Pastoral Criticism, Structural Collaboration: The Role of Ecclesial Power Structures in Modernization and Economic Individualization

This article analyzes the complex processes of modernization and individualization, as well as how the church has structurally fostered individualization despite its public criticism. First, the article demonstrates how modernization and individualization have gradually restructured human self-understanding into an economic image of humanity: the human person as homo oeconomicus. Second, this article examines the church's relation to modernity, and specifically its critiques of liberalism and economic individualism. However, the church has often generated the conditions and structures for individualization, and by extension the processes of acceleration and economization of the life-world that it criticizes. Three areas in intra-ecclesial discourse that foster individualization are examined: the interiorization of faith, ecclesial centralization and clerical bureaucracy, and the promotion of corporatism and digital immediacy. The article concludes by examining recent papal efforts at structural reform and the degree to which they address previously entrenched problems and point toward a renewed, non-economic anthropology.

Ka Bakau: Ekowisata Mangrove Berbasis Pengetahuan Lokal

This study discussed mangrove ecotourism based on Sanak Sedagho, namely ecotourism management based on local wisdom. The management of sanak sedagho is novelty finding in the management of mangrove ecosystems. The mangrove ecotourism in Sungai Apit Sub-district is not active, while the Mangrove Sungai Bersejarah (MSB) Ecotourism still survives, it is still visited and as meeting place at the sub-district and district levels. This study is an ethnographic, where the researcher lived for two months in Sungai Ara Permai Village. The data were taken through library studies, internet, observation, participation observation, informal discussion and in-depth interviews. The main informants in this study are the initiators and managers of MSB Ecotourism and other informants who are community members and workers in MSB Ecotourism. This study found that the management of ecotourism based on local wisdom, in this case the sanak sedagho, is the key to the success of MSB Ecotourism being able survived even in the era of the covid 19 pandemic. This study contributes to the field of economic anthropology, especially in ecotourism management.

From Fei Xiaotong to Shi Zhengyi: The Chinese Economic Anthropology Pioneers’ Academic Essentials

In China, economic anthropology started relatively later compared with that in the West; however, under the guidance of Marxist theory and based on the needs of China's economic development, it gradually formed unique advantages in its development process. In China's economic and social development practice, Fei Xiaotong and Shi Zhengyi, among other pioneers, creatively applied the economic anthropological paradigm to solve the specific issues, starting from the local characteristics, and completed some excellent academic results. This paper probes and analyzes the scholarly contributions of the pioneers of Chinese economic anthropology; especially, it takes Marxist economics as the starting point to examine Professor Shi Zhengyi's theoretical contributions to the development of Chinese economic anthropology and its practical significance.

Feminism in the House of Anthropology

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.

Marxism, Psychoanalysis and Economics: An Anthropological Remark

The basic economic notion of marginal utility is revised in the light of certain well-known Marxian ideas, supported by some new interpretations of psychoanalytic notions, to try to clarify which is the position of human being in the world, within the context of economic anthropology.