... and consistently rational. It considers exploring the artful ways to get around insuperable obstacles in life, which is one of the most urgent tasks of anthropology. fate rationality vs rituality rituality vs rationality ritualization sorcery storms Olbar Mabel Salt McGinty storminess climate change...

...This chapter highlights the importance of intangible skills and tacit knowledge in natural sciences and quantitative social sciences. The commonalities between anthropology and environmental sciences help illuminate what is threatened by the insistence that research provides value for money...

...This chapter offers a critique of the anthropology of global health that accounts for how medical anthropology as a subdiscipline has been participatory in constituting both the category of global health and the moral stances this category entails. It analyzes the recruitment to transformation...

...Drawing on the literature of the anthropology of futurity, this chapter engages with the articulations of hope evinced by those who desired to build the Maitreya Project statue. The chapter looks at some techniques of ritual forecasting in Tibetan Buddhism, such as oracles and casting divinations...

..., advocacy anthropology and ethnographic writing. Insight Meditation Kushinagar resistance Singh Babar Titmuss Christopher Buddhism Delhi Capper Daniel circumambulation Gorakhpur Hinduism Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition FPMT sanghas Pepper Daniel Wild River Review Asha...

... the place of religious doubt in anthropological theory, and it argues that anthropology's poverty of imagination regarding doubt has had two consequences. First, it has resulted in a situation in which much anthropological work is driven forward by a desire to discover doubting subjects that resemble us...

... the different subfields of anthropology that tend to display different general orientations to collaboration and sharing. It also discusses archaeology and biological anthropology wherein collaborative research is more or less treated as a given. The chapter cites the training in linguistic anthropology...

... rites as acts of purifying B nyuciang I menyucikan Derrida Jacques translation indeterminacy Quine Vološinov anthropology Bali This affects all of us, man. —Walter Sobchak Much of what we take to be the subject matter of anthropology presupposes an act of translation. This includes...

... Roxana Baldizón Manuel CICIG International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala FCN National Convergence Front LIDER Renewed Democratic Freedom Party Morales Jimmy social movements Torres Sandra genocide Politics of redistribution governing assemblages anthropology of democracy...

...End-of-life issues are increasingly central to discussions within medical anthropology, the anthropology of political action, and the study of Buddhist philosophy and practice. This book speaks directly to these important anthropological and existential conversations. Against the backdrop of global...

...As multisited research has become mainstream in anthropology, collaboration has gained new relevance and traction as a critical infrastructure of both fieldwork and theory, enabling more ambitious research designs, forms of communication, and analysis. This book is the outcome of a 2017 workshop...

..., Enlightenment anthropology, and the legitimacy of the fine arts. It also considers the link between the conceptual fields of luxury and the emerging culture of consumption and concludes with a discussion of two short texts: Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Discourse on the Arts and Sciences (1750...

... Working Through Luna Palowatiwa scapegoating Magill Emily Hughte Phil Rodee Marian Greenblatt Stephen Jablonka Ivan Maza Sarah New Historicism Zuni anthropology participant observation identification trsnsference Frank Hamilton Cushing, even more so than Edward S. Curtis, remains...

...This afterword argues that the practices of mediation, classification, and demarcation elaborated by trans-imperial subjects in early modern Venice constituted important elements in the genealogy of Enlightenment anthropology and the nascent discipline of Orientalism. In particular, eighteenth...

...This chapter discusses Cornell-Peru Project which was considered to be a unique undertaking in the history of Cornell, anthropology, and applied anthropology. The project centered on the community of Vicos in the Callejón de Huaylas and the dissolution of its hacienda system. Allan Holmberg...

...The chapter revisits theoretical issues through a contrast of the methods and epistemology of social science/anthropology and law. It looks at the synergies and discordances between the juridical production of a verdict and the author's disciplinary focus on explanation, context, and analysis...

... life joking language networks NGOs conspicuous consumption drinks activism Jornal de Angola Biblical imagery Buire Chloé kuduro rap Tomás António colonialism dominant discourse kinship aesthetics cunha ideology “immediatism” race terrains of contestation Hegemony Anthropology...

...” may at least participate in the global intelligibility of the colony. Anthropology provides useful information about the governed individuals, in particular those who are “less civilized.” To this mass of empirical knowledge are added the more practical observations about the behavior of the colonized...

... to God as tackled in Cloud and in The Book of Privy Counselling. It then considers the Cloud author's theological “anthropology,” along with the influence of Thomas Gallus on the Cloud texts. It also explores the Cloud...

...This chapter explores Muriel Rukeyser's unfinished work on Franz Boas and her engagement with cultural anthropology and indigenous knowledge systems that would be foundational for the work she was producing in the Cold War period. The chapter tells how this gave her new modes and histories to think...