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Contested parenting and its affective economies: A commentary 有争议的育儿及其情感经济：评论

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Ethos Pub Date : 2025-04-21 DOI: 10.1111/etho.70009

Claudia Fonseca

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Help can harm: Unintended consequences of child protection and parenting support for Vietnamese immigrant families in Germany 帮助可能带来伤害：德国越南移民家庭的儿童保护和育儿支持的意外后果

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Ethos Pub Date : 2025-04-16 DOI: 10.1111/etho.70006

Nga Thi Thanh Mai, Gabriel Scheidecker

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Disrupting the social by centering the self: Life coaching and the politics of marriage, motherhood, and adult sociability among Latinx and Latin American women 以自我为中心扰乱社会：拉丁美洲和拉丁美洲妇女的婚姻、母性和成人社交的生活指导和政治

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Ethos Pub Date : 2025-04-16 DOI: 10.1111/etho.70007

Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas

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Contesting parenting expertise: Constructing good mothering and searching for dignity in Cameroonian Berlin 竞争育儿专业知识：在喀麦隆柏林建立良好的育儿和寻找尊严

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Ethos Pub Date : 2025-04-16 DOI: 10.1111/etho.70008

Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg

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Making moral selves through comparison: Narratives of moral decline and the modern virtuous self among middle-class older adults in Nepal 通过比较塑造道德自我：尼泊尔中产阶级老年人道德衰落与现代道德自我的叙事

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Ethos Pub Date : 2025-04-08 DOI: 10.1111/etho.70005

Paola Tinè

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Therapeutic aQompaniments: Walking together in hypnotherapy—and ethnography 治疗补偿：在催眠疗法和人种学中走在一起

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Ethos Pub Date : 2025-03-17 DOI: 10.1111/etho.70004

Nicholas J. Long

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Past present: A letter from the editors 过去时现在：编辑的一封信

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Ethos Pub Date : 2025-03-16 DOI: 10.1111/etho.70002

Julia Cassaniti, Jacob R. Hickman

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Grace and correspondence in ethnography and psychotherapy 民族志和心理治疗中的优雅与通信

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Ethos Pub Date : 2025-03-12 DOI: 10.1111/etho.70003

Inga-Britt Krause

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Thick perception 厚的感知

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Ethos Pub Date : 2025-02-26 DOI: 10.1111/etho.70000

Zachary J. Chase, Gregory A. Thompson

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Asymmetrical knowledge: An anthropological proposal from Argentina to study how we affectedly know with others in an unequal world 不对称的知识：来自阿根廷的一项人类学建议，研究我们如何在一个不平等的世界中与他人相互了解

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Ethos Pub Date : 2025-02-20 DOI: 10.1111/etho.70001

Mariana García Palacios, Paülah Nurit Shabel

{"title":"Asymmetrical knowledge: An anthropological proposal from Argentina to study how we affectedly know with others in an unequal world","authors":"Mariana García Palacios, Paülah Nurit Shabel","doi":"10.1111/etho.70001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.70001","url":null,"abstract":"Knowledge is constructed and embedded in our bodies, which means that the material conditions of our own anatomy and environment intrinsically inform our understanding, as do the social practices in which we are immersed within our communities. Cognitive and affective processes are also thus inseparable since we know together with others, always insert in asymmetrical relationships that leave a trace on our cognitive-affective tie to the world. As Argentinean anthropologists, we contend with the ongoing effects of universalizing “Global North” psychologies in the contexts of global inequalities that impact children as well as southern researchers. Given this, the aim of this article is to present an anthropology of knowledge that puts these two effects of inequalities in dialogue while addressing the affective-cognitive debates from South America in conversation with contributions of authors from the “Global North.” Building upon fieldwork in our home country that explores the religious formative experiences of Toba/Qom children and the political experiences of children who live in squatter buildings, we use ethnography and the clinical method of psychology to examine the diverse ways in which children form and participate in communities, and in so doing, appropriate and transform their experiences into knowledge.","PeriodicalId":51532,"journal":{"name":"Ethos","volume":"53 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145171989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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