Pub Date : 2020-05-01Epub Date: 2020-05-18DOI: 10.1111/1469-8676.12892
Milena Marchesi
In March, as many countries vacillated in their response to the emerging COVID‐19 pandemic, Italy emerged as the ghost of a dystopian future Healthcare workers and ordinary people took to social media with dire warnings about the virus and reports of lives under strict lockdown ‘State a casa’ (stay at home) quickly coalesced into a moral imperative An act of self‐preservation for the elderly and other vulnerable groups, for the young and healthy staying at home has become an act of solidarity
{"title":"From sociality to social distancing: reversing values of solidarity in Italy.","authors":"Milena Marchesi","doi":"10.1111/1469-8676.12892","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12892","url":null,"abstract":"In March, as many countries vacillated in their response to the emerging COVID‐19 pandemic, Italy emerged as the ghost of a dystopian future Healthcare workers and ordinary people took to social media with dire warnings about the virus and reports of lives under strict lockdown ‘State a casa’ (stay at home) quickly coalesced into a moral imperative An act of self‐preservation for the elderly and other vulnerable groups, for the young and healthy staying at home has become an act of solidarity","PeriodicalId":87362,"journal":{"name":"Social anthropology : the journal of the European Association of Social Anthropologists = Anthropologie sociale","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/1469-8676.12892","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38298703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-05-01Epub Date: 2020-05-18DOI: 10.1111/1469-8676.12884
Olga V Bychkova
{"title":"COVID-19 and climate change reactions: STS potential of online research.","authors":"Olga V Bychkova","doi":"10.1111/1469-8676.12884","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12884","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":87362,"journal":{"name":"Social anthropology : the journal of the European Association of Social Anthropologists = Anthropologie sociale","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/1469-8676.12884","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38298936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-05-01Epub Date: 2020-05-18DOI: 10.1111/1469-8676.12876
Arpan Roy
It has been observed that COVID‐19 infection does not distinguish by social class, nor gender, ethnicity or sexual orientation No particular social group can be stigmatised as the infected other, as with the ethical‐moral weight that fell on gay men during the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s or disdain for the poor, as with leprosy Emerging (but still inconclusive) research challenges this view, and attitudes are in any case susceptible to change in the future as new hierarchies take form with access to care But, for the moment, COVID‐19’s ostensible egalitarianism poses a curious situation in which the only precondition for infection seems to be life itself, and the only discerning category of the contagious is the body of the other Although the enterprise of quarantine is obviously nothing more than separation of people from other people who might carry the virus, the existential emergency of the endeavour, and its scale, is perhaps less obvious
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Pub Date : 2020-05-01Epub Date: 2020-05-22DOI: 10.1111/1469-8676.12887
Panas Karampampas
{"title":"Partying at times of crises and pandemics: solidarity, resilience and coping with the measures against COVID-19.","authors":"Panas Karampampas","doi":"10.1111/1469-8676.12887","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12887","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":87362,"journal":{"name":"Social anthropology : the journal of the European Association of Social Anthropologists = Anthropologie sociale","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/1469-8676.12887","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38298951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-05-01Epub Date: 2020-05-22DOI: 10.1111/1469-8676.12861
Mina Hristova
{"title":"Quest for outsmarting fate: Bulgaria and the COVID-19 crisis.","authors":"Mina Hristova","doi":"10.1111/1469-8676.12861","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12861","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":87362,"journal":{"name":"Social anthropology : the journal of the European Association of Social Anthropologists = Anthropologie sociale","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/1469-8676.12861","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38298952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-05-01Epub Date: 2020-05-29DOI: 10.1111/1469-8676.12877
Nicola Manghi
{"title":"The Nation-State after the Virus.","authors":"Nicola Manghi","doi":"10.1111/1469-8676.12877","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12877","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":87362,"journal":{"name":"Social anthropology : the journal of the European Association of Social Anthropologists = Anthropologie sociale","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/1469-8676.12877","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38298957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-05-01Epub Date: 2020-05-27DOI: 10.1111/1469-8676.12864
Hana Cervinkova
{"title":"Citizenship after COVID-19: thoughts from Poland.","authors":"Hana Cervinkova","doi":"10.1111/1469-8676.12864","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12864","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":87362,"journal":{"name":"Social anthropology : the journal of the European Association of Social Anthropologists = Anthropologie sociale","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/1469-8676.12864","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38298958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-05-01Epub Date: 2019-06-06DOI: 10.1111/1469-8676.12648
Peter Schweitzer, Olga Povoroznyuk
The Soviet Union and its successor states have been avid supporters of a modernisation paradigm aimed at 'overcoming remoteness' and 'bringing civilisation' to the periphery and its 'backward' indigenous people. The Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM) railroad, built as a much-hyped prestige project of late socialism, is a good example of that. The BAM has affected indigenous communities and reconfigured the geographic and social space of East Siberia. Our case study, an Evenki village located fairly close to the BAM, is (in)famous today for its supposed refusal to get connected via a bridge to the nearby railroad town. Some actors portray this disconnection as a sign of backwardness, while others celebrate it as the main reason for native language retention and cultural preservation. Focusing on discourses linking the notions of remoteness and cultural revitalisation, the article argues for conceptualising the story of the missing bridge not as the result of political resistance but rather as an articulation of indigeneity, which foregrounds cultural rights over more contentious political claims. Thus, the article explores constellations of remoteness and indigeneity, posing the question whether there might be a moral right to remoteness to be claimed by those who view spatial distance as a potential resource.
