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DOCUMENT Full-Text Spencer Kaplan.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. How do emergent technologies and their politics depend on the speculation and management of humanity’s future? This ethnographic project studies efforts among artificial intelligence (AI)researchers to reckon with their technologies’ societal impacts. It is sited in the San Francisco Bay Area: the geographic center of what AI proponents call a “generative revolution” fueled by powerful new...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Mohammed Baten.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Mangroves' historical undervaluation has frequently resulted in an institutional vacuum, with no defined property rights or enforceable norms governing their usage or protecting against their destruction. In recent years, natural resource management has been battling rising commercialization and commodification pressures where national economic interests may not align with local interests and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Fiori Sara Berhane.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project looks to emerging political practices surrounding the politics of memory for recent Eritrean refugees in Bologna, Italy. Since the mid-2000's Eritrea's young have been leaving in droves, in numbers as high as 2,000 to 7,000 people monthly. Traversing one of the deadliest migrant trails in the world, Eritreans constitute the second largest refugee group entering the EU by boat. I...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Irteza Binte-Farid.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This dissertation explores the ethical self-cultivation of black Muslim youth in Philadelphia. Anthropologist Saba Mahmood describes ethical self-cultivation as a "specific sets of procedures, techniques, and exercises through which highly specific ethical-moral subjects come to be formed" (Mahmood, 2005, p.120). I consider this process as well as how it becomes racialized and gendered in the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Nicole van Zyl.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project proposes a legal historical ethnography of the liberal legal institution of parole as a site to explore the assimilation of colonial subjectivities into post-apartheid governance and social relations. It poses the question of how the institution mediates between the universalist liberal aspirations of law, and continued racial oppression and hierarchy in post-apartheid South...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ingrid Diaz.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Understanding plantations as a privileged mode of food and energy production in the Global South, my research broadly examines the feminization of the labor force in the expansion of the oil palm industry. In particular, I plan to study the recent and increasing incorporation of women as wage workers under the expansion of the plantation economy in a frontier region in Colombia. My multi-scale...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Cameron Butler.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Phosphorus is an essential element for all life and a fundamental component of commercial fertilizers. This project follows phosphorus through agribusiness value chains that sustain the fertilizer demands of southern Ontario, a major Canadian agricultural region. I explore how phosphorus-related value-making practices both adapt to and transform planetary mineral cycles, particularly in the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Maria Bonome Pederneiras Barbosa.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. More than ever, the problem of cultural borders is a prominent theme in political and social debates around the world. The perception of culture as an object has effects on the emergent cultural conservation and restoration policies, as well as generating disputes concerning their authenticity and origin. Contributing to this debate, this research project explores the question of "culture...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Sofia Lana.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Andean glaciers are among the fastest melting glaciers in the world, yet little is known about how this affects those who live in the Andes. Mainstream anthropology has focused on the potential impacts of climate change on displaced populations' cultural knowledge. I join anthropologists who question whether this research obscures present-day concerns in the Global South linked to ongoing...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ian Roa.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project investigates ritual engagement with animals from well-documented, previously excavated ritual contexts at four major Maya polities - Baking Pot, Cahal Pech, Lower Dover, and Xunantunich in the Belize River Valley. In contrast to much previous Maya zooarchaeological research, this project takes ritual economy and social zooarchaeology approaches in a multi-sited comparative study to...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Marco Dell'Oca.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Even before the COVID-19 pandemics, vaccine hesitancy had been described as one of the most dangerous threats to global health of our times. The current pandemic has exacerbated the difference between those supporting the validity of vaccines and those against it. In the wake of COVID-19, across Europe and the US, the category of “anti-vaxxer” was connected in the media to qualifiers such as...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Cecelia Chisdock.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Juveniles are often considered an especially vulnerable subset of the population, but how this group is defined and cared for varies based on socio-cultural context. Juvenile care is a major determinant of lifetime health not often investigated in bioarchaeology, resulting in gaps in knowledge of past communities' health and social conceptions of the life course. This research proposes a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Camila Galan de Paula.