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DISCARDED CANDIDATES: Waste as Metaphor in Local Government Elections in Australia (and Elsewhere) 被抛弃的候选人：澳大利亚（及其他地区）地方政府选举中的废物隐喻
IF 1.9 1区 社会学
Cultural Anthropology Pub Date : 2025-06-24 DOI: 10.14506/ca40.2.04
TANYA JAKIMOW
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FRACKING AND HISTORICIZING: On Deepened Time in West Texas 水力压裂和历史化：西德克萨斯州的深度时间
IF 1.9 1区 社会学
Cultural Anthropology Pub Date : 2025-06-24 DOI: 10.14506/ca40.2.07
CAMERON HU
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GETTING YOUR DUCKS IN A ROW: Marriage, Protection, and Love without Regret in Virginia 把你的鸭子排好：弗吉尼亚的婚姻、保护和无悔的爱
IF 1.9 1区 社会学
Cultural Anthropology Pub Date : 2025-06-24 DOI: 10.14506/ca40.2.05
SIOBHAN MAGEE
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SPECTACLE: The Semiotics of Albinism in Tanzania 奇观：坦桑尼亚白化病的符号学
IF 1.9 1区 社会学
Cultural Anthropology Pub Date : 2025-06-24 DOI: 10.14506/ca40.2.03
JANE L. SAFFITZ
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LOVE AS ENJOYMENT: Hopelessness, Play, and Desirable Futures in Ghaziabad, India 爱即享受：印度加兹阿巴德的绝望、游戏和理想的未来
IF 1.9 1区 社会学
Cultural Anthropology Pub Date : 2025-03-28 DOI: 10.14506/ca40.1.06
AKANKSHA AWAL
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ISHA'S WAIT: Money, Love, and Kinship in the Wake of Domestic Violence in India 《伊莎的等待：印度家庭暴力后的金钱、爱情和亲情
IF 1.9 1区 社会学
Cultural Anthropology Pub Date : 2025-03-28 DOI: 10.14506/ca40.1.04
GARIMA JAJU
{"title":"ISHA'S WAIT: Money, Love, and Kinship in the Wake of Domestic Violence in India","authors":"GARIMA JAJU","doi":"10.14506/ca40.1.04","DOIUrl":"10.14506/ca40.1.04","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Isha waits in her low-income parents' home for her estranged husband, charged for dowry and domestic violence, to pay her the legally mandated maintenance money. I listen to her as she talks about <i>pyaar</i>, or love, and domestic violence as arising from the absence of its <i>ehsaas</i>, or feeling/realization, by the abusive husband. The awaited money is infused with the hopeful imagination that it will generate both <i>pyaar</i> and its <i>ehsaas</i>. I argue that money becomes a substance of kinship assigned an agentive role in engendering the ethical transformation of a “bad” husband to create “good” kinship. Exploring the ways in which the tenuous legal promise of money sustains imaginations of reformed kinship futures, I outline how centrally money shapes the experience of domestic violence and its aftermath.</p>","PeriodicalId":51423,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Anthropology","volume":"40 1","pages":"82-104"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.14506/ca40.1.04","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143717210","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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BLESSED ACTS OF OBLIVION: On the Ethics of Forgetting 遗忘的神圣行为：论遗忘的伦理
IF 1.9 1区 社会学
Cultural Anthropology Pub Date : 2025-03-28 DOI: 10.14506/ca40.1.05
PAOLO HEYWOOD
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ON CHAINSAWS AND ACOUSTIC VIOLENCE: Sound and Deforestation in Ajusco-Chichinautzin, Mexico 电锯和声音暴力：墨西哥阿尤斯科-奇奇纳津的声音和森林砍伐
IF 1.9 1区 社会学
Cultural Anthropology Pub Date : 2025-03-28 DOI: 10.14506/ca40.1.01
ANDREW J. GREEN
{"title":"ON CHAINSAWS AND ACOUSTIC VIOLENCE: Sound and Deforestation in Ajusco-Chichinautzin, Mexico","authors":"ANDREW J. GREEN","doi":"10.14506/ca40.1.01","DOIUrl":"10.14506/ca40.1.01","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article explores distinct practices of sounding and listening that have emerged in a context of severe deforestation in Ajusco-Chichinautzin, a region south of Mexico City. It applies the concept of acoustic violence to this setting, as part of wider attempts to build constructive responses to climate breakdown through sound and music scholarship. As the first indication of occurring logging, the sound of chainsaws proves vital in attempts by forest guards and police to detect and halt deforestation. Equally, attentiveness to acoustic violence allows us to cut through sensationalist media presentations of the problem of deforestation, to perceive how local populations—often blamed for complicity with loggers—are in fact direct victims of environmental loss. The concept of acoustic violence can also illuminate how, in a context not just of environmental loss but of dispossession, modalities of listening may become simplified, instrumentalized, or lost.</p>","PeriodicalId":51423,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Anthropology","volume":"40 1","pages":"1-26"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.14506/ca40.1.01","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143717207","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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HOW TO SUSTAIN A STRIKE: Rules, Routines, and the Essential in Kashmir 如何维持罢工：克什米尔的规则、惯例和必要条件
IF 1.9 1区 社会学
Cultural Anthropology Pub Date : 2025-03-28 DOI: 10.14506/ca40.1.07
NISHITA TRISAL
{"title":"HOW TO SUSTAIN A STRIKE: Rules, Routines, and the Essential in Kashmir","authors":"NISHITA TRISAL","doi":"10.14506/ca40.1.07","DOIUrl":"10.14506/ca40.1.07","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines the 2016–2017 general strike <i>(hartal</i> or <i>bandh</i>) in Indian-controlled Kashmir, the site of a nearly eighty-year struggle for self-determination. Drawing on twenty-two months of ethnographic fieldwork (2016–2018) conducted in the capital city of Srinagar amid and in the aftermath of the indefinite strike, I show how the strike and the suspension of daily life it entailed was sustained through novel spatiotemporal techniques that coordinated and routinized the actions of the Kashmiri public. Yet sustaining the strike was not only defined by routine and self-restraint. Instead, as the article demonstrates, certain forms of financial labor, too, prolonged the strike—but they did so, counterintuitively, by breaking it. I focus in particular on Kashmiri bank employees, who were at times seen as betraying the strike, but who described their continued work during strike hours as essential for keeping the economy and hence society running. By emphasizing bank employees' liminal position of breaking the strike while supporting the cause of Kashmiri self-determination, I highlight the labor, sacrifice, and ambivalence that sustain—and threaten to unravel—political mobilizations.</p>","PeriodicalId":51423,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Anthropology","volume":"40 1","pages":"162-190"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.14506/ca40.1.07","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143717277","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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GOOD DIGESTION: The Metabolic Politics of Dutch Dairy Farming 良好的消化：荷兰奶牛养殖的代谢政治
IF 1.9 1区 社会学
Cultural Anthropology Pub Date : 2025-03-28 DOI: 10.14506/ca40.1.03
ELSE VOGEL
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