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Notes on contributors Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-03-25
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Epiphenomenal suasion: Jehovah's Witnesses and the politics of preaching against the state Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-03-23 Danny Cardoza
The individual is the conventional way religious change is figured when considering ‘conversion’. This essay argues this is rooted in the soteriological focus of Christian evangelism and shifts what are typically taken to be the objects of change to view them as agents of change. As an example of this, the essay compares two ethnographic examples of Jehovah's Witnesses’ evangelism: the ways that Witnesses
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Proselytizing is not evangelism: epistemic virtue and religious suasion at a post‐fundamentalist church in Nashville Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Sam Victor
This essay proposes a moral epistemological explanation for many US evangelicals’ growing unease about proselytizing. Drawing on extensive fieldwork at a church in Nashville, Tennessee, it highlights how a particular kind of epistemological certainty became a driving value of evangelical biblicism when early nineteenth‐century evangelicals attempted to apply the precepts of inductive science to textual
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Afterword: Suasion, circulation, and an anthropology of influence Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Courtney Handman
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Self‐suasion: agents of Jewish conversion in Israel in search of religious sincerity Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Michal Kravel‐Tovi
The title of this essay is intended as ironic. The irony resides in the fact that while the agents of state‐run Jewish conversion in Israel are preoccupied with the sincerity of conversion candidates, they are also troubled by the sincerity of their own religious belief and conduct. This essay will explore ethnographically how these religiopolitical actors engage with semiotic and interactive strategies
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Dialogues: anthropology and literature Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Siddratul Muntaha Jillani, Kiran Nazir Ahmed, Liliana Colanzi, Jessica Sequeira, Elisa Taber, Rex Lee Jim, Anthony K. Webster, Najet Adouani, Andrew Brandel
The relationship between anthropology and literature has attracted renewed theoretical energy in recent years (Brandel 2020; Debaene 2014; Fassin 2014; Reed 2018; Wulff 2016), developing and deepening connections with, for example, anthropological theories of art (Reed 2011), religion (Furani 2012), subjectivity (Olszewska 2015), and ethics (Bush 2017), as well as with allied fields and traditions
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Sex and stature estimation on the tibia: a virtual pilot study on a contemporary Hispanic population Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Giorgia Mittino, Helen Langstaff, Julieta G. García‐Donas
Sex and stature estimation represent two pillars in the creation of the biological profile, providing crucial demographic information that forensic anthropologists use for the identification of unknown skeletonized remains. This pilot study evaluates population data proposing a virtual sex and stature estimation method for a Hispanic population using the tibia. Ninety‐two CT scans from the New Mexico
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‘Even a piece of paper has two sides’: multi‐scalar cosmologies of Japanese New Year cards Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Inge Daniels
Annually on 1 January, Japan's efficient postal system circulates 2.5 billion New Year cards to arrive simultaneously in every home in the country. Based on ethnographic fieldwork around Osaka, this article investigates the continued popularity of this exchange of paper forms in an age of smartphones and fast internet connections. Extending recent anthropological scholarship about digital data, I argue
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Dance religious convers(at)ions: post-exotic ethnography of the circulation of sabar and Baye Fall aesthetics in France and Switzerland Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Alice Aterianus-Owanga
This article draws on an ethnography of the transmission of Senegalese sabar dancing in France and Switzerland to discuss how the religious pathways of sabar enthusiasts bear witness to many modes of adoption or rejection of Mouride and Baye Fall aesthetics. I focus on several portraits of students in order to highlight three modalities of the relationship with Baye Fall aesthetics, faith, and religious
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‘We welcome migrants and the tourists come’: postmodern hospitality in Palermo, Sicily Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Margaret Neil
In Palermo, Sicily, actors use the metaphor of hospitality to profess cosmopolitan attitudes towards ‘migrants’. This raises a conceptual puzzle: hospitality and cosmopolitanism represent contradictory models of social ethics. But an ethnography of one social enterprise reveals that the hospitality in use is not traditional hospitality. Rather, employing what I call ‘postmodern hospitality’ shows a
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Truth clashes: caste atrocities, false cases, and the limits of hate crime law in North India Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Sandhya Fuchs
