Review of Cruz-Torres, María L. 2023. Pink gold: Women, shrimp, and work in Mexico
Ukrainian priests as creators of church carols in the 17th – 19th centuries.
The study highlights the development of the genre of church carols in the work of Ukrainian priests as a component of the spiritual song culture of the 17th – 19th centuries with a possible specification of their authors. A review of the scientific wor…
Applied / Engaged / Activist / (ultimately) Kuleana Anthropology in the Classroom and Beyond – An Interview with Professor Christine Yano
Christine Yano has recently retired as Professor of Anthropology at the University of Hawaii. She has conducted research on Japan and Japanese Americans with a focus on popular culture. At the University of Hawaii, she taught a course called ‘Applied/ …
‘Before we begin…’: The Role of Introductions in Anthropological Education
The classroom – and a first seminar or tutorial in specific – affords a seemingly infinite number of starting points, invitations, orientations, and departures. This report reflects on the introduction as a pedagogical tool of, for, and as ethnography,…
Learning to Think Like an Anthropologist? Toward Understanding Student Acquisition of Anthropological Perspectives in Online vs. Face-to-Face Anthropology of Education Courses
In recent years, online approaches to teaching anthropology have become popular in higher education. In this exploratory account, we consider how student understanding of anthropological ideas differed in online vs. face-to-face modalities of an anthro…
Book Review of Loftsdóttir, Kristín, Hipfl, Brigitte and Ponzanesi, Sandra (eds.) 2024. <em>Creating Europe from the Margins: Mobilities and Racism in Postcolonial Europe</em>. London: Routledge. 216 pp.
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Book review of Castañeda, Heide. 2023. <em>Migration and health: Critical perspectives</em>. London & New York: Routledge. 166 pp.
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Book Review of Wilhelmsen, Terese, Berg, Ellen, Evensen, Kristin V., Solstad, Gerd Marie, and Thorjussen, Ingfrid M. (eds.) 2023. <em>Bevegelsesfellesskap i oppveksten: Kritiske perspektiver på inkludering og mangfold [Movement Communities in Childhood: Critical Perspectives on Inclusion and Diversity]</em>. Bergen: Fagbokforlaget
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Assisted Dying as Intimate Care
How does asking loved ones to help you die, to help you commit suicide, bend the limits of our relationships and perhaps of care itself? This paper traces the aesthetic and affective considerations of those deciding to die resist against depersonalizin…
A political ecology of shifting commons in the Pyrenees: Shepherds on the edge of production and amenity-based capitalism after the reintroduction of bears
The brown bear reintroduction program in the Pyrenees was launched in 1996, once their population was considered extinct in the central parts of the mountain range. The increasing number of livestock casualties caused by bear attacks forced the public …
DELPIERRE Alizée, Les domesticités
Dans cet ouvrage, Alizée Delpierre, chercheuse au CNRS, poursuit son travail sur les domesticités avec l’objectif de dessiner de façon globale une sociologie historiquement ancrée des travailleurs et travailleuses domestiques à travers le monde…
Le “traitement” des personnes malades mentales à l’heure de la désinstitutionnalisation
Cet article entend explorer les ressorts de la participation familiale au fonctionnement de l’institution psychiatrique, pensée essentiellement comme manière de configurer les relations en vue de “traiter” les personnes malades. Le travail effec…
Le véganisme à l’épreuve de l’animalisme francophone
Alors que le mouvement animaliste se politise en Occident, il reste principalement compris comme un mouvement de promotion du véganisme. Cette vision s’écarte de la volonté d’émancipation animale dont se revendiquent les militants de la cause a…
Les Gilets jaunes, entre solidarité mécanique et revendications organiques
Dès le début du mouvement des Gilets jaunes, les chercheuses et chercheurs sont partis dans des interprétations très diverses et parfois contradictoires. Dans cet article, nous proposons une revue de la littérature, aussi exhaustive que possible…
Sociological Responsibility: A Re-examination of Pierre Bourdieu’s Critical Undertaking
This article aims to reconstruct Pierre Bourdieu’s contribution to the analysis of the sociologist’s role in society, starting from two levels of responsibility that run through his work. The first is related to scientific quality. According to …
RIGOULET Vincent, BIDET Alexandra, Vivre sans produire. L’insoutenable légèreté des penseurs du vivant
En 2021, Frédéric Lordon publie : Pleurnicher le vivant. Ce texte au ton provocateur qualifie les « penseurs du vivant » – considérés comme héritiers d’une vision politique latourienne de la nature – de « radicaux de l’insignifiance ». Il décl…
Book Review: Women Business Leaders: Identity, Resistance, and Alternative Forms of Knowledge in Saudi Arabia by Liela A. Jamjoom. 2023. New York & Abingdon: Routledge
Journal of Business Anthropology
The Omnipresence of Business – and, Potentially, Business Anthropology
Journal of Business Anthropology
Anthropologists at Work: Case Studies of Creating Value in Business
This essay will provide a series of concrete cases that reflect particularly successful or rewarding projects that anthropologists I interviewed worked on. These cases provide a window into the uniquely valuable contributions of anthropology when appli…
Data Is No Free Gift: An Anthropological Perspective on Data Sharing in an Inter-Organizational Context
Organizational research on data sharing in inter-organizational contexts is limited, giving little insight into why data is or is not shared, often bypassing social and cultural norms, values and perspectives, and issues of power, (dis)trust, and (un)w…
To Be “Entrepreneured”: An Ethnographic Study of Tech Entrepreneurship Competitions in China
Technological incubators are commonly regarded as important infrastructures that nurture nascent business ventures, meant to create conditions for innovation and regional economic development. However, in China, such an incubator functions as a perform…
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