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{"title":"A Case Study of a Locked-Down Community under COVID-19 in Beijing","authors":"Huang Jing","doi":"10.1080/19428200.2023.2230082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19428200.2023.2230082","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 WeChat is similar to WhatsApp or Facebook and is the primary social media platform in China.2 Kaufman Joan, “SARS and China’s Health-Care Response,” in SARS in China: Prelude to Pandemic, eds. Arthur Kleinman and James L. Watson (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006).3 In the context of apartment buildings in China, a unit refers to a self-contained living space within a larger building. Residents living in the same unit share a common access way or hallway. A unit may comprise multiple floors with several apartments per floor.Additional informationNotes on contributorsHuang JingHuang Jing is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Ethnology and Sociology at Minzu University of China. She is also a TV program director and writer. Trained in cultural anthropology and media, her research focuses on media anthropology.","PeriodicalId":90439,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology now","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135798469","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":"Heritage Beyond Words: Acts of Nonverbal Decolonization","authors":"A. Oehler, Dwayne Drescher","doi":"10.1080/19428200.2022.2186104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19428200.2022.2186104","url":null,"abstract":"ancestral language revitalization continues to play a central role in Indigenous decolonization and self-determination across turtle Island. We were able to witness this firsthand in 2011, while working with young Indigenous hunters in the Inuvialuit settlement region, Northwest territories, Canada. as part of a project studying Western arctic Inuit language and identity, we had the privilege of collaborating with the Inuvialuit Cultural Centre and the aboriginal Culture and Language Instructor Program at aurora College in Inuvik. For many learners, reclaiming the language of their people had a healing effect, especially in light of the intergenerational trauma created by residential schools across the North. Language not only helped solidify a sense of collective belonging; it also reconnected people to Inuit Nunangat (ancestral lands and waters), which are dotted with Inuvialuktun toponyms. successful learners of Inuvialuktun were able to reconnect with the land through their newly acquired language skills. But there were also those who had been less successful in their learning. some were discouraged, feeling stigmatized for their limited language proficiency. among them, we encountered several young monolingual hunters with strong ties to the land. For us, this raised several questions: How important is language in establishing a sense of belonging with one’s community and with the land? Can some of the pressure experienced by learners to revitalize ancestral languages be linked to a eurocentric overemphasis on language as identity? What about the revitalization of nonverbal communicative skills? Why do we hear so little about nonverbal interspecies communication as a feature in community efforts toward selfdetermination? Many Indigenous societies maintain a deep sensitivity to forms of nonverbal interaction, which we argue is equally important to document, protect and pass on, regardless of whether colonial institutions are able to recognize their importance. Inspired by this emphasis on the unspoken, and following the work of Balanoff and Chambers1 on nontextual literacies, we would like to call for renewed attention to all things unspoken in the Circumpolar North. What we have in mind is a heritage that extends not only beyond words but also beyond the species boundary. We are limited here to the use of written words,","PeriodicalId":90439,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology now","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45575921","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":"Black Henna: Hazardous Allergies and Invisible Bodies","authors":"W. Ye","doi":"10.1080/19428200.2022.2186093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19428200.2022.2186093","url":null,"abstract":"a serious accident happened to me at the end of 2019, during the last two weeks of my dissertation field research on the global production of a Chinese medicine, ejiao (donkey-hide gelatin). By then, I had completed a year and a half of fieldwork in Kenya, but my daily activities were concentrated mainly in the capital, Nairobi, and several inland counties where the donkey slaughterhouses are located. I rarely went to the eastern coastal areas. at the end of the year, the annual Lamu Culture Festival was to be held on Lamu Island, including a donkey race that was related to my research. I finally had a good reason to travel to the east coast to visit the historic island famous for its swahili culture. On the night before the opening of the cultural festival, I rushed to Lamu.","PeriodicalId":90439,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology now","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43010272","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":"Exhumation of a Slovenian Death Pit: Jama pod Macesnovo Gorico and the Right to a Grave","authors":"J. Barnes, Daniela Roethlisberger","doi":"10.1080/19428200.2022.2186659","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19428200.2022.2186659","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90439,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology now","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47451545","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":"Caste Contagion: Radical Archives and Biomedical Futures amid COVID-19 in India","authors":"Nikhil Pandhi","doi":"10.1080/19428200.2022.2186106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19428200.2022.2186106","url":null,"abstract":"In February 2021, India was emerging scathed and scarred from its first wave of COVID-19 infections and deaths. I met my interlocutor, whom I call Dr. amit, at a community health clinic in a low-income neighborhood of northeast Delhi. a doctor friend connected me with Dr. amit, after learning about my ethnographic research on the lives of Dalit (“lower-caste”) doctors and how Indian public health systems enact and embody the grammars and logics of structural casteism.1 unfolding within the casteist realms of the COVID-19 pandemic in India, my fieldwork reveals that Indian doctors are deeply caste-conscious. this is often in opposition to the staging of modern science and biomedicine in India as “global” and, therefore, cutting-edge, liberal and democratic. When I introduced myself and my research to Dr. amit, he mused, “the real story of this mahamari [pandemic] is the untold saga of Dalits and public health.” He added, “If you really want to access Dalits’ medical records ... more than hospitals, you should go to Dalit literature. We have expressed our real pain there.” as I contemplated the doctor’s vital words, he smiled and passed me a thin book lying on his desk among the medical textbooks. titled When I Hid My Caste, the text contained english translations of short stories by Marathi Dalit writer Baburao Bagul. reading through those stories, I could immediately feel the force of Dr amit’s powerful words redoubled by the storyteller’s prose. “My story will now live a freer life than I do.” With these words, Baburao Bagul unleashed his radical stories into the casteist world.2 In directing me to such phenomenological traces of Dalit livingness and pain, Dr. amit expanded the terrains of my ethnographic fieldwork, moving beyond a physical site laden with implicit and explicit foreclosures of “lower-caste” experience toward radical archives and affective testimonies of Dalit survival, endurance, creativity and critical consciousness expressed through anti-caste literature. the doctor also highlighted Indian biomedicine’s blackening and blurring of the caste question and the creative labor needed to liberate Dalit bodies from the rationing regimes of modern science. Importantly, in prescribing stories, Dr amit was also placing the evidentiary diagnostics and grammars of modern biomedicine in question, allowing for anti-caste stories","PeriodicalId":90439,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology now","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48706691","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 Long March to the White Paper Revolution: Understanding Recent COVID Protests in China","authors":"Eric S. Henry","doi":"10.1080/19428200.2022.2186658","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19428200.2022.2186658","url":null,"abstract":"One curious aspect of the democracy protests that rocked China in 1989 was the way in which they took so-called China experts by surprise. Frank Pieke, one such China expert and one of my own mentors, was doing fieldwork in Beijing at the time. He only became aware of the protest, which came to be known as the People’s Movement, by chance, after stumbling upon an early demonstration in tian’anmen square while out for a walk. He commented later, “still, there were no indications that the tensions could lead to widespread social unrest in the near future.”1 as we all know, they later did. Beginning on the night of June 3, 1989, and lasting for several days, students occupying downtown Beijing were assaulted and fired upon by soldiers charged with clearing the demonstration by any means necessary. the final death toll will likely never be known, but most unbiased estimates place it at over a thousand.2 I cannot therefore help but feel a sense of déjà vu as I hear about new protest events that happened recently in China. I have to confess they took me by surprise as well given the Chinese government’s focus on promoting what, in the mid-2000s, President Hu Jintao called a “harmonious society,” a strategy of resolving social conflict and inequality through shared prosperity. although I am nearly certain we will not witness bloodshed on the same scale as three decades ago, the future of these protests and their impacts are not easy to predict. I will trace out the larger sociopolitical shifts in contemporary China that have brought us to this moment, while considering how these shifts have the potential to reconfigure the nature of China’s ongoing development. although on their surface the new protests are ostensibly about COVID restrictions and pandemic lockdowns, I would argue they are fundamentally tied to growing disillusionment with the post-tian’anmen social contract that has propelled China to its status as a global power.","PeriodicalId":90439,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology now","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47633035","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":"After the Massacre at Wounded Knee","authors":"R. Cone","doi":"10.1080/19428200.2022.2186101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19428200.2022.2186101","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90439,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology now","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47885611","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 Matter of Absence: Traversing the Ghosts of Habitation","authors":"Amir Sherif","doi":"10.1080/19428200.2022.2186096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19428200.2022.2186096","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90439,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology now","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42673717","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":"Imagined Transnational Communities","authors":"Shiva Nourpanah","doi":"10.1080/19428200.2022.2186095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19428200.2022.2186095","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90439,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology now","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48711952","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 Co-Sign: The Credible Messenger and the Challenges with Conducting Gun Violence Research","authors":"Joseph B. Richardson","doi":"10.1080/19428200.2022.2119789","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19428200.2022.2119789","url":null,"abstract":"studies violence and trauma among young Black male survivors of violent firearm injury at the two","PeriodicalId":90439,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology now","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45486741","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}