Book Review
Journal Name: Journal of Legal AnthropologyVolume: 3Issue: 2Pages: 132-134
Spells of belonging
Journal Name: Journal of Legal AnthropologyVolume: 3Issue: 2Pages: 128-131
KINSHIP AND HISTORY: TRIBES, GENEALOGIES, AND SOCIAL CHANGE AMONG THE BEDOUIN OF THE EASTERN ARAB WORLD
Most scholars of tribal organization among the Bedouin of the eastern Arab world utilize a two-dimensional, hierarchical model of Bedouin kinship that represents only relations of descent and affinity. This model resembles a genealogy and shows how sma…
SUBSTITUTABILITY OF KIN AND THE CROW-OMAHA PROBLEM
The reasons for the existence of Crow-Omaha terminologies have long been debated because of difficulties in associating them with specific features of social organization or practice. However, by going back to the theories of earlier authorities like J…
Making Invisible Changes Visible: Animal Examples and the Communication of Biodiversity Loss
Communicating biodiversity loss and other environmental threats is never only about relating natural science data. How different environmental discourses are presented, how they intertwine, and what concepts of nature are implied, are important parts o…
The Framing of Immigration and Integration in Sweden and Norway:
Journal Name: Nordic Journal of Migration ResearchVolume: -1Issue: ahead-of-print
Historical and Modern Perspectives on Mobile Labour:
Journal Name: Nordic Journal of Migration ResearchVolume: -1Issue: ahead-of-print
“I Never Want to Lose that Key”:
Journal Name: Nordic Journal of Migration ResearchVolume: -1Issue: ahead-of-print
Norwegian Women’s Experiences of 20th-Century Migration to England:
Journal Name: Nordic Journal of Migration ResearchVolume: -1Issue: ahead-of-print
IJAPS Winner of CRÈME 2019
The International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies (IJAPS) is once again selected as the recipient of the CRÈME award for year 2019, accorded by the Ministry of Education Malaysia. The award was first introduced in 2015 under CREAM (which has now been rebranded to CRÈME) as a recognition to highly performing scholarly journals in the … Continue reading →
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CHAPTER 8: DWIGHT READ: TOWARDS A NEW PARADIGM: FOLLOWED BY A DISCUSSION BETWEEN THE AUTHOR AND DWIGHT READ
Here I report on Dwight Read’s theory for a paradigm change in kinship anthropology which entails kinship terminologies being interpreted as symbolic computational systems based on kin-term products. I also report on how Read argues that different conc…
Transforming Teaching towards Empowered Learning: What #MeToo Taught Us about Anthropology
This article calls for revisiting how we teach anthropology in light of three mutually reinforcing “moments” – the #MeToo Movement, the development of the American Anthropological Association’s first Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault Policy, and shi…
Spark Joy? Compulsory Happiness and the Feminist Politics of Decluttering
This essay analyzes the Marie Kondo brand as a set of neoliberal techniques for managing cultural anxieties around over-consumption, clutter and the family. Drawing from critical discussions of consumer culture and waste, as well as feminist scholarshi…
Toxic Tropics: Purity and Danger in Everywhere in Everyday Life
In contrast to popular images of the tropics as verdant Edens, forest dwellers face various pollutants with little-understood environmental health impacts. Drawing upon long-term ethnographic research in northern Guatemala through the lens of Mary …
Toxic Tropics: Purity and Danger in Everywhere in Everyday Life
In contrast to popular images of the tropics as verdant Edens, forest dwellers face various pollutants with little-understood environmental health impacts. Drawing upon long-term ethnographic research in northern Guatemala through the lens of Mary …
Revisiting the Importance of Distance in Transnational Family Lives:
Journal Name: Nordic Journal of Migration ResearchVolume: -1Issue: ahead-of-print
Art For an Undivided Earth: The American Indian Movement Generation
Reviewed by Anthony Ballas, University of Denver Jessica Horton. Art For an Undivided Earth: The American Indian Movement Generation. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017. 312 pages. In the shadow and in the wake of settler colonialism, a parallel shape…
Pragmatic Experimentalism: A Review of Society Guidance (Part one) at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art’s (UCCA) summer group exhibition Society Guidance (Part I) is a show lesser seen. Compared to the institution’s other summer exhibition, the spectacularly displayed Picasso: Birth of a Genius, coterminously happening …
Call For Papers : Issue 32, Rest and the Rest, Aesthetics of Idleness
For its thirty-second issue, InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture invites scholarly articles and creative works that address the aesthetics of idleness. This issue will also feature an introduction by and an interview with Jean M…
How Does Place Matter to Highly Skilled Migrants?
Journal Name: Nordic Journal of Migration ResearchVolume: -1Issue: ahead-of-print
CAES Vol. 5, № 3
Editor’s foreword Think pieces: Comparing ornaments of Volosovo and Lyalovo potteries by Monte Carlo method Alexander Akulov The technocomplex of Volosovo is supposed to be a continuation of Lyalovo technocomplex. In this paper degree of similarity of potteries of Volosovo and Lyalovo is estimated by Monte Carlo method. Have been taken two sets of potsherds […]
Personas que gestan para otros: Etnografía del trabajo … – Aibr
2019-09-26 – RESUMEN. El circuito de la gestación para otros en México —cuyo auge tuvo lugar entre …
Volunteering as Media Work: The Case of the Eurovision Song Contest
This article explores volunteering in relation to the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC), which took place in Stockholm in 2016 and in Kyiv in 2017, with the aim of shedding light on volunteering as a form of “media work”. Following from this, the article a…
In Good Condition: The Discourse of Patina as seen in Interactions between Experts and Laymen in the Antiques Trade
This article examines how notions of patina are conveyed by experts in the antiques trade. How do antiques experts convey perceptions of patina to their clients and audience? How do they explain, persuade, and put forward their standards of condition? …
Paradoxes of Mentoring: An Ethnographic Study of a Mentoring Programme for Highly-educated Women with Migrant Backgrounds
This article explores paradoxes that emerge in the mentoring of highly-educated, female, foreign-born job-seekers in Finland. Theoretically, the study is linked to the growing body of research scrutinising the integration or discrimination of migrants …