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Dreams, Gender, and Artisanal Mining in Papua New Guinea: An Ethnography of Value. Lifeworlds: Knowledges, Politics, Histories
Advanced search Pacific Affairs An International Review of Asia and the Pacific Latest Articles Submit an article Journal homepage Full Article Figures & data Citations Metrics Reprints & Permissions Read this article /doi/full/10.1080/0030851X.2026.2730859?needAccess=true "Dreams, Gender, and Artisanal Mining in Papua New Guinea: An Ethnography of Value. Lifeworlds: Knowledges, Politics, Histories." Pacific Affairs, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp.
Four challenges from anthropology's current meta
An examination of American anthropology from 1974 to 2024 shows that the discipline faces novel challenges in today's “meta,” or media ecosystem: two challenges facing theory and two facing ethnography. To remain successful, anthropology must meet these challenges.
Samuel J. Redman, "Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage…
Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology (Harvard UP, 2021) is a searching account of nineteenth-century salvage anthropology, an effort to preserve the culture of “vanishing” Indigenous peoples through dispossession of the very communities it was meant to protect. In the late nineteenth century, anthropologists, linguists, archaeologists, and other chroniclers began amassing Indigenous cultural objects—crafts, clothing, images, song recordings—by the millions.
Emalani Case, "Everything Ancient Was Once New: Indigenous…
In Everything Ancient Was Once New: Indigenous Persistence from Hawai‘i to Kahiki (U Hawaii Press, 2021), Emalani Case draws on her own life experiences to explore the politics and ethics of being Native Hawaiian today.
Video game influencers are disrupting data capitalism and building new communities
In the winter of 2019, Josh faced a serious problem: his beloved dog Abby had torn her CCL, the doggy equivalent of the ACL knee injury well-known for hobbling professional athletes. Putting her to sleep was not an option, but the surgery she needed would cost approximately $5,000. That much money doesn’t come easily to your average underemployed twenty-something living in the Bay Area. But luckily Josh was not your average underemployed twenty-something.
Video game influencers are disrupting data capitalism and building new communities
Pokemon Go reflected in sunglasses In the winter of 2019, Josh faced a serious problem: his beloved dog Abby had torn her CCL, the doggy equivalent of the ACL knee injury well-known for hobbling professional athletes. Putting her to sleep was not an option, but the surgery she needed would cost approximately $5,000. That much money doesn’t come easily to your average underemployed twenty-something living in the Bay Area. But luckily Josh was not your average underemployed twenty-something.
Video Game Streams Are Creating New Forms of Community
In the winter of 2019, Josh faced a serious problem: his beloved dog Abby had torn her CCL, the doggy equivalent of the ACL knee injury well-known for hobbling professional athletes. Putting her to sleep was not an option, but the surgery she needed would cost approximately $5,000. That much money doesn’t come easily to your average underemployed twenty-something living in the Bay Area. But luckily Josh was not your average underemployed twenty-something.
The Mysterious Mana of Speaking
The ongoing public debate over the recent Brett Kavanaugh hearings might suggest there’s a lot to learn about how power, particularly the power of speaking, can persuade us one way or another. Do we tend to blindly believe and support someone because powerful, authoritative, or prestigious forces vouch for and protect that person? Or do we look for other signals to indicate credibility?
Why Are Video Games so Great?
As video game technology advances, many people worry about hyper-realistic violence, or about the potential of virtual worlds to entice players with an addictive alternative to reality. But, investigating one group of committed players, anthropologist Alex Golub (who has written for JSTOR Daily!) found something different—people attracted not to realism but to deeply engaging cooperative projects.
Ask a Professor: Susie Steinbach
Welcome to Ask a Professor, our series that offers an insider’s view of life in academia. This month we interviewed Susie Steinbach, a professor of history at Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Susie is the author of Understanding the Victorians: Politics, Culture, and Society in Nineteenth Century Britain as well as Women in England 1760-1914: A Social History. She has also reviewed many books including Women, Scholarship, and Criticism: Gender and Knowledge c.
Ask a Professor: Bonnie Nardi | JSTOR Daily
Welcome to Ask a Professor, our series that offers an insider’s view of life in academia. This month we interviewed Bonnie Nardi, a professor of Informatics, Cognitive Science, and International Studies at the University of California at Irvine. Bonnie’s latest book with Hamid Ekbia, Heteromation, and Other Stories of Computing and Capitalism, examines the way corporations use everyday computing activity to extract free and low cost labor in vast virtual networks, generating massive wealth.
Beyond Open Access, Net Neutrality: Cultural Anthropology Takes Action
In 2008, when my collaborators and I published “Anthropology of/in Circulation” in Cultural Anthropology (Kelty et al. 2008), we were excited by the ways in which the Internet could transform our discipline. Open-access scholarship, commons-based peer production, and alternative licensing all seemed to be (finally) coming to anthropology.
Poi Can Help the Jews in Hawai‘i Relate to the Passover Story
Jewish food is hard to get in Hawai‘i, especially during Passover. It’s hard to find a can of macaroons, or a bottle of kosher-for-Passover wine, or even a box of matzo. There’s a reason that the charity cookbook put out by my shul—Sof Ma’arav, a Conservative congregation of about 60 families in Honolulu—is called The When You Live in Hawai‘i You Get Very Creative During Passover Cookbook. Our islands are far from centers of Jewish life on the mainland, and this distance is not just physical.
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