Article
Anthropology
Angela Woods, Akiko Hart, Helen Spandler
Summary: This paper offers a critical analysis of Recovery Narrative using an interdisciplinary approach, discussing its politics and possibilities, and reflecting on alternative communicative formats.
CULTURE MEDICINE AND PSYCHIATRY
(2022)
Article
Anthropology
Saturnino M. Borras, Ian Scoones, Amita Baviskar, Marc Edelman, Nancy Lee Peluso, Wendy Wolford
Summary: This essay delves into the interrelationship between climate change and critical agrarian studies, highlighting the importance of examining how agrarian struggles intersect with the challenge of climate change. The essay identifies competing narratives and strategies for anti-capitalist struggles in the context of climate change and agrarian mobilizations.
JOURNAL OF PEASANT STUDIES
(2022)
Review
Anthropology
Elisabetta Gliozzo, Corina Ionescu
Summary: This review summarises the current state of research on lead-based pigments, covering their production, trade, use, and potential alteration. It also discusses issues related to the investigation and protection of artworks containing these pigments. The focus is on the mineralogical aspects, describing both the raw materials and degradation products that are mineral phases found in nature. The review examines various minerals and pigments, describing their history, technology, and alteration. Additionally, it provides insight into analytical methods for accurate archaeometric investigations and includes a list of references for further research.
ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Anthropology
Amrita Hari, Luciara Nardon, Hui Zhang
Summary: This study analyzes the experiences of international students living in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research found that international students faced increased challenges during the pandemic, relied more on support from transnational families, and experienced anxieties about their future career and mobility.
GLOBAL NETWORKS-A JOURNAL OF TRANSNATIONAL AFFAIRS
(2023)
Review
Anthropology
Natalie Gukasyan, Sandeep M. Nayak
Summary: Psychedelic-assisted treatment differs significantly from mainstream psychotherapy in the West in structure and approach. Critics point out the challenges of placebo-controlled studies in psychedelic research, as well as the potential overlap between drug effects and the psychotherapeutic container. Common factors theory of psychotherapy is used to understand contextual effects in psychedelic-assisted treatment, focusing on therapeutic relationship, healing setting, rationale or myth, and ritual as key factors that contribute to therapeutic effects and impact the concept of placebo and future research.
TRANSCULTURAL PSYCHIATRY
(2022)
Article
Anthropology
Alexander Dunlap, Martin Correa Arce
Summary: This article explores the struggle against the new EDF wind park in Union Hidalgo, Mexico, highlighting Indigenous land defense and discussing wind energy as 'wind factories'. It reveals the counterinsurgency colonial model as a foundational approach to extractive development, and argues that the distribution of money, Sicarios, and NGOs are crucial for engineering 'social acceptance'. Additionally, the liberalism within NGOs may inadvertently promote infrastructural colonization and wider trajectories of (neo)colonialism if not carefully monitored.
JOURNAL OF PEASANT STUDIES
(2022)
Article
Anthropology
Christopher W. Chagnon, Francesco Durante, Barry K. Gills, Sophia E. Hagolani-Albov, Saana Hokkanen, Sohvi M. J. Kangasluoma, Heidi Konttinen, Markus Kroger, William LaFleur, Ossi Ollinaho, Marketta P. S. Vuola
Summary: This article explores the origins, evolution, and conceptual expansion of extractivism, emphasizing its significance in analyzing global resource extraction practices. It also situates extractivism within a larger framework of concepts and investigates its relationship with development, the state, and value. Extractivism, as an organizing concept, encompasses various research fields and represents a complex of self-reinforcing practices that justify and facilitate socio-ecologically destructive modes of organizing life through exploitation, depletion, and non-reciprocity.
JOURNAL OF PEASANT STUDIES
(2022)
Article
Anthropology
David Dupuis
Summary: The author explores the socialization of hallucinations using ethnographic data from a shamanic center in the Peruvian Amazon, engaging with phenomenology and social cognition models. It is argued that cultural background and social interactions shape not only the hallucinogenic experience, but also its phenomenological content. The study also highlights the significance of psychedelic substances as powerful vectors of cultural transmission in the global North.
TRANSCULTURAL PSYCHIATRY
(2022)
Article
Anthropology
Jennifer Clapp
Summary: The world has faced three global food crises in the last 50 years, all of which have exposed the vulnerability brought by extreme concentration in the global industrial food system. This contribution provides insights for the current debates on food system transformation agenda by tracing the origins of concentration in staple grains production and trade.
JOURNAL OF PEASANT STUDIES
(2023)
Review
Anthropology
Christopher Timmermann, Rosalind Watts, David Dupuis
Summary: A striking feature of psychedelics is their ability to increase attribution of truth and meaningfulness to specific contents and ideas experienced, which may persist long after psychedelic effects have subsided. However, this raises important considerations regarding the validation and mediation of knowledge gained during these experiences. The use of psychedelics is becoming increasingly mainstream, necessitating attention to ethical challenges and the use of ethical approaches and psychedelic apprenticeship as a solution.
