peer reviewed / This article examines what institutionalisation means for children under five, in two children’s residential care homes (casas cuna) in Mexico through the concepts of care and agency. It stems from the observation that there is little literature on this topic in general and on Mexico City, in particular. There is both a lack of empi...
Published in Culture, medicine and psychiatry
Autscape is an autistic-led conference, organised annually in varying locations around England. Governed by a strict set of rules and regulations, Autscape is a social and spatial setup explicitly devised to accommodate the tendencies, sensitivities, and preferences of people on the autism spectrum. It is a design, in other words-as organisers and ...
The casts of Pompeii bear witness to the people who died during the Vesuvius 79 AD eruption. However, studies on the cause of death of these victims have not been conclusive. A previous important step is the understanding of the post-depositional processes and the impact of the plaster in bones, two issues that have not been previously evaluated. H...
Este trabajo discute el concepto de algoritmo desde una mirada antropológica, considerando la centralidad de la noción de agencia y tecnología desarrollada en los estudios de ciencia y tecnología. En primer lugar, se revisan las principales áreas que han estudiado las ecologías digitales y el lugar que ocupan los algoritmos en ellas. A continuación...
À partir d’une enquête ethnographique menée dans une clinique de fertilité belge, cet article examine plusieurs stratégies déployées par le corps médical afin de réajuster les attentes des couples qui multiplient les essais infructueux de fécondation in vitro (FIV). À ce moment du parcours, il est proposé au couple une dernière tentative avec ses p...
Despite many international agreements and treaties prohibiting the use of CBRNE (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosive) weaponry, the proliferation of contaminated human remains displays the historic and continued use of inhumane war efforts. Due to the complications of recovery, contaminated human remains are often left unreco...
status: published
status: published
From 1942 to 1945 the United States supplied military aid to China to keep the country from being overtaken by the Japanese Empire. As all land and sea routes to China were under Japanese control the only way to deliver aid was by air; this was formally known as The Hump Airlift. Referring to the flight over the Himalayas, The Hump was known for it...
Published in IJISRT
We had first introduced the concept of "Ethnography of enculturation" in our paper on generic identity theory. We had also published two other papers on ethnography, the gist of which can be understood to enhance the readership experience of this paper. This is however, not mandatory. We believe the "Ethnography of enculturation" would constitute a...
