Abstract This paper explores how the idea of climate change travels to the islands of Micronesia and how discourses are translated in radically different ways in local life-worlds. Building on long-term fieldwork in Chuuk, the paper first conceptualizes climate change as a ‘travelling idea’ which takes its departure to the islandscape of Oceania in ‘Western’ island conceptions of ‘insularity’ and feed the ‘vulnerability trajectories’ that turned the islands into the world’s canary for the impact of climate change. It secondly examines why the issue of climate change remains a non-topic or a secondary aspect to many of the islanders, who are simultaneously put at the frontline in the global campaign against global warming.
{"title":"Localizing Global Climate Change in the Pacific. Knowledge and Response in Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia (FSM)","authors":"R. Hofmann","doi":"10.3790/SOC.68.1.43","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3790/SOC.68.1.43","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper explores how the idea of climate change travels to the islands of Micronesia and how discourses are translated in radically different ways in local life-worlds. Building on long-term fieldwork in Chuuk, the paper first conceptualizes climate change as a ‘travelling idea’ which takes its departure to the islandscape of Oceania in ‘Western’ island conceptions of ‘insularity’ and feed the ‘vulnerability trajectories’ that turned the islands into the world’s canary for the impact of climate change. It secondly examines why the issue of climate change remains a non-topic or a secondary aspect to many of the islanders, who are simultaneously put at the frontline in the global campaign against global warming.","PeriodicalId":42778,"journal":{"name":"Sociologus","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43654703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Local Epistemology of Climate Change: How the Scientific Discourse on Global Climate Change is Received on the Island of Palawan, the Philippines","authors":"Thomas Friedrich","doi":"10.3790/SOC.68.1.63","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3790/SOC.68.1.63","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42778,"journal":{"name":"Sociologus","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46427860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Many comparisons of Greek and Chinese medicine seek underlying similarities, a reassurance that rationality will prevail, an assertion that difference might be complementary. Shigehisa Kuriyama’s project, however, moves from common ground to divergence. It would be as fitting to say that his book, The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine, is about perception and truth as to say it is about ancient medicine, for the divergences he traces stem from fundamental issues of knowing and experiencing. The book unfolds as a triptych, with its chapters organized into three thematic parts: styles of touching, styles of seeing, and styles of being. The sections ostensibly pair a chapter on the Greek tradition with a chapter on the Chinese, but there is a constant folding and mixing, for the individual chapters each contribute a new perspective on the common question of personhood and perception. To begin, Kuriyama considers the pulse.What seems to be a shared practice in Greek and Chinese medicine is actually not the same at all. Greek and Chinese practitioners who silently grasped patients by the wrist and then made diagnoses were not simply figuring the same objective information into different cultural equations. They were, quite literally, feeling different things for different purposes. “Theoretical preconceptions at once shaped and were shaped by the contours of haptic sensation” (p. ). Kuriyama then explores the way the Chinese medical understanding of “pulse” arose, concluding that “the history of conceptions of the body must be understood in conjunction with a history of conceptions of communication” (p. ). How medical practitioners touched the body was intimately related to their search for the language of life and their understanding of the expressiveness of the body. Styles of seeing were similarly affected. Kuriyama constructs anatomy as a training of medical vision that emerged through the broader association of musculature with voluntary action and agency in Greek culture. In China, however, vision was focused on the perception of se, or color. The cultural metaphor of growing plants and blooming flowers taught Chinese
{"title":"Book Reviews","authors":"S. Kuriyama","doi":"10.3790/soc.68.1.95","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3790/soc.68.1.95","url":null,"abstract":"Many comparisons of Greek and Chinese medicine seek underlying similarities, a reassurance that rationality will prevail, an assertion that difference might be complementary. Shigehisa Kuriyama’s project, however, moves from common ground to divergence. It would be as fitting to say that his book, The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine, is about perception and truth as to say it is about ancient medicine, for the divergences he traces stem from fundamental issues of knowing and experiencing. The book unfolds as a triptych, with its chapters organized into three thematic parts: styles of touching, styles of seeing, and styles of being. The sections ostensibly pair a chapter on the Greek tradition with a chapter on the Chinese, but there is a constant folding and mixing, for the individual chapters each contribute a new perspective on the common question of personhood and perception. To begin, Kuriyama considers the pulse.What seems to be a shared practice in Greek and Chinese medicine is actually not the same at all. Greek and Chinese practitioners who silently grasped patients by the wrist and then made diagnoses were not simply figuring the same objective information into different cultural equations. They were, quite literally, feeling different things for different purposes. “Theoretical preconceptions at once shaped and were shaped by the contours of haptic