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Anthropology of the Hometown

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 1, Page 220-223, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Anthropological methods and theory have historically marginalized hometown research while they have privileged the study of the “Other.” This essay discusses the prevalent challenges and misconceptions surrounding research conducted in one's hometown, while advancing its legitimacy as an anthropological field site.
Dada Docot
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How to Be Hopeful About Climate Change

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 1, Page 148-158, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Why do people in climate‐vulnerable regions of Kenya and Namibia express more hope for the future than many in Germany, despite facing greater environmental threats? Drawing on ethnographic research and the philosophy of Gabriel Marcel, we make two arguments.
Julian Sommerschuh, Michael Schnegg
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Trading Zones Between Thick and Thin: Anthropological Description as Scaffold or Mosaic

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 1, Page 159-170, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Referring to the work of historian of science Peter Galison, I argue that anthropology requires thin description as an essential counterpart for thick description. Thin accounts provide the scaffolding within which thick descriptions sit. Galison uses the idea of a “trading zone” connecting different communities who, despite their differences (
David Zeitlyn
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Reading Through Traces: Xaverian Strategies of Including Chinese Folk Deities’ Statues in Museum Displays and Fictions in Parma, Italy

open access: yesMuseum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT This work reflects on the presence of a desacralized Buddha statue in the Museum of Chinese Art and Ethnography, established in Parma, Italy, in 1901 by Xaverian missionaries. The Buddha's hollowed back is a potent trace of the transnational interactions between these Roman Catholic missionaries and folk believers from the Henan region ...
Valentina Gamberi
wiley   +1 more source

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