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Pushpin memoir: Making meaning out of murder 图钉回忆录：从谋杀中寻找意义

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American Anthropologist Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1111/aman.28045

Noelle Sullivan

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Living in the Paraindustrial 生活在准工业时代

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American Anthropologist Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1111/aman.28047

Christine J. Walley

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Bridging worlds: An interview with Ethiopian American archaeologist Helina Woldekiros 沟通世界：采访埃塞俄比亚裔美国考古学家 Helina Woldekiros

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American Anthropologist Pub Date : 2025-01-16 DOI: 10.1111/aman.28039

Helina Woldekiros, Jing Xu, Yang Zhan

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Capitalist inequality and power, migration, and urbanity: A biographical interview with Nina Glick Schiller 资本主义不平等与权力、移民与都市化：妮娜·格里克·席勒传记访谈

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American Anthropologist Pub Date : 2024-12-28 DOI: 10.1111/aman.28042

Damián Omar Martínez

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Intimate war across borders: Terrifying encounters, recognition, and “the Colombian armed conflict” in Quito, Ecuador 跨越国界的亲密战争：可怕的遭遇、承认和厄瓜多尔基多的“哥伦比亚武装冲突”

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American Anthropologist Pub Date : 2024-12-28 DOI: 10.1111/aman.28043

Alana Ackerman

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Queering pregnancy 酷儿怀孕

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American Anthropologist Pub Date : 2024-12-23 DOI: 10.1111/aman.28040

Erika Alpert

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Risk and its others: Toward an anthropology of “protection” in rural Mongolia 风险及其其他因素：蒙古农村“保护”人类学研究

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American Anthropologist Pub Date : 2024-12-23 DOI: 10.1111/aman.28041

Joseph Bristley

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Resilience—Peril or promise? Mapping current and future directions in the anthropology of resilience 韧性——危险还是希望？绘制复原力人类学的当前和未来方向

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American Anthropologist Pub Date : 2024-12-23 DOI: 10.1111/aman.28034

Elise Andaya, Amy Cooper

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The house is coming from inside the call 房子是从里面传来的

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American Anthropologist Pub Date : 2024-12-05 DOI: 10.1111/aman.28037

Lachlan Summers

{"title":"The house is coming from inside the call","authors":"Lachlan Summers","doi":"10.1111/aman.28037","DOIUrl":"10.1111/aman.28037","url":null,"abstract":"You are reading the first sentence of this essay. In fact, outside of this abstract and a brief introduction, there are only first sentences in this essay, all collected from anthropology monographs and articles. Anthropology is a promiscuous discipline, but there are only about half a dozen ways to begin an anthropology essay. I collect sentences into their tropes, organize the sentences within those tropes, then arrange those tropes among one another, so this text reads like an opening to an anthropology essay, despite being composed entirely of openings to anthropology essays. I'd like to say I got the idea from Christian Marclay's film, The Clock, a memento mori whose 24-hour narrative is driven by excerpts of movies that feature timepieces, but it probably came from a YouTube montage of Nicholas Cage screaming “Fuck” 40 times in 40 seconds. The expectations of academic realism as a genre transform this essay from archive to narrative: the text itself is theoretical, geographic, and historical nonsense, but it consolidates as an essay through the academic readers’ (your) efforts to suture discrepancies into cohesion. If this essay makes any sense, it's due to a magic trick realism performs on us. This might be worth thinking about whenever we read something that makes sense.","PeriodicalId":7697,"journal":{"name":"American Anthropologist","volume":"127 1","pages":"208-219"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/aman.28037","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143536002","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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The ethnographic crime scene: Tracing the violence within market relations on the Thai-Myanmar border 民族学犯罪现场：追踪泰缅边境市场关系中的暴力

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American Anthropologist Pub Date : 2024-12-03 DOI: 10.1111/aman.28038

Stephen Campbell

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