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This volume, written in a readable and enticing style, is based on a simple premise, which was to have several exceptional ethnographers write about their experiences in an evocative way in real time during the COVID-19 pandemic. Rather than an edited volume with dedicated chapters, this book thus offers a new format wherein authors write several, distinct dispatches, each short and compact, allowing each writer's perspectives and stories to grow, in tandem with the pandemic itself, over the course of the book. Leaving behind the trope of the lonely anthropologist, these authors come together to form a collective of ethnographers to ask important questions, such as: What does it mean to live and write amid an unfolding and unstoppable global health and economic crisis? What are the intensities of the everyday? How do the isolated find connection in the face of catastrophe? Such first-person reflections touch on a plurality of themes brought on by the pandemic, forces and dynamics of pressing concern to many, such as contagion, safety, health inequalities, societal injustices, loss and separation, displacement, phantasmal imaginings and possibilities, the uncertain arts of calculating risk and protection, limits on movement and travel, and the biopolitical operations of sovereign powers. The various writings—spun from diverse situations and global locations—proceed within a temporal flow, starting in March 2020, with the first alerts and cases of viral infection, and then move on to various currents of caution, concern, infection, despair, hope, and connection that have unfolded since those early days. The writings then move into 2021, with events and moods associated with the global distribution of potentially effective vaccines and the promise and hope these immunizations bring. The written record of these multiform dispatches involves traces of a series of lives, as the authors of those lives tried to make do, and write, in trying times. A timely ethnography of an event that has changed all our lives, this book is critical reading for students and researchers of medical anthropology, sociocultural anthropology, contemporary anthropological theory, and ethnographic writing.

Ethnology. --- Anthropology and the arts. --- Medical anthropology. --- Ethnography. --- Sociocultural Anthropology. --- Anthropology of the Arts. --- Medical Anthropology. --- Medical care --- Medicine --- Anthropology --- Arts and anthropology --- Arts --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Human beings --- Anthropological aspects

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This introductory textbook familiarizes students with ideas of key thinkers and perspectives related to postmodern thought and everyday life. The book is unique in that it offers selections from key passages of works of important thinkers as well as from some of the author's own publications that serve as examples of how to interpret various aspects of culture. The book draws in readers with its engaging and conversational style and use of cases, illustrations and photographs, including fun discussions on everyday life under pandemic restrictions. This is a must read for students taking courses in sociology, cultural anthropology, culture and media studies, linguistics, social philosophy, and for specific courses on postmodernism.

Semiotics --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Sociology of culture --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Mass communications --- etnologie --- sociologie --- communicatie --- cultuur --- semiotiek --- Culture. --- Communication. --- Sociology --- Ethnology. --- Semiotics. --- Sociology of Culture. --- Media and Communication. --- Philosophy of Sociology. --- Sociocultural Anthropology. --- Philosophy.

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In the continuous search for sustainability, the exchange of diverse perspectives, assumptions, and values is indispensable to environmental protection. Through anthropological and ethnographic analyses, this collection addresses how interests, values, and ideologies affect dialogue and sustainability work. Drawing on studies from three continents – Europe, North America, and South America – the paradoxes and the plurality of meanings associated with the creation of sustainable futures are explored. The book focuses on how communication practices collide with organizational frameworks, customary practices, livelihoods, and landscape. In so doing, the authors explore the meanings of environmental communication, pushing beyond environmental advocacy rhetoric to emphasize stronger anthropological engagement within communities to achieve more impactful environmental communication practice. Empirically the book’s chapters explore a diverse set of issues, ranging from coastal management in the European north to Native American place naming in Alaska. They further share findings from studies of contaminated land remediation in Sweden, conflicts over water resources in Chile, management of heritage and national parks in Northern Arizona, and cultural transmission in Slovakia. This is an open access book.

Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography --- Anthropology --- Central government policies --- Sociology --- Media studies --- environmental communication --- sustainability --- local culture --- livelihoods --- place --- landscape --- applied anthropology --- applied ethnology --- material culture --- Open Access --- Ethnology. --- Applied anthropology. --- Environmental sciences --- Communication in the environmental sciences. --- Sociocultural Anthropology. --- Applied Anthropology. --- Environmental Social Sciences. --- Environmental Communication. --- Social aspects. --- Communication in environmental sciences --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Human beings

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The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Human Sciences offers a uniquely comprehensive and global overview of the evolution of ideas, concepts and policies within the human sciences. Drawn from histories of the social and psychological sciences, anthropology, the history and philosophy of science, and the history of ideas, this collection analyses the health and welfare of populations, evidence of the changing nature of our local communities, cities, societies or global movements, and studies the way our humanness or ‘human nature’ undergoes shifts because of broader technological shifts or patterns of living. This Handbook serves as an authoritative reference to a vast source of representative scholarly work in interdisciplinary fields, a means of understanding patterns of social change and the conduct of institutions, as well as the histories of these ‘ways of knowing’ probe the contexts, circumstances and conditions which underpin continuity and change in the way we count, analyse and understand ourselves in our different social worlds. It reflects a critical scholarly interest in both traditional and emerging concerns on the relations between the biological and social sciences, and between these and changes and continuities in societies and conducts, as 21st century research moves into new intellectual and geographic territories, more diverse fields and global problematics.

Social sciences. --- Social sciences --- History. --- Philosophy. --- Social philosophy --- Social theory --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Developmental psychology. --- Science --- Ethnology. --- Biotechnology. --- Developmental Psychology. --- History of Science. --- Sociocultural Anthropology. --- Chemical engineering --- Genetic engineering --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Development (Psychology) --- Developmental psychobiology --- Psychology --- Life cycle, Human

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This book uses survey data in "hot spots" around the globe, to analyse various models of social justice, particularly the principle of equality, from a pragmatic perspective. Starting with ordinary actors, social movements, and concrete contexts, the authors question foundations of social and political democracy in our times. They focus on how social actors deal with the principles of justice and judgments of justice at work and in their social lives. The book suggests that the increase in social inequalities in recent decades contrasts with the blurring of the aims of social justice. At a time when the reconsideration of politics largely depends on its relevance to and aspirations for social justice, the authors of this book question contemporary developments by illustrating its variety, according to specific historical, institutional, social and organizational contexts.The book will be useful to students and scholars in the social sciences, especially those interested in moral questions regarding social justice, from an empirical and practical point of view.

Social justice. --- Social justice --- Mathematical models. --- Equality --- Justice --- Political sociology. --- Social structure. --- Equality. --- Sociology—Philosophy. --- Ethnology. --- Social Justice. --- Political Sociology. --- Social Structure. --- Philosophy of Sociology. --- Sociocultural Anthropology. --- Mass political behavior --- Political behavior --- Political science --- Sociology --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Egalitarianism --- Inequality --- Social equality --- Social inequality --- Democracy --- Liberty --- Organization, Social --- Social organization --- Social institutions --- Sociological aspects