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DOCUMENT Full-Text Lake Polan.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project examines the technological reconstitution of privacy in America through an ethnographic study of the efforts of Silicon Valley area corporations to 'save' privacy on the Internet using technology. Such efforts respond to the widespread perception that the reorientations of global business and governance around increasingly cheap, pervasive, and powerful forms of digital...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Claire Webb.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The question 'Are we alone?' has shifted in the past few decades to 'Where else is life?' Answers to both questions--an intelligent alien and lively signs of earthlike biology--have yet to surface. This dissertation seeks to illuminate how two communities of scientists construct experimental systems around these missing objects, operating at the edges of knowledge, through familiar metaphors...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Rebecca Dudley.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. “They do my spraying for me,” an elderly Black farmer gestured over his 140 soybean acres, explaining to me how his 6,000-acre white farmer neighbors—with their digital agriculture equipment—spray pesticides for him, a necessary input for this kind of farming. His is an anomaly in Louisiana sugarcane country—why soybeans, compared to lucrative sugarcane? Why farm alone—yet rely on a neighbor?...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Yancen Diemberger.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. How do horses and humans communicate? Humans look to science, transmitted knowledge, and/or embodied experience to answer. Horses are usually not given a chance to respond. In Traslasierra, Argentina, and Limi, Nepal, horses are still key to human livelihoods, meaning that this trans-species relationship is part of day-to-day life. This project explores how horse-human communication is...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Marian Hamilton.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. While the fossil record captures many crucial details of our evolutionary past, it does not preserve social behavior. Certain aspects of spatial landscape use, such as dispersal and home range size, have major consequences on social organization. An accurate reconstruction of landscape use by fossil hominins would therefore be an empirical proxy for otherwise-elusive social behaviors....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Luisa Rivera.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. What can anthropology do to reconcile the ubiquity of generational resilience with the growing science of heritable alterations to the stress response to adversity? Engaging a critical biocultural approach, I investigate the intergenerational embodiment and transmission of trauma in the wake of the Guatemalan genocide. My work is rooted in three generations of indigenous genocide survivors...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michelle Roberts.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. While healthcare plays an invaluable role in disability prevention and treatment, disabled people and their families are often left to manage new care needs and daily life post-hospitalization. This ethnographic doctoral dissertation project investigates how cultural, political-economic, and biomedical forces shape disability via everyday experiences of care for people with acquired...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Nicholas Caverly.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project examines how the destruction of built environments reconfigures economic and environmental inequalities in the postindustrial United States. It does so by investigating the demolition of vacant buildings in Detroit. Estimated to number between 70,000 and 100,000, vacant buildings index decades of racially motivated population decline and deindustrialization. Such structures are...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Cayla Colclasure.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The construction of the Western North Carolina Railroad (WNCRR) through the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina during the 1870s and 1880s relied on the forced labor of thousands of men, women, and children. Around 95% of these workers were Black men and boys imprisoned through discriminatory laws under the convict leasing system. In this system, prisoners were leased to private and...