sensation” (p. ). Kuriyama then explores the way the Chinese medical understanding of “pulse” arose, concluding that “the history of conceptions of the body must be understood in conjunction with a history of conceptions of communication” (p. ). How medical practitioners touched the body was intimately related to their search for the language of life and their understanding of the expressiveness of the body. Styles of seeing were similarly affected. Kuriyama constructs anatomy as a training of medical vision that emerged through the broader association of musculature with voluntary action and agency in Greek culture. In China, however, vision was focused on the perception of se, or color. The cultural metaphor of growing plants and blooming flowers taught Chinese","PeriodicalId":42778,"journal":{"name":"Sociologus","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44585058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Victims or Masters of Adaptation? How the Idea of Adaptation to Climate Change Travels Up and Down to a Village in Simanjiro, Maasailand Northern Tanzania","authors":"Sara de Wit","doi":"10.3790/soc.68.1.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3790/soc.68.1.21","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42778,"journal":{"name":"Sociologus","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70194533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comment to the Contribution by Hansjörg Dilger","authors":"Gabriele Alex","doi":"10.3790/SOC.67.2.209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3790/SOC.67.2.209","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42778,"journal":{"name":"Sociologus","volume":"67 1","pages":"209-211"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42769077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comment to the Contribution by Hansjörg Dilger","authors":"A. Hornbacher","doi":"10.3790/soc.67.2.213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3790/soc.67.2.213","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42778,"journal":{"name":"Sociologus","volume":"67 1","pages":"213-218"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43261788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract The article explores differences in the motivation for political engagement in a transnational context according to gender. The underlying ethnographic research reveals that the majority of Chicago’s Mexican migrant leaders – male and female – are simultaneously engaged in various political and civil society organisations; they are not only members of hometown associations and Mexican political parties, but also participate in nationwide US Latino organisations, immigrant organisations, human rights organisations and even in Mexican and US government institutions. In the article the political trajectories of four Mexican migrant leaders from Chicago are presented in short biographical portraits. The biographical approach shows the difference in life experience that formed these male and female leaders. For the men the motivation to become politically engaged is rooted in the sentiment of belonging to and being recognised in a community of origin. Therefore, male migrant leaders are deeply involve...
{"title":"Gender and Belonging: The Political Engagement of Mexican Migrant Leaders in Chicago","authors":"S. Schütze","doi":"10.3790/SOC.67.2.151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3790/SOC.67.2.151","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The article explores differences in the motivation for political engagement in a transnational context according to gender. The underlying ethnographic research reveals that the majority of Chicago’s Mexican migrant leaders – male and female – are simultaneously engaged in various political and civil society organisations; they are not only members of hometown associations and Mexican political parties, but also participate in nationwide US Latino organisations, immigrant organisations, human rights organisations and even in Mexican and US government institutions. In the article the political trajectories of four Mexican migrant leaders from Chicago are presented in short biographical portraits. The biographical approach shows the difference in life experience that formed these male and female leaders. For the men the motivation to become politically engaged is rooted in the sentiment of belonging to and being recognised in a community of origin. Therefore, male migrant leaders are deeply involve...","PeriodicalId":42778,"journal":{"name":"Sociologus","volume":"67 1","pages":"151-169"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41469541","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nachruf für Klaus Peter Köpping, 17.3.1940–17.6.2017","authors":"Ursula Rao","doi":"10.3790/SOC.67.2.219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3790/SOC.67.2.219","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42778,"journal":{"name":"Sociologus","volume":"67 1","pages":"219-222"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70193937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract This article explores the spaces and temporalities of belonging that emerge from fiesta videos produced, circulated and consumed between Oaxaca and California. Fiesta videos, which depict festivities in the Mexican hometown, are an innovative popular film genre that people from Ayuujk (Mixe) villages of the Oaxacan Sierra Norte have created for their own purposes of transnational community building in the course of their migration to the United States. I examined the spaces and temporalities of belonging that emerge from fiesta videos by conducting multi-sited ethnographic research in Tamazulapam Mixe, Mexico, and in Los Angeles, USA, between 2012 and 2016. Fieldwork basically consisted in accompanying actors during their daily life and media practises. The actor-centred approach shows how transnational affiliations which seek to overcome the restrictive border and US policies towards migration from Latin America are established in diversified and often indirect ways. Actors whose life courses en...
