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• Introduction
• "Open the Floodgates of Heaven": Amazonian Climate Change in Pre-Columbian Times
• The Milpa Cycle as a Sustainable Ecological Resource
• Confronting Climatic Instability in Coastal California Through the Lens of Archaeology and Historical Ecology
• Indigenous People Prevented Climate-Induced Ecological Change for Millennia: Evidence from the Prairie Peninsula and Fire-Loving Forests of Eastern North America
• Indigenous Land Use and Fire Resilience of Southwest USA Ponderosa Pine Forests
• Different Relational Models have Shaped the Biocultural Conservation over Time of Araucaria araucana Forests and Their People
• Ancient and Ongoing Land-Use as Climate Change Mitigation in Ts'msyen, Heiltsuk, and Wuikinuxv Homelands
• Clam Gardens Across Generations and Places Support Social-Ecological Resilience to Global Change
• Ancient Knowledge, Future Wisdom: Archaeological Perspectives of Caribbean Coastal Food and Habitat Security during Times of Climate Crises
• Whose Climate Change Is It? A Thousand-Year Example of Kali'na Responses to Shifting Coastal Landscapes in the Lower Maroni River
• Long-Term Ecological and Climate Changes through Amazonian Indigenous Oral Histories
• Owning Climate Change among the Makushi and Akawaio
• Postface.

"This book offers a comparative analysis of the experiences, responses, and adaptations of people to climate variability and environmental change across the Americas. It foregrounds historical ecology as a structural framework for understanding the climate change crisis throughout the region and throughout time. In recent years Indigenous and local populations in particular have experienced climate change effects such as altered weather patterns, seasonal irregularities, flooding and drought, and difficulties relating to subsistence practices. Understanding and dealing with these challenges has drawn on peoples' longstanding experience with climate variability and in some cases includes models of mitigation and responses that are millennia old. With contributions from specialists across the Americas, the volume will be of interest to scholars from fields including anthropology, archaeology, geography, environmental studies, and Indigenous studies"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• Problematising Violence
• Curriculum Studies, Genealogy, and the Power of Life and Death
• Regeneration Through Violence
• Bringing War Home
• The "Great Replacement": International Ethnonationalism
• Non-Violence and the Future of Democracy
• Affirmative Biopower, Truth, and the Prophetic
• Epilogue: The Return to the Self.

• Introduction : understanding xenophobia and nativism in the global South / Sabella Ogbobode Abidde, Michael R. Hall, and José de Arimatéia da Cruz
• Xenophobia and nativism in South Africa : exceptional phenomena or standard
• Africa-wide practices? / Ayabulela Dlakavu
• Colonial roots for contemporary xenophobic attitudes : Dominican hatred towards the Haitians / Antonio J. P Tortosa and Nairobi Rodríguez
• Citizenship, belonging and the "stupid federation" : the colonial roots of contemporary xenophobia and nativism in Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe / Sitinga Kachipande
• Aliens and strangers in West Africa States : interrogating the 1969/1983 Ghana-Nigeria post-colonial immigrants crises / Yemisi Olawale
• Global perspective on xenophobia : the African Experience, 2015-2019 / Vincent Chenzi
• When xenophobes turn their faces on foreigners : whom to blame? the government or the natives / Anslem W. Adunimay and Tinuade A. Ojo
• Factors influencing xenophobic attacks recurrences and their implications on South Africa's foreign policy / Eric B. Niyitunga
• Haitian migration, the Bahamas, and the wider Caribbean / Anne Ulentin
• Migration and xenophobia in Southern Africa : assessing the benefits of social inclusion in South Africa and Zimbabwe / Darlington Mutanda and Enock Ndawana
• Xenophobia and nativism against Haitian immigrants in Brazil and Chile / Angela Ju
• Othering our neighbors : examples of nativism and xenophobia in Calypso / Alison McLetchie
• Caribbean xenophobia and nativism / Raymond Ramcharitar
• Conclusion : xenophobia and nativism in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean / Sabella Ogbobode Abidde, Michael R. Hall, and José de Arimatéia da Cruz.

