; revolutionaries; sacred; sacrifice; state; struggle; temporalities; time; turkey; turkish; university; value", "summary": "Building on this literature, I focus on the moral confusions and uncertainties around the new political project: How to translate the value of revolutionary sacrifices into the democratic struggle to remake the social and the political? How would this-worldly correspondence to revolutionary sacrifice be identified within the everyday life in Diyarbak\u0131r?", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5598", "words": "11328", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Trisal, Nishita", "title": "How to Sustain a Strike: Rules, Routines, and the Essential in Kashmir", "date": "2025", "keywords": "anthropology; bank; calendar; cultural; curfew; day; employees; general; government; indian; july; kashmir; labor; people; press; resistance; sacrifice; self; state; strike; time; university; uprising; work", "summary": "One rarely found shops open on strike days, but they would open as soon as the relaxation came into place. Strike calendar, August 1-5, 2016.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ca-5610", "words": "11403", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "50", "author": "Angelini, Alessandro; Jones, Gareth A.", "title": "My Neighbor the Gringo: Commercialized Intimacies and Newcomer Hospitality in a Rio de Janeiro Favela", "date": "2025", "keywords": "anthropology; brazil; brazilian; city; class; community; conviv\u00eancia; cultural; de janeiro; estate; favela; gentrification; hospitality; identity; janeiro; journal; m\u00e1rcia; new; place; press; project; property; residents; rio; rio de; social; space; term; university; vidigal", "summary": "One threat is what anthropologist Angela Torresan (2020) describes as the reciprocity embedded in Vidigal residents\u2019 struggles to improve their own conditions\u2014melhorar a condi\u00e7\u00e3o de vida\u2014that lies in tension with a local moral economy, the tacit expectation that one person\u2019s gain will bring wider community benefits. Andr\u00e9s Luque-Ayala and Fl\u00e1via Neves Maia (2019) examine Google\u2019s digital mapping of Rio favelas project, including Vidigal, to argue that digital mapping makes favelas available as spaces of consumption, especially for tourism, and therefore builds what they call a kind of \u201cdigital governmentality.\u201d", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "ca-5612", "words": "10909", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "55", "author": "Morris, Meghan", "title": "Soil Forensics: Property and the Buried Truth in Medell\u00edn", "date": "2025", "keywords": "belt; city; city government; colombia; comuna; disaster; evidence; forensics; government; green; material; medell\u00edn; officials; peace; people; property; residents; risk; social; soil; truth; urban; villatina; war", "summary": "In examining how soil forensics operated as an evidentiary argument about property, I follow other scholars of forensics in analyzing how forensics are used 756outside the context of crime and policing (Azuero-Quijano 2021; Pietz 2002; Ralph 2015). As city agencies broke ground for the Green Belt, soil forensics activated old specters on new terms, challenging official narratives of the war and of reordering property for peace.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "ca-5652", "words": "11389", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "48", "author": "Leaha, Mihai Andrei; Canals, Roger", "title": "Resisting Alternative Images: An Ethnography of Visual Disinformation in Brazil", "date": "2024", "keywords": "alternative; anthropology; article; bolsonaro; brazil; checking; context; digital; disinformation; fact; fake; figure; images; lula; lupa; media; new; online; paulo; people; research; right; s\u00e3o; trust; truth; visual", "summary": "Performing Images in the Streets The first instance of offline iconic resistance to alternative images that we analyze relates to the use of the body as a public image in demonstrations, especially against Bolsonaro. We define alternative images as images with a deceptive referential value.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5657", "words": "10892", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Mittermaier, Amira", "title": "Religious Afterlives of a Revolution", "date": "2025", "keywords": "afterlives; anthropology; egypt; egyptian; god; interlocutors; islam; layla; mona; new; people; post; press; religion; revolution; revolutionary; self; square; sufism; tahrir; time; university; uprising; yoga", "summary": "\u201cIt was like crack,\u201d she says, \u201cGod God God.\u201d For eighteen days this was God manifesting in the m\u012bd\u0101n [square], and you could feel it like there was no escape.