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The contributors in Ethnographic Refusals, Unruly Latinidades highlight the value of 'radical inclusion' in their research and call for a critical self-reflexivity that marshals the power of bearing witness to move from rhetoric to praxis in support of these methodologies within anthropological perspectives.

Using ethnographic, historical, and media-based approaches, the contributors to this volume focus on new attitudes and practices around mortality and mourning - from the possibilities of digitally enhanced afterlives to industrialized 'necro-waste', the ethics of care, the meaning of secular rituals, and the political economy of death.

What role did anti-Mexicanism and attacks on Latinx people and their communities play in Donald Trump's political rise and presidential practices? Driven by the overwhelming political urgency of the moment, the contributors to this volume seek to frame Trumpism's origins and political effects.

Examines the importance and power of design and the ubiquitous and forceful effects it has on human life within the study of anthropology. Contributors explore the interactions between anthropology and design through a cross-disciplinary approach centred around the design-and-anthropology relationship.

The goal of this volume is to harness the work of the ""next generation"" of empire scholars in order to foster new theoretical and methodological perspectives that are of relevance within and beyond archaeology and to foreground empires as a cross-cultural category.

Walls are being built at a dizzying pace to separate us, cocoon us, and exclude us. The contributors to this volume illuminate the roles and uses of walls around the world - in contexts ranging from historic neighbourhoods to contemporary national borders.

Explores what it means to be structurally vulnerable; how structural vulnerabilities intersect with cancer risk, diagnosis, care seeking, caregiving, clinical-trial participation, and survivorship; and how differing local, national, and global political contexts and histories inform vulnerability.

Investigates the intersections between faith-based charity and secular statecraft. The contributors trace the connections among piety, philanthropy, policy, and policing. They seek to understand how faith and organized religious charity can be mobilized - at times on behalf of the state - to govern populations and their practices.

Despite rapidly changing social and economic conditions worldwide, patriarchal practices remain remarkably widespread and persistent. Contributors to this volume draw on field research and in-depth qualitative data from different parts of the world to explore the reasons for women's varied psychological responses to patriarchy.

Develops an anthropology of labour that is sharply attuned to the irreversible effects of climate change, extinction, and deforestation. The authors push ethnographic inquiry beyond the anthropocentric documentation of human work on nature in order to develop a Language for thinking about how all labour is a collective ecological act.

Puebloan sociocultural formations of the past and present are the subject of the essays collected in this volume. The contributors draw upon the insights of archaeology, ethnology, and linguistic anthropology to examine social history and practice, including kinship groups, ritual sodalities, architectural forms, economic exchange, environmental adaptation, and political order.

Considers at a global scale what fat stigma is and what it does to people. Making use of an array of social science perspectives applied in multiple settings, the authors examine the interplay of weight, wealth, history, culture, and meaning to fat and its social rejection. They also explore the notion of symbolic body capita - the power of non-fat bodies to do what people need or want.

Microfinance has become one of the most popular international development policies of all time and a mainstay of local development and antipoverty programs across the Global South. The contributors to this multidisciplinary volume consider the origins, evolution, and outcomes of microfinance from a variety of perspectives and contend that it has been an unsuccessful approach to development.

Scholars have long argued that the developmental state of the human infant at birth is unique. This volume expands that argument, pointing out that many distinctively human characteristics can be traced to the fact that we give birth to infants who are highly dependent on others and who learn how to be human while their brains are experiencing growth unlike that seen in other primates.

The authors in this volume employ feminist, ethnographic methods to examine what free trade and export processing zones, economic liberalization, and currency reform mean to women in Argentina, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Ghana, the United States, India, Jamaica, and many other places.

Explores Katherine Dunham's contribution to anthropology and the ongoing relevance of her ideas and methodologies, rejecting the idea that art and academics need to be cleanly separated from each other.

Focuses on the economic, political, social, and cultural dynamics of street economies across the urban Global South. The contributors present cases from postsocialist Vietnam to a struggling democracy in the Philippines, from the former command economies in Africa to previously authoritarian regimes in Latin America.

By using a specific case study, the contributors to this book aim to help establish a common theoretical ground for investigating how humans and the societies they built interacted over time.

Nature, science, religion. Each term carries with it claims to truth: nature inasmuch as it conveys our beliefs of how things naturally are and should be; science in and through its methods, evident results, and institutional prestige; and religion in its objects and the commitments they generate among devotees.

Presents new interpretations of Native American experiences under Spanish colonialism and challenges the reader to reexamine long-standing assumptions about the Spanish conquests of the Americas.

By most estimates, as much as 90 percent of the archaeology done in the United States today is carried out in the field of cultural resource management. The contributors hope that this book will serve as an impetus in American archaeology for dialogue and debate on how to make CRM projects and programs yield both better archaeology and better public policy.