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Free Range Capital for Indoor Agriculture 室内农业自由放养之都

IF 1 4区社会学

Economic Anthropology Pub Date : 2025-06-13 DOI: 10.1002/sea2.70008

Mark Bomford

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Work and the Data Economy: On Abstraction and Contempt 工作与数据经济：论抽象与轻视

IF 1 4区社会学

Economic Anthropology Pub Date : 2025-06-12 DOI: 10.1002/sea2.70007

Nick Seaver, Alex Blanchette, Marcel LaFlamme

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(Tele)therapist, Platform Worker, Data Manager: Therapeutic Labor and the New Therapeutic Exchange （远程）治疗师，平台工作者，数据管理：治疗劳动和新的治疗交流

IF 1 4区社会学

Economic Anthropology Pub Date : 2025-06-06 DOI: 10.1002/sea2.70005

Livia Garofalo

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Exploring Folk Theories of Data Labor in Human Services 人类服务中数据劳动的民间理论探索

IF 1 4区社会学

Economic Anthropology Pub Date : 2025-06-02 DOI: 10.1002/sea2.70004

Alexander Fink, Lauri Goldkind

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How Do We Know What We Grow? Interrogating the Datafication of Agricultural Landscapes in the United States 我们如何知道我们在种植什么？对美国农业景观数据化的质疑

IF 1 4区社会学

Economic Anthropology Pub Date : 2025-05-20 DOI: 10.1002/sea2.70003

Andrea Rissing, Kaitlyn Spangler

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Beyond Supply and Demand: The Moral Economy of Price Formation in Slab City 超越供给与需求：板式城市价格形成的道德经济

IF 0.9 4区社会学

Economic Anthropology Pub Date : 2025-04-30 DOI: 10.1002/sea2.70002

Bailey C. Hauswurz

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Fleeting Wealth: On Gain and Loss of Contemporary Inalienable Possessions 转瞬即逝的财富：当代不可剥夺财产的得失

IF 0.9 4区社会学

Economic Anthropology Pub Date : 2025-03-30 DOI: 10.1002/sea2.70001

Brandaan Huigen

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Economic Anthropology 经济人类学

IF 1 4区社会学

Economic Anthropology Pub Date : 2025-01-07 DOI: 10.1002/sea2.12325