TRANSCULTURAL PSYCHIATRY
(2022)
Article
Anthropology
Hilary Becker
Summary: This article surveys pigment terminology in ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, and the Roman Empire. It explores various source materials, including archaeological evidence and ancient texts, to understand the nomenclature of pigments. One trend identified is the borrowing of pigment names from prestigious natural materials in the Near East, such as lapis lazuli or gold. In the Greek and Roman worlds, the availability of a broader range of pigments led to varied naming conventions, including naming pigments after factors like their provenance, color, or innovator.
ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Anthropology
Loka Ashwood, John Canfield, Madeleine Fairbairn, Kathryn De Master
Summary: This passage discusses the dominant role of novel investment vehicles in the global land rush, and the impact of corporate structure on the financialization of farmland.
JOURNAL OF PEASANT STUDIES
(2022)
Article
Anthropology
Akhil Gupta, Jessie Stoolman
Summary: The article highlights a series of events in the US, such as Ferguson and Standing Rock, and criticizes the shortcomings of US anthropology. It also questions the oversized influence of US anthropology worldwide. The article suggests a reassessment of US anthropology and raises important questions about its founding principles and the need for diversity and inclusivity in anthropology departments.
AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST
(2022)
Review
Anthropology
Elisabetta Gliozzo, Lucia Burgio
Summary: This review provides an update on arsenic-bearing minerals and pigments, aiming to serve as a guide for the study of Cultural Heritage materials. It examines different phases of As-bearing minerals and their light-induced products, as well as the occurrence, trade, use, alteration and degradation of As-sulfides. The paper also discusses analytical techniques commonly used for identifying arsenic-containing pigments and concludes with a good-practice guide and a summary of key concepts for those working in the field of cultural heritage.
ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Anthropology
Chiara Pomare, Janet C. C. Long, Kate Churruca, Louise A. A. Ellis, Jeffrey Braithwaite
Summary: Social network research is crucial for understanding the complex challenges in today's healthcare system, such as poor communication, professional isolation, and compromised patient safety. This paper discusses the practical and ethical challenges faced by health services researchers in designing and collecting quality network data, providing high-utility recommendations to address these challenges in the context of dynamic and complex healthcare systems that require longitudinal and mixed-methods network studies.
Article
Anthropology
Metin I. . Eren, Michelle R. . Bebber, Edward J. . Knell, Brett Story, Briggs Buchanan
Summary: By analyzing a database of 343 Paleoindian points, this study found significant differences in the penetration effectiveness of these projectile points. The study also concluded that there is no progressive trend in penetration effectiveness from Early to Late Paleoindian times.
JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Anthropology
Ashley Carse, Townsend Middleton, Jason Cons, Jatin Dua, Gabriela Valdivia, Elizabeth Cullen Dunn
Summary: This article develops an anthropology of chokepoints, focusing on sites that restrict the flows of resources, information, and bodies. It argues that chokepoints are paradoxical zones that reveal a world of constricted flow and dynamics. The article emphasizes the importance of studying chokepoints ethnographically and offers eight dimensions for further research.
Article
Anthropology
Elliott Prasse-Freeman
Summary: This article explores how contemporary subjects engage with and challenge the current regimes of power. It examines the concepts of resistance and refusal, highlighting the differences and interconnectedness between the two. Through analysis of literature on resistance and refusal, as well as fieldwork with Burmese grassroots activists and Rohingya civil society actors, the article demonstrates how these strategies are used to navigate different aspects of power. The subjects draw upon both resistance and refusal tactics in their interactions with hybrid apparatuses of power, and through a quasi-dialectical relationship, reinforce their positions for persistence and change.
ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY
(2022)
Article
Anthropology
Hua Pang
Summary: This study investigated the impact of WeChat involvement on the network characteristics and psychosocial outcomes of young people. Results showed that WeChat involvement positively predicted network diversity and size, and that network diversity was positively correlated with online capital and life satisfaction. Network diversity and size were found to mediate the relationship between WeChat usage and psychosocial outcomes.
Article
Anthropology
Marissa L. Ledger, Piers D. Mitchell
Summary: This study investigates the emergence and re-emergence of zoonotic parasites throughout human evolution by combining genetic studies, archaeological evidence, and modern epidemiological data. It reveals the ancient origins of some key zoonotic parasites and their long coevolutionary history with humans. The factors contributing to the presence of many zoonotic parasites in the past and today are also discussed, including dietary preferences, urbanization, waste disposal, and population density.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OSTEOARCHAEOLOGY
(2022)