This article brings together theories of truth in legal anthropology and the anthropology of religion to highlight how legal institutions can co-opt hate crime laws and reproduce patterns of sociopolitical oppression. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research on the social life of India's only hate crime law – the 1989 Prevention of Atrocities Act (PoA), which punishes violence against Dalit (ex-untouchable)
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Rural boredom: atmospheres of blocked promises Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Michael Schnegg
This article asks why Namibians complain that rural communities have become ǀowesa (boring) and why they describe a feeling of pointlessness. After Namibia gained independence in 1990, those who migrated to the towns often progressed economically, while those who remained in the rural hinterlands became the spectators of their success. At the same time, they experienced their efforts as having been
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Family ideology: uneasy entanglements of eldercare in Germany Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Hadas Weiss
Material pressures on privatized households are commonly absorbed through a family ideology, according to which members must pool resources and care for each other, while the family relations they thereby nurture are inherently valuable and constitute their own reward. Drawing on my fieldwork on family-based eldercare in Germany, I explore the implications of this ideology. Specifically, I argue that
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‘Our therapeutic direction is towards Light’: transcendence and a non-secular politics of difference in Islamic Counselling training Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Sabnum Dharamsi, Giulia Liberatore
The Islamic Counselling training model discussed in this article first emerged in 1990s multicultural Britain within the newly expanding field of cross-cultural counselling and psychotherapy. It is informed by classical Sufi notions of the self, the development of an Islamic psychology, and decolonial scholarship. Based on ethnographic research on the current training in Islamic Counselling, this article
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What is the shape of institutions? Materializing the cycles of life in an East African age class society Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Giordano Marmone
Giving a precise definition of what an institution is raises epistemological dilemmas concerning its supposed universal applicability and the coexistence of different institutional regimes (e.g. state and customary). Scholars who have dabbled with this question often identify rules, behaviours, values, or social roles as the essence of institutions. In fact, these constitutive features do not necessarily
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A developmental perspective on social status: children's understanding of hierarchy in Nanjing and London Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Anni Kajanus
From an early age, children become attuned to processes of social power in their environment. Findings from cognitive sciences suggest that the ability to discern hierarchical relationships, as well as coercive and non-coercive processes that give rise to them, rests on evolved cognitive capacities. Yet reasoning about social relations is always already a cultural process. Anthropological theory routinely
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Correction to “Interscalar maintenance: configuring an Indigenous ‘premium carbon product’ in northern Australia (and beyond)” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2023-11-28
Neale, T. (2023), Interscalar maintenance: configuring an Indigenous ‘premium carbon product’ in northern Australia (and beyond). Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 29: 306-325. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13861 This article has been corrected to remove figure 1 and mentions of figure 1 out of respect for a person photographed. The article has been republished without the accompanying
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Compulsory guesthood, social cohesion, and the politics of hospitality in Turkey Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Elif M. Babül
This article explores hospitality as a key rhetorical framework for refugee management in Turkey by focusing on how host-guest relations are mobilized to represent, interpret, and problematize the current state of affairs regarding Syrian refugees, as well as to formulate policies. It analyses the transformation of hospitality rhetoric, the notion of ‘compulsory guesthood’, and the most recent social
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Peoplehood and the Orthodox person: a view from central Serbia Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Nicholas Lackenby
Practising Orthodox Christians in central Serbia live their liturgical lives within the idiom of Serbian peoplehood. This article probes the ‘people’ (narod) – perceived locally as an historically and geographically rooted ethno-moral collectivity – as a core concept of belonging which is key for understanding post-Yugoslav Orthodox life. The ‘people’ functions as a this-worldly collective identity
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Amazonian shamanic enquiry: formulaic composition and specialized discourse Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Pedro de Niemeyer Cesarino