{"title":"Fiesta Videos: ‘Home’ and Productive Nostalgia Between Oaxaca and California","authors":"Ingrid Kummels","doi":"10.3790/SOC.67.2.131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3790/SOC.67.2.131","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article explores the spaces and temporalities of belonging that emerge from fiesta videos produced, circulated and consumed between Oaxaca and California. Fiesta videos, which depict festivities in the Mexican hometown, are an innovative popular film genre that people from Ayuujk (Mixe) villages of the Oaxacan Sierra Norte have created for their own purposes of transnational community building in the course of their migration to the United States. I examined the spaces and temporalities of belonging that emerge from fiesta videos by conducting multi-sited ethnographic research in Tamazulapam Mixe, Mexico, and in Los Angeles, USA, between 2012 and 2016. Fieldwork basically consisted in accompanying actors during their daily life and media practises. The actor-centred approach shows how transnational affiliations which seek to overcome the restrictive border and US policies towards migration from Latin America are established in diversified and often indirect ways. Actors whose life courses en...","PeriodicalId":42778,"journal":{"name":"Sociologus","volume":"67 1","pages":"131-149"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45038323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract Over the last years, debates on research ethics – and the way the ethicality of ethnographic research is assessed by institutional boards and committees – have flourished in national and international anthropology. This article discusses the state of the debate in Germany where ethical review boards have remained so far largely absent in regard to anthropological research and where the commitment to ‘act ethically’ during fieldwork (and beyond) remains largely voluntary. By drawing on ethnographic fieldwork on HIV / AIDS and social relations in Tanzania, I highlight that medical anthropologists may face particular ethical challenges in their work, due to the often close relationship of their research with human suffering. Furthermore, however, I argue that the sub-discipline can raise important questions concerning the potential institutionalization of ethical review processes in anthropology in Germany and the pitfalls that should be avoided with regard to the ‘fetishization’ of certain ethical ...
{"title":"Ethics, Epistemology and Ethnography: The Need for an Anthropological Debate on Ethical Review Processes in Germany","authors":"Hansjörg Dilger","doi":"10.3790/SOC.67.2.191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3790/SOC.67.2.191","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Over the last years, debates on research ethics – and the way the ethicality of ethnographic research is assessed by institutional boards and committees – have flourished in national and international anthropology. This article discusses the state of the debate in Germany where ethical review boards have remained so far largely absent in regard to anthropological research and where the commitment to ‘act ethically’ during fieldwork (and beyond) remains largely voluntary. By drawing on ethnographic fieldwork on HIV / AIDS and social relations in Tanzania, I highlight that medical anthropologists may face particular ethical challenges in their work, due to the often close relationship of their research with human suffering. Furthermore, however, I argue that the sub-discipline can raise important questions concerning the potential institutionalization of ethical review processes in anthropology in Germany and the pitfalls that should be avoided with regard to the ‘fetishization’ of certain ethical ...","PeriodicalId":42778,"journal":{"name":"Sociologus","volume":"67 1","pages":"191-208"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42057108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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