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Towards an anthropology of acquisition: ‘How did you get that?’ Vers une anthropologie de l'acquisition : « Où as‐tu trouvé ça ? »

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The production‐distribution‐consumption triad has structured how anthropologists understand exchange for roughly a century. This article argues for expanding this triad to include an explicit focus on acquisition – the systems, processes, and practices of acquiring.
Hanna Garth
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Memes

Proceedings of the ALISE Annual Conference
This study explores how memes represent cultural agency and identity across international and sociocultural boundaries and how they can impact sociocultural discourses in online spaces. Based on the theoretical framework of Burnett’s information domains, this study examines three specific examples to introduce how memes can traverse diverse contexts ...
Minhyung Jo, Gary Burnett, Shannon Williams, Willie Smith, Kathleen Burnett   +4 more
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‘Vitamins’, shortcuts, and athletic citizenship in Ethiopia and Cameroon: considering sporting ethics beyond biomedicine « Vitamines », courts‐circuits et citoyenneté sportive en Éthiopie et au Cameroun : l’éthique du sport, au‐delà de la biomédecine

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article argues that the current way of thinking about ethics in sport in primarily biomedical terms, and in particular in terms of the presence of particular pharmaceutical substances, fails to account for broader notions of sporting ethics and fairness in the Global South.
Michael Crawley, Uroš Kovač
wiley   +1 more source

Viral Culture, Memes in Society and Politics: An Interview with Anastasia Denisova

Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, 2020
Internet Memes and Society: Social, Cultural, and Political Contexts (Denisova, 2019) was published in 2019. Much of the book by Anastasia Denisova of the University of Westminster reflected on the roles and meanings of memes, as well as the reasons why ...
WPCC Editorial Board
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On the problem of continuity: a theory of culture beyond invention Le problème de la continuité : une théorie de la culture au‐delà de l'invention

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Anthropologists, in common with social theorists more generally, have often understood social life as an emergent phenomenon grounded in practices of creativity and improvisation. Where stasis and continuity feature, these are often presented as illusory manifestations of underlying processes of ‘invention’, or as external impositions upon otherwise ...
Paolo Heywood, Thomas Yarrow
wiley   +1 more source

The choice to submit: freedom, gender, and the figure of God in Pentecostal Nigeria Le choix de se soumettre : liberté, genre et figure divine chez les Pentecôtistes du Nigeria

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Why do some women choose to submit to their husbands in marriage? In anthropology, the paradox of ‘chosen submission’ has famously been explored by Saba Mahmood. Her work amongst Egyptian women donning the veil in the Islamic da'wa movement spotlights the notion of ‘piety’ to explore how devotion to God can act as a powerful motivator of human ...
Naomi Richman
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Memeing: Story Memes to Foster Multimodal Communication in Language Learning [PDF]

Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages
This article highlights the use of memes as a tool for creating and conveying meaning through multiple modes of communication in language classrooms. Memes have emerged as a popular form of communication in the digital age, utilizing a combination of ...
Angela Lee-Smith
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Indigenous Memes and the Invention of a People

Social Media + Society, 2017
Scholars have become increasingly interested in the political work of Internet memes. While this research has delivered critical insights into how memes are implicated in both progressive and reactionary politics, there endures a lack of critical work on
Ryan Frazer, Bronwyn Carlson
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THE URBANOLOGISTS COME TO TOWN: Professional Life and Work in the Urban Solutions Industry

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article charts the upsurge of an eclectic global community of professionals new to the field of urban policy and governance, animated by playful and celebratory attitudes towards cities and urbanization: the urbanologists. It contributes to debates in critical urban theory and critical ethnographies of technology to problematize ...
Rachel Bok
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Description, Articulation and Limitations in the Social Theory of Insurance

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There have been surprisingly few sustained efforts to explain or theorise the role insurance plays in society. Even the most theoretically inflected insurance scholarship, emanating from governmentality and Actor Network Theory scholarship, tends to be grounded in empirical cases, set in particular periods and places, and it is often ...
Liz McFall
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