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DATAFIED KINSHIP: Individuating Identity in Pakistan 数据化的亲属关系：巴基斯坦的个性认同
IF 1.6 1区 社会学
Cultural Anthropology Pub Date : 2026-09-04 DOI: 10.14506/ca41.3.01
ZEHRA HASHMI
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ACT BLUR, LIVE LONGER: Muslim Artists Blurring the Categories of Singapore's Smart City 行为模糊，寿命更长：穆斯林艺术家模糊新加坡智慧城市的分类
IF 1.9 1区 社会学
Cultural Anthropology Pub Date : 2026-06-04 DOI: 10.14506/ca41.2.02
JAMES MCGRAIL
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THE TRAFFIC IN REPAIRMEN AND A CASE OF GENDER IMPROPRIETY IN POST-WAR SARAJEVO 修理工的交通和战后萨拉热窝的一个性别不得体的案例
IF 1.9 1区 社会学
Cultural Anthropology Pub Date : 2026-06-04 DOI: 10.14506/ca41.2.04
HALİDE VELİOĞLU
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ALIENATING “DEAD CAPITAL,” EATING MORAL PRINCIPLE: Patriarchal Obligation, Land Sale, and Desires of Abandon on Kenya's Urban Frontier 异化“死资本”，吞噬道德原则：父权义务，土地出售，以及肯尼亚城市边境的抛弃欲望
IF 1.9 1区 社会学
Cultural Anthropology Pub Date : 2026-06-04 DOI: 10.14506/ca41.2.07
PETER LOCKWOOD
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HIERARCHICAL PRECARITY: Dance Hosting, Labor Struggles, and Masculine Insecurities in China 等级的不稳定性：中国的舞蹈主持、劳工斗争和男性的不安全感
IF 1.9 1区 社会学
Cultural Anthropology Pub Date : 2026-06-04 DOI: 10.14506/ca41.2.08
JUAN CHEN
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OUT OF TIME? Chronocracy and Ageism in Brexit–COVID-19 England 没时间了？英国脱欧covid -19中的年代统治和年龄歧视
IF 1.9 1区 社会学
Cultural Anthropology Pub Date : 2026-06-04 DOI: 10.14506/ca41.2.01
CATHRINE DEGNEN
{"title":"OUT OF TIME? Chronocracy and Ageism in Brexit–COVID-19 England","authors":"CATHRINE DEGNEN","doi":"10.14506/ca41.2.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14506/ca41.2.01","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Generation or relative age is a common way humans define social difference. In Europe and North America, old age is frequently perceived as a period of decline and loss, a condition “successful aging” paradigms exhort individuals to avoid for as long as possible. Explicit and implicit ageist beliefs, discourses, and practices marginalize later life, portraying it as undesirable and inferior. This essay explores how imagined generational relationships with time—younger people as future facing, older people as out of time—enrol linear, future-oriented temporal perspectives in reproducing ageism. The aftermath of the Brexit referendum, followed closely by the COVID-19 pandemic, serve as my ethnographic examples. These two extraordinary events permit me to highlight how chronocracy (Kirtsoglou and Simpson 2020)—that is, the denial of coevalness or coexistence in time through everyday temporal regimes—reinforces unequal power dynamics, and to explore how generational groups are differently valued in contemporary England.</p>","PeriodicalId":51423,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Anthropology","volume":"41 2","pages":"193-217"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.14506/ca41.2.01","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148160753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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RECALLING THE SUICIDE: Affective Storytelling and the Ethics of “Good” Womanhood 回顾自杀：情感叙事与“好”女性的伦理
IF 1.9 1区 社会学
Cultural Anthropology Pub Date : 2026-06-04 DOI: 10.14506/ca41.2.10
ANJALI KRISHAN
{"title":"RECALLING THE SUICIDE: Affective Storytelling and the Ethics of “Good” Womanhood","authors":"ANJALI KRISHAN","doi":"10.14506/ca41.2.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14506/ca41.2.10","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in Delhi, this article examines middle-class married women's stories about the suicides of their female neighbors. Paying attention to “what moves” women emotionally and “what matters” to them in recounting their stories of life and willful death, these stories are ethical commentaries on what constitutes “good” womanhood, specifically “Hindu” womanhood. Anthropological scholarship in South Asia has established that supposedly good womanhood hinges on how successful middle-class women are in pursuing a modern, globalized “good life” while being rooted in traditional, predominantly Hindu, cultural norms and values. This analysis of suicide storytelling demonstrates that women are not passive subjects of this binary; instead, they actively adjudicate the ethical validity of mainstream constructs of good Hindu womanhood, in the process questioning middle-class understandings of what constitutes a life worth living and whose suffering matters. Such ethical questioning allows the narrators to make political claims for recognition and rights while performing a subtle critique of the prevailing gender politics within Modi's India.</p>","PeriodicalId":51423,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Anthropology","volume":"41 2","pages":"428-449"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.14506/ca41.2.10","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148160751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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POISONOUS IMAGES: Taranto's Environmental Crisis between the Visible and the Invisible 有毒的图像：塔兰托可见与不可见之间的环境危机
IF 1.9 1区 社会学
Cultural Anthropology Pub Date : 2026-06-04 DOI: 10.14506/ca41.2.03
JASMINE CLOTILDE PISAPIA
