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DOCUMENT Full-Text Andrea Silva-Caballero.

This resource is an application for Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Sleep is crucial for human health and development, including restorative functions, learning, energy conservation and emotional life. The amount of sleep for functional human development remains unclear and likely reflects contextual variation. Using bio-social, anthropological perspectives, my study compares sleep patterns of adolescents living in two non-industrial and one industrial society in...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Karen Hebert.

This resource is an application for the Post PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. What does it mean to fight for environmental futures through the language and practice of care and collaboration? Which ways of interacting with the environment are valorized and cultivated, and who or what gains power? In the US state of Alaska, new livelihoods are increasingly prominent in rural regions, as historically dominant forms of state- and industry-driven resource extraction are joined...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Monika Jankowska.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Vinícius Sousa.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Taylor Dysart.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jorge Campos Tellez.

This resource is an application for the Wadsworth International Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Clara Fortes Brandão.

This resource is an application for a Wadsworth International Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jiwon Kim.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. My dissertational project studies the emergence of waste as a crucial means to financialize households in Indonesia, examining the promise of the future it enacts. The Indonesian experience from the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis stressed the significance of households and their savings in responding to financial turmoil. This collective memory paved the way for integrating household economies...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Erin Torkelson.

This resource is an application for the Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Cash transfer programs are significant, world-making responses to global poverty, made all the more necessary in the time of Covid-19. There has been surprising consensus ? among Silicon Valley techies, World Bank bureaucrats, and lefty academics ? that cash transfers can right the wrongs of top-heavy and inappropriate development interventions by "just giving money to the poor." Cash...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Anisha Chadha.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This dissertation research studied the emergence of Indian doctors, engineers, and designers forming startups to create novel medical devices, or "medtech." As biomedical devices produced through "Silicon Valley" inspired business models are being increasingly used to manage and monitor health, and the current Indian administration shifts the burden of "hacking" public health burdens onto...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Andres Restrepo Sanchez.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project explores the challenges of bringing life into a context of death. Colombia has suffered one of the longest internal armed conflicts, and Medellín has been one of its most affected territories. I am interested in how multiple scales of violence are understood, experienced, and/or resisted in birth contexts in Medellín. Obstetric violence has been used in various Latin American...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jessie Stoolman.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Drawing from history, information studies, and anthropology, my project investigates why daily entanglements between Black and Jewish North Africans have been largely untold. When assumed to be separate groups, archival representation in Morocco appears unequal. While two state-sponsored archives are dedicated to Jewish histories, only one private museum focuses on Black Morocco. However,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Andrea Muehlebach.

This resource is an application for a Workshop Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Anthropologists know that capital deals in death: it ends cultures, exterminates peoples, kills ecologies, destroys worlds. But what interest might we take in capital's grotesque form of life: in the vitality of those processes and practices that come alive through the exuberant organization of death, or in the bizarre liveliness and animation that capital elicits from the world it destroys? This workshop...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chuan Hao Chen.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Katyayni Seth.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The Indian state of Uttar Pradesh (UP) is one of the most dangerous places in the world for children. If it were a country, UP would have the sixteenth highest child mortality rate in the world. Child health outcomes have remained poor despite efforts by national and international agencies to improve access to medical services in the state. This project examines ways in which caregivers...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Nutsa Batiashvili.

This resource is an application for a Post-PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The proposed project studies how practices of “caring for” and “guarding” Medieval churches and religious objects in the Caucasian highland region of Upper Svaneti enact forms of livelihood and relations of power in a social field defined by geographic remoteness, scarce resources, unstable (tourism-dependent) economy and poorly sustained infrastructure. Upper Svaneti is a UNESCO World Heritage...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lisa Richaud.

This resource is an application for a Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Over the past thirty years, the generations who lived through the Mao era (1949-1976) have turned China's public parks into stages for amateur performances of revolutionary tunes. Drawing on 13 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Beijing, this project explores these reverberations of Maoist culture in China's urban public space. At the center of the analysis is the seeming paradox of displaying...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Joshua Franklin.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. As transgender and gender-nonconforming identities become more visible in medicine, policy, and the media, gender affirming medical care is increasingly seen as acceptable and necessary. Yet while childhood gender has long been the subject of clinical research, the impact of specialized medical care on young people and their families is poorly understood. Given the racialized and class-based...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Edward Dostaler.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. In Chennai, and elsewhere, sand is a constitutive element of modern urban life. Through its many material arrangements and circulations, sand mediates lifeworlds and landscapes. For example, in Chennai, sand mined or dredged from riverbanks, beaches, and the Bay of Bengal flows into the city, where it supplies the "raw" material required for urbanization. Much of this sand becomes concrete,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Leniqueca Welcome.

This resource is an application for Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Come Out of This World is a monograph with a central visual collage component that 1) analyzes the co-constitutive projects of racialization, criminalization, and statecraft in contemporary Trinidad that perpetuate black death and 2) speculates on a radical alterity where all life is cared for. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork contextualized through archival analysis, this monograph details the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text lvoline Budji Kefen.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. In today's world where people navigate unprecedented transformations in communication, alongside record movements often spurred on by armed conflict, how do (forcibly) displaced and migrant women manage new communication technologies, and how do these technologies affect their roles, relationships, and identities? How do these women's communicative practices connect to memory, voice, and armed...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ebenezer Adeyemi.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Current anthropological scholarship on infrastructure frames it as material objects, like roads, waste disposal systems, healthcare facilities, to name a few, that are provided predominately by the state. Additionally, debates in critical medical anthropology have highlighted how social factors, like inadequate infrastructure, interact with biological pathogens, such as mosquitos, to make...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Amanda Foote.

This resource is an application for an Engaged Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. For decades, Indigenous people have leveled thoughtful critiques at museums; they point to challenges over rightful ownership, conditions of initial collection, contemporary interpretation, and even the nature of the museum institution, as problematic. Building on the skills and interests of a group of collaborators this project investigates potential pathways for improved relationships between...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ariell Ahearn-Ligham.

This resource is an application for a Workshop Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. ‘The Dana Declaration 20 years on: making space for the voices of indigenous Mobile Peoples within Anthropology’ (Dana+20) aims to accomplish four related goals: 1) advance collaborative approaches to decolonial research practices; 2) critically reflect on lessons learned from 20 years of Dana advocacy; 3) identify areas for continued research and advocacy; and 4) outline steps to improve government and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Bianca Chizzolini.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This ethnographic project investigates the role that artisanal objects and ornamentation play in the constitution of gendered daily practices and ways of life in Oaxaca de Juárez (Mexico). Hand-made textile production is at the center of the social life of several rural Mexican communities. In this plural cultural context, servilletas are ordinary and richly adorned pieces produced by women...