Book Review: Beyond Filial Piety: Rethinking Aging and Caregiving in Contemporary East Asian Societies
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Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
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In this reflective essay, we explore the concept of generativity and propose it as a more positive interpretation of the experience of ‘completed life’ and its bearing on the wish to die. In 2010, more than 100,000 people in the Netherlands signed a pe…
In Europe, a growing population of aging citizens have migrant background, and many have their origin in non-Western countries. Often, care arrangements in these families are different from those of the majority populations. In Denmark, a growing numbe…
This paper maps the impact of gender imbalance on intergenerational relations in north India. It uses the idea of multiple biological clocks to understand the impact that gender imbalance and male marriage squeeze have on two categories of persons: “ov…
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Sperm swimming in circles or a lone sperm cell with two heads: male reproductive aging is increasingly equated with poor sperm quality, the prevalence of offspring learning disabilities even schizophrenia. To discuss the construction of a male biologic…
Knowledge claims may play an essential role in reproductive decision-making, as individuals seek out, assess, reject, and use information about health and fertility gathered from numerous sources. This paper focuses specifically on childless women’s se…
Through a mapping of field data collected from two parts of India: Hisar in North India and Hyderabad in South India, this paper looks at the ways in which reproductive decline and ageing have become part of the discourse on assisted reproduction in In…
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We applied a biocultural lens to examine the temporal order of biological, behavioral, and medical events related to fertility across the female reproductive lifespan in three sites, two in Mexico and one in the United States. Using a mixed-method des…
Journal of Extreme Anthropology
Journal of Extreme Anthropology
Reviewed by Anthony Ballas, University of Colorado at Denver Madina Tlostanova. What Does it Mean to be Post-Soviet?: Decolonial Art from the Ruins of the Soviet Empire. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018. 145 pp. Although the days of socialist realis…
Knowledge in Common and the Diversification of Scientific Fields in the Ottoman Worlds: Diffusion, Actors, Epistemologies [Full text]
Philippe Bourmaud and Aude Aylin de Tapia
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Knowledge in Common and the Diversification of Scientific Fields in the Ottoman Worlds: Diffusion, Actors, Epistemologies [Full text]
Philippe Bourmaud and Aude Aylin de Tapia
Communauté …
Knowledge in Common and the Diversification of Scientific Fields in the Ottoman Worlds: Diffusion, Actors, Epistemologies [Full text]
Philippe Bourmaud and Aude Aylin de Tapia
Communauté …
Cinematically, Yoruba filmmakers represent different aspects of the Nigerian nation and various elements of traditional cultures, customs, and praxes. In particular, they pay close attention to the influences of supernatural powers and metaphysical age…
Digitisation has altered and reinvented the fabric of African folklore, redefining the concept of the audience and the performance, as well as the audience-performer relationship. These reconfigurations have raised questions regarding the capacities of…