This article investigates the styles of enquiry involved in Lowland South American Amerindian shamanic and narrative discourse genres. The article argues in favour of the existence of an Amazonian mode of thinking strictly related to formulaic composition, commonly found in different verbal poetic genres and its contemporary transformations into written texts published as books by Amerindian researchers
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‘Real Orthodox men’: religious masculinities and the new Russian culture of military patriotism Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Victoria Fomina
Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, radical nationalist and quasi-fascist movements defining themselves in opposition to the Russian government dominated the country's paramilitary scene. This trend was almost completely reversed in the 2010s, with the relative decline of grassroots Slavic ethno-nationalism and the emergence of a statist military-patriotic culture centred on ‘traditional values’
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Cutting at the edge: observations on innovation beyond the urban Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Limor Samimian-Darash, Amit Sheniak, Nir Rotem
Innovation is generally associated with the creation of something new and with economic growth, and is often understood in relation to modernity and its prime social site, ‘the city’. Accordingly, the coupling of innovation and rural areas may seem incongruent. Drawing on ethnographic research on Israel's high-tech scene, we analyse innovation centres located primarily in kibbutzim in the northern
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Sharing suits and letters: redressing late-capitalist precarity in South Korea Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Olga Fedorenko
The contemporary sharing economy comprises a variety of technology-mediated user-to-user transactions and reveals both the extremes of the late-capitalist regime of accumulation and possible paths to supersede it. To critically explore the idea of the sharing economy, this article examines how it has been mobilized by a non-profit startup in neoliberalized South Korea. Open Closet cheaply rents donated
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Ethics without borders: solidarity and difference in inter-community dialogue Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Yulia Egorova
The article offers an ethnographically embedded analysis of a UK-based Jewish-Muslim inter-community network to contribute to anthropological research into the ethical efforts that groups seen as polarized invest in negotiating boundaries of difference. The article makes two sets of arguments. First, it suggests that sometimes such groups have to negotiate not one but several ‘borders across difference’
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The face of the government: presence and responsibility in the Colombian peace process with the FARC-EP Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Gwen Burnyeat
The face of the government is the interface through which citizens come into contact with and perceive the government via representation and face-to-face encounters. This article focuses on Colombian government officials in charge of delivering ‘peace pedagogy’ to explain to society the peace negotiations with the FARC guerrillas, before and after a polarizing referendum which narrowly rejected the
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Survivals and the persistence of the past Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Gavin Lucas
This article explores the latent potential in the anthropological concept of survival, especially through Tylor's usage of the term. Once a core concept of anthropological theory in the late nineteenth century, the idea was critiqued and abandoned in the wake of the structural and functional anthropology of the early twentieth century. However, the concept implies many different things, and in clearing
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Authors of misfortune: interpretation and expertise in a model disaster Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Tom Özden-Schilling
Since 2001, beetles have killed two-thirds of the pine trees in British Columbia, Canada, decimating the predominant commercial tree species in one of the world's largest timber economies. Attempts to construct and circulate computer models of the infestation and its aftermaths, however, have obscured destabilizing changes across state institutions for environmental research. Juxtaposing literary conceptualizations
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Rethinking ritual: how rituals made our world and how they could save it★ Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Harvey Whitehouse
In this Henry Myers Lecture, I summarize several decades of collaborative research on the role of ritual in group bonding and co-operation, ranging from psychology experiments in university laboratories to field research among indigenous groups, and from surveys with armed revolutionaries to extended interviews with religious adherents. This body of work is helping to clarify the mechanisms by which
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‘I will never forgive him’: blame, precarious kinship, and illness in low-income urban India Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Lesley Branagan
This article examines the constitutive role of blame in kinship as a practice in a low-income neighbourhood in India's capital city, Delhi. Using ethnographic data, I show how women with serious or chronic illness express blame towards kin for their failures in critical moments: for not providing care during illness, not fulfilling kinship obligations, and even for causing or exacerbating illness.