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Pub Date : 2019-02-01Epub Date: 2019-02-18DOI: 10.1111/1469-8676.12554
Cristina Grasseni, Thorsten Gieser
In this special section, we conceptualise 'Skilled mediations' to examine the following questions from several ethnographic perspectives: How do skills and media interact, enable and limit our engagement in our material and social environments? How can this be studied ethnographically? We take our previous works on 'skilled visions' and 'enskilment' as starting points to define skilled mediation as a mode of engagement with the senses, practice, skill and media.
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In Anthropology and the Cognitive Challenge, Bloch tells the intertwining tales of two protagonists – psychology and anthropology (Bloch 2012). With a keen eye for historical and intellectual trends, he identifies political and intellectual tensions that have hampered both fields. Arguing convincingly for abandoning the old ‘theoretical apartheid’ between nature and culture (in anthropology), which runs parallel to the pernicious theoretical tension between innateness and learning (in psychology), he also calls for relaxing disciplinary boundaries, maintaining that advances in the psychological sciences will enrich, rather than threaten, advances in anthropology and related social sciences. Of course, our innate endowments and capacity for experience-based learning are both essential. These twin engines of development influence one another dynamically, in ways that often go unnoticed, in a process often dubbed ‘experiential canalization’. Viewed from this perspective, our earliest endowments are shaped by the cascading influences of early experience, which in turn promote certain developmental outcomes (the acquisition of specific abilities, behavioural responses or even gene responses) over others (Blair and Raver 2012; Gottlieb 1997). Research with human infants holds some of the appeal of the ‘exotic’ that has so often captivated the imaginations and research agendas of social scientists. But infancy work offers considerably more promise for identifying our earliest, most ‘primitive’ capacities and for tracing how these are shaped by experience. If we begin early enough, infancy research permits us to identify the core initial capacities that guide learning in all humans, even before the contexts in which we live begin to shape the very phenomena that we see as worthy of attention and inquiry (Medin and Bang 2014). If we consider the environment carefully enough, infancy research permits us to witness the earliest imprints of experience and to trace how experience shapes opportunities for subsequent learning. Two uniquely human features – our altricial status at birth and our unparalleled capacity for learning – contribute jointly to our ability to acquire language and create culture. Because human infants are considerably less mature at birth than other species’ young, their very survival requires prolonged proximity to caregivers. Moreover, human infants’ neurological and behavioural plasticity ensures an exquisite sensitivity to early experience. This, coupled with their close interactions with elders and their own innate capacities, set the stage for the acquisition of language and transmission of culture, our species’ most powerful conduits for the transmission of knowledge.
{"title":"Abandoning the 'theoretical apartheid' between nature and nurture: human infants hold the key.","authors":"S. Waxman","doi":"10.1111/1469-8676.12122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12122","url":null,"abstract":"In Anthropology and the Cognitive Challenge, Bloch tells the intertwining tales of two protagonists – psychology and anthropology (Bloch 2012). With a keen eye for historical and intellectual trends, he identifies political and intellectual tensions that have hampered both fields. Arguing convincingly for abandoning the old ‘theoretical apartheid’ between nature and culture (in anthropology), which runs parallel to the pernicious theoretical tension between innateness and learning (in psychology), he also calls for relaxing disciplinary boundaries, maintaining that advances in the psychological sciences will enrich, rather than threaten, advances in anthropology and related social sciences. Of course, our innate endowments and capacity for experience-based learning are both essential. These twin engines of development influence one another dynamically, in ways that often go unnoticed, in a process often dubbed ‘experiential canalization’. Viewed from this perspective, our earliest endowments are shaped by the cascading influences of early experience, which in turn promote certain developmental outcomes (the acquisition of specific abilities, behavioural responses or even gene responses) over others (Blair and Raver 2012; Gottlieb 1997). Research with human infants holds some of the appeal of the ‘exotic’ that has so often captivated the imaginations and research agendas of social scientists. But infancy work offers considerably more promise for identifying our earliest, most ‘primitive’ capacities and for tracing how these are shaped by experience. If we begin early enough, infancy research permits us to identify the core initial capacities that guide learning in all humans, even before the contexts in which we live begin to shape the very phenomena that we see as worthy of attention and inquiry (Medin and Bang 2014). If we consider the environment carefully enough, infancy research permits us to witness the earliest imprints of experience and to trace how experience shapes opportunities for subsequent learning. Two uniquely human features – our altricial status at birth and our unparalleled capacity for learning – contribute jointly to our ability to acquire language and create culture. Because human infants are considerably less mature at birth than other species’ young, their very survival requires prolonged proximity to caregivers. Moreover, human infants’ neurological and behavioural plasticity ensures an exquisite sensitivity to early experience. This, coupled with their close interactions with elders and their own innate capacities, set the stage for the acquisition of language and transmission of culture, our species’ most powerful conduits for the transmission of knowledge.","PeriodicalId":87362,"journal":{"name":"Social anthropology : the journal of the European Association of Social Anthropologists = Anthropologie sociale","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86429589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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