{"title":"The Anthropology of Propaganda: Threats, Priorities, and Limits","authors":"Jordan Kiper","doi":"10.1111/gena.12132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gena.12132","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 <p>This article contends that propaganda is a growing threat that worsens many of today's most pressing human problems, from political violence to climate denial. Jordan Kiper explains why anthropology is essential for understanding propaganda: it works by manipulating culture, and only ethnographic research can show how it affects real people in real places. The author outlines urgent research priorities, including hate speech, war propaganda, digital authoritarianism, and the impact of AI. Kiper also warns of anthropology's limits and the ethical tensions researchers face. Still, he encourages anthropologists to take a leading role in understanding propaganda as part of the discipline's mission to disseminate anthropological knowledge to address human problems.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":53591,"journal":{"name":"General Anthropology","volume":"32 1","pages":"28-33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gena.12132","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144091629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Small Things Matter: Irish Christmas and Authoritarianism, 1985 By Robert Myers","authors":"Lene Pederson","doi":"10.1111/gena.12133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gena.12133","url":null,"abstract":"<p><i>Small Things Like These</i>. 2024. 96min. PG-13. Directed by Tim Mielants. Produced by Cillian Murphy, Matt Damon, Catherine Magee, Alan Moloney, Drew Vinton, Jeff Robinov. Screenplay by Enda Walsh. Edited by Alain Dessauvage. Music by Senjan Jansen. Released November 2024. Distributed by Lionsgate with Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland. Starring Cillian Murphy, Emily Watson, Eileen Walsh, Helen Behan, Michelle Fairley, Clare Dunne, Liadán Dunlea, Mark McKenna, Zara Devlin and Louis Kirwan. Official website: https://artistsequity.com/projects/small-things-like-these/ Available on Amazon Prime. Based on Claire Keegan's <i>Small Things Like These</i> (2021).</p>","PeriodicalId":53591,"journal":{"name":"General Anthropology","volume":"32 1","pages":"36-37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144091627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Recasting Anthropology: Praxis, People, and Possibilities","authors":"Joe Watkins","doi":"10.1111/gena.12131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gena.12131","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Well into its second century, Anthropology continues to search for its place in the world. Its founders were looking to create a new way of studying humans throughout time and space as a means of better understanding who we are, who we have been, and who we can be. Over the course of the past 50 years, I have participated in government-based archaeology, academic archaeology, and contract archaeology at the state, federal, and private levels as an anthropological archaeologist. Today's anthropologists often find themselves in a variety of situations where they must find ways of making the discipline relevant in the eyes of community members, the academic world, and even government entities. In this paper I will offer a glimpse of the ways that I believe anthropology has changed over the fifty years I have been in the discipline, the way it hasn't, and the way it should.</p>","PeriodicalId":53591,"journal":{"name":"General Anthropology","volume":"32 1","pages":"3-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144091633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Conflict to Coexistence: A shifting discourse in studies of the human-primate interface","authors":"Amanda L. Ellwanger","doi":"10.1111/gena.12130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gena.12130","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper traces a shift in how researchers talk about human-primate interactions, moving from a focus on conflict to a growing interest in coexistence. Although conflict—like crop-raiding and aggression—has dominated past research, these narratives often overlook mutual adaptation and positive relationships between people and primates. Drawing on a review of 30 years of literature, the author finds a slow but steady increase in coexistence-focused studies, particularly in Asia. I argue that embracing coexistence better reflects the complex reality of shared human-primate spaces and encourages more balanced, collaborative approaches to managing those relationships.</p>","PeriodicalId":53591,"journal":{"name":"General Anthropology","volume":"32 1","pages":"20-27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144091635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Echoes of the Ethnosphere: The Genesis of an Anthropological Novel","authors":"Conrad Phillip Kottak, Artie Intel","doi":"10.1111/gena.12135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gena.12135","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53591,"journal":{"name":"General Anthropology","volume":"32 1","pages":"9-19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gena.12135","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144091634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Prism of Human Rights: Seeking Justice amid Gender Violence in Rural Ecuador. By Karin Friederic","authors":"Faidra Papavasiliou","doi":"10.1111/gena.12134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gena.12134","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53591,"journal":{"name":"General Anthropology","volume":"32 1","pages":"34-35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144091632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pre-viving cancer: Biosolidarity amongst young adult breast cancer (BRCA) gene carriers in the United States","authors":"Nina Francis-Levin PhD, MSW","doi":"10.1111/gena.12123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gena.12123","url":null,"abstract":"<p> </p>","PeriodicalId":53591,"journal":{"name":"General Anthropology","volume":"31 1-2","pages":"14-18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gena.12123","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143245238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Meeting the Spirits: Creating Extraordinary Experiences at an Ancient Community in the Chihuahuan Desert","authors":"Todd L. VanPool, Christine S. VanPool","doi":"10.1111/gena.12126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gena.12126","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53591,"journal":{"name":"General Anthropology","volume":"31 1-2","pages":"3-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143249061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}