This paper is an introduction to the issue "Multiple Nature-Cultures, Diverse Anthropologies." By showing the equivocal notion of shizen, Japanese translation for "nature," the paper explores the existence of multiple nature-cultures.
The special issue...Read more
AO: This 2017 paper by Adia Benton she looks at the social production of “relevant” anthropological knowledge and its relationship to four forms of distance implicated in how anthropologists communicate relevance to each other and to others: physical, disciplinary, interpretive, and...Read more
Sarah Franklin highlights new directions within anthropology concerning both cultures of science and science as culture. Read more
Natasha Myers is an associate professor of anthropology at York University.In 2016 she coined the term "...Read more
Natasha Myers is an associate professor of anthropology at York University. In 2016 she coined the term "...Read more
Reorganization of Social Order after a Tsunami: Collective Relocation and "Community"(<Special Theme>Disaster and Anthropology: Facing the Aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake)
Author: Shuhei Kimura
Keywords: Disaster, reconstruction, social order, legal institution,...Read more
This 2015 article by Lyle Fearnley builds on the contrast between lab and field sciences through the study of scientists researching avian influenza in the fields of Poyang Lake, China.Read more
This 2016 paper is an introduction to the special issue on infrastructure which is one of the outcomes of the KAKEN research project "Environmental Infrastructures: Comparative Ethnographic Study...Read more