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Are there anthropological problems? (2023)
Book Chapter
Heywood, P. (2023). Are there anthropological problems?. In P. Heywood, & M. Candea (Eds.), Beyond Description: Anthropologies of Explanation (25-44). Cornell University Press

Towards a praxis of care in post-pandemic fieldwork: Comparing ethnographic encounters during Covid-19 (2023)
Journal Article
Cîrstea, A., Johnson, L., & Phiri, C. (2024). Towards a praxis of care in post-pandemic fieldwork: Comparing ethnographic encounters during Covid-19. SSM - Qualitative Research in Health, 5, Article 100387. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2023.100387

The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of ensuring the wellbeing of both researchers and participants throughout the research process. In this paper, we argue that in order to produce caring research, the wellbeing of researchers must n... Read More about Towards a praxis of care in post-pandemic fieldwork: Comparing ethnographic encounters during Covid-19.

Transport access routes for motor cycles in Liberia (2023)
Book Chapter
Peters, K., & Jenkins, J. (in press). Transport access routes for motor cycles in Liberia. In S. Mayhew, & M. Hammer (Eds.), The Elgar Companion to Health and the Sustainable Development Goals. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing

Open plains are not a level playing field for hominid consonant‑like versus vowel‑like calls (2023)
Journal Article
Gannon, C., Hill, R., & Lameira, A. R. (2023). Open plains are not a level playing field for hominid consonant‑like versus vowel‑like calls. Scientific Reports, 13(1), Article 21138. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-48165-7

Africa’s paleo-climate change represents an “ecological black-box” along the evolutionary timeline of spoken language; a vocal hominid went in and, millions of years later, out came a verbal human. It is unknown whether or how a shift from forested,... Read More about Open plains are not a level playing field for hominid consonant‑like versus vowel‑like calls.

Beyond Description: Anthropologies of Explanation (2023)
Book
Heywood, P., & Candea, M. (Eds.). (2023). Beyond Description: Anthropologies of Explanation. Cornell University Press

Beyond Description brings anthropologists and other social scientists together to examine the problem of explanation. What is "an explanation?" What can it add? What makes it authoritative, clarifying, or misleading? Whom does it serve and how is it... Read More about Beyond Description: Anthropologies of Explanation.

Children's experiences of care on walking and cycling journeys between home and school in Healthy New Towns: Reframing active school travel (2023)
Journal Article
Tupper, E., Morris, S., Lawlor, E. R., Summerbell, C., Panter, J., Jago, R., & Pollard, T. (2024). Children's experiences of care on walking and cycling journeys between home and school in Healthy New Towns: Reframing active school travel. Health & Place, 85, Article 103147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.103147

The Healthy New Town programme in England set out to 'put health into place' by supporting the design and construction of healthy places to live, including by creating safe environments for active travel. To explore the impact of this approach, this... Read More about Children's experiences of care on walking and cycling journeys between home and school in Healthy New Towns: Reframing active school travel.

‘Occupying’ the womb: Disrupted kinship futures and sovereign logics in sexual violence during wars (2023)
Journal Article
Mookherjee, N. (2023). ‘Occupying’ the womb: Disrupted kinship futures and sovereign logics in sexual violence during wars. Critique of Anthropology, 43(4), 422-443. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275X231216250

This article seeks to ethnographically highlight the multiple uses of gene/alogy (as explored by Franklin and McKinnon in the 2000s) in the context of the Bangladesh war of 1971, and hence maps out the range of violence and ambivalences at the heart... Read More about ‘Occupying’ the womb: Disrupted kinship futures and sovereign logics in sexual violence during wars.

Part 1: Tribal Peoples, History and Ethnology (2023)
Journal Article
Simpson, B., Barkhoda, D., & Okely, J. (2023). Part 1: Tribal Peoples, History and Ethnology. Learning and Teaching, 16(3), 4-30. https://doi.org/10.3167/latiss.2023.160303

Three authors reflect on their conversations and interactions with Sue with particular reference to her fieldwork in south-west Iran in the mid-1970s and how that influenced her subsequent research on community development, organisations and social c... Read More about Part 1: Tribal Peoples, History and Ethnology.