Call for papers: Indigenous Peoples, tribunals, prisons, and legal and public processes in Brasil and Canada

Editores do dossiê: Stephen Grant Baines (UnB) e Bruce Granville Miller, University of British Columbia (UBC)   Este dossiê é o resultado do painel, “Indigenous Peoples, tribunals, prisons, and legal and public processes”, coordenado por Stephen G. Baines e Bruce G. Miller, realizado em 23 de novembro de 2019 na Conferência Internacional da CASCA/AAA em […]

Anxieties of Entitlement

Despite the rise of the “moral economy” as a frame for analyzing increasing inequality, few scholars have explored the moral dimensions of elites’ experience and interpretations of their own privilege. Based on in-depth interviews with 50 afflue…

Présentation

I. Introduction
La distinction est un objet classique en sciences sociales depuis au moins Hebert Spencer et nous disposons en la matière de nombreuses traditions analytiques toutes dignes d’attention. Mais lorsque le sujet se voit évoqué,…

More Thoughts on Scholarly Misconduct, and What We Can Learn from It: A Critical Response to Peter Jan Margry’s Article about the Bax Affair

The anthropologist Mart Bax, who as professor of anthropology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam made up numerous (non-existing) publications, and who had published about events (in Medjugorje, Bosnia) that never happened, and about places (in the province of Noord-Brabant, the Netherlands) that did not exist. This non-existing “empirical” material formed the basis for Bax’s theory of “religious regimes” and his academic career.

Call for papers

Dear Colleagues!CAES editorial team awaits your papers for CAES Vol. 6, № 4 that is going to be published in the middle of December 2020.

HOMAGE TO A GREAT WOMAN

Texto em homenagem a Maria Isaura Pereira de Queiroz. Diferentemente da maioria dos estudos sobre a história da sociologia brasileira, o autor toma a trajetória de Maria Isaura no exterior, principalmente a publicação de seus livros em outros id…

Canine et al.

Coauthoring research with my companion animal — Ritti Soncco

Becoming a target of HIV intervention

The science and politics of anthropological reframing — Eileen MoyerThis think piece asks readers to consider how the science of anthropology has contributed to (re)categorization and imaginaries of gender, class, and the state in the context of public…

Dr. Ram’s triage

Categorization, speculation, and granting access to global health technologies in Indian private clinics — Andrew McDowellTriage is a process of categorizing potential health and guiding care. It is based on the idea that all bodies are equal while pot…

A composite case

Thinking with ‘BME’ categories in UK mental health care — Natassia F. BrenmanIn this think piece, I discuss a composite category – Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) – that has emerged and expanded to incorporate race, ethnicity, and now also immigration …