Annual Review of Anthropology
Vol. 20:311-343 (Volume publication date October 1991)
https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.an.20.100191.001523
Brian Larkin
Vol. 42, 2013
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
Minna Ruckenstein and Natasha Dow Schüll
Vol. 46, 2017
Over the past decade, data-intensive logics and practices have come to affect domains of contemporary life ranging from marketing and policy making to entertainment and education; at every turn, there is evidence of “datafication” or the conversion of ...Read More
Tejaswini Ganti
Vol. 43, 2014
Neoliberalism has been a popular concept within anthropological scholarship over the past decade; this very popularity has also elicited a fair share of criticism. This review examines current anthropological engagements with neoliberalism and explains ...Read More
Margaret W. Conkey and Joan M. Gero
Vol. 26, 1997
In the past decade, archaeologists have given considerable attention to research on gender in the human past. In this review, we attempt to acknowledge much of this diverse and abundant work from an explicitly feminist perspective. We focus on reviewing a ...Read More
Anne Meneley
Vol. 47, 2018
The article investigates how consumerism is perceived as an unremarkable part of quotidian existence, as a patriotic duty at various moments, as an indicator of social class, and as a means of semiotic self-fashioning. In consumerism, the tension between ...Read More