\u201d", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ca-5678", "words": "10592", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "55", "author": "Jakimow, Tanya", "title": "Discarded Candidates: Waste as Metaphor in Local Government Elections in Australia (and Elsewhere)", "date": "2025", "keywords": "anthropology; bessie; campaign; candidates; conversation; democracy; elections; electoral; money; new; practices; representative; systems; time; value; voters; waste; women", "summary": "Cultural Anthropology: Discarded Candidates: Waste as Metaphor in Local Government Elections in Australia (and Elsewhere) 276 Cultural Anthropology, Vol. 40, Issue 2, pp. 276-300, ISSN 0886-7356. Elections translate a pile of votes into a decision as to who will be the people\u2019s representative (Crewe 2021), and by a process of elimination, produce discarded candidates.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "ca-5680", "words": "10467", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Jaju, Garima", "title": "Isha\u2019s Wait: Money, Love, and Kinship in the Wake of Domestic Violence in India", "date": "2025", "keywords": "anthropology; city; cultural; family; flows; heera; home; husband; india; isha; kinship; love; maintenance; marriage; money; press; substance; university; violence; women", "summary": "In the essay, I trace the ways in which different streams of money flow, un- flow, or mis-flow to and from Isha. This implies that the directions and manner of money flows are not just shaped by extant social systems but can also shape new social norms, orientations, rela- tions, and personhoods (Kwon 2015; Walsh 2003).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ca-5684", "words": "11308", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "57", "author": "Hayat, Maira", "title": "Good Bureaucrats and God: The Ethical Labor of the Public", "date": "2024", "keywords": "ahmadiyya; anthropology; azfar; azfar sahib; bureaucracy; bureaucratic; case; department; ethical; ethics; factory; god; irrigation; labor; law; muslim; pakistan; public; sahib; state; university; water; watercourse; work", "summary": "When the issue remained unresolved after three attempts by the patwari, Iqbal sahib, and the zillehdar, Hamdan sahib, Azfar sahib announced the day and time of his visit: \u201cI\u2019m coming then, and will look into it myself,\u201d he had said ominously to Iqbal sahib. The Ethical Labor of the Public MAIRA HAYAT University of Notre Dame https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0170-5742 It is another Saturday morning and the five of us\u2014myself, Azfar sahib, and three other Irrigation Department bureaucrats\u2014are sitting too close to each other in a small Suzuki, being driven to Janjattey (a village in Punjab) as part of proceedings in an irrigation-water dispute.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5687", "words": "10889", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "48", "author": "Jonnalagadda, Indivar", "title": "Reactive Regulation: Rethinking Urban Growth and Governance through Property Relations", "date": "2025", "keywords": "city; claims; department; governance; government; hyderabad; land; making; new; offices; planning; press; processes; property; records; regularization; regulation; relations; revenue; state; university; urban", "summary": "That the data of urban property relations was not mapped struck me for two reasons: First, the government itself claimed that regularization would prove a tool to translate irregular land claims into clear and governable units. So instead of attempting this digitization, a pragmatic thinness and uncertainty about urban property is constitutive of the documentary practices of everyday administration.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "ca-5688", "words": "10985", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "50", "author": "Fearnley, Lyle; Sun, Chen", "title": "Green Involution: Mediating Plant Times and Lifetimes in a Chinese Rice Genetics Laboratory", "date": "2025", "keywords": "china; growth; involution; lab; laboratory; life; plant; press; research; researchers; rice; rice lab; rice plant; science; scientists; slow; students; tempos; time; university; wet; work; yang", "summary": "Indeed, Green Revolution programs that aimed to master rice time through \u201csimplifying logics\u201d struggled to manage an unanticipated \u201cinterplay of differential yet coexisting speeds\u201d (Gan 2017a, 77). One strategy for adapting rice time to laboratory time is the use of a second experimental research station on Hainan Island, the tropical island south of Guangdong Province.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "ca-5693", "words": "10221", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "56", "author": "Perkins, Janet", "title": "Delivering the State: State-Making through Maternal Health \u201cCare\u201d in Bangladeshi Public Maternal Health Spaces", "date": "2025", "keywords": "bangladesh; birth; care; delivery; enactments; government; health; health care; health service; hospital; jotno; kushtia; labor; private; providers; public; rima; room; service; settings; sheba; state; women", "summary": "I argue that rather than being uncaring, health care delivered by providers in public maternal settings is structured by state-oriented imperatives to provide \u201cservices\u201d (sheba), though not necessarily intimate care (jotno) to non-state heath service recipients. In official policy discourse, the term sheba is paired with shastyo, health, for shastyo sheba, and thereby privileges the term health service for the typical English use of health care.