"This book historicises and analyses the increasing incidence of xenophobia and nativism in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. It examines how xenophobia and nativism impact the political cohesion and social fabric of states and societies in the regions and offers solutions to aid policy formation and implementation. Rather than utilising an overarching framework, individual theory is applied to chapters to analyse the diverse connections between xenophobia and nativism in the regions. The book explores the economic, nationalistic, political, social, cultural, and psychological triggers for xenophobia and nativism and their impact on an increasingly interconnected and interrelated world. In addition to the individual and comparative examination of these triggers, the book outlines how they can be decreased or altered and argues that Pan-Africanism and the unity of purpose among diverse groups in the western hemisphere is still an ideal to which Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean can aspire. This book will be of interest to academics in the field of African history, African Studies, Caribbean and Latin American studies, cultural anthropology and comparative sociology"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• ch. I. L'ethnie originelle des Mossi, Nawdba, Yowa et Tangba : de l'Afrique meridionale préhistorique aux antiques Éthiopie, Soudan et Égypte
• ch. II. L'ethnie originelle des Mossi, Nawdba, Yowa et Tangba, du Soudan oriental au Soudan occidental ou Afrique de l'Ouest (Nigeria, Niger, Burkina Faso, Bénin, Ghana, Togo)
• ch. III. Les Nawdba, de Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) à Niamtougou (Gnamrtougou), Baga (Baaga) et Siou (Soukou)
• ch. IV. Apports linguistiques à l'identification de l'ethnie originelle perdue des Mossi, Nawdba, Yowa et Tangba
• ch. V. Apports socio-culturels à l'identification de l'ethnie originelle perdue des Mossi, Nawdba, Yowa et Tangba
• ch. VI. Vestiges de l'administration traditionnelle et coloniale dans la gouvernance de l'ethnie originelle perdue des Mossi, Nawdba, Yowa et Tangba
• Conclusion.

"La recherche des origines de son ethnie, les Nawdba du Togo, a conduit l'auteur de cet ouvrage à la découverte d'autres groupes de même langue, de même culture et de même origine : une origine soudano-égyptienne. Disséminés en Afrique de l'Ouest, au Burkina Faso, au Bénin et au Ghana, Mossi, Nawdba, Yowa, Tangba et autres groupes non encore déterminés, sont issus, selon cet auteur, d'une même ethnie et sont originaires du Soudan Antique. Convaincu que l'histoire de chaque ethnie en Afrique dort dans la mémoire des prêtres animistes, des ethnomédecins et des notables initiés aux cultes ancestraux, cet ouvrage invite les africains 'à réveiller ces histoires' afin de 'connecter' l'Afrique d'aujourd'hui à celle d'hier."--Page 4 of cover.

• QE Theory and Methodology Research
• The Foundations and Fundamentals of Quantitative Ethnography
• LSTM Neural Network Assisted Regex Development for Qualitative Coding
• Does Active Learning Reduce Human Coding?: A Systematic Comparison of Neural Network with nCoder
• Reducing networks of ethnographic codes co-occurrence in anthropology
• Multiclass Rotations in Epistemic Network Analysis
• Is QE Just ENA?
• The Role of Data Simulation in Quantitative Ethnography
• Ordered Network Analysis
• Creating and Discussing Discourse Networks with Research Participants: What Can we Learn?
• Modeling Collaborative Discourse with ENA using a Probabilistic Function
• Segmentation and Code Co-occurrence Accumulation: Operationalizing Relational Context with Stanza Windows
• Parsing the Continuum: Manual Segmentation of Monologic Data
• Applications in Education Contexts
• An Examination of Student Loan Borrowers' Attitudes toward Debt before and during COVID-19
• Learning through feedback: Understanding early-career teachers' learning using online video platforms
• How Can We Co-Design Learning Analytics for Game-Based Assessment: ENA Analysis
• Automated Code Extraction from Discussion Board Text Dataset
• Mathematics Teachers' Knowledge for Teaching Proportion: Using Two Frameworks to Understand Knowledge in Action
• Self-Regulation in Foreign Language Students' Collaborative Discourse for Academic Writing: An Explorative Case Study on Epistemic Network Analysis
• Community At a Distance: Understanding Student Interactions in Course-Based Online Discussion Forums
• Modeling Students' Performances in Physics Assessment Tasks Using Epistemic Network Analysis
• Computational thinking in educational policy - the relationship between goals and practices
• Understanding Detectors for SMART Model Cognitive Operation in Mathematical Problem-Solving Process: An Epistemic Network Analysis
• Applications in Interdisciplinary Contexts
• Change the Museum: Examining social media posts on museum workplace experiences to support justice, equity, diversity and inclusion (JEDI) efforts
• Ukraine War Diaries: Examining lived experiences in Kyiv during the 2022 Russian invasion
• Political Discourse Modeling with Epistemic Network Analysis and Quantitative Ethnography: Rationale and Examples
• What makes a good answer? Analyzing the Content Structure of Stack Overflow Answers
• Analyzing the Co-design Process by Engineers and Product Designers from Perspectives of Knowledge Building
• Leveraging Epistemic Network Analysis to Discern the Development of Shared Understanding between Physicians and Nurses
• Quantitative Ethnography of Policy Ecosystems: A Case Study on Climate Change Adaptation Planning.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Advances in Quantitative Ethnography, ICQE 2022, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, during October 15-19, 2022. The 29 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 71 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: QE Theory and Methodology Research; Applications in Education Contexts; and Applications in Interdisciplinary Contexts.

