Anthropology, already read
April 18, 2015 4:56 AM Subscribe
Déjà Lu republishes locally-selected scholarly articles from journals connected to regional anthropological associations around the world. The result is a PDF-heavy but fascinating collection of long reads on obscure topics. Via.
Some articles from the 2015 issue:
Some articles from the 2015 issue:
- State violence specialists (i.e. police, military, and other users of authorized force) in Ghana and Niger
- Two eloquent funeral speeches from southwestern China
- The relevance of James Joyce to anthropology and ethnographic representation
- The construction of cultural heritage and the cartography of sacred places in Brazil
- The structure and significance of public radio debates in Uganda
- Extralegal norms of "informality" in Peru
- Intellectual property regimes and life itself in Costa Rica
- Royal mothers and military ambitions in the Ottoman Empire
- Social concomitants of the Waitangi Tribunal claims process in New Zealand
- Familial feelings toward dogs in urban Japan
- Tim Ingold's Westermarck Memorial Lecture, "Anthropology Beyond Humanity"
- Media representations of an interrupted football game in former Yugoslavia
- The discovery of 2000 human fetuses in the morgue of a Buddhist temple in Thailand
- One family's New Year's celebration in a village in Tibet
- Genetic and morphological variability within Neandertals [John Hawks, previously: 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.]
- The everyday significance of mobile phones in southern Mozambique
- An interview with Jean and John Comaroff on the anthropology of the state and the state of anthropology
- The normalization of childhood asthma in New Zealand
- Joel Robbins's Westermarck Memorial Lecture, "Transcendence and the Anthropology of Christianity"
- The collection and disposition of human remains from 9/11 in the United States
- A closely observed Swahili pidgin created by two five-year-old-boys in Kenya
- The pedagogical significance of letting kids watch fights in preschool in Japan
- The relevance of sacred geography to mining politics and mortuary songs on a group of islands in Papua New Guinea
- Gender and sexuality as contested issues in Islamic and democratic social movements in Indonesia
- Roger Casement's thoughts on empire and indigenous rights in view of his Congo and Putumayo investigations
- Feelings of loneliness, shame, loss, betrayal, despair, disappointment, fear, frustration, guilt, paranoia, stress, regret, and more during the conduct of ethnographic research
Thanks for putting this together, with the most impressive tags list I've seen on the site.
posted by umbú at 2:42 PM on April 18, 2015
posted by umbú at 2:42 PM on April 18, 2015
Oh holy rabbit hole. Well, this will keep me occupied for a few weeks.
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