{"title":":Sustainability and Water Management in the Maya World and Beyond","authors":"C. Ebert","doi":"10.1086/723073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/723073","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47258,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anthropological Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46628919","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 Archaeology of Race and Class at Timbuctoo: A Black Community in New Jersey","authors":"M. Warner","doi":"10.1086/723082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/723082","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47258,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anthropological Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46658114","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":":La Mina: A Royal Moche Tomb","authors":"G. Bawden","doi":"10.1086/723070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/723070","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47258,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anthropological Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42210224","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 Inca: Lost Civilizations","authors":"R. Covey","doi":"10.1086/723083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/723083","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47258,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anthropological Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45074107","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":":Pure and True: The Everyday Politics of Ethnicity for China’s Hui Muslims","authors":"Jing Wang","doi":"10.1086/723087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/723087","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47258,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anthropological Research","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60728193","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":":Diversity in Open-Air Site Structure across the Pleistocene/Holocene Boundary","authors":"B. Vierra","doi":"10.1086/723084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/723084","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47258,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anthropological Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45535595","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}
This article highlights the political work Indigenous activists in Thailand carried out in recent years in claiming Indigenous status and pressing for legal and political recognition by the Thai state. I frame this work as a form of “multiculturalism from below” geared more toward inclusion and accommodation than sovereignty and decolonization. This makes the movement distinct from many other parts of the Indigenous world. I further frame the activists’ movement as a form of “governmentality from below” in that they are adopting a highly conscious strategy of self-surveying and self-enumeration that aims to define and render visible Thailand’s diversity while legitimizing their cultural claims and performances of Indigeneity. This case drives home the point that Indigeneity is a highly malleable concept that, while usable by different groups of people in different moments, brings with it constraints and possibilities reflecting the nature of relations between those groups and the state.
{"title":"Multiculturalism from Below: Indigeneity and the Struggle for Recognition in Thailand","authors":"Micah F. Morton","doi":"10.1086/723074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/723074","url":null,"abstract":"This article highlights the political work Indigenous activists in Thailand carried out in recent years in claiming Indigenous status and pressing for legal and political recognition by the Thai state. I frame this work as a form of “multiculturalism from below” geared more toward inclusion and accommodation than sovereignty and decolonization. This makes the movement distinct from many other parts of the Indigenous world. I further frame the activists’ movement as a form of “governmentality from below” in that they are adopting a highly conscious strategy of self-surveying and self-enumeration that aims to define and render visible Thailand’s diversity while legitimizing their cultural claims and performances of Indigeneity. This case drives home the point that Indigeneity is a highly malleable concept that, while usable by different groups of people in different moments, brings with it constraints and possibilities reflecting the nature of relations between those groups and the state.","PeriodicalId":47258,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anthropological Research","volume":"79 1","pages":"3 - 30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48725056","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}
This article concerns diasporic Kabyle converts to Christianity in France, exploring how these immigrant converts, a Berber/Amazigh people, former Muslims originally from Algeria, North Africa, critically reflect on, revise, and debate their understandings of their conversion to Christianity and express a complex set of transformations and navigations of identity and belonging. Addressed here is a form of conversion from one world religion to another in contexts of migration and sociopolitical change. The analysis traces the changing imagery used by converts in sermons, interviews, sociality, and informal and guided conversations in response to shifting circumstances in both Algeria and France. These transformations show how Kabyle converts “juggle” multiple aspects of their lives, relations, and cultural backgrounds and, more broadly, suggest how these experiences might contribute contextual nuances to anthropological explorations of conversion, symbolism, and interstitionality. In effect, I argue, converts deal with continuities with their Islamic past by reframing them as cultural. Specific examples include converts’ images, attitudes, and practices pertaining to growth, fertility, sowing and reaping, eating, and fasting—in particular, their debates over fasting during Ramadan. These images, I show, act as signifying processes, a medium through which converts critically reflect on their position in France as interstitional in some contexts and as culturally Kabyle in other contexts. The evidence reveals conflicts, debates, and dilemmas, but also reconciliatory peacemaking efforts in converts’ uneasy situating between Berber/Amazigh opposition to Arabization policies back home in Algeria and diasporic opposition to Islamophobia and racism toward immigrants in France. More broadly, the article contributes to discussions of rupture, discontinuity, and continuity in the context of conversion in the anthropology of religion.
{"title":"Transformations and Navigations of Ethnoreligious and Cultural Identity and Belonging among Kabyle Immigrant Converts to Christianity in France","authors":"S. Rasmussen","doi":"10.1086/723081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/723081","url":null,"abstract":"This article concerns diasporic Kabyle converts to Christianity in France, exploring how these immigrant converts, a Berber/Amazigh people, former Muslims originally from Algeria, North Africa, critically reflect on, revise, and debate their understandings of their conversion to Christianity and express a complex set of transformations and navigations of identity and belonging. Addressed here is a form of conversion from one world religion to another in contexts of migration and sociopolitical change. The analysis traces the changing imagery used by converts in sermons, interviews, sociality, and informal and guided conversations in response to shifting circumstances in both Algeria and France. These transformations show how Kabyle converts “juggle” multiple aspects of their lives, relations, and cultural backgrounds and, more broadly, suggest how these experiences might contribute contextual nuances to anthropological explorations of conversion, symbolism, and interstitionality. In effect, I argue, converts deal with continuities with their Islamic past by reframing them as cultural. Specific examples include converts’ images, attitudes, and practices pertaining to growth, fertility, sowing and reaping, eating, and fasting—in particular, their debates over fasting during Ramadan. These images, I show, act as signifying processes, a medium through which converts critically reflect on their position in France as interstitional in some contexts and as culturally Kabyle in other contexts. The evidence reveals conflicts, debates, and dilemmas, but also reconciliatory peacemaking efforts in converts’ uneasy situating between Berber/Amazigh opposition to Arabization policies back home in Algeria and diasporic opposition to Islamophobia and racism toward immigrants in France. More broadly, the article contributes to discussions of rupture, discontinuity, and continuity in the context of conversion in the anthropology of religion.","PeriodicalId":47258,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anthropological Research","volume":"79 1","pages":"102 - 120"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47753319","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}