Practicing anthropology最新文献

{"title":"The Problem with University Affiliation: Notes from an Independent Scholar","authors":"Emily C. Donaldson","doi":"10.17730/0888-4552.45.1.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17730/0888-4552.45.1.4","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Anthropologists today are constantly challenged to understand and navigate our relationships to others, ourselves, our contexts, and our institutions. For my part, repeatedly facing the question, “What is your affiliation?” has recently made me wonder what that particular relationship means. Recent trends suggest that most of this year’s freshly-minted anthropology Ph.D.s will take their hard-earned expertise to fields outside of academia, where it and other social science perspectives are sorely needed to address the world’s current crises. But as anthropology programs face tightening budgets, more career-oriented students, and the threat of termination, we should be asking how academic anthropologists can better recognize and draw upon all those who have trained in our field. This piece explores the effects and waning relevance of university affiliation on our discipline, at a time when we are striving to achieve greater equality, accessibility, and applicability.","PeriodicalId":87338,"journal":{"name":"Practicing anthropology","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83437774","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":"Perks of Pivoting: Key Learnings from Data Collection Amid COVID-19 Regulations","authors":"Rachael Sorcher, A. Salazar, Elvis Gatchalian, Juanjoe (Rhed) Gonzales, E. Cloete","doi":"10.17730/0888-4552.45.1.34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17730/0888-4552.45.1.34","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Sanitation interventions are bountiful, yet concerns prevail regarding their impact and sustainability. Community-led initiatives, such as those facilitated by Outreach Philippines, Incorporated (OPI), prove to ease such concerns. The research team conducted a qualitative study to understand the role of OPI’s sanitation activities and their impact on three communities in the rural Philippines. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the team adapted their data collection strategy by employing Most Significant Change and Photovoice methodologies. The breadth of data collected underscores the vitality that multimedia brings to data collection. Significantly, the pivoting necessary to conduct the study was made possible by OPI staff and community leaders who played integral roles in developing and carrying out the research. The findings point to the advantages of using multiple qualitative methods, the necessity to do so during COVID-19, and community members’ ability to bolster study success.","PeriodicalId":87338,"journal":{"name":"Practicing anthropology","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77870834","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":"Are Tattoos Just a Muse?","authors":"Divyasree Sreedhar, S. Loganathan","doi":"10.17730/0888-4552.45.1.40","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17730/0888-4552.45.1.40","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Expressing oneself in a comprehensive manner is an arduous task. Self-expression in a concise and pictorial way is unique. Bodily stigmata such as piercings, tattoos, scarring, etc. are self-expression tools. In this reflection about tattoos, I look for an interaction of tattoos with mental health issues in the culturally and linguistically diverse country of India. As a student of psychiatry, I explore several examples of tattoos on people seeking mental health treatment, and I wonder how stigma and distress emanating from a mental illness affects self-expression. Culturally, India is an amalgam of varied customs practiced through its various states. I study how people seeking mental health support in a tertiary care center discuss their tattoos.","PeriodicalId":87338,"journal":{"name":"Practicing anthropology","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78804330","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":"Fails to Understand Requirements","authors":"Shareen K. Murayama","doi":"10.17730/0888-4552.45.1.3a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17730/0888-4552.45.1.3a","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":87338,"journal":{"name":"Practicing anthropology","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89781054","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":"Problems Faced During the Beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic","authors":"S. L. Ginzburg, S. Schensul","doi":"10.17730/0888-4552.45.1.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17730/0888-4552.45.1.23","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 COVID-19 brought widespread social isolation, anxiety, and economic instability. No aspect of societal function was unaffected, including anthropologists’ ability to use traditional face-to-face methodologies. In this paper, we describe our adaptation to these constraints as we examine the problems people faced during the early pandemic. We draw on cultural ecology to discuss how researchers and the public adapted to extraordinarily challenging environments. We conducted an anonymous online survey with Connecticut residents to assess behaviors, knowledge, and attitudes about COVID-19 early in the pandemic. Four hundred and ninety-four people took the survey; 92 percent of respondents were concerned about family members, and 33 percent reported moderate anxiety. We found that the pandemic added a significant burden of unpaid labor for women due to social isolation, loss of income, and abrupt termination of childcare. Confusion over the nature of COVID-19 furthermore exacerbated anxiety levels. The pandemic requires anthropologists to implement creative and safe methodologies.","PeriodicalId":87338,"journal":{"name":"Practicing anthropology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76148769","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":"On Hunger: A Dollar for Your Thoughts","authors":"J. Schneider","doi":"10.17730/0888-4552.45.1.3b","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17730/0888-4552.45.1.3b","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":87338,"journal":{"name":"Practicing anthropology","volume":"114 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76982326","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":"The Impact of COVID-19 on Amsterdam’s Harm Reduction Model: An Exploratory Study","authors":"Hayley Murray","doi":"10.17730/0888-4552.45.1.