Spring 2022 issue out now!

Check out the latest issue of Practicing Anthropology, LANDSCAPES OF ANTHROPOLOGY: MAPPING, DESIGN, AND HEALTH! Table of Contents for the Spring 2022 Issue: Images throughout the issue continue our documentation of pandemic signage during times that seem permanent but will undoubtedly pass. Below: Pandemic Signage in Puerto Rico 2022

Keeping the Ball Rolling: Campus-Community Partnerships for Disaster Preparedness During COVID-19

This post accompanies three pieces in the current issue of Practicing Anthropology that describe a campus-community partnership between Japantown Prepared (a community based organization) and San José State University. Check out the Fall 2021 issue to read more! By Gabbie Fall Japantown Prepared is a community-based disaster preparedness organization and Community Emergency Response Team (CERT)…

Ethical Uncertainties in Times of Socially-Distanced Social Research By Alexa Dietrich and Joyce Rivera-Gonzalez

The Covid-19 pandemic continues to make its way to every corner of the world, into contexts rife with social inequity, wealth disparity, conflict, and human rights violations. As social researchers, we recognize there is much to be learned about the human experience in times of social isolation, viral anxieties, and—oftentimes racialized—biophysical violences. But in the…

Fall 2020 Issue

Fall 2020 and social scientists are hard at work. Check out what some of us are doing in our latest issue of Practicing Anthropology. Continuing On Making Native Art Known During Pandemic TimesBy Gwendolyn Saul Shifting Landscapes of Belonging: Birth Doulas and COVID-19By Angela N. Castañeda and Julie Johnson Searcy Bordertown Blues and COVID-19By Sonja Michal…

The Interplay of Words and Politics During COVID-19: Locally Contextualizing the Universal Pandemic Vocabulary

From Inayat Ali and Robbie Davis-Floyd: Whenever a challenging situation emerges, an ambiguous, robust and thought-provoking vocabulary also surfaces. Sometimes, entirely new words are introduced, such as “coronavirus” and “COVID-19”; at other times, the terminology existing in what Ali calls the “societal memory” is sufficient to make sense of that extraordinary event, and problems arise…

Patterns of Virus: Navigating the Social Contours around SARSCoV2 and COVID19

The following statement comes from Miles Fahlman, author of Patterns of Virus: Navigating the Social Contours around SARSCoV2 and COVID19, that can be found in the Summer 2020 issue of Practicing Anthropology:  Concerning the Social Contours project here in Saskatchewan, which survey’s the general public on making use of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs), including high-risk behavior, and…

Summer 2020 Issue

Summer of 2020 and social scientists are hard at work. Check out what some of us are doing in our latest issue of Practicing Anthropology. COVID-19 Covid & Indian Country: Being Indigenous in Corona Virus World… By Michael-Kickingbear Johnson A Psychologist Responds  By Rebecca Wald The Impacts of COVID-19 on Birth Practices in the US  By…

Anthropology in Emergencies: The Roles of Anthropologists during the COVID-19 Pandemic By Inayat Ali

From Inayat Ali: When I drafted this article, the worldwide cases of COVID-19 were over 2 million and deaths around 135,000, as compared to the current statistics that are around 8.398 million and 450,000, respectively. The statistics can be tricky and questioned; however, there is no doubt that the pandemic has overwhelmed the entire world.…

The Impacts of Covid-19 on Birth Practices in the United States by Robbie Davis-Floyd, Kim Gutschow, and David A. Schwartz

Check out the summer issue of Practicing Anthropology to find out what researchers have learned about “The Impacts of Covid-19 on Birth Practices in the United States.” Coming on July 1, 2020. The Impacts of Covid-19 on Birth Practices in the United States by Robbie Davis-Floyd, Kim Gutschow, and David A. Schwartz Abstract How quickly…