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How to be a good guest: American ethnographers in Turkey in the long 1968 Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Ali Sipahi
The article uncovers a forgotten chapter in the history of anthropology by revealing the experiences of American ethnographers in Turkey between 1967 and 1969. Using original archival documents and oral history interviews, it focuses on the trials of Professor Lloyd A. Fallers as well as doctoral students Michael Meeker, Peter Benedict, and June Starr in navigating Turkish bureaucracy and global politics
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The work of time: personhood, agency, and the negotiation of difference in married life in urban Pakistan Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Ammara Maqsood
What is the work of time on a marriage, and how does it transform people as they struggle to change and leave traces on others? Through reflections of middle-class women in Pakistan who married men who did not share their religious aspirations, I focus on how difference is negotiated and conceived in these marriages, and on the unexpected outcomes in the religious outlook of both spouses. The work
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The perils of producing revolutionary moderation: entertainment, style, and the ‘Islamic Che’ in Iran Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Narges Bajoghli
What makes revolutionary media ‘moderate’, and why would a revolutionary state produce moderation? Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with pro-regime media producers in Iran, this article examines the attempted creation of a new revolutionary hero, an ‘Islamic Che’, who appeals to younger audiences by creating a moderate style. Iran's regime media makers seek to attract not just youth who protest against
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Zainab's traffic: spatial lives of an Islamic ritual across Southwest Asia Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Emrah Yıldız
Since the 1979 Revolution, Iranian pilgrims have engaged in saint visitation (ziyarat) to sites in Syria. By travelling via Turkey on buses, and venerating Sayyida Zainab at their destination, these pilgrims disrupt conventional conceptions of not only Islamic ritual, but also Iranian mobility under sanctions. Their experiences venerating Sayyida Zainab – emerging out of a self-described ‘poverty of
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Of agency, Allah, and authority: the making of a divine trial among Muslims with same-sex attraction in Indonesia Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Febi R. Ramadhan
This article delves into the life stories of Indonesian Muslims who struggle with same-sex attraction (henceforth SSA) and believe that their SSA is divinely foreordained as a test from Allah. I draw on seventeen months of ethnographic research in an online community called Yayasan Peduli Sahabat (henceforth YPS) which prescribes ways to live heterosexually to its members and clients with SSA. In this
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Brexit with a little ‘b’: navigating belonging, ordinary Brexits, and emotional relations Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Cathrine Degnen, Katharine Tyler, Joshua Blamire
This article analyses senses of belonging and belonging disrupted via the lens of Brexit with a little ‘b’: namely at the level of ordinary experiences in the flow of daily lives. Our interlocutors recount these as deeply emotionally charged experiences. Their accounts supplement and help nuance more widespread popular explanatory models of the referendum vote and its outcomes. Examining brexit through
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Exemplary differences: ethnicity, mythic histories, and essentialism in Khovd, Mongolia Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Joe Ellis
This article provides an ethnographic account of understandings of ‘ethnic’ difference in Khovd province, Mongolia. It attempts to use said material to challenge the terms of debate within the current concern with ‘essentialism’ in social theory. It is in agreement with constructivist-inspired observations by anthropologists that so-called ethnic groups in Mongolia exist partly as ideological ascriptions
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Changing economic experiences and understandings Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2023-10-10 James G. Carrier
Polanyi, Mauss, and others describe reasons for the growing differentiation of economy from other spheres of life. This article proposes a further reason: the increasing invisibility of economic transactions in everyday life. It traces the declining visibility of economic transactions in England and North America from around 1700 to the present, as public marketplaces were displaced by growing longer-distance
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Interlocked: kinship, intimate precarity, and plantation labour in India Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Jayaseelan Raj
This article examines the employment of kinship relations in sustaining the plantation economy and in perpetuating the precariousness of child labourers who later became temporary workers in the tea plantations of Kerala, South India. Kinship ties locked diverse workers into a moral obligation of care that could easily be manipulated by plantation management as a form of labour control. Plantation
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Thinking with relations in nature conservation? A case study of the Etosha National Park and Haiǁom Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Ute Dieckmann
The area of the Etosha National Park in Namibia has been inhabited for many centuries by Haiǁom, a group of (now former) hunter-gatherers. In 1907, Etosha was proclaimed as a game reserve, although Haiǁom were still allowed to live in the area until they were expelled in the 1950s due to then-dominant ideas of fortress conservation. In recent years, Haiǁom have been provided with several resettlement
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Ethnographic closeness: methodological reflections on the interplay of engagement and detachment in immersive ethnographic research Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Caitlin Pilbeam, Trisha Greenhalgh, Caroline M. Potter