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "ca-5718", "words": "10743", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "46", "author": "Yildirim, Kevin", "title": "Waste Donations: Shopkeeper\u2013Waste Picker Relations in Istanbul and the Limits of Hospitable Giving", "date": "2025", "keywords": "ahmet; authority; bilal; citizens; donations; giving; hospitality; istanbul; labor; materials; migrant; pickers; press; recycling; relations; shopkeepers; turkey; turkish; university; waste; waste donations; waste pickers; workers", "summary": "When citizens give recyclable materials to migrant waste pickers for free, they transfer items that workers can sell for cash to support themselves and their dependents. This is because shopkeepers tended to give waste to migrant waste pickers if and when they believed the donation was likely to inspire a particular kind of immaterial return.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "ca-5739", "words": "10238", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "54", "author": "Nsabimana, Natacha", "title": "On Exile and Postcolonial Nationhood in Rwanda and Burundi ", "date": "2025", "keywords": "burundi; burundian; camp; claude; exile; genocide; history; hutu; malkki; muzehe; nation; national; postcolonial; power; press; refugees; rwanda; tutsi; violence", "summary": "Put simply, I approach the question of political violence and its aftermath through the experience and repetitiveness of exile, instead of political identity. To comprehend political violence, in my view, we need not only look through the prisms of identity and law but also grapple with political spaces in which exclusion is anticipated and repeated and the political 521boundaries of the nation redrawn and contested.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "ca-5743", "words": "11830", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "52", "author": "Prasse-Freeman, Elliott", "title": "The Revolutionary\u2019s Two Temporalities? Activism, Failure, and Uneventing", "date": "2025", "keywords": "activism; activists; anthropological; anthropology; aung; burmese; change; coup; event; failure; future; history; journal; mdcf; military; myanmar; people; present; press; revolution; series; taw; temporality; time; university", "summary": "The perdurance of calls for revolution across these multiple moments, not to mention the perpetual activist mobilization and its indeterminate outcomes, index a particularly potent and enduring challenge faced by political activists everywhere: that they are compelled to work at multiple temporal scales. It has demonstrated how political activists often delineate temporality allochronically, differentiating the time of the event (the weeks when decades happen) from banal time (those decades when nothing happens) to then highlight how this view of cleanly bifurcated temporality underestimates the potential for the event to later dissolve (Juris 2008; Jansen 2019), receding again into a normal time now laced with the residue of failure.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "ca-5753", "words": "10650", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "43", "author": "Demirci, Ferda", "title": "Morally Immunizing Debts: Wage Bank, Gendered Credit Access, and Intimacy in the Soma Coal Basin", "date": "2025", "keywords": "access; ahmet; bank; coal; credit; family; immunity; indebtedness; life; miners; mining; murat; new; self; social; soma; turkey; work; yi\u011fit", "summary": "Therefore, in its coupling with easy credit access, the love- and labor-oriented imagination of the nuclear family ideal creates a practical way of realizing a life trajectory drawn for a moral and self-motivated 419man\u2014something that would quickly empower him by rendering him immune against not only temptations but also the \u201cinterventions of others.\u201d This evolving moral ecology has imbued easy credit access with a particular moral power by providing a framework for navigating intergenerational and intimate relationships through bank loans.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "ca-5763", "words": "11040", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Green, Andrew", "title": "On Chainsaws and Acoustic Violence: Sound and Deforestation in Ajusco-Chichinautzin, Mexico", "date": "2025", "keywords": "acoustic; ajusco; anthropology; chainsaws; chichinautzin; city; deforestation; forest; guards; listening; loggers; logging; mexico; music; nicol\u00e1s; park; people; police; san; sound; talamontes; totolapan; town; violence", "summary": "Yet since chainsaws are also used in legitimate forest manage- ment, forest guards must make contextually informed judgments about whether chainsaw sounds are illicit or permitted, which depend on their emplaced and embodied sensory knowledge of specific forests. During ethnographic re- search in the surrounding area of Ajusco-Chichinautzin, situated between the expanding metropolis of Mexico City and the threatened forest around it, I have sought to understand the complex entanglements of sound, music, and deforesta- tion.