Tania Jenkins, “Doctors’ Orders: The Making of Status Hierarchies in an Elite Profession” (Columbia UP, 2020)

In her new book, Doctors’ Orders: The Making of Status Hierarchies in an Elite Profession (Columbia University Press, 2020), Dr. Tania Jenkins engages readers in readers in a ethnography wher…

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“Notes on a Balinese Cockfight” and Donald Trump by Veronica Davidov

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Shortly after the election, I taught “Notes on a Balinese Cockfight” to my Anthropological Theory class, as I always do, at that point in the semester. By then…

Post date 16th January 2017
Post author By Veronica Davidov
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Invisible Labor of Health and the Spell of Productivity

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When I talked with Jia, who works for an e-commerce company in Shanghai, China, she was trying to finish a “Perfect Month Challenge” on her Apple Watch. That…

Post date 2nd March 2023
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The Shifting Meanings of “(Il)Legality”: Indonesian Migrant Workers in the Netherlands

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How do migrants become ‘illegal’? How does their ‘illegality’ affect their position in the receiving countries? Ratna Saptari discusses the experiences of Indonesian migrants in the Netherlands and…

Notes from the Field: When Breastmilk Isn’t Enough

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Veronica and 4 month old Paulo Today’s post is a guest article from anthropologist Veronica Miranda. Veronica’s “Notes from the Field” appeared in the most recent Council on…

Post date 1st April 2015
Post author By Emily
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