{"title":"Rape, ritual, rupture, and repair: Decentering Euro-American logics of trauma and healing in an analytic autoethnography of the five years after my rape in Sierra Leone","authors":"Luisa Theresia Schneider","doi":"10.1111/etho.12392","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.12392","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Responses to the trauma of rape vary. People find different responses helpful and a multiplicity of trauma theories should be considered. Through an autoethnography and critical phenomenology of myself and my collaborators in Sierra Leone after I was raped there, I analyze how subjective and cultural frames for managing rape impact an individual's processing of the experience; how they shape ideas of self, community, and world; and how they frame their unraveling and remaking. While I retreated, internalized, and individualized my rape, my collaborators wanted me to externalize it, let the community help, and undergo a ritual to disconnect me from my rapist. Cross-cultural exchange can enhance understandings of responses to trauma and approaches to healing. This is done not to cement cultural frames, to localize or to particularize trauma, nor to overgeneralize but to consider interlocking factors, fill in politically created gaps in focus and memory, and consider multiplicity as enriching on a level playing field. This may help decenter Euro-American notions of trauma and foster an ethics of care.</p>","PeriodicalId":51532,"journal":{"name":"Ethos","volume":"51 3","pages":"255-270"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/etho.12392","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50125526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spacious Minds: Trauma and Resilience in Tibetan Buddhism. Sara E. Lewis. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Xii & 252 pages","authors":"Asha L. Abeyasekera","doi":"10.1111/etho.12389","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.12389","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51532,"journal":{"name":"Ethos","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50141867","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}
{"title":"She Speaks Her Anger: Myths and Conversations of Gimi Women. A Psychological Ethnography in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Gillian Gillison. Series: Culture, Mind, and Society. 2020. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 290 pages","authors":"Jadran Mimica","doi":"10.1111/etho.12391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.12391","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51532,"journal":{"name":"Ethos","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50149338","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}
{"title":"Networks, Labour and Migration among Indian Muslim Artisans. Thomas Chambers. London: UCL Press London. 2020. 473 Pages","authors":"Jamie Howard","doi":"10.1111/etho.12390","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.12390","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51532,"journal":{"name":"Ethos","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50141866","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}
Carol M. Worthman, Constance A. Cummings, Daniel Lende
{"title":"The landscapes of lives I: An action landscape approach to practices and the interface of individual and society","authors":"Carol M. Worthman, Constance A. Cummings, Daniel Lende","doi":"10.1111/etho.12387","DOIUrl":"10.1111/etho.12387","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Practices occupy the intersection of human behavior with its personal and societal dimensions, operating in social theory as bridges between high-order cultural features and on-the-ground dynamics that reciprocally shape the conditions of everyday life and animate human experience. Yet precisely how this bridging occurs remains underspecified. We address that gap in this and a companion article (Worthman, Cummings, and Lende 2023). This article situates practices in dynamic action space, while the second details how those dynamics work and applies them to questions of inequity, resilience, and contemplative practice. We trace a spectrum of practices from mundane activities to formal rituals and self-transformational pursuits. We then situate them within a socioecological framework, drawing on the visual metaphor of Charles Waddington's epigenetic landscape to represent fields of possible practices or action landscapes that are contingent, situated, and dynamically configured to constitute the middle ground bridging social actors and lived experience with sociocultural worlds.</p>","PeriodicalId":51532,"journal":{"name":"Ethos","volume":"52 2","pages":"149-165"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/etho.12387","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77353867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tuning the self: Revisiting health inequities through the lens of social interaction","authors":"Alexandra Brandt Ryborg Jønsson, Olivia Spalletta","doi":"10.1111/etho.12388","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.12388","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this article, we examine the subjective experiences of people who, according to their education level and income, belong to the lowest social classes—indicators that are commonly associated with poor health behaviors and poor health status. Drawing on 18 months of fieldwork among white, working-class people in Denmark, we draw attention to the negative stereotypes connected to health inequities and how people attempt to navigate and mitigate perceived bias. We draw particular attention to the proposed concept of <i>tuning</i>, which we identify as acts intended to mitigate practitioner bias and secure higher esteem and adequate care by differentiating oneself from stereotypes. Ultimately, we aim to contribute to more nuanced conversations on health inequity and how it is conceptualized and acted upon by individuals through the concept of tuning.