• DNA ancestry testing: What it is and what people make of it
• Essentializing social groups: Nations
• From race to ethnicity in ancestry testing
• Genealogical and genetic ancestry
• Using DNA ancestry evidence to retrace history
• We are all Africans, ultimately
• More related than distinct
• Social constructs vs. "natural order"
• Separating DNA from culture
• Finding meaning in our ancestry testing

• DNA ancestry testing: What it is and what people make of it
• Essentializing social groups: Nations
• From race to ethnicity in ancestry testing
• Genealogical and genetic ancestry
• Using DNA ancestry evidence to retrace history
• We are all Africans, ultimately
• More related than distinct
• Social constructs vs. "natural order"
• Separating DNA from culture
• Finding meaning in our ancestry testing

"I begin the first chapter of the present book with definitions, because the concepts related to ancestry are often confused in the public discourse. Sometimes this is done because people do not pay attention to what exactly these concepts are about, and so use them interchangeably. For instance, when the majority of a people in a nation are also considered to be members of the same ethnic group, nationality and ethnicity can be easily confused. Other times, different concepts are intentionally used to refer to the same category. For instance, "White" is a category that is described as race in the US Census and as ethnicity in the UK census. Therefore, I have decided to define these concepts right from the start, in order to clarify their differences and also show how their improper use may lead to misunderstandings"-- Provided by publisher

"Mainstream philosophy of religion has persistently failed to engage seriously or critically with animist beliefs and practices. The field that is now called "philosophy of religion" could quite easily be renamed "philosophy of theism" with few lecturers on the subject having to change their lecture notes. It is the aim of this volume to rectify that failure and to present animism as a live option among the plethora of religious worldviews. The volume addresses four major questions: 1. What is this thing called "animism"? 2. Are there any arguments for or against animist belief and practice? 3. What is the relationship between animism, naturalism, and the sciences? And 4. Should we take animism seriously? Animism and Philosophy of Religion is intended to be the first authoritative scholarly volume on the issue of animism and its place in the philosophy of religion. Ambitiously, it aims to act as the cornerstone volume for future work on the subject and as a key text for courses engaging with the subject."-- Back cover