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ca-5776", "words": "10803", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "56", "author": "Ikeuchi, Suma", "title": "Fugitive Kinships: Imperial Legacies, Wayward Acts, and Queer Bonds among Filipino Migrants in Japan", "date": "2025", "keywords": "antonio; family; father; filipino; fugitive; gina; japanese; jocelyn; kinship; koseki; man; marriage; migrants; migration; new; philippines; queer; san; state; suzuki; visa; way; years", "summary": "As the Japanese historian Fujiwara Kiichi (2011, 5) argued, however, postwar Japan\u2014defeated and occupied by the U.S.-led Allied Forces\u2014adopted an American-style approach of \u201cunofficial empire (hiseishiki no teikoku)\u201d to its subsequent transnational projects. In postwar Japan, heteronormative marriage has long served as a unit of reproduction in ideology and practice, which explains the extremely low percentage of children born out of wedlock.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "ca-5783", "words": "3010", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "45", "author": "Byrd, Deanna; Thompson, Ian", "title": "No Stone Unturned", "date": "2024", "keywords": "choctaw; collections; institutions; nagpra; nation; oklahoma; tribal", "summary": "For institutions that do have Choctaw NAGPRA collections, the database records the current stage of the NAGPRA process: inquiry, inventory, review, consultation, Notice of Inventory Completion (NIC), or repatriation-reburial. Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Tribal members are all descended from Trail of Tears survivors.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "ca-5784", "words": "11628", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "54", "author": "Hu, Cameron", "title": "Fracking and Historicizing: On Deepened Time in West Texas", "date": "2025", "keywords": "anthropology; basin; contingent; earth; fracking; geological; history; human; life; new; oil; past; permian; petroleum; press; process; reef; texas; time; university; west; west texas; world", "summary": "As drilling turned the desert plain into a former reef, West Texas oil became logically finite. He proceeded to rehearse the reef theory of West Texas oil.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "ca-5809", "words": "11104", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "56", "author": "Raghavan, Rishabh", "title": "\u201cDo they do our thozhil?\u201d: Toxic Industrialization, Uncertainty, and Refusal in North Chennai", "date": "2025", "keywords": "area; boat; catch; chemical; chennai; city; ennore; fishermen; home; industrial; industrialization; pandian; pollution; power; refusal; residents; river; thozhil; uncertainty; velu", "summary": "Perhaps one thing only was certain: the fishermen would not accept that their desires to build meaningful lives and livelihoods, and to sustain long-standing histories of calling Ennore home, be written out. Given the various of phases of industrialization Ennore had undergone, chemical contamination simply could not be mapped onto one particular timeline.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "ca-5815", "words": "10889", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Heywood, Paolo", "title": "Blessed Acts of Oblivion: On the Ethics of Forgetting", "date": "2025", "keywords": "anthropology; case; fascism; forgetfulness; forgetting; history; italian; italy; memories; memory; mussolini; new; oblivion; party; past; people; place; predappio; press; remembering; self; town", "summary": "new memory.\u201d As a large body of scholarship has shown, while injunctions to remember Fas- cist crimes form some of the foundational components of the postwar Italian state and the basis of some its popular culture and social movements (see, e.g., Passerini 1987), public memories of Fascism in Italy are also \u201chazy, selective, CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY 40:1 110 and unreliable\u201d (Malone 2017, 445; see also Corner 2002, 2005; Fogu 2006; Foot 2009; Mammone 2006; Pavone 2000).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ca-5818", "words": "11600", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "61", "author": "Summers, Lachlan", "title": "Touched by Deep Time: Earthquake Sickness in Mexico City", "date": "2025", "keywords": "american; anthropology; apartment; building; city; cracks; cultural; del; earthquake; elena; fear; figure; fright; human; illness; long; mexican; mexico; mexico city; motion; new; people; press; residents; social; state; susto; time; tocado; university", "summary": "Following Kathryn Yusoff (2017), I understand Mexico City as a \u201cgeosocial stratum,\u201d rather than only an assortment of human things superimposed on a geological foundation: I agree that there is a connection between the endless creep of tectonic plates below and the muted unraveling of buildings above. Central to my argument is that, for buildings in Mexico City, destruction is only a relative condition.