{"title":"POISONOUS IMAGES: Taranto's Environmental Crisis between the Visible and the Invisible","authors":"JASMINE CLOTILDE PISAPIA","doi":"10.14506/ca41.2.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14506/ca41.2.03","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article explores poisonous images—images that both register and trouble the visibility of toxicity in Taranto, Italy, one of Europe's most polluted cities due to the continent's largest steel factory. Centered on photographs taken in the city's contaminated cemetery, the essay asks how slow violence can be apprehended ethnographically when pollution remains unevenly perceptible and causally elusive. I argue that the photographic image, beyond its forensic or legal promise, functions as an ethnographic hinge between matter and meaning, visibility and refusal, foregrounding aesthetics as a political as much as a sensory problem. Through three photographic acts produced by cemetery workers, a local performance artist, and myself (as anthropologist), the article proposes “flickering” as an anthropological method—attuned to the intermittence between visible/invisible, absence/presence, and the oscillation of death in everyday life. These poisonous images do not stabilize evidence: they pulse in and out of consciousness, capturing uncertainty and unequally distributed exposures and sensibilities. The cemetery emerges as both site and figure for grasping the metamorphosis of death amid the environmental crisis, where mourning and inheritance remain perpetually unsettled.</p>","PeriodicalId":51423,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Anthropology","volume":"41 2","pages":"247-274"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.14506/ca41.2.03","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148160755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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WOUNDS IN UTOPIA: The Politics of Gay Football in 4T Mexico 乌托邦的创伤：墨西哥同性恋足球的政治
IF 1.9 1区 社会学
Cultural Anthropology Pub Date : 2026-06-04 DOI: 10.14506/ca41.2.06
MAX D. LÓPEZ TOLEDANO
{"title":"WOUNDS IN UTOPIA: The Politics of Gay Football in 4T Mexico","authors":"MAX D. LÓPEZ TOLEDANO","doi":"10.14506/ca41.2.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14506/ca41.2.06","url":null,"abstract":"<p>LGBT+ football teams have proliferated in Mexico in recent years, allowing communities who previously struggled with feeling at the margins of the nation to make new claims to respectability and national belonging. At the same time, these have developed surprising alliances with political parties, blurring in some cases the relationships of partisan representation that Mexican electoral politics are built on. These patterns, I contend, have been largely enabled by the sociopolitical transformations of Mexico's 4T movement, which has instilled a climate of change surrounding cultural hierarchies of gender and sexuality. In this context, emergent fractures within queer groups have shed light on the contradictions of “Mexican humanism,” Mexico's newly coined political philosophy. Exhibiting the characteristics of a human security regime, Mexico's 4T acts as backdrop to a broader array of political paradoxes that accompany the country's gay football scene—a space of “wounds in utopia,” where wounds, healing, and violence may all coexist.</p>","PeriodicalId":51423,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Anthropology","volume":"41 2","pages":"321-346"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.14506/ca41.2.06","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148160715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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“TO HELL WITH SYMBOLS!” Men, Pigeons, and the Violence of Interpretation “让符号见鬼去吧！”人、鸽子和诠释的暴力
IF 1.9 1区 社会学
Cultural Anthropology Pub Date : 2026-06-04 DOI: 10.14506/ca41.2.05
ROBBIE PETERS
{"title":"“TO HELL WITH SYMBOLS!” Men, Pigeons, and the Violence of Interpretation","authors":"ROBBIE PETERS","doi":"10.14506/ca41.2.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14506/ca41.2.05","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines men who race pigeons in the back alleys of an Indonesian neighborhood amid government crackdowns on gambling. It introduces the equivocal pigeon: a bird these men present as a-symbolic, or incapable of saying things for or about them. The equivocal pigeon is an intellectually provocative animal that upsets commonsense ideas about birds and men and meaning and turns the city inside out by bringing its back alleys into view but not into understanding. The article shows how racing pigeons achieve this feat by drawing men into busy alleys while shrouding them in a thicket of opaque interactions. It views the city from its alleys, where the pigeon confounds postcolonial ways of knowing and governing people. Building on Javanese ways of not knowing, it shows how the pigeon is a meaning-defying animal that protects men from what they call the violence of interpretation <i>(kekerasan interpretasi)</i>.</p>","PeriodicalId":51423,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Anthropology","volume":"41 2","pages":"297-320"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.14506/ca41.2.05","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148160709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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