With the reflexive turn in the social sciences, emotional engagement is an inevitable and crucial part of data-gathering and analysis. However, there is a glaring gap in methodological discussions to this end. Presenting ethnographic research into end of life with people living at home in England with heart failure, we argue for a methodological blend of engagement and detachment that shifts throughout
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Family matters: same-sex relations and kinship practices in Kenya Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Apostolos Andrikopoulos, Rachel Spronk
Guided by social justice and sexual health concerns, scholars of same-sex sexualities in Africa have mainly examined related conflicts and inequities, generating an unbalanced emphasis on homophobia. Following Stella Nyanzi's plea for a broader exploration of queer sexuality in Africa, we move beyond the strictly sexual sphere to study the kinship arrangements of same-sex couples in Kenya. These couples
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Biosemiotics and Hominidae history: technicity, animals, and the limitations of human exceptionalism Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Joseph S. Alter
This article is focused on problematic distinctions of difference among animals in the lineage of great apes. It combines several theoretical perspectives on evolutionary relationships, technological innovation, the development of body parts as tools, and a semiotic interpretation of what André Leroi-Gourhan called technicity. Foundational questions in social theory are developed using biosemiotics
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Art education under development in Palestine: de- and repoliticization via universal values, institutional critique, and reflexive practice Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2023-08-15 Helen Underhill
This article studies ways in which art education is mobilized to modify subjective and aesthetic performances of Palestinian students, considering debates surrounding depoliticization and development funding in Palestine. It explores the subject matter and critical stance deemed appropriate for self-directed art projects within a Ramallah art school. Moving beyond arguments put forward within existing
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The Anthropocene narrative and Amerindian lifeworlds: anthropos, agency, and personhood Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Dan Rosengren, Stefan Permanto, Anders Burman
Based on the observation that the Anthropocene narrative signifies a departure from the Cartesian nature/culture division dominant within modernist science, this article explores notions of personhood and agency among Amerindian peoples in the Amazon, the Andes, and Mesoamerica in comparison to the corresponding notions in modernist discourses. We discuss the differences in conceptualizations in relation
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Sovereignty at what price? Existential displacement at the Lebanese/Syrian border Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Michelle Obeid
In 2014, Islamist jihadist groups overran a Lebanese border town and besieged it for four days, spreading terror across the town and the country as a whole. In response, the Lebanese army launched a violent counterattack on these groups with the aid of Hizbullah in what became known as the Battle of Arsal. Declaring the area a security zone, the army restricted mobility and placed Lebanese citizens
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The play of ‘dirty politics’: ordinary ethics and the evidence of experience on the workfloor in New Delhi, India Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2023-08-06 Garima Jaju
This article explores the tensed sociality amongst precariously employed service economy workers in the retail outlets of a prominent eyewear company in New Delhi, India. The bickering staff label the ongoing interpersonal strife ‘dirty politics’. Linked to this are their confident assertions that, in fact, all politics is dirty, and dirty politics is the only type of politics possible – rejecting
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Discordant temporalities of migration and childhood★ Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Catherine Allerton
Childhood, though it is understood cross-culturally in very different ways, always has a distinctive temporal framework, since children's growth and development cannot be undone. Yet, in many contexts, the times of childhood have become discordant with the rhythms, timescales, and temporal controls of migration. Focusing on the children of Indonesian and Filipino migrants in Sabah, Malaysia, this article
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Laterality: a sideways look at ritual Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Simon Coleman
Much study of ritual has focused on demarcated spaces and times of performance, and the often spectacular features of such collective behaviour provide rich resources for analysis of formal, symbolically dense action. This article shifts attention to dimensions of ritual events that entail zones of ambiguous, diffuse, or limited engagement where the boundaries between participant and non-participant
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Forensic examination of the hand Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Lucina Hackman, Sue Black
Using anatomical feature comparison to consider potential matches from hand images to identify or eliminate suspects in an investigation, commonly relating to those involved in the production of images of child sexual abuse, is an emerging forensic methodology that has become increasingly utilized by police forces within the United Kingdom. This article gives an overview of the development of a process
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Age estimation biases based on body size: the differential impacts of soft tissue on skeletal ageing Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Catherine E. Merritt
The aim of this research project is to explore the differential impacts of soft tissues on skeletal ageing and apply these findings to skeletal age estimation methods. Computed tomography (CT) scans of 412 size-selected individuals from Ontario, Canada, were assessed using an adapted pubic symphysis age estimation method. Individuals ranged from 20 to 79 years of age (mean = 49.46 years), with 208
