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Autoethnographic Assessment of the Trajectory and Legacy of a Field School in The Gambia, West Africa: PEACE, Praxis, and People 在冈比亚，西非实地学校的轨迹和遗产的自我民族志评估：和平，实践和人

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Annals of Anthropological Practice Pub Date : 2025-05-07 DOI: 10.1111/napa.70019

Bill Roberts

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Beyond the GenAI gold rush: Mapping entrepreneurial tensions in the age of generative artificial intelligence 超越GenAI淘金热：绘制生成式人工智能时代的创业紧张关系

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Annals of Anthropological Practice Pub Date : 2025-05-07 DOI: 10.1111/napa.70016

Matt Artz, Yaya Ren

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Anthropology and Entrepreneurship Research: Introduction to the 2023 Symposium Papers 人类学与创业研究：2023年学术研讨会论文导论

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Annals of Anthropological Practice Pub Date : 2025-05-07 DOI: 10.1111/napa.70020

Patricia L. Sunderland, Edward Liebow

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Ethnographies of global health governance and diplomacy: A practical guide 全球卫生治理和外交的民族志：实用指南

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Annals of Anthropological Practice Pub Date : 2025-04-28 DOI: 10.1111/napa.70014

Rachel Irwin

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Performing and evaluating creditworthiness: Bank loans and the financial inclusion of micro/small enterprises in China 信用的执行与评估：中国的银行贷款与小微企业的普惠金融

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Annals of Anthropological Practice Pub Date : 2025-04-24 DOI: 10.1111/napa.70015

Han Tao

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The intertwined legacies at the heart of ethnographic field schools: A case from the NC State University Guatemala field school 民族志田野学校核心的相互交织的遗产：来自北卡州立大学危地马拉田野学校的案例

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Annals of Anthropological Practice Pub Date : 2025-04-10 DOI: 10.1111/napa.70013

Tim Wallace

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A research and publication-oriented undergraduate ethnographic field school: The BYU experience in Guatemala 以研究和出版为导向的本科人种学实地学校：杨百翰大学在危地马拉的经历

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Annals of Anthropological Practice Pub Date : 2025-03-24 DOI: 10.1111/napa.70012

Walter Randolph Adams, John P. Hawkins

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Gluten-free entrepreneurship and the management of celiac 无谷蛋白创业和乳糜泻管理

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Annals of Anthropological Practice Pub Date : 2025-03-24 DOI: 10.1111/napa.70011

Suzanne Oakdale

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Legacies of the OSEA ethnography and Maya language field school (1997–2023) OSEA民族志和玛雅语言实地学校的遗产（1997-2023）

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Annals of Anthropological Practice Pub Date : 2025-02-27 DOI: 10.1111/napa.12229

Quetzil E. Castañeda

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Introduction: What are pretty words? 引言：什么是漂亮的词语？

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Annals of Anthropological Practice Pub Date : 2025-02-26 DOI: 10.1111/napa.70004

Jennifer Syvertsen PhD, MPH, Juliet McMullin PhD

{"title":"Introduction: What are pretty words?","authors":"Jennifer Syvertsen PhD, MPH, Juliet McMullin PhD","doi":"10.1111/napa.70004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/napa.70004","url":null,"abstract":"Funding agencies and institutions are increasingly requiring researchers to involve communities and make their work more broadly accessible. The problem is that researchers new to health equity research, and sometimes even people who have engaged in this work for a while, may not sufficiently appreciate the challenges and systemic institutional transformations that must occur to achieve equity. To make pretty words meaningful requires a return to the transformative power and potential that was originally imbued in the concept of equity. The implementation of pretty words as a process that requires a relational framework and a commitment beyond ink on paper is central to our intervention. This special section of Annals of Anthropological Practice opens up a critical dialogue about “pretty words,” or concepts like “community-engaged research” and “diversity” that win grants and check the boxes for inclusion, but risk becoming hollow without ongoing conversations between researchers and communities. As anthropologists who study health, we are both skeptical and appreciative of the “pretty words” that characterize our efforts toward developing interdisciplinary research that seeks to build equity and address community health concerns. The power of pretty words can only be activated through reflection that leads to action, but this requires a commitment beyond the institutional expectations and individual rewards of research as usual. The essays in this special section cover diverse topics, but all are conjoined in their pursuit of not just critiquing pretty words, but outlining meaningful ways forward to reclaim the radical potential embedded in these concepts.","PeriodicalId":45176,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Anthropological Practice","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/napa.70004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144091786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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