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17730/0888-4552.45.1.28","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The Netherlands is often praised for its effective approach to reducing harms for people who use drugs. Amsterdam’s government-funded drug-checking services and face-to-face peer support at music festivals are celebrated for their effectiveness at keeping young people who use drugs safer. Young people develop social and temporal protective mechanisms allowing them to enjoy “hassle-free highs.” This combination of harm reduction from above and below is successful at protecting young people from drug-related harms and addressing changing trends. But how resilient is this system to societal crises? This qualitative research paper describes how the COVID-19 pandemic undermines regulating mechanisms and exposes young people who use drugs to new challenges and risks, as well as the creative responses by Amsterdam’s harm reduction programs. The adaptions to harm reduction are not only durable but provide access to the hard-to-reach private spaces of risk-taking behaviors.","PeriodicalId":87338,"journal":{"name":"Practicing anthropology","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88489982","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":"Ethnographic Poems: HopStepJump, Anjinho [Little Angel], Living in the Desert, Untitled Haiku","authors":"Linda Rabben","doi":"10.17730/0888-4552.45.1.47","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17730/0888-4552.45.1.47","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":87338,"journal":{"name":"Practicing anthropology","volume":"113 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79205350","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":"COVID-19, Climate, and Christianity in Rural Northern California: Divergent Frames for Masking","authors":"Maydha Dhanuka, A. Koon, Emily Mendenhall","doi":"10.17730/0888-4552.45.1.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17730/0888-4552.45.1.14","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The American political and emotional response to COVID-19 during the first pandemic summer of 2020 revealed a great deal about who we are as a nation: one that is divided and diverse, as well as geographically, racially, and politically complex. Political representation of governors was a powerful indicator of the public health policies during that first year, such as mask mandates. Mask politics have been heralded as a great indicator of political division. However, unlike most of the nation that confronted masking recommendations for the first time, many residents in rural Northern California had for several years masked routinely for wildfires. We conducted a small ethnographic study of people’s perceptions and experiences around masking amidst wildfires in Redding, CA—a red district in a blue state—where many residents disagreed with the Governor’s public health policies. We conducted this research in comparison, or contrast, to concurrent research on masking perceptions and experiences among rural residents of a red district in a red state (Iowa), where many residents agreed with the Governor’s inaction around COVID-19 prevention. We found four dominant frames in the rural Iowa district (see Koon et al. 2021) that were both similar and different from those in California. The four frames were: concern, crisis, constraint, and conspiracy. The concern frame described careful masking to prevent COVID-19 transmission for the self and others; most worked in health care and related masking for COVID-19 with masking for wildfires. The crisis frame is often linked with the risk of COVID-19 with convergent political crises of inequality and climate. The constraint frame primarily highlighted how business owners felt forgotten by the government and overrun by national corporations. The conspiracy frame illuminated how older and more conservative residents perceived themselves as dislocated from state leadership. This research in Redding illustrates how perceptions of risk and norms around masking were not only influenced by politics but also social context and previous exposure to masking. This research emphasizes the need to push against oversimplified narratives of the American response because the nation exhibits cultural, social, environmental, and political differences that are not clearly divided within regions, states, districts, or communities and differ from place to place.","PeriodicalId":87338,"journal":{"name":"Practicing anthropology","volume":"90 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84545122","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":"As Paredes Falam (The Walls Speak): The Complicated Position of Graffiti and Wall Art in Coimbra, Portugal","authors":"Emery R. Eaves","doi":"10.17730/0888-4552.44.4.43","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17730/0888-4552.44.4.43","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In this paper, in honor of Leila Monaghan’s contributions to decolonizing and privileging varied forms of communication, I consider the complex position of graffiti and wall art in contemporary Coimbra, Portugal. Through exploration of three questions that emerged during my three months of ethnographic research on the decriminalization of drug use in Portugal, I consider how this form of artistic expression fits into the broader imaginary of a country that has been, in its turn, one of the great colonial powers, a highly restrictive dictatorial regime, and finally, one of the most economically depressed countries in Western Europe. In Portugal, I consider graffiti, as a form of art and communication and question how it fits into a complex process of de-colonizing and exploring power among diverse youth, even within a former colonial center of power.","PeriodicalId":87338,"journal":{"name":"Practicing anthropology","volume":"56 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83954809","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}