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{"title":"Being Monica Lewinsky in Kathmandu","authors":"Carole McGranahan","doi":"10.1080/19428200.2022.2123650","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19428200.2022.2123650","url":null,"abstract":"","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":"47595806","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":"Death, Commemoration and Grief in the Age of COVID-19: The Case of Christian Pentecostal Gitanos in Spain","authors":"A. Jiménez","doi":"10.1080/19428200.2022.2119771","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19428200.2022.2119771","url":null,"abstract":"","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":"43450633","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":"Missing the Gym: COVID-19 Stay-at-Home Orders and Formal Fitness Communities","authors":"Cara J Ocobock, K. Hejtmanek","doi":"10.1080/19428200.2022.2119778","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19428200.2022.2119778","url":null,"abstract":"In March 2020, COVID-19 stay-at-home orders (saHOs) were issued in parts of the united states to curb the spread of the novel corona virus sars-CoV-2.1 the saHOs were meant to keep people safe but had several negative consequences including the loss or reduction of employment, increased childcare responsibilities, financial stress, increased anxiety and loneliness.2 another unintended impact of the saHOs was the disruption of exercise routines, caused by temporary closure of gyms and fitness centers (hereafter simply gyms). the goal of our study was to assess how saHOs impacted perceived physical and mental well-being of those who relied on gyms compared to members of a CrossFit gym. this work highlights the critical role community plays in exercise adherence and the importance of exercise routine flexibility in the face of unforeseen disruptions, a key element of CrossFit’s brand. exercise has well-known physical and mental health benefits including, but not limited to, increased muscle mass, improved strength and flexibility, reduced inflammation, improved mood and reductions in depression, stress and anxiety.3 Less well studied are how gyms and the relationships formed there shape physical and mental well-being. some evidence suggests that group exercise, like other group activities, can enhance friendships, foster community building and knowledge and improve exercise routine adherence. Group exercise can also develop a better sense of belonging, purpose and self-efficacy.4 this suggests that gym membership may improve physical well-being through better exercise routine adherence and improve mental well-being through interpersonal relationships and community development. However, the difference between formal (CrossFit) vs. informal (regular gym-going) fitness communities and the impact that has on exercise adherence and performance is understudied. People engage in friendly banter and knowledge exchange while at the gym, but few people meet up or develop these friendships outside of the gym, because individual transformation is the driving motivation for exercising in gyms.5 CrossFit, on the other hand, is purposeful in its effort to develop a sense of community for its participants.6 Founded in the early 2000s, CrossFit distinguished itself from mainstream gyms with its barebones “box” or garage gyms, barbell training with use of Olympic weightlifting and powerlifting","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":"41671055","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 Prison Towns and Ethnographic Entanglements","authors":"K. Doughty, Joshua Dubler","doi":"10.1080/19428200.2022.2117975","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19428200.2022.2117975","url":null,"abstract":"If we had any lingering doubts about whether collaborative ethnography could work — and especially whether it could work during a pandemic and in the midst of a nationwide racial reckoning in fall 2020 — a class session in late October dispelled them. several of our students had focused their participant observation that week on a protest in elmira, New York. elmira Correctional Facility, built in 1864 as the nation’s first reformatory, now serves as the initial processing center for all men incarcerated in New York state. By late October 2020, the prison was placed on lockdown when 40 percent of the approximately 1,800 residents tested positive for COVID-19. a coalition of local activists, including the rochester-based Black Lives Matter affiliate, organized simultaneous virtual and in-person demonstrations in elmira, rochester and albany to spotlight conditions on the inside and demand action. Our Zoom discussion unfolded as a student-led masterclass in perspectival analysis, as we pieced together a three-dimensional account of the protests and the local response through students’ overlapping fieldnotes, video clips, photos and interview snippets. several students had made the two-hour drive to elmira to march with signs while also taking notes and interviewing other participants, counter-protestors and bystanders. Other students had attended the simultaneous virtual protests in rochester and albany, allowing us to collectively contextualize the event statewide. a formerly incarcerated colleague who was auditing our class, Precious Bedell, provided additional behind-the-scenes stories, as one of the event organizers and speakers. One of our students, who