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "ca-5827", "words": "11343", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Vogel, Else", "title": "Good Digestion: The Metabolic Politics of Dutch Dairy Farming", "date": "2025", "keywords": "anthropology; cows; crisis; dairy; digestion; dutch; farmers; farming; farms; feed; food; good; health; human; life; measure; metabolic; metabolic politics; milk; netherlands; nitrogen; politics; production; protein; relations; rumen; ways", "summary": "In a press release and letter to parliament, the minister explained the rationale in simple input-output terms: \u201cGenerally, dairy cows in the Netherlands are fed more protein than the animal needs. By comparing the current food intake of dairy cows with these proposed limits, the committee could fairly easily calculate how much nitrogen emissions (in the form of ammonia) would be reduced by a lower protein content of feed.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ca-5841", "words": "10640", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "65", "author": "Zharkevich, Ina", "title": "Debt and the American Dream: The Specter of Debt and Its Slow Violence among Irregular Migrants from Nepal", "date": "2025", "keywords": "anthropology; debt; families; future; journey; life; migrants; migration; nepal; people; possession; press; spirit; states; tension; time; united; university; years", "summary": "Whereas in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Britain, the institution of debtor prison allowed some debtors to \u201cuse their bodies as economic collateral for debts\u201d (Gregory 2012, 434), in nineteenth- and even twentieth-century Nepal, people became bonded laborers or slaves if they could not repay debt. The Gender of Debt: Male Migrants, Spirit Possession, and Death The burden of debt often concealed yet another burden: the pressure on young men by their families\u2014often wives and mothers\u2014to migrate at all costs and provide for the family (Zharkevich 2019b).", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "ca-5851", "words": "9985", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "43", "author": "McCormack, Fiona", "title": "Marine Inequality, Borderization, and the Radical Potential of Kinship ", "date": "2025", "keywords": "act; aquaculture; area; bordering; borders; claims; colonial; hap\u016b; iwi; kinship; marine; moana; mussel; m\u0101ori; new; new zealand; people; property; rights; sea; settlement; space; spat; tainui; takutai; tribal; wh\u0101ingaroa; zealand", "summary": "Paul-Burke, Kura, Joseph Burke, Te \u016apokorehe Resource Management Team, Charlie Bluett, and Tim Senior 2018 \u201cUsing M\u0101ori Knowledge to Assist Understandings and Management of Shellfish Populations in \u014chiwa Harbour, Aotearoa New Zealand.\u201d While the fiction of mare nullius was revealed in 1986 when Tom Te Weehi, a p\u0101ua (abalone) fisher accused of breaching fisheries regulations, successfully argued that traditional M\u0101ori fishing rights could override European laws (Jackson 2013), and later in the 2003 Ngati Apa v. Attorney-General decision regarding customary land in the foreshore and seabed area (Charters and Erueti 2007), the actualization of M\u0101ori marine property rights and relations is constrained (Harrison 2022;", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "ca-5882", "words": "10209", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "47", "author": "Kar, Sohini", "title": "The Financial Activist: Shareholding and the Inconvenience of Collective Ownership", "date": "2025", "keywords": "2022; action; activism; activists; actors; change; climate; company; corporations; finance; global; governance; investment; investors; press; rio; rio tinto; shareholders; tinto; university; work", "summary": "For instance, in the case of Rio Tinto, shareholder action and questions at AGMs in London were in response to mining operations in Australia and Madagascar. Rio Tinto offers a particularly salient case to analyze in terms of shareholder action and activism.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "ca-6079", "words": "162", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Editorial Team, Cultural Anthropology", "title": "Erratum for \"Resisting Alternative Images\"", "date": "2025", "keywords": "anthropology", "summary": "Cultural Anthropology journal content published since 2014 is freely available to download, save, reproduce, and transmit for noncommercial, scholarly, and educational purposes under the Creative Commons BY-NC 4.0 license. Reproduction and transmission of journal content for the above purposes should credit the author and original source.", "mime": "application/pdf"}]