Showing papers in "Annual Review of Anthropology in 2019"
TL;DR: The authors suggests that although there is not much of an explicitly defined anthropology of populism, anthropologists have nevertheless been working for many years on the things we talk about and have been working on for a long time.
Abstract: This article suggests that although there is not much of an explicitly defined anthropology of populism, anthropologists have nevertheless been working for many years on the things we talk about wh...
68 citations
TL;DR: In the majority of quantitative human subjects research, Western populations, or those categorized as Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic, are sampled in the majority human subjects.
Abstract: WEIRD populations, or those categorized as Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic, are sampled in the majority of quantitative human subjects research. Although this oversampling i...
63 citations
TL;DR: This review maps the growing overlap between formerly rather separate domains of reproductive politics and environmental politics, examining three interrelated areas: the emergence of an intersectional environmental reproductive justice framework in activism and environmental health science, and researchers' critical engagement with the reproductive subject of environmental politics and the lived experience of reproduction in environmentally dystopic times.
Abstract: What constitutes “human reproduction” is under negotiation as its biology, social nature, and cultural valences are increasingly perceived as bound up in environmental issues. This review maps the ...
32 citations
TL;DR: The Amazon basin is accepted as an independent center of plant domestication in the world as mentioned in this paper and a variety of important plants were domesticated in the Amazon and its surroundings; however, the majority...
Abstract: The Amazon basin is accepted as an independent center of plant domestication in the world. A variety of important plants were domesticated in the Amazon and its surroundings; however, the majority ...
31 citations
TL;DR: The anthropology of water is a self-declared relational field that attempts to transcend nature/culture distinctions by attending to the fact that the social and ecological aspects of water are complementary as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The anthropology of water is a self-declared relational field that attempts to transcend nature/culture distinctions by attending to the fact that the social and ecological aspects of water are sep...
30 citations
TL;DR: In this article, a review provides a road map through current trends and issues in archaeological studies of memory, emphasizing how the Halbwachs can be used for collective memory studies.
Abstract: This review provides a road map through current trends and issues in archaeological studies of memory. Many scholars continue to draw on Halbwachs for collective memory studies, emphasizing how the...
28 citations
TL;DR: The authors brings together classic work in the anthropology of death, much of which focused on funerary rites, with more recent studies, some of which continue with the classic focus and some of...
Abstract: This article brings together classic work in the anthropology of death, much of which focused on funerary rites, with more recent studies, some of which continue with the classic focus and some of ...
24 citations
TL;DR: In this article, an autobiographical perspective on the changing nature of Maya archaeology is presented, focusing on the role of settlement pattern studies in illuminating the lives of commoners as well as a...
Abstract: This article presents an autobiographical perspective on the changing nature of Maya archaeology, focusing on the role of settlement pattern studies in illuminating the lives of commoners as well a...
21 citations
TL;DR: This article reviewed how the analytics of governmentality have been taken up by scholars in linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, and applied linguistics, exploring the distinctive logics of the governmentality.
Abstract: This article reviews how the analytics of governmentality have been taken up by scholars in linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, and applied linguistics. It explores the distinctive logics of...
17 citations
TL;DR: The authors examines the question of why local food has become, for many activists and scholars, a core concept for understanding food systems and globalization and for challenging systems of local food systems of origin.
Abstract: This article examines the question of why local food has become, for many activists and scholars, a core concept for understanding food systems and globalization and for challenging systems of inju...
17 citations
TL;DR: This article reviewed the main trends in the anthropological scholarship of Islam in Europe by examining this body of work through the lens of what I call a double epistemological impasse, and found that the first...
Abstract: This article reviews the main trends in the anthropological scholarship of Islam in Europe by examining this body of work through the lens of what I call a double epistemological impasse. The first...
TL;DR: By examining ancestry through two related lenses, genealogical and genetic, it is shown that the coherence of race as a biological concept has been disrupted by demographic changes in the authors' recent evolutionary past.
Abstract: For more than 50 years, biological anthropology has argued against the use of the biological race concept. Despite such efforts, aspects of the concept remain in circulation within society and with...
TL;DR: In this article, an enduring debate in the field of Arctic archaeology has been the extent to which climate change impacted cultural developments in the past, and the long-term culture change across the circumpolar Arctic is discussed.
Abstract: An enduring debate in the field of Arctic archaeology has been the extent to which climate change impacted cultural developments in the past. Long-term culture change across the circumpolar Arctic ...
TL;DR: From the'verbal deprivation' and'restricted codes' of the 1960s to contemporary 'language gap' discourses, deficit models of children's language have been posited to explain social ills ranging f...
Abstract: From the “verbal deprivation” and “restricted codes” of the 1960s to contemporary “language gap” discourses, deficit models of children's language have been posited to explain social ills ranging f...
TL;DR: The mechanisms of maturation in humans are reviewed and biocultural approaches to integrate life historical understandings of puberty with a broader definition of environment to encompass the concept of adolescence are proposed.
Abstract: While the categories of adolescence and puberty are often treated as one, the existence of two distinct terms points to different kinds of maturation in humans. Puberty refers to a period of coordi...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the ongoing importance of studying writing practices within and beyond anthropology, and focus on scholarship that has appeared since the productive years of the 20th century, focusing on the work of this paper.
Abstract: This article considers the ongoing importance of studying writing practices within and beyond anthropology. The works included here concentrate on scholarship that has appeared since the productive...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the anthropology of art from the mid-1980s to the present, a period of disturbance and significant transformation in the field of anthropology.
Abstract: We focus on the anthropology of art from the mid-1980s to the present, a period of disturbance and significant transformation in the field of anthropology. The field can be understood to be respond...
TL;DR: Language endangerment by definition excludes children and childhood, as the most endangered languages are those which are no longer being used, spoken, or acquired by the youngest generations as mentioned in this paper. But the definition of language endangerment is not defined in this paper.
Abstract: Language endangerment by definition excludes children and childhood, as the most endangered languages are those which are no longer being used, spoken, or acquired by the youngest generations. By a...