had been incarcerated in elmira, was prohibited from attending due to the conditions of his parole, so he instead focused his research on critically analyzing how the events were portrayed on elmira nightly news programs. Our discussion that week built on a virtual class visit the previous month from anthropologist and elmira native andrea Morrell, whose work explores the relationship between elmira and its prison.1 Overall, this class session proved that being patient in allowing relationships off campus to build over time, trusting our students’ research instincts as co-producers’ of ethnographic material and pooling fieldwork data could yield unanticipated insights.","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":"60331357","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":"Experimenting with People: Making Psychology’s Subjects","authors":"D. Fitzgerald","doi":"10.1080/19428200.2022.2119775","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19428200.2022.2119775","url":null,"abstract":"Martin, Emily. 2021. Experiments of the Mind: From the Cognitive Psychology Lab to the World of Facebook and Twitter. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 312 pages. Can there be a more consequential science operating in contemporary Euro-American societies than experimental psychology? Psychological research is pored over by everyone from CEos working to manage their employees, to politicians who want to know how a word affects a voter’s mood, to activists working to make the embodied traumas of social injustice tangible, to web designers tasked with seeing how many seconds it takes a user to click a button. And yet the study of experimental psychology remains, at best, a backwater in medical anthropology, science and technology studies and related fields. When Emily Martin told colleagues about her new project, the subject of her 2021 book, Experiments of the Mind: From the Cognitive Psychology Lab to the World of Facebook and Twitter, they found it, she reports, “frankly, boring.” scan the online programmes of 4s, the conference of the society for social studies of science, which awarded Martin its highest prize in 2019, and there is no shortage of attention to chemicals, algorithms, animals, oceans, genomes, outer space, online markets, forensic devices. But there is precious little attention to that mundane and ubiquitous scientific practice in which an experimenter, sitting across the table from a subject, uses a prompt, an image, a game, to better understand a tiny piece of some everyday human mental process. one reason is that prestige in medical anthropology or science and technology studies often mirrors the imagined or desired prestige that attaches to the science under investigation. Psychology — old, low-tech, popular with students — doesn’t have the epistemic or institutional weight of, say, genomics or high-energy physics. Another reason is that funding opportunities can direct researchers in disciplines such as medical anthropology toward whatever it is that research managers, technology companies and venture capital firms — mostly in Northern California — deem worthy of attention. recall, for example, the sudden rush of interest around “synthetic biology” some years ago. For all of the resources poured into it, that topic and its various controversies left little presence in the social sciences. Put more plainly, psychology just isn’t","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":"43498425","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":"Producing the Uyghur “Terrorist-Worker” through Digital Surveillance in Northwest China","authors":"Darren Byler","doi":"10.1080/19428200.2021.2087444","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19428200.2021.2087444","url":null,"abstract":"Since 2017, the Chinese state has detained hundreds of thousands of Uyghur and Kazakh people in Northwest China for past Islamic activity and political behavior the government later deemed illegal. In a document submitted to the United Nations, Chinese authorities described these detainees as civilians whose extremist or terrorist activity “was not serious” or “whose malicious intent was not deep” and were able to “express repentance.”1 Over time a process of transforming these detainees emerged. More than 533,000 civilians, many of whom were first held in camps, were formally prosecuted.2 But thousands more were transferred from camps, known formally as “closed concentrated education training centers,” to factory complexes that have been built in the Uyghur region over the past decade. These industrial parks were often built by companies and government agencies from more affluent parts of the country such as Shenzhen or Shanghai.3 This system produced a reeducation labor regime that mimics aspects of the migrant worker system in eastern China that has made China the manufacturer of the world. But it has incorporated cutting-edge surveillance and policing to make worker movement even more highly controlled both on and off the factory floor than for migrant workers elsewhere in the country. This troubling arrangement has produced a new category of worker, which I contend is best captured by a phrase that combines ideas not typically associated with each other. They have become “terroristworkers.” My analysis of this situation is based on more than 24 months of ethnographic research in the Uyghur region between 2011 and 2018. This included