Published in American anthropologist
La pandemia de COVID‐19 ofreció a la humanidad un portal a través del cual podemos romper con el pasado e imaginar nuestro mundo de nuevo. Este artículo revisa cómo sobre el curso de 2020, una serie de crisis que se intersecan en la concatenación de racismo, colonialismo de poblamiento, cambio climático y acoso sexual han incitado actos de resisten...
Published in American anthropologist
Published in American anthropologist
Published in American anthropologist
This article addresses the management and control of time in contemporary urban China. It traces how competing claims to, and experiences of, time as a limited resource shape the terms of moral engagement among middle-class women, their families, their employers, and their friends. Drawing upon two distinct periods of fieldwork among middle-class f...
Published in American anthropologist
Published in American anthropologist
La cara, justo como el ADN, se toma para representar un individuo único. Este artículo propone ir más allá del modelo representacional y atender al trabajo que una cara puede hacer. Introduzco el concepto de tentacularidad para capturar los trabajos múltiples logrados por la cara. Basada en el ejemplo de fenotipificar el ADN, el cual es usado para ...
Published in American anthropologist
Older sisters in Latino, immigrant-origin families in the United States bear significant caretaking responsibilities for their siblings, especially regarding their siblings’ educations. Young women in Nashville, Tennessee, frame their same-generation caretaking commitments and educational expectations for their siblings in intergenerational terms—w...
Published in American anthropologist
Acculturation represents an important construct for elucidating the determinants and consequences of health disparities in minority populations. However, the processes and mechanisms underlying acculturation's effects on health are largely undetermined and warrant further study. We integrate concepts from anthropology and statistics to describe the...
Published in American anthropologist
Published in American anthropologist
Anthropologists have long recognized that breastfeeding involves much more than feeding; it entails intimate social interactions between infants or children and their mothers. However, breastfeeding has predominantly been studied with respect to structural features (frequency, timing) as well as nutritional and health aspects of infant feeding. Thu...
