Academic Articles & Research Papers

An Anthropology of Structural Violence

Any thorough understanding of the modern epidemics of AIDS and tuberculosis in Haiti or elsewhere in the postcolonial world requires a thorough knowledge of history and political economy. This essay, based on over a decade of research in ru...

The Anthropology of Emotions

Interest in has burgeoned in the last decade, not only in anthropology, but in psychology (e.g. 5, 77,113, 141), sociology (e.g. 72, 81), philosophy (e.g. 153, 177), history (e.g. 180), and feminist studies (e.g. 176). A concern to understa...

An Anthropology of Biomedicine

An Anthropology of Biomedicine is an exciting new introduction to biomedicine and its global implications. Focusing on the ways in which the application of biomedical technologies bring about radical changes to societies at large, cultural ...

Anthropology of Ontologies

The turn to ontology, often associated with the recent works of Philippe Descola, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, and Bruno Latour, but evident in many other places as well, is, in Elizabeth Povinelli's formulation, “symptomatic” and “diagnosti...

An Anthropology of Ethics

Through an ambitious and critical revision of Michel Foucault's investigation of ethics, James Faubion develops an original program of empirical inquiry into the ethical domain. From an anthropological perspective, Faubion argues that Fouca...

Anthropology of Fishing

Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anth...

Anthropology, by Comparison

Comparison has long been the backbone of the discipline of anthropology. But recent developments in anthropology, including critical self-reflection and new case studies sited in a globalized world, have pushed comparative work aside. For t...

Annual Review of Anthropology

The Annual Review of Anthropology, in publication since 1972, covers significant developments in the subfields of anthropology, including archaeology, biological anthropology, linguistics and communicative practices, regional studies and in...

Rethinking Anthropology

The essential core of social anthropology is fieldwork–the understanding of the way of life of a single particular people. This fieldwork is an extremely personal traumatic kind of experience and the personal involvement of the anthropologi...

Feminism and Anthropology.

Lectures on Anthropology

Kant was one of the inventors of anthropology, and his lectures on anthropology were the most popular and among the most frequently given of his lecture courses. This volume contains the first translation of selections from student transcri...

The Anthropology of the Future

Study of the future is an important new field in anthropology. Building on a philosophical tradition running from Aristotle through Heidegger to Schatzki, this book presents the concept of 'orientations' as a way to study everyday life. It ...

Anthropology and Autobiography

1. Anthropology and autobiography: participatory experience and embodied Knowledge Judith Okely 2. Ethnography and experience: gender implications in fieldwork and text Helen Callaway 3. Automythologies and the reconstruction of ageing Paul...

Anthropology as Cultural Critique

Photography and Anthropology

Pinney, Christopher. Photography and Anthropology. London: Reaktion Books, 2011; 174 pp., notes, bibliography, index, 89 illus. ISBN 9781861898043 and 1861898045; pbk, $29.95. Photography and Anthr......

The Anthropology of Christianity

This article surveys the literature that constitutes the newly emergent anthropology of Christianity. Arguing that the development of this sub-discipline was impeded until recently by anthropology's theoretical framing and empirical interes...

Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter

The Case for Letting Anthropology Burn: Sociocultural Anthropology in 2019

ABSTRACT This essay principally meditates on the scholarship published by sociocultural anthropologists in 2019. In 2019, the field of anthropology confronted anthropogenic climate change and authoritarian governance both as objects of scho...

Anthropology and the development encounter: the making and marketing of development anthropology

Since the end of World War II, relations between industrialized nations and Third World countries have been greatly determined and mediated by the discourses and practices of “development.” Although anthropologists in general have not prob‐...

The Anthropology of Money

This review surveys anthropological and other social research on money and finance. It emphasizes money's social roles and meanings as well as its pragmatics in different modalities of exchange and circulation. It reviews scholarly emphasis...