• Introduction : anthropology and responsibility / Melissa Demian, Mattia Fumanti and Christos Lynteris
• Edgy imaginaries : "ghost'"orangutans, extinction, and responsibility in a plantation landscape / Liana Chua
• The responsibility to consume : excessive 'environmentourism' against rhinoceros extinction in South Africa / Stasja Koot
• Responsibility versus responsibilization : from "mafiacraft" and "witchcraft" to conspiracy thinking today / Peter Geschiere
• In the wake of disenchantment : silence and the limits of ethnographic attentiveness / Yana Stainova
• The vulnerability vortex : health, exclusion, and social responsibility / David Napier and Anna-Maria Volkmann
• Keeping things under control : responsibilities towards things, homes, people in hoarding disorder / Rebecca Henderson and Laurin Baumgardt
• Racialized positionalities : ethnographic responsibility and the study of racism and white supremacy / Sofía Ugarte
• Of Calcutta, death and the South : juxtaposing three Calcuttas/Kolkatas / Debarun Sarkar
• The countess' diaries and taonga Māori : twenty-first century collaborations around nineteenth century collecting / Kirsty Kernohan
• Responsibility and complicity in the UK "hostile environment" / Joel White

"This book explores the role and implications of responsibility for anthropology, asking how responsibility is recognised and invoked in the world, what relations it draws upon, and how it comes to define notions of the person, institutional practices, ways of knowing and modes of evaluation. The category of responsibility has a long genealogy within the discipline of anthropology and it surfaces in contemporary debates as well as in anthropologists' collaboration with other disciplines, including when anthropology is applied in fields such as development, medicine, and humanitarian response. As a category that unsettles, challenges and critically engages with political, ethical and epistemological questions, responsibility is central to anthropological theory, ethnographic practice, collaborative research, and applied engagement. With chapters focused on a variety of cultural contexts, this volume considers how anthropology can contribute to a better understanding of responsibility, including the 'responsibility of anthropology' and the responsibility of anthropologists to specific others"-- Provided by publisher

• Foreword: Against the grain: medical anthropology in the Anthropocene / Paul Farmer
• Introduction: Arc of interference / João Biehl and Vincanne Adams
• Death by fire : the problem of moral certainty in China's Tibet / Vincanne Adams
• Bringing up the bodies : erasing and caring for Mexicans in the Mexico-US Borderlands / Davíd Carrasco
• In the vast abrupt : horizon work in an age of runaway climate change / Adriana Petryna
• Justifying a lower standard of health care for the world's poor : a call for decolonizing global health / Salmaan Keshavjee
• The moral economies of heart disease and cardiac care in India / David S. Jones
• Intimate and social spheres of mental illness / Janis H. Jenkins
• A good death : the promise and threat of biometric inclusion for transgender women in India / Lawrence Cohen
• Medical cosmopolitanism in moral worlds : aspirations and stratifications in global quests for conception / Marcia C. Inhorn
• Environments and mutable selves / Margaret Lock
• Anthropology in a mode of dying / Robert Desjarlais
• Ethnographic open / João Biehl
• Thinking on borrowed time . . . about privileging the human / Jean Comaroff
• Afterword: Lessons learned from the ethnography of care / Arthur Kleinman

"The radically humanistic essays of Arc of Interference refigure our sense of the real, the ethical, and the political in the face of mounting social and planetary upheavals. Creatively assembled around Arthur Kleinman's medical anthropological arc and eschewing hegemonic modes of intervention, they advance the notion of a care-ful ethnographic praxis of interference. To interfere is to dislodge ideals of naturalness, blast enduring binaries (human-nonhuman, self-other, us-them), and redirect technocratic agendas while summoning relational knowledge and the will to create community. The book's multiple ethnographic arcs of interference provide a vital conceptual toolkit for today's world and a badly needed moral perch to peer toward just horizons. Contributors. Vincanne Adams, João Biehl, Davíd Carrasco, Lawrence Cohen, Jean Comaroff, Robert Desjarlais, Paul Farmer, Marcia Inhorn, Janis H. Jenkins, David S. Jones, Salmaan Keshavjee, Arthur Kleinman, Margaret Lock, Adriana Petryna"-- Provided by publisher

• Money is to the West, what kinship is to the rest
• Aspects of kinship in Iranian prehistory
• Problems in the study of Elamite kinship
• Descent and marriage in Achaemenid Iran
• Feudalism and its characteristics in ancient Iran
• Afterword.

