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Affirming children’s dignity in their affective flow in play‐based science inquiry

open access: yesAnthropology &Education Quarterly, Volume 56, Issue 2, June 2025.
Abstract This paper investigates affect as part of children's sensemaking in the context of a play‐based mixed‐reality science learning environment. We build on theories of affect as disciplinary work by investigating the multiple layers of affect that are essential to children's scientific inquiry and to identify pedagogical moves that recognize ...
Christine Lee   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tools for relatedness: “Fetishes” in Burkina Faso and the work of enacted metaphors

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 2, Page 233-243, June 2025.
Abstract In West Africa, certain objects can act in the world and interact with people as subjects. Labeled “fetishes” by Europeans, these material things have generated centuries of debates on the nature of their agency. In this article, I rely on participant fieldwork as a student in a group of initiated donso hunters in Burkina Faso, which involved ...
Lorenzo Ferrarini
wiley   +1 more source

Friction in the field: Milpa, missionary, and scales of refusal in 1960s highland Guatemala

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 2, Page 266-277, June 2025.
Abstract This article takes a scalar view of “friction” (Tsing 2005) and “refusal” (Ortner 1995) between ethnography and the archive. The concept of friction was originally formulated in the context of a globalizing world, but friction's perception and experience are highly local.
Mallory E. Matsumoto
wiley   +1 more source

“But we met expectations! Why us?”: Threats to anthropology and learning from the program cut at UNC Greensboro

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 2, Page 356-360, June 2025.
Abstract This Vital Topics Forum focuses on the host of challenges that now threaten the future of anthropology. The political polarization of the current era, along with the economic rationale that matches it, leads to policy and legislation restricting content and speech in universities, cuts and closure of anthropology programs, and the loss of ...
Susan Andreatta, Keri Vacanti Brondo
wiley   +1 more source

Taking distinction practices seriously: Methodological reflections on ethnographic distance in fieldwork with marginalized people

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 2, Page 308-318, June 2025.
Abstract Anthropologists often consider the distinction from our interlocutors a barrier, assuming that overcoming the distance allows us to understand our interlocutors. Other times, ethnographers intentionally maintain ethnographic distance to avoid “doing harm” to our interlocutors.
Chaoxiong Zhang, Yang Zhan
wiley   +1 more source

Writing in community: Relationship building and accountability in knowledge production

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 2, Page 319-338, June 2025.
Abstract As anthropology reckons with its past, present, and future, anthropologists increasingly seek to challenge inequities within the discipline and academia more broadly. Anthropology, regardless of subdiscipline, is a social endeavor. Yet research often remains an isolating (though not necessarily solitary) process, even within research teams and
Jordi Armani Rivera Prince   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Liquid lines: Exploring the Moselle River between France, Luxembourg and Germany

open access: yesArea, Volume 57, Issue 2, June 2025.
Short Abstract Rivers as borders challenge traditional views of political boundaries, offering new ways to understand border spaces. This paper explores how rivers, with their materiality, movement and directionality, can shape territories between fixity and flow.
Rebekka Kanesu
wiley   +1 more source

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