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Jonathan Marks 《Reviews in Anthropology》2013,42(4):207-226
Unlike other scientific fields, anthropology popularizations are as likely as not to be written by scientists who are not themselves experts in the subject. This is because the subject, the scientific knowledge of our origin and patterns of bio-cultural diversity—or more broadly, who we are and where we come from—is the source of our culturally authoritative origin myths, and consequently of broad general interest in and of itself. But anthropology popularizations come with the responsibility not only to get the facts and theory correct, but as well to understand the history and embedded politics in the stories themselves. 相似文献
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What might anthropology offer to our understanding of mutualistic relations? In making sense of these interspecies interactions, which, despite some costs, are ultimately beneficial to each partner species, zoological approaches operate at the level of populations on an adaptive scale. Anthropologists bring focus on individual actors and their subjective experiences within far more condensed temporospatial ethnographic timescales. This guest editorial brings a multispecies anthropological approach into dialogue with zoological understandings of mutualism. It examines the practical and theoretical potential of mutuality to make sense of relations of domestication. Materialistic profit and market-oriented forms of engagement in the domestic sphere are often detrimental to more-than-human communities. The persistence of different kinds of mutual co-existences, as shown in different forms of care of orphaned animals in Mongolia, Pakistan and Australia, offers an alternative and perhaps more hopeful model of more-than-human engagement in the Anthropocene. 相似文献
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Blockchain and its related technologies break away from the contemporary dystopian imaginaries of control and exploitation endemic in IT. This editorial considers the relevance of blockchain for anthropologists, why they should care, and what the technology brings. After sketching the evolution of blockchain, we draw attention to its potential as a playground – a plethora of projects reimagining and remaking the basic stuff of political economy, including the meaning of money, collectivities, exchange and voting. Blockchain's utility for rethinking the basic rules of the game in academia also deserves attention. 相似文献
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Stephen Gudeman 《Anthropology today》2017,33(1):1-2
Disciplines from sociology to economics have claimed to be the queen of the social sciences. Lévi‐Strauss asserted the same for anthropology. Instead of competing for a royal position, we might better describe ourselves as the court jester who mocks and mimics accepted behaviour. 相似文献
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Chris Hann 《Anthropology today》2019,35(1):1-2
This guest editorial probes the inflationary use of ‘populism’ and the contribution that anthropologists can make to this field. Although a highly variable phenomenon historically, contemporary populists in locations as diverse as rural Hungary and urban Wales have much in common in their disaffection with the politics of liberal democracy. While the deeper causes must be sought in political economy, emotion and identity are just as important as material interest in populist movements. In describing and explaining populism, anthropologists should heed the populist traditions of their discipline – even at the risk of political incorrectness. 相似文献
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Frank G. Vallee 《Reviews in Anthropology》2013,42(4):531-535
Gerald L. Gold and Marc‐Adelard Tremblay, eds. Communities and Culture in French Canada. Toronto: Holt, Rhinehart and Winston of Canada, 1973. xvi + 364 pp. Maps, tables, appendixes, bibliographies, indexes, and notes. $6.50 (paper). 相似文献
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Robert F. Spencer 《Reviews in Anthropology》2013,42(1):140-145
James P. Spradley and George E. McDonough, eds. Anthropology Through Literature. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1973. xviii + 412 pp. $5.95 (paper). 相似文献
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Alf Hornborg 《Anthropology today》2020,36(2):1-2
In the Anthropocene – an age troubled by global processes of material degradation – anthropology is constrained by its emphasis on local experience. Rather than confine itself, like mainstream economics, to the study of signs and subjectivities, it needs to develop its capacity to deal with the interaction of the symbolic and the material. This should include unravelling how economic ideas and the semiotics of consumption are entwined with the materiality of the biosphere and the physical metabolism of world society. 相似文献
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William A. Longacre 《Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory》2010,17(2):81-100
Anthropology was established in the USA during the middle of the nineteenth century. From the beginning, archaeology was considered
a part of the discipline, a notion that continues to this day. However, over the course of the past 160 years, periodically,
the place of archaeology within anthropology is questioned. Often, this has a reflection in the growth or shrinking in membership
of the Archaeology Division of the American Anthropological Association. I explore these trends and try to explain them in
terms of the history of anthropology. 相似文献
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PAUL SULLIVAN 《Reviews in Anthropology》2013,42(4):260-281
Anthropological, linguistic, historical, and archeological research on the Maya proceeds today amidst public contestation, for political and economic reasons, of the identity of Maya people and the nature of Maya culture. Neo-liberal multiculturalism, struggles over dwindling land and forest resources, the intensification of international tourism, and the growth of pan-Maya movements repeatedly raise the question of who and what is authentically Maya. Our scholarship, while motivated by quite different concerns and interests, unavoidably touches on similar issues in its exploration of the forms and meanings of Maya expression, belief, and ritual from ancient times to the present. 相似文献
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David Sutton 《Anthropology today》2018,34(1):7-10
The recent Hollywood science fiction film Arrival features as its main character a linguist who explicitly references the Sapir‐Whorf hypothesis and linguistic relativism. Unusually for a mainstream film, Arrival presents the insights of linguistic anthropology as a key to the human‐alien encounter and combines these concerns with other key anthropological insights, particularly in relation to notions of time and the embodied nature of writing/drawing. In this article, the author argues that the film can be useful in thinking about anthropological debates on ‘strong’ and ‘weak’ versions of Sapir‐Whorf and suggests that a careful parsing of the anthropological concepts drawn on in the film provides food for thought about the possible usefulness of popular fictional concoctions for thinking through contemporary issues in anthropology and conveying them to a wider audience. 相似文献