"Originally delivered as the Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lectures, Aspects of Kinship in Ancient Iran is an exploration of kinship in the archaeological and historical record of Iran's most ancient civilizations. D. T. Potts brings together history, archaeology, and social anthropology to provide an overview of what we can know about the kith and kinship ties in Iran, from prehistory to Elamite, Achaemenid, and Sasanian times. In so doing, he sheds light on the rich body of evidence that exists for kin relations in Iran, which has too often been ignored in the study of the ancient world"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction : aspiring in later life : movements across time, space, and generations / Megha Amrith, Victoria K. Sakti, and Dora Sampaio
• Growing old hand in hand : aspirations of romantic love in later life among Romanian transmigrants in Rome / Dumitrița Luncă
• Letting go and looking ahead : the aspirations of middle-aged migrant domestic workers in Singapore and Hong Kong / Megha Amrith
• Aspirational movements : later life mobility as a female resource to age well / Lisa Johnson
• Aspiring to retire : intergenerational care in a Ghanaian transnational family / Cati Coe
• Between aging parents there and young children here : the aspirations of late-middle-aged Peruvian migrants in Santiago as a transnational sandwich generation / Alfonso Otaegui
• Whose aspirations? Intergenerational expectations and hopes in eastern Uganda / Susan Reynolds Whyte
• Before it ends : aging, gender, and migration in a transnational Mexican community / Julia Pauli
• Disrupted futures : the shifting aspirations of older Cameroonians living in displacement / Nele Wolter
• "Setting off from the mountain pass:" facing death and preparing for the journey ahead in Tibetan exile / Harmandeep Kaur Gill.

"In our highly interconnected and globalized world, people often pursue their aspirations in multiple places. Yet in public and scholarly debates, aspirations are often seen as the realm of younger, mobile generations, since they are assumed to hold the greatest potential for shaping the future. This volume flips this perspective on its head by exploring how aspirations are constructed from the vantage point of later life, and shows how they are pursued across time, space, and generations. The aspirations of older people are diverse, and relate not only to aging itself but also to planning the next generation's future, preparing an "ideal" retirement, searching for intimacy and self-realization, and confronting death and afterlives. Aspiring in Later Life brings together rich ethnographic cases from different regions of the world, offering original insights into how aspirations shift over the course of life and how they are pursued in contexts of translocal mobility"-- Provided by publisher.

• Pt. 1. De la terre au ciel
• Phylogénie funéraire
• La langue des oiseaux
• Permanence et transmission des traditions
• Évolution des traditions
• Diffusion et migration
• Orchestration du "chant" des possibles
• À la recherche d'une mythostructure
• Conclusion partielle
• L'arbre de la mort
• Qu'est-ce qu'un arbre phylogénétique ?
• La méthode fonctionne-t-elle sur des récits manuscrits ou des textes oraux ?
• Des arbres et des mythes
• Construire un arbre
• Esprits critiques
• Reconstruire le passé
• Conclusion partielle
• Interlude 1. L'aube des chiens
• Entre chien et loup
• Des mythes avec un caractère de chien
• Des aboiements au pied des arbres
• Des proto-motifs qui ont du chien
• Pt. 2. De l'origine de la mort
• Polyphonie des temps passés
• L'immortalité de certaines créatures
• Les motifs des êtres qui muent et la mort
• La mort comme accident
• Répondre à l'appel
• Libérer l'humanité de la mort
• Le retour contrarié des morts
• La régénérescence contrariée
• Comparaison se fait raison
• Un végétal fatal
• La personnification de la mort
• Conclusion
• Symphonie des temps présents
• L'histoire d'un serpent et d'un arbre
• La force du mythe en science
• Interlude 2. Canis funerarius
• Toujours sur le métier remettons notre ouvrage
• Archéologique
• Pt. 3. Ce qui vient après
• Le royaume des morts
• Quand les morts viennent à la rencontre des vivants
• Quand les vivants vont chercher les morts : Orphée
• L'invitation au voyage
• Le champ lexical du voyage
• Sur la route des étoiles
• La Voie lactée, un fleuve constellé ?
• La Voie lactée comme route des morts
• Naviguer jusqu'au pays des morts
• Le chant du poète
• Ailleurs en poésie
• Le chemin de Saint-Jacques
• Conclusion : une certaine idée de l'Au-delà
• Interlude 3. La course céleste du chien
• Une étoile canine
• Sur les pas d'Orion
• Pt. 4. L'éternel retour
• Et si le Soleil ne revenait pas ?
• L'herbivore héliophore
• Le Soleil chassé, ou la phylomythologie en pleine lumière
• Quand le Soleil a rendez-vous avec la Lune
• D'autres Soleils et d'autres Lunes
• La preuve par la consilience
• Interlude 4. Domysthication
• L'appel du loup
• Le mouton
• Ce que nous apprend la mythologie comparée
• À l'origine était le mythe
• Conclusion
• Des résultats de la phylomythologie..
• Penser le monde tel qu'il est
• Le mythe : un outil pour surmonter sa peine
• Des récits faits pour être retenus
• "Mort, où est ta victoire ?".