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Introduction: Forensic anthropology and interdisciplinarity Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Lucina Hackman, Sue Black
This supplement has been a stimulating project which has allowed us not only to examine the areas of work that forensic anthropologists are involved in on a daily basis, but also to explore the cross-fertilization that continues to occur between forensic anthropology, biological anthropology, and social anthropology. We are at an exciting point in our profession, having established a certification
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Loss of identity in nineteenth-century Norway: Oslo's House of Correction Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Rose Drew, Gwyn Madden
In Norway, there was considerable overlap between the poor house, the workhouse, and correctional facilities. An assemblage of human skeletal remains from Oslo's House of Correction cemetery, largely comprised of individuals disturbed during municipal development in 1989, consists of c. 314 individuals who died as inmates or residents; many were disabled or elderly. Although names were recorded at
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Forensic age estimation of living individuals: a novel bibliometric approach to the literature review Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2023-07-09 Valentina Panci, Lucina Hackman
This study investigates the trends within the published research up to 2019 in relation to skeletal and dental age estimation in living individuals by using a novel bibliometric analysis which utilizes a specialist, open-source R script. The analysis was performed on a total of 644 papers (627 articles, fifteen conference papers, and two reviews) retrieved using the online database Scopus. The analysis
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Forensic uncertainty, fragile remains, and DNA as a panacea: an ethnographic observation of the challenges in twenty-first-century Disaster Victim Identification Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2023-07-09 Lucy Easthope
This is an account of ethnographic research examining the specialist scientific processes known as ‘Disaster Victim Identification’ (DVI) in three settings: Québec, the United States, and the United Kingdom. In cases of multiple deaths, a series of actions accompanied by a plethora of tools are often invoked, housed at a disaster scene, forensic laboratories, a family assistance centre, and a mortuary
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Forensic social anthropology: an Australian perspective Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2023-07-09 James W.W. Rose
If forensic physical anthropology is the science of biological processes and related medico-legal investigations, then forensic social anthropology is the science of cultural processes and related socio-legal investigations. This article lays out the terms, definitions, and application of forensic specialization in social anthropology as it is practised in Australia. The objective of this exercise
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The colour of seawater: colour perception and environmental change in Dominican seascapes★ Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2023-07-03 Kyrstin Mallon Andrews
The colour of seawater is a topic of daily discussion among diver fishermen in the Dominican Republic, who navigate shifting ocean environments alongside conservation politics. While conservation policies often target fishing as the main cause of declines in the health of marine ecologies, fishermen use colour to create alternative narratives about changing climates. Describing the sea as blue, black
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‘A place for training, not for competition’: negotiations of competition and agency among long-distance runners in Kenya Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Uroš Kovač
Kenyan long-distance runners have for decades famously dominated international athletic competitions. Most of the aspiring runners live and train in the highlands of northwest Kenya, in Elgeyo Marakwet County, where they have access to competitive peer groups of budding athletes and an elaborate infrastructure of camps, coaches, and managers. The most promising and successful ones travel abroad to
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Critical ontologies: rethinking relations to other-than-humans from the Bolivian Andes Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Mareike Winchell
Drawing from fieldwork and archival research carried out in Bolivia between 2010 and 2017, this article undertakes a rethinking of Indigenous ontologies in light of Bolivian interlocutors’ efforts to navigate deeply precarious ties to named places and saints. Attention to such instabilities challenges romantic accounts of ontology that presume a stable domain of materiality or religiosity outside of
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The ethics and obligations of long-term ethnographic relationships: revelatory moments and the concept of solidarity Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Susan R. Hemer
This article reflects on an ethical and revelatory moment in the development of my long-term fieldwork relationships with people of the Lihir Islands in Papua New Guinea. Ethnographic research globally is now shaped through formal processes of ethical review, with the requirements for informed consent, privacy, and consideration of harm and beneficence. Researchers then have to put these procedures
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Fishing, thieving, witchcraft: apprehension and mistrust in maritime West Africa Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Jennifer Diggins
This article explores the ‘apprehension’ that permeates life in coastal Sierra Leone as fisherfolk struggle to navigate a precarious economy of overfished waters and overstrained relationships. In a context of deepening uncertainty, social vigilance has come to be regarded as a key survival skill. At sea, even as fishermen strain their senses for evidence of shoaling fish, they remain equally vigilant