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Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Spatial turn in Urban Anthropology Contents Urban Space studies: 1 Contested Urban Space. 2 The methodological and theoretical use of spatiality within anthropology began with ethnographies that examined the relationship of architecture and culture. 1 Racialized Space.
In Asia and Oceania, Spanish rule for over 300 years introduced Catholicism and centralized governance in places like present-day Guam , the Philippines, and Taiwan, deeply altering the identity and languages of these regions. Without a clear understanding of what lies within their vaults, museums cannot fulfill this duty.
MerrillSinger, PhD, University of Connecticut The COVID-19 pandemic brought enhanced global attention to the anthropological concept of syndemics. As medical anthropologist Lance Gravlee observed, syndemics has achieved a broader reach than most anthropological ideas. It is a syndemic.
Anthropology has long been celebrated as a discipline that offers profound insights into human cultures, societies, and behaviors. As we navigate the complexities of the twenty-first century, anthropology faces an ever-evolving landscape that presents challenges and opportunities for renewal and growth.
iv] Anthropological attention to Peasant study: Although Robert Redfield’s fieldwork in Mexico as early as 1926 is considered to be the first attempt to see peasant as an analytical category, the study of peasant or the use of the term peasant is quite old. Nash (1966), and the geographer Franklin (1969).
Anne Schiller, George Mason University From the outset of the SARS-Covid 19 pandemic, governments and private entities worldwide launched health awareness campaigns that included instruction on cleansing one’s hands. Wall signs and foot markers materialized in a thrice. A barrage of how-to videos were posted on websites the world over.
First, when the government office tasked with the Tuam excavation initiated an early DNA sampling campaign for elderly and sick presumed relatives of children in the grave, the genetic kinship analysis provisions of the 2022 Institutional Burials Act became an object of contention. Two examples will suffice.
But our research on firewood gathering by Diné people shows the federal government can do more to ensure the promises of equitable co-management. A number of different groups are engaged in this process, including federal, state, and local government agencies; conservation organizations; and tribes.
Project Title:Exploring Indigenous Governance and Cultural Evolution in Oaxaca, Mexico Mauricio Fernndez Duque, Dartmouth College Mauricio Fernndez Duque is an assistant professor at CIDE and a visiting scholar at Dartmouth. Read about the funded projects.
Related: After its college closes, a rural community fights to keep a path to education open His classmates who will be affected by the changes “are such creatives at heart, and they all came here because they loved what they were doing,” said Bertram, who is also student government representative for the university’s College of Creative Arts.
The two concepts are often combined in anthropological writings and they have a close and complex historical relationship. Fischer, and other German scholars recruited by the Russian government to report on the peoples of the newly explored eastern territories. Petersburg in the 1760s, where he ed with G. Müller, J.
Like Jehovahs Witness congregations in the rest of the world, Kombela Central Mandarin Congregation is governed by local elders in charge of pastoral work, selecting speakers, and directing public preaching. Jean Hunleth and Samar Al-Bulushi are the section contributing editors for the Association for Africanist Anthropology.
At the time, the Ministry of Industries and the government of Bangladesh were seeking to reform the country’s shipbreaking industry so that Bangladesh would be in a position to ratify the 2009 “Hong Kong Convention for Safe and Environmentally Sound Ship Recycling” (HKC) by 2023. The changes took place as late as 2011.
Recommendations for anthropology programs from the Anthropology Career Readiness Network In January 2023, the Anthropology Career Readiness Network conducted two illuminating focus groups with undergraduate and graduate anthropology students to gain insight into their perspectives on career preparation and the transition from school to work.
However, the government policies fail to outline practical measures, leaving a gap in the market for exploring professional standards. Aaron Su and Jieun Cho are the section contributing editors for the Society for East Asian Anthropology.
Beginning in the 1960s, with extensive foreign aid, the Tibetan exile government in India built an infrastructure of Tibetan medium schools specifically for Tibetan refugee children. Sarah Muir and Michael Wroblewski are the section contributing editors for the Society for Linguistic Anthropology.
We meet to heal, to build, to resist, to govern, to share, to change. Anthropology has been quite slow to embrace Helen Schwartzman’s insight in The Meeting: Gatherings in Organizations and Communities (1989) that meetings offer a vital window into collective human projects and organizations.
In 2015, while conducting anthropological fieldwork in eastern Indonesia, a member of our team (Cole) heard local women discussing how water shortages were triggering arguments between partners. For government authorities, we created policy briefs, translated into Bahasa Indonesian and Spanish.
Government agencies and NGOs promote cookstoves for women with the promise of reducing drudgery. Maja Jeranko and Anika Jugovic-Spajic are section contributing editors for the Association for Feminist Anthropology. appeared first on Anthropology News. It has no place in scholarly work or policy statements.
When temperatures rise above 50°C, the government grants public holidays. But, very quickly, complaining about the heat leads to criticism of the government and the political class. For them, global warming and how it affects them points to a political problem of governance and management.
