Feminism in the House of Anthropology

2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 345-361
Author(s):  
Lilith Mahmud
Keyword(s):  
Social Problems ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Political Anthropology ◽  
Economic Anthropology ◽  
Anthropology Of Science ◽  
Feminist Anthropology ◽  
Traveling Theory ◽  
Critical Social

Although early feminist insights about reflexivity and fieldwork relations have become core tenets of anthropological theories, feminism itself has been marginalized in anthropology. This review examines feminist contributions to American cultural anthropology since the 1990s across four areas of scholarship: the anthropology of science and medicine, political anthropology, economic anthropology, and ethnography as writing and genre. Treating feminist anthropology as a traveling theory capable of addressing critical social problems beyond gender, this article aims not merely to recredit feminism in anthropology, but also to show its potential to transform anthropology into an antiracist, decolonial, and abolitionist project.

scholarly journals Political Anthropology and Anthropology of Politics: An Overview

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 217-234
Author(s):  
Suresh Dhakal
Keyword(s):  
Historical Development ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Short Review ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Political Transition ◽  
Political Anthropology ◽  
The Political ◽  
Cultural Processes ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Anthropology Of Politics

In this short review, I have tried to sketch an overview of historical development of political anthropology and its recent trends. I was enthused to prepare this review article as there does not exist any of such simplified introduction of one of the prominent sub-fields in cultural anthropology for the Nepalis readers, in particular. I believe this particular sub-field has to offer much to understand and explain the recent trends and current turmoil of the political transition in the country. Political anthropologists than any other could better explain how the politics is socially and culturally embedded and intertwined, therefore, separation of the two – politics from social and cultural processes – is not only impossible but methodologically wrong, too. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/dsaj.v5i0.6365 Dhaulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology Vol. 5, 2011: 217-34

scholarly journals Mia Arp Falov & Cory Blad (eds.), Social Welfare Responses in a Neoliberal Era: Policies, Practices, and Social Problems (Leiden and Boston: Brill. Studies in Critical Social Sciences: Critical Global Studies, 2019)

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Bakker
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Global Studies ◽  
Critical Social

A review of the book: Mia Arp Falov & Cory Blad (eds.), Social Welfare Responses in a Neoliberal Era: Policies, Practices, and Social Problems (Leiden and Boston: Brill. Studies in Critical Social Sciences: Critical Global Studies, 2019)

Dynamics in Human and Primate Societies

2000 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Agent Based Modeling ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Recent Advances ◽  
The Social

As part of the SFI series, this book presents the most up-to-date research in the study of human and primate societies, presenting recent advances in software and algorithms for modeling societies. It also addresses case studies that have applied agent-based modeling approaches in archaeology, cultural anthropology, primatology, and sociology. Many things set this book apart from any other on modeling in the social sciences, including the emphasis on small-scale societies and the attempts to maximize realism in the modeling efforts applied to social problems and questions. It is an ideal book for professionals in archaeology or cultural anthropology as well as a valuable tool for those studying primatology or computer science.

Quality at some point became quantity

Focaal ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 2005 (45) ◽  
pp. 33-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Rew ◽  
Martin Rew
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Communicative Action ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Economic Anthropology ◽  
The Core ◽  
Participatory Assessment ◽  
Combined Methods ◽  
Critical Social

The 'qualitative' pole of (Q-squared) combined methods has been defined in mainly residual ways as 'non-numerical' or 'noneconomics'. There is need, instead, for a critical social theorization of qualitative methods. Evidence from a development program for chronically poor, tribal, northern Orissa is used to examine the communicative action of 'participatory assessment' (PA). PA assumes that 'group' and 'visual' synergies can challenge the power relations that restrict communication and poor people's emancipation. The authors' ethnographies show that participants sequestered information from PA village seminars. Although well trained, the PA organizers increasingly ignored cultural context and substituted universalized techniques that produced only quantities of noncontextualized attitudes. The core PA routines therefore gave misleading results; they mistakenly replaced substantive accounts of communication in relation to lifeworlds with abstract seminar techniques. To obtain more reliable results, methods of 'embedded' economic anthropology were used instead to assess poverty.

Feminism, Feminist Anthropology, and Reflexive Anthropology

Tekstualia ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 217-228
Author(s):  
Wojciech Kruszelnicki
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Feminist Critique ◽  
Feminist Anthropology ◽  
Reflexive Analysis

The paper discusses the contribution of feminist anthropology to the theory and practice of what has recently been called “reflexive anthropology”. Contrary to James Clifford’s thesis that the feminist critique of social sciences has been of lesser significance in the reflexive analysis of ethnographies, the article demonstrates that feminist anthropology – with its distinct epistemology, awareness of historicity or politics, and recognition of gender – has influenced significantly the reflexivization of cultural anthropology.

scholarly journals Cross-boundary and cross-discipline creation of scientific knowledge. The case of economic anthropology/ business ethnography

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 293-304
Author(s):  
Robert Geisler
Keyword(s):  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Economic Anthropology ◽  
Hard Data ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Business Environments ◽  
Show Business ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Process Observation

This paper aims to show business ethnography, or economic anthropology, as a field of science that is interdisciplinary in theoretical, methodological and subjective terms, i.e. it makes use of sociology and management sciences. What this means in practice is that it is simultaneously regarded a part of sociology, social and cultural anthropology, and management sciences. Additionally, this paper addresses the fusion of science and business in case of an ethnographer as an entrepreneur. The paper presents theoretical considerations of the new entrepreneurship model for collecting knowledge based on ethnographical research. It recommends ethnographic study as the most appropriate approach for doing in-company research. Such research can yield a deeper knowledge of the organization, its management and decision-making process. Observation, in-depth interviews and visual analysis produce case-specific insights. Even subjectivism and a lack of hard data may be less important given the efficiency of such research. Case studies on this type of research in business environments, especially in the USA on customer environments, could be reproduced at many levels of organizations.

Economic Sociology

Sociology ◽  
2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick Wherry ◽  
Nicholas Occhiuto
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Economic Sociology ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Economic Anthropology ◽  
Behavioral Psychology ◽  
Pricing Schemes ◽  
The Relationship

Economic sociology is the study of the relationship between society and the market. The field incorporates insights from economics, behavioral psychology, economic anthropology, and cultural anthropology. Structural and cultural approaches largely characterize the studies conducted in the field, with the former associated with networks, institutions, and social organization; the latter, rituals, symbols, cognitive frameworks, and narratives. Economic sociologists study how social networks and relationships affect economic actions, such as the provision of loans, the acquisition of a job, and the successful construction of deals. Empirical studies examine how prices are set, why some pricing schemes that do not seem rational are instead understandable and predictable, and how markets are incorporated into social life, and vice versa.

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