Bodies
Using a three-tiered approach, Marcel Mauss argues that we must understand bodily actions from a biological, psychological, and this, third, element.
What is social?
Freeman likens the surveillance experienced by the women doing off-shore data work in Designing Women to this concept introduced by Bentham and later written about by Foucault.
What is the panopticon?
Fassin describes the police's use of quotas and statistics to increase arrests and patrolling as a politics of this.
What is numbers?
When companies in the developed world move factories to export processing zones in the developing world, they are doing this.
What is offshoring?
Abandoned life jackets and backpacks from sea and land border crossings represent artifacts for this anthropological subfield.
What is the archaeology of migration?
"I think, therefore I am," the famous words of 17th-century thinker, Descartes, is the epitome of this way of thinking about the mind and body.
What is mind/body duality?
Dr. Parla described three impacts of Time-Space Compression as a feature of globalization, including this impact, as illustrated by the example of the blue checkmarks which mean a message has been read on WhatsApp.
What are changing norms?
This term refers to a collectively held illusion amongst a group of people, such as the boxers in Pugs at Work, which allows them to assess and ignore risks in order to continue doing a precarious or dangerous activity.
What is collusio?
Because of the gender myth that women are "better suited" for data input work, Freeman calls it this kind of work.
What is pink-collar?
Reasons such as political instability, poverty, lack of opportunities, natural disasters, climate change, and separated families are this kind of factor, which force people to emigrate.
What is a push factor?
In the era of the coronavirus, Hauser argues that this typical greeting is "dead," with other gestures, like the elbow bump or bowing stepping in to take its place.
What is the handshake?
Offshoring and Outsourcing are two examples of this feature of globalization as discussed by Dr. Parla.
What is flexible accumulation?
When Abu-Lughod describes the ways her gender, ethnicity, and other parts of her identity impact her ethnographic work in Veiled Sentiments, she is describing this important anthropological concept.
What is positionality?
When corporations shift part of their work to employees in other parts of the world, they are doing this.
What is outsourcing?
This is the name of the concept that migrants maintain active participation in social, economic, religious, and political spheres in both their countries of origin and their country of arrival.
What is transnationalism?
Wacquant argues that this type of capital is a fourth category in addition to Bourdieu's original categories of economic, social, and cultural capital.
What is bodily capital?
As opposed to assimilation, this concept refers to a mix of the global and the local, as exemplified in the many varieties of food served by McDonald's around the world.
What is glocalization?
This term describes an ethnographic situation where the anthropologist's interlocutors are as secure, powerful, or privileged as the anthropologist, if not more.
What is studying up?
This term can refer to a business or institution, but is more often used in ethnography to mean the capacity, condition, or state of acting or of exerting power.
What is agency?
Both problematic, definitions to oppose the terms refugee and migrants include the trope of victimization/humanitarianism for refugees and this trope for migrants.
What is criminalization/securitization?
Described by both Mauss and Wacquant, this term refers to something that is more than just a habit or custom of the body, includes acquired ability, and varies between individuals and among cultures.
What is habitus?
"The worldwide intensification of interactions and increased movement of money, people, goods and ideas within and across national borders" is a more neutral definition of this concept from anthropologist Kenneth Guest.
What is globalization?
Ralph analyzes how this is related to injury and constrains individual agency in the Eastwood neighborhood of Chicago.
What is structural violence?
Representing the largest source of income for many developing countries, this is the name for the part of migrants' earnings that are sent back to their home country in the form of cash or goods to support their families.
What are (migrant) remittances?
Despite claiming a zero-tolerance border policy, many countries do not routinely enforce laws in order to exploit cheap labor from migrants. Coutin argues that this word is more appropriate for describing the situation than deportation.
What is deportability?