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... This chapter maps the vitality of kinship and its queer relations across four areas: property and personhood; social death / social life; natures/cultures ; and variability / relatedness otherwise. It demonstrates both how queer anthropology generates critical categories and methods...

..., it shows how language, on the one hand, makes us insensitive to certain sonic differences and variables by imposing selective hearing and focusing our attention on the message rather than the material of language. Yet, at the same time, language leaves a sonic remainder: the voice. The chapter then goes...

... intelligence, act as therapy, anaesthetize, or subliminally shape us. While sound remains a reservoir of symbolic powers, many of the supposed real effects of sounds have been overstated. Moreover, the partisans of these effects have failed to take into account the large number of variables (cultural...

... This chapter summarizes the main arguments of the book’s six chapters and outlines how these arguments translate into a politics of undersea networks. These include a call to diversify the limited range of cable narratives and cable routings; to develop content for variable levels...

... of the debate in order to outline an alternative approach. This includes taking technology to be a situated phenomenon that is embedded in variable practices and material institutions, making it a site of multiple agencies rather than a monolithic concept to be defined, situated, or judged once and for all...

... on Michel Foucault's work to engage with the variable force that has been attributed to habit in different discourses regulated by different authorities and put to use in different apparatuses of power. This prepares the way for a discussion of how habit operates differently in relation to the “politics...

... of Valentine’s Day in India, representations of Global India in a Hindi film, and interviews with a working-class Sikh American woman in the San Francisco Bay Area. Each of these nodes suggests how subjects, variably situated along axes of class, religion, and gender, participate in the construction of Global...

..., on the one hand, makes us insensitive to certain sonic differences and variables by imposing selective hearing and focusing our attention on the message rather than the material of language. Yet, at the same time, language leaves a sonic remainder: the voice. The chapter then goes on to consider how we...

... This chapter explains the persecution of women as witches and why, in some societies and times, women are primarily branded and persecuted as witches. The authors use three variables to explain witch hunts: Patriarchy, cultural beliefs, and structural changes within society. First, witch hunts...

... their claims. It shows that psychiatric discourses and social policies in different eras have variably constructed individual households or the state as paternalistic, positively and negatively, in resemblance and contrast to each other. In the mental health legislative debates, human rights activists...

... with precise pitch, and have overlooked or diminished the relevance of complex sounds, that is, those with nonperiodic frequency structures or variable pitch. Linguistic and cultural conventions further guide how we hear sounds as either noisy or noble. Acknowledging the constructive and constraining effect...

... The introduction sets up the history of anthropology’s comparative approach, initiated by Mauss and Weber. It argues against striving for unified theories, though, resisting the growing tendency to define science as a method of model making based on variables and quantitative samples...

... the variability of knowing into the political-juridical, transparent, or self-determining subject. The performative force of algorithms lies not in predicting behavior but rather in violently shaping behaviors while simultaneously becoming futures. How, then, to account for the enfolding of Man in technosocial...

... audiences about major issues of social, political, ethical, and medical concern through lyrics and performance styles that raise awareness through a combination of contemporary information and traditional modalities of expression. Race was the primary social variable examined and articulated in the social...

... of partnership in Tanzania points to the variable and sometimes surprising forms that 'para-statal' spaces can take across different contexts. Africa malaria research collaboration partnership private-public experiment nationalism ...