</p>","PeriodicalId":51532,"journal":{"name":"Ethos","volume":"51 3","pages":"237-254"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/etho.12388","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50148145","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Kapit” at “Bahay” concepts of Filipino neighboring: A cultural revalidation","authors":"Jimbo M. Fatalla","doi":"10.1111/etho.12383","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.12383","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The neighbor concept and relations vary across spatial and temporal milieux. My fieldwork in a rural residential barangay in Marinduque province revalidates the Filipino concept of <i>kapitbahay</i> through the locals’ social interaction and sense of community. Using the <i>pagtatanong-tanong</i> (asking questions) cross-indigenous interview involving ten permanent residents reveals the <i>kapitbahay</i> as a threefold category involving dimensions of space, social relations, and time. The <i>kapitbahay</i> pertains to social responsibility (the “I” or <i>Ako</i> as the <i>kapitbahay</i>), a support system (“They” or <i>Sila</i> as the <i>kapitbahay</i>), and a recognition of <i>kapwa</i> or shared identity (“We” or <i>Kami</i> as <i>magkapitbahay</i>). I propose a <i>“Kapit” at “Bahay”</i> model of Filipino neighboring that views the concept as primarily relational, denoted by <i>kapit</i> (to hold on), and spatial on account of the physical extended neighborhood context rooted in the term <i>bahay</i> (house), with an underlying temporal dimension called <i>panahon</i>.</p>","PeriodicalId":51532,"journal":{"name":"Ethos","volume":"51 2","pages":"149-165"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50133130","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}
{"title":"Fairness, partner choice, and punishment: An ethnographic study of cooperative behavior among children in Helsinki, Finland","authors":"Maija-Eliina Sequeira","doi":"10.1111/etho.12385","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.12385","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article draws upon ethnographic fieldwork among children in Helsinki, Finland, to determine how cooperative behaviors unfold in their everyday lives. Two concepts—fairness and partner choice—emerged as particularly relevant, and related behaviors were examined in the context of ongoing debates regarding cooperation in human societies. Children consistently invoked fairness as an important moral value, and they showed evidence of undergoing a developmental shift from equality-based to equity-based fairness by around seven years old. Children mediated disagreements primarily through partner choice strategies (avoidance and disengagement) rather than partner conflict (punishment). Local social values and child-rearing practices that promote personal autonomy and independence make punishment undesirable and rare in this context. The observed aversion to punishment in Helsinki differs from typical characterizations of so-called WEIRD societies and demonstrates the value that nuanced ethnographic studies in diverse societies can bring to understandings of human cooperation.</p>","PeriodicalId":51532,"journal":{"name":"Ethos","volume":"51 2","pages":"217-233"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/etho.12385","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50133131","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Seeing, being seen, and the semiotics of perspective","authors":"Constantine V. Nakassis","doi":"10.1111/etho.12386","DOIUrl":"10.1111/etho.12386","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Building upon work in visual studies and art history on symbolic perspective, film studies on structures of looking, and linguistic anthropology on entextualization and ideology, this article explores the semiotics of vision/visibility and perspective. In particular, I focus on ethnographic data from the cinema of Tamil Nadu, India, wherein (being seen) seeing a film image and being seen in a film image emerge as pragmatically problematic for those party to the image. In doing so, the article asks: what does it mean and do to <i>see</i> and <i>be seen by</i>, <i>look away from</i> and be <i>effaced by</i> the film image and, further, <i>see</i> or <i>be seen</i> vis-à-vis the above (seeing someone being seen in a film image, be seen looking away, etc.)?</p>","PeriodicalId":51532,"journal":{"name":"Ethos","volume":"53 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74823446","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}
{"title":"Becoming the mother of a transgender child: Ethical self-formation and moral moods of mothers in transition","authors":"Galia Plotkin Amrami","doi":"10.1111/etho.12382","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.12382","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Matters of parenting transgender children are ascendant on the cultural landscape. Based on interviews with Israeli mothers of transgender children between the ages of 8–24 I explore how the process of the child's gender affirmation intersects with maternal subjectivities, and how mothers internalize the morally-loaded narratives of good mothering in contemporary Israel. I illustrate that when children undergo gender affirmation, mothers experience their mothering as challenged and transformed. This transformative process can be conceptualized in terms of political becoming and ethical self-formation (Foucault 1997). However, such a conceptualization does not fully encompass the complexity of mothers' daily carework. An anthropological approach, in particular the concept of \"moral moods\" (Throop 2014), can best capture the spontaneity and ambiguity of mothers' moral lives. This concept can be a valuable theoretical tool to grasp the diffused affective states and moral concerns of those who are constantly subjected to the critical gaze.</p>","PeriodicalId":51532,"journal":{"name":"Ethos","volume":"51 2","pages":"198-216"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/etho.12382","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50117876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}