He then served in the US Army in for two years (1952–54) and as a government researcher in Germany before earning a PhD in cultural anthropology in 1961 from the University of London, with certificates in African and Islamic law and Swahili at the School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS) in 1958.
He has an office, access to professional training and government-provided health insurance. He makes the equivalent of about $7,000 per course, per term. He has a multiyear contract and can typically pick the subjects that he teaches. All of these things, he said, help him focus on the reason that he’s there: his students.
The Spider in the Room Questions about teaching and learning are not new, especially in anthropology. Further, varied government and regulatory agencies have pressed for widespread AI literacy training. And how can a better understanding of the student position inform higher education’s response to GenAI? For example, H.R.
Joining a biographical account of Foucault with careful exegesis of his later writings on care of the self, Dr. Tilleczek elaborates a ‘general ascetology’ in which understanding power and agency as they pertain to practices of self-improvement remains a matter of historical anthropological investigation.
Her ongoing work includes a co-edited volume on concepts, data, and methods in comparative law and politics, and projects examining institutions of electoral governance in Latin America, and how research methods are used in political science scholarship.
Ideal pet-keeping in the Global North is governed by law; the well-being of an animal ensured by stable homes with fenced yards, regular medical surveillance, and enclosed quarantines and doggie daycares (upon leaving Ecuador, Barbuncho lived in quarantine for his first four months in Sweden).
Meanwhile, others persisted in rejecting the “Ponzi scheme participant” label imposed by the state, asserting, “I am an investor lured by the government for their ‘financial inclusion.’ The post Deception as Investment: How to Make Digital Ponzi Schemes in China appeared first on Anthropology News.
How do beggars gain access to public space in Guangzhou through such performances, navigating local governance and social norms? At the same time, however, the social issues caused by the market transition intensified and urged more “humanist” governance, according to the official jargon.
On February 17, a protest organized by an all-party action council in Pulpally, also in north Wayanad, turned violent when government officials and representatives didn’t promise in writing to meet the protesters’ demands. The debates often featured local activists urging the government to heed the pleas of the public living in fear.
And here in South Africa where Koffi Kouakou resides, a newly elected Coalition Government is still going through teething challenges of its own. The post Vocabularies Unknown: The Future Is Personal appeared first on Anthropology News. The recent elections marked 30 years since South Africa stepped into democracy.
This potential harm to tangible heritage raises the ire of conservationists across government agencies, museums, universities, and other non-profit organizations. The post Seeking Ever-Elusive Treasures: Reflections on Collective Memory and Spectrality of the Past appeared first on Anthropology News.
La Toma is an Afro-Colombian community that has long sat at the intersection of extractive industries—especially gold mining—and violence from right-wing paramilitaries, guerillas, and government forces. Joseph Feldman is the Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology section editor. What is solidarity?
Master Cheng Yen calls recycling work “self-cultivation,” thus making an ordinary labor that is paid when it is done at government recycling centers into a religious practice at Tzu Chi centers, where people cheerfully work for no pay. The government wants to protect wildlife populations in the mountains.
They are proud of the region’s resilience but fearful for the future, as the Japanese government releases treated irradiated water from the nuclear plant into the surrounding ocean, largely ignoring local and international environmental concerns. They are frequently made by children in the early summer before the rainy season.
Outside of anthropology, he became known for his popular salvos on work and democracyincluding the breakthrough publication Debt: The First 5,000 Years and his activism within the Occupy Wall Street protests in 2011. At the time of his death, we were co-editing a book series at Pluto Press called Anthropology, Culture, and Society.
She had been switched from intermediate courses because she was late receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, a requirement to participate in the government-run customer service class that was part of IFF’s workforce development program. The post Putting Language to Work in the Dominican Republic appeared first on Anthropology News.
Some were there to oppose vaccine mandates, while others attended to express their dissatisfaction with the Trudeau government and its social policies. In the background are historical government buildings, and in the front are six children dressed warmly for winter and holding placards with protest content. Merci infiniment.
From an anthropological as well a historical viewpoint, religion- that is, a people’s world view – is at the core of traditional cultures around the world. Religion in this sense includes not only beliefs in supernatural powers or God or gods, and related ceremonies, but is the basis for cultural values, and social systems and relationships.
His book, The Races of Europe (1899), is a prime example of this pseudoscientific approach to anthropology, but it was relatively non-controversial at the time. He held various important government posts in the first decades of the 20th century, including Administrator of Labor Standards in the Department of War (1917-18).
In 2006, during the United Progressive Alliance Regime under the leadership of Prime Minister, Mr. Manmohan Singh, the Government of India initiated National Tribal Policy. The primary aim of the policy was to correct several mishaps of the earlier policies centering on the Tribal population of the country.
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In my discipline of anthropology—a field inherently concerned with both cultural and biological diversity—there is an unsettling paradox. Cascading effects include changes in institutional governance, promotion expectations, time budgeting, and workload.
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