Death and Compassion: The Elephant in Southern African Literature by Dan Wylie
Book Review
Category: English
Living with transplant
Never quite beyond illness — Laura L. HeinemannOrgan transplantation is often held to epitomize the power and promise of biomedicine. Yet life after transplant does not so clearly mark an ‘after’ to illness, and instead requires close monitoring and tr…
Post-cure
— Narelle Warren, Courtney AddisonThe curative imaginary is a powerful driver of hope and investment in medicine, often displacing attention and resources given to other illness-related fields of practice. Whereas cure implies an end to the sick role …
Unsettling disciplinary frontiers
An opportunity to address inequities in genetic medicine? — Emily Hammad MrigRecent advances in genetic research provide anthropologists with an opportunity to reconsider the meaning and importance of interdisciplinary research. This piece suggests tha…
After illness, under diagnosis
Negotiating uncertainty and enacting care — Lenore MandersonA vast portion of the world’s population live with ill health following acute infection or disease and its emergency management. This reflects the increased capacity of technological innovatio…
The stakes of (not) knowing
Motherhood, disability, and prenatal diagnostics in Jordan — Christine SargentThis article draws on the concept of subjunctivity to explore how conditions of uncertainty, experimentation, and refusal shape the lives of women raising children with Down …
Bhabha in the clinic
Hybridity, difference, and decolonizing health — Carolyn Smith-MorrisBefore professional diagnosis, the determination of whether one is ‘ill’ or ‘well’ rests within the patient. These moments, when sufferers (re)cognize their own bodily and phenomenolo…
Diagnosing hikikomori
Social withdrawal in contemporary Japan — Ellen B. Rubinstein, Rae V. SakakibaraHikikomori (‘social withdrawal’) appeared in Japan at the end of the twentieth century, inciting public panic about a generation of Japanese youth who shun social contact a…
Antrocom vol. 16 n.1 is on line!!!!
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Antrocom vol. 16 number 1, 2020 is on line!!
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Call for papers
CAES editorial team calls for your papers for CAES Vol. 6, № 3, that is going to be published in the second half of September 2020. The deadline for submission is August 17, 2020.
Translating Swahili linguistic terminology into Italian
This article investigates the process of translating Swahili linguistic terminology into Italian as a way to reflect upon the metalinguistic representation of two different language structures. On the one hand, some terms of ancient Greek etymology, su…
The Voices of Berlin: Busking in a ‘Creative’ City
The city of Berlin is often advertised as one of the most prominent creative cities today. In the past two decades, its marketing agencies have constructed a carefully crafted urban image designed to attract the young, mobile and creative workers that …
CAES Vol. 6, № 2
Editor’s foreword Articles: Buyeo group and Manchu Alexander Akulov In this paper the question of relatedness of the Manchu language and Buyeo group is resolved by Verb Grammar Correlation Index (VGCI). The method supposes a direct comparison of really existing/existed languages. The method is based on the idea that language is ordered pair <A; Ω> […]
Jean Remy : l’enseignant, le savant et l’homme
Le sociologue Jean Remy est décédé le 6 octobre 2019 à l’âge de 91 ans. Il a été professeur à l’Université catholique de Louvain (aujourd’hui UCLouvain) de 1967 à 1992. Il a également enseigné pendant de nombreuses années à l’Université Saint-Lo…
Presentation
I. Introduction
In the last few decades, the number of men and women aspiring to be recognized as artists and live from their art in a professional manner has significantly increased in developed societies, whether we refer to actors (Meng…
Présentation
I. Introduction
Sur les dernières décennies, le nombre de celles et de ceux qui aspirent à être reconnu·e·s comme artistes et à vivre de leur art de manière professionnelle a largement augmenté dans les sociétés développées, que l’on pense…
In the Shadow of the First Big Break
There are more aspiring artists than available positions for artists in artistic labor markets. For fiction writers, the publication of a first book often means getting the first big break in their literary career and entering the literary worl…
Self-Precarization and Structural Poverty
This article discusses the situation of Finnish visual artists, taking as its starting point ideas presented by Hans Abbing in his book Why Are Artists Poor (2002). The empirical data derive from a survey on young artists conducted at the end of…
Rythmes et ancrages sociaux des carrières musicales “ordinaires”
La question des dynamiques temporelles des carrières artistiques a été souvent investie, avec l’ambition de mettre au jour les patterns menant à la reconnaissance critique et/ou publique. Ainsi, les logiques structurant les rythmes des carrièr…
Professional Aspirations in Exile
This paper utilizes qualitative and quantitative analysis to examine the careers of foreign (non-EU) musicians living and working in Europe, and in particular, the second phase of a career in classical music of Japanese musicians in France and P…
Vivre du théâtre d’entreprise
À la fin des années 1980 ont été lancées en France les premières expériences de théâtre d’entreprise visant à résoudre les “dysfonctionnements” internes des entreprises. Or, ces pièces sont portées par des comédien·e·s professionnel·le·s qui in…
Rester plasticien quand la notoriété ne fait plus partie du champ des possibles
Ce texte analyse les conditions du maintien de l’activité des artistes modestes en deuxième partie de carrière qui, malgré une absence de revenus associés à la pratique artistique et un faible niveau de reconnaissance, continuent à se définir co…
Garder les pieds sur scène
Cet article aborde les stratégies mobilisées par des artistes œuvrant dans le secteur de la danse et du cirque pour perdurer dans une activité scénique. Si le maintien dans la carrière est complexe pour l’ensemble des artistes, il l’est d’autant…
Paradoxes of (In)security and Moral Regeneration in Vanuatu and Beyond
This article examines some paradoxical intersections of fear, security, and morality on Ahamb Island in Vanuatu in the South Pacific. I take as my ethnographic vantage point a child-led Christian revival movement that developed in the wake of enduring …