extensive interviews with one such “terrorist-worker,” Iskander, who was detained in 2017. I spoke frequently and at length with him and with his brother (whose story I tell in chapter 3 of my book Terror Capitalism) before Iskander’s detention in 2017. Since that time, I have conducted repeated interviews with his family members, one of whom managed to flee the country while still maintaining contact with their remaining family members in Xinjiang.4 During my final research trip to the region in 2018, I observed the empty houses of Iskander’s relatives and spoke with low-level state workers about the goals of the camp system. In this essay, which draws from these interviews and observations,5 my primary aim is to demonstrate how Uyghur farmers can be turned into unfree workers under the sign of terrorism. Iskander’s account is thus best understood within the context of broader economic transformations in the region and by considering how the rise of this odd conjunction, the “terrorist-worker,” figures in scholarship of the frontiers of global capitalism. In doing so, my analysis makes a broader argument about a global turn toward techno-","PeriodicalId":90439,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology now","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45282726","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":"Saving Stray Dogs: The Global Politics of Aid and Spectacle in the Ecuadorian Jungle","authors":"Karin Friederic, Jordan Buzzett, Gabby Valencia","doi":"10.1080/19428200.2021.2087446","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19428200.2021.2087446","url":null,"abstract":"The bond between humans and dogs. It’s the stuff that feel-good stories are made of, especially when we feel overwhelmed by news cycles about suffering, violence and division, both here and afar. So, when we hear a rescue story involving a fated friendship between a man and a dog, we grin, we share, we clamor for more. The tale of Arthur, an Ecuadorian “stray dog” saved and rescued to Sweden, is one such story that has captured the hearts of millions. And understandably so. It speaks to perseverance and sacrifice, the possibility of fate and the deep connection between people and their dogs. Having inspired the sale of thousands of books in many languages, two book sequels and a major motion picture due for release in late 2022, “Arthur,” the tale of a man’s best friend “who crossed a jungle to find a home” is, in part, an invention. It is also — as we argue — a story of saviorism that derives its power from the long arc of settler colonialism, white supremacy, and racialized forms of symbolic and structural violence.1 In late 2014, knowing that I, Karin, had strong links to Ecuador and that my family was Swedish, a friend sent me a news article about a stray Ecuadorian dog that had been adopted and transported to a new home in Sweden by an adventure racing athlete named Mikael Lindnord. I noticed that the story had been circulating en masse, hitting all of the major news venues, including The Guardian, The New York Times, Al Jazeera and Public Radio International. The outpouring of support was palpable. Enthusiasm flooded the usually sparse comment area on news articles about the dog. Instagram was similarly overwhelmed with photos of rescue dogs and their owners, all expressing love and support for Arthur, named by his rescuer Mikael Lindnord to honor King Arthur’s bravery. When I sat down to read an article about the dog who “adopted a team of Swedish trekkers in the Amazon,” the photo stopped me in my tracks.2 With my heart racing, I texted my friend: “Umm, I think I know this dog.” As it turns out, the trekkers were nowhere near the Amazon. Instead, they had","PeriodicalId":90439,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology now","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42726618","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":"Working Together Apart: Remote Research Collaboration in the Time of COVID","authors":"E. Dean, Enock E. Makupa, Kristin Phillips","doi":"10.1080/19428200.2021.2090748","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19428200.2021.2090748","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90439,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology now","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46047910","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":"Haiti: What Does Solidarity Really Mean?","authors":"Mark Schuller","doi":"10.1080/19428200.2021.2090750","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19428200.2021.2090750","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90439,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology now","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48137158","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":"When Animals Talk Back","authors":"D. Kulick","doi":"10.1080/19428200.2021.1971481","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19428200.2021.1971481","url":null,"abstract":"Anthropology Now, 13:1–15, 2021 • Copyright © 2021 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. ISSN: 1942-8200 print / 1949-2901 online • https://doi.org/10.1080/19428200.2021.1971481 When Animals Talk Back","PeriodicalId":90439,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology now","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45469083","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}