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News from Sites Editorial Team: SITES senior student essay competition |
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| SITES: journal of social anthropology and cultural studies invites submissions for the annual senior student essay competition. Essays for consideration require submission by the deadline of 1 July, 2019. The winning essay will be announced on 16 August, 2019. |
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| Posted: 2019-04-29 |
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New issue available: SITES 15(2) now available |
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| This issue of SITES features the winning SITES Senior Student Essay Competition essay. In addition to two regular articles on Māori Jews' memories of 'home', and the liminality experienced by older folk transitioning into residential care, it also contains a Special Section edited by Chrystal Jaye, Ruth Fitzgerald and Molly George entitled Care, Cosmopolitanism and Anthropology. The issue is completed by a book review essay reviewing three books that speak to ethnographic frontiers. |
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| Posted: 2018-11-05 |
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New issue available: Sites 15(1) Special Issue now available |
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Ethnographic Frontiers: Pushing the Boundaries of Ethnography
This special issue focused on contemporary ethnographic engagements emerged from the fortieth ASAANZ annual conference at Massey University in 2015. Various ethnographic sensibilities are revealed here, extending across human-non-human contexts that offer opportunities to play with ethnographic form. |
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| Posted: 2018-08-23 |
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News from Sites Editorial Team: Winner of the 2018 Sites Senior Student Essay Competition |
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| The Sites Editorