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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 Matthew Knisley.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project will carry out the first archaeological analysis of socio-natural landscapes in the Sandawe homeland of central Tanzania. This project will generate a basic corpus of data for the last 2,000 years of the region, including material culture inventories and chronologies, settlement patterns, and evidence of vegetation and environmental change. Traditionally, scholarship has cast the...

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 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 Adam Kersch.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This research project examines transformations in the relationship between race and biopolitics in Sitka, Alaska, focusing on infectious disease outbreaks over the past 200 years. Specifically, I interrogate the intersection of whiteness and infectious disease and suggest that the politicized concept of whiteness has shifted dramatically. I hypothesize that: 1) over the course of Russian and...

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 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 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 Samantha Martin.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project examines how Chilean feminists use emotionally evocative discursive genres to bring relevance and salience to their social justice movements in public spaces. For example, posting a gender violence testimonial on social media might instigate feelings of pity, while chanting about police brutality at a rally may prompt anger. As activists produce or perform these affective genres,...

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 Bridget Bey.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The archaeological study of adolescence reveals insights into the biosocial process of puberty. Biologically, the critical developmental process of puberty defines adolescence, yet puberty is also the social process by which a child becomes an adult. This project investigates puberty as shaped by physical and social factors. I examine adolescence in the late pre-Hispanic Andes (800-1500 CE) to...

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 Pedro Ramon Celis.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project traces one of Oaxaca’s legendary migration events, the Zapotec migration and conquest of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and the construction of the fortress and city of Guiengola during the Late Postclassic period (A.D. 1250-1521). Ethnohistoric documents suggest that the Zapotec elite migrated from the highland Central Valleys to the coastal Isthmus of Tehuantepec for their own...

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...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Matthew Medeiros.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. What counts as "disability," how is it framed, and who frames it? My project is concerned with examining disability, biopolitics, and citizenship in Brazil. More specifically, it is concerned with examining how one of Latin America's largest organization for supporting those with intellectual disabilities has recently turned towards increasingly drawing on biomedical frameworks of disability...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jonna Yarrington.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Tangier Island is a small, incorporated town, just over one square mile, of 470 inhabitants in the Chesapeake Bay, belonging to Accomack County, in the Commonwealth of Virginia, USA. Its residents are densely related watermen and their families--mostly white, lower income, politically conservative, Christian, and skeptical of science and climate change. Endogamous marriage is preferred,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lara Sarlak.

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

DOCUMENT Full-Text Emma Pask.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Texas is home to the world's largest bat colonies. Bat scientists in Texas play a growing role in mediating the concerns of shared space and blurred boundaries between species as climate change increasingly alters these arrangements. Texas is also a longstanding laboratory for American political forms and competing sovereignties; it is at the forefront of both climate conservatism and potential...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Matthew Chrisler.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Liberal capitalist nation-states find themselves in perpetual crisis due to the structural contradictions of democratic ideals and the enduring social inequalities and violences of race. Neoliberal techniques of governance address these crises by cultivating new modes of personal responsibility and value through state-sanctioned projects of 'caring' for marginalized populations, forming new...