"On sait bien peu de choses sur la façon dont nos ancêtres préhistoriques concevaient la mort. Le faible nombre de sépultures paléolithiques attestées, la difficulté à interpréter les vestiges exhumés ou à attribuer l'enterrement et le traitement réservé aux corps à des rituels funéraires ne permettent guère d'en inférer des représentations. Pourtant, les humains qui nous ont précédés devaient avoir des croyances à propos de l'Au-delà. Leur refuser de s'être interrogés sur cette perspective, au même titre que nous le faisons, reviendrait à oublier notre appartenance commune à une même espèce. Mais comment combler les lacunes de l'archéologie ? Après Cosmogonies, qui avait démontré la robustesse des méthodes phylomythologiques pour reconstituer les mythes du passé en retraçant la généalogie de ceux qui nous sont connus, Julien d'Huy s'attelle ici à répondre à des questions fondamentales : à quoi les premiers Homo sapiens attribuaient-ils leur finitude ? Dans leur esprit, l'humanité était-elle mortelle dès l'origine et, sinon, comment l'est-elle devenue ? Sous quelles formes se figuraient-ils leur dernière demeure et le chemin qui y menait ? Croyaient-ils en une vie après la mort et à la possibilité de revenir de l'autre monde ? Comment envisageaient-ils les relations entre les morts et les vivants ? C'est dans ce voyage fascinant, véritable archéologie de la psyché, que nous entraîne l'auteur, en montrant la force avec laquelle certains mythes hérités de nos lointains devanciers continuent de nous influencer dans l'art, la philosophie, la religion, voire la science, sécrétant toujours un puissant imaginaire autour de notre questionnement ultime."--Page 4 of cover.

• 1. Itinerant circumcisers
• 2.Fenni sünnetçi
• 3. Mass circumcision
• 4. Fear of circumcision
• 5. "Deceitful child"and "Bad parents"
• 6. Conclusion - The ethics and politics of male circumcision

• 1. Itinerant circumcisers
• 2.Fenni sünnetçi
• 3. Mass circumcision
• 4. Fear of circumcision
• 5. "Deceitful child"and "Bad parents"
• 6. Conclusion - The ethics and politics of male circumcision

An investigation of how the expansion of modern medicine in Turkey transformed young boys' experiences of circumcision. In Turkey, circumcision is viewed as both a religious obligation and a rite of passage for young boys, as communities celebrate the ritual through gatherings, gifts, and special outfits. Yet the procedure is a potentially painful and traumatic ordeal. With the expansion of modern medicine, the social position of sünnetçi (male circumcisers) became subject to the institutional arrangements of Turkey's evolving health care and welfare system. In the transition from traditional itinerant circumcisers to low-ranking health officers in the 1960s and hospital doctors in the 1990s, the medicalization of male circumcision has become entangled with state formation, market fetishism, and class inequalities. Based on Oyman Başaran's extensive ethnographic and historical research, Circumcision and Medicine in Modern Turkey is a close examination of the socioreligious practice of circumcision in twenty-five cities and their outlying towns and villages in Turkey. By analyzing the changing subjectivity of medical actors who seek to alleviate suffering in male circumcision, Başaran offers a psychoanalytically informed alternate approach to the standard sociological arguments surrounding medicalization and male circumcision