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This proposal investigates people in northeastern Brazil who claim to have "indigenous blood" ("sangue de índio"), but do not classify themselves as Indigenous people. In the southeast of Piauí state (unlike other regions), no parts of the rural population claim Indigenous status or land rights, yet many people refer to their "indigenous blood." Preliminary data suggest that this refers to...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Melissa Manus.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The human microbiome -the collection of microorganisms (and their genes) that live in, on, and around us- represents an interface through which contact with the environment impacts human biology. More specifically, contact with the social environment shapes host microbial communities, which in turn influence host physiology and immune system development. Despite these important connections,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Victoria Harries.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. With the rates of obesity continuing to rise worldwide, this project presents the opportunity to understand early-life metabolic development, growth patterns, and the prevalence of obesity in human populations. Current research supports the theory that maternal/infant energy transfer through human milk influences early nutritional development of the infant and begins metabolic programming that...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Smiti Sam Nathan.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project will investigate the socio-economic foundations of oasis communities during the Early Bronze Age (EBA, ca. 3100BCE - 2000BCE) in southeastern Arabia. These relatively small-scale communities demonstrate strategic organizational and subsistence choices in extreme environments and climates that led to the establishment of widespread oasis agriculture communities across the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Eliza Williamson.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project set out to understand how the paradigm of 'humanized birth' is implemented in Salvador, Brazil, through Rede Cegonha, a government program to improve maternal and infant healthcare in Brazil's public health system. Over the course of twelve-months of multi-sited ethnographic research, the project followed Rede Cegonha from the federal Ministry of Health to the local health...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Juliet Glazer.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. My project asks how aesthetic evaluation relates to financial valuation in the global circulation of specialized goods. To answer this question, my research focuses on luthiers—makers of handmade violins, violas, and cellos—as well as musicians and dealers with whom they interact in the United States and Italy. Rather than simply asking how market pressures affect luthiers’ workshop techniques,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Annika Schmeding.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The ethnographic dissertation research explores the communication and negotiation among Sufis and ulema, and their role in the public sphere and peacebuilding in present-day Afghanistan through the lens of the newly formed Sufi-Islamic council in Herat. The council brings together different Sufi associations (tariqas), local ulema as well as Sufi adherents to respond to the changing religious...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chana Rose Rabinovitz.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. In the US and UK, there is a growing movement of Jewish people cultivating Judaism without Zionism. Many of these Jewish people have embraced what Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz (2007) called ‘diasporism’, espousing a political commitment to solidarity and a belief in a Jewish history and future independent of a national homeland. Jewish community farms are one manifestation of this diasporism. These...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Gloria Moreno.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. As ethnographic and anthropological studies of men and masculinities expanded since the 1990s, men from diverse cultural backgrounds and regions of the world have come to be recognized as having and producing gender. However, the significance of contemporary male genital modifications and their implications for masculinity, extending beyond circumcision and biomedical perspectives, did not...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Meighan Mantei.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Set against a backdrop of ‘I love oil and gas’ bumper stickers, Texas and Roughrider flags, pro-Trump and antivaccine rhetoric, and American style populist politics, in this study I explore the ways in which girlhood is constituted through embodied markers and affective constellations of (un)belonging and (dis)connection in relation to the local fossil fuel and agricultural industries of...

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This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The dead create our social worlds. Their names constitute our sense of place, their images watch over us from monument perches, and their stories build the foundation of our polities and societies. In Algeria, after 50 years of independence, material and linguistic vestiges of the dead of the War of Liberation (1954-1962) continue to exert power over Algerian society, reflecting the enduring...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Tariq Rahman.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. In the city of Lahore, Pakistan, plots of land are increasingly traded like stocks. Though land has long functioned as inherited wealth or a long-term investment, in recent years it has become liquid, or a good that can be quickly bought and sold as prices change. Across a diasporic market, plots of land circulate between local residents and overseas Pakistan living in the Middle East,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Joseph Hiller.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Prisons are at the heart of struggles over impunity and accountability. This research looks to the vortex of Colombian prison worlds to interrogate what penal technologies achieve, what they fail to solve, and how they might be transformed. In Colombia, prisons are sites of intense abjection and death. Colombia’s prison system is entangled within legacies of violence both domestic and...