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DOCUMENT Full-Text Patricia de Freitas Lopes Rodrigues.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project investigates how people marshal the past to secure a sustainable future. I ask how Amerindian people in Amazonia attribute historical and ecological values and meanings to anthropogenic landscapes, while simultaneously building an understanding of themselves within a complex set of changing relations between humans, nonhuman agents, and the environment. I propose an ethnography...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ariana Rodriguez Medel.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This research is situated at the intersection of two subfields of gender studies: trans* studies and masculinities studies. It offers an intimate look at the experiences of transmasculine people and their paths to becoming men in rural and urban spaces in five regions of Mexico (Northwest, Northeast, West, Central, and Southeast), where transmasculine voices have been largely excluded from a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Fernando Montero.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. My research examines new configurations of sovereign power in Central America in the context of two momentous transformations currently taking place on the Afro-indigenous Miskitu Coast of Nicaragua. The first of these is the escalating militarization of the coast by the neo-Sandinista regime of Daniel Ortega, allegedly in response to high volumes of cocaine trafficking. The second is the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Bri Matusovsky.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The green monkeys (Chlorocebus Sabaeus) are considered invasive pests on the island of St. Kitts, introduced as a by-product of trans-Atlantic slave trade, and now differently valued in scientific research, tourism, and conservationism. The increasing frequency of encounters between humans and monkeys, and related food insecurity experienced by both humans and monkeys, combine to create what...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Isaac Vargas.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. My dissertation explores different registers of sovereignty amid Mexico’s war on drugs, explained as the nationwide deployment of the army to combat drug trafficking and annihilate drug lords, which to date has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives. My research is focused on Guadalajara, the second largest city in the country, in which criminal groups assert their power to take life over the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Hallie Wells.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Initial findings suggest that recent developments in who can speak and what can be said in kabary (Malagasy oratory) show that the form does not, as has been suggested, solely serve to rigidify social hierarchies; it is also a means of reflecting and improving current realities. Nonetheless, a critical component of kabary remains substantiating one's claims by referring to the razana...

DOCUMENT Full-Text R. J. Sinensky.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Anthropologists have long been concerned with the immense variety of collective institutions developed by small-scale societies to foster solidarity, inculcate values, and manage resources. Long-term studies tracking the development and maintenance of such institutions would greatly benefit a range of social science disciplines, but are unfortunately rare. To this end, the proposed project...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Samuel Dinger.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This research examines the processes through which the dilemmas of everyday life in exile contribute to the emergence of novel forms of moral community and ethical selfhood among young male refugees with no links to humanitarian NGOs. Specifically, it asks how masculine vocabularies, practices, and aspirations are and are not reconfigured when the violence of war and exile upset gendered...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Matthew Biwer.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The goal of this project is to examine the relationship between food, identity, and culture contact in the context of imperial borderlands. More specifically, the proposed research uses ancient plant remains to address the role of food in the complex multi-directional social interactions between colonists and indigenous groups in the Wari Empire of the highlands of the Peruvian Andes....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Paloma Contreras.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Water insecurity is a worldwide problem involving water access, water quality, and water affect (i.e. the emotional, cultural, and subjective experiences of water). It presents a major stressor that negatively impacts mental and physical health. Despite this burden, studies addressing the connections between water insecurity, psychological stress, and human biology are lacking. This project...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kristin Buhrow.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project investigates the effects of interactions between audiences and diverse performers who practice and present Chinese Dance in the American South. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, this study considers dancers’ understandings of what it means for an aesthetic, gesture, object, or person to be “Chinese,” and their own proximity to “Chineseness,” formalized through dance. Further, the study...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Asif Sandeelo.

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

DOCUMENT Full-Text Katherine Hanson.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Building on recent work at the nexus of primatology, science studies, and multispecies anthropology, this research investigates the significance of primate field schools within the discipline of primatology, and more broadly how knowledge is created with nonhumans. Primate field schools are often regarded as an obligatory rite of passage into the world of field primatology, shaping generations...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ashley McDermott.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. In Bishkek, the capital of post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan, Kyrgyz is believed to be under threat from the Russian language. However, no comprehensive studies of everyday language use support these claims, and according to common measures of language vitality, Kyrgyz is not in danger. How is language use changing in Bishkek, and how can we explain the discrepancy between public belief that Kyrgyz is...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lauren Deal.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This dissertation research investigates if and how Argentine actors are inverting Latina American racial ideologies of mestizaje to 'de-whiten' Argentine identity and produce a mestiza Argentine identity. Specifically, this project analyzes the linguistic and material practices by which Argentine actors construct and perform a mestiza Argentine identity in order to elucidate the potentially...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Leonardo da Silva.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. "What has been said about us? What did we say about ourselves? What images of us?" These are questions from a canvas exhibited in "Retaking the Image", a research, documentation and artistic creation project carried out by the Paranaense Museum (Paraná, Brazil) between June 2021 and January 2022. Coordinated by indigenous artists Denilson Baniwa and Gustavo Caboco, the exhibition arose from...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Karen Hebert.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. In the fishing town of Dillingham, Alaska, poet Gary Snyder once found the raucous epitome of “the working bars of the world” (1983:91). These days, however, Dillingham’s mood is decidedly dimmer as its workers develop and debate plans to restructure the Bristol Bay salmon industry, which has swung from unprecedented profitability to near insolvency in little over a decade. Although the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Anthony Rizk.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This research examines salvage: its different meanings, the theoretical directions it leads to, and how it contributes to understanding social life in Lebanon -a country that, for some time now, has been described as being on the brink of collapse. Among scientists repurposing microbial samples in laboratories, physicians using salvage therapies in clinics, and political activists constantly...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Zoltan Gluck.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. My project is a study of Kenya's 'war on terror,' examining how security practices and counterterrorism are affecting urban space and state power. In recent years Kenya has experienced a number of terrorist attacks that have profoundly impacted the country, placing security at the center of national politics and transforming the very institutions of state security. Through historic and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Loa Gordon.

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

DOCUMENT Full-Text Giulia Nicolini.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. My research explores how demand – and relatedly, taste – for seaweed-as-food is changing in southwest England. Approaching the study of changing food habits as mutually constitutive shifts in production and consumption, and cultural and economic forces, my research asks how the material reality of anthropogenic environmental change, and what could be described as a ‘logic of sustainability’,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Shruti Iyer.

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

DOCUMENT Full-Text Katherine Maddox.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. To answer the question of how exiled Syrians forge their own lifeworlds in Paris, France, this study employs ethnographic methods to explore the unique conception of Syrian-ness that emerges from biographies shaped by the legacy of French colonialism, Syrian nationalism, and the ongoing violence in Syria. While categories such as "refugee," "asylum seeker," and "French citizen of Syrian...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Sophie Pascoe.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. While environmental governance initiatives, such as climate change mitigation mechanisms, are often framed in scientific and economic terms, they are entangled with diverse processes of socio-environmental change that cross ontological and epistemological borders. This research is an attempt to complicate the stories that are told about environmental governance and develop a narrative...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Hui Wen.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project explores how urban seniors in China actively participate in the supplements market as a form of self-care during a historical juncture when traditional family support systems are receding and once-promised state eldercare services are limited . Behind this care vacuum is a confluence of several factors including the One Child Policy (1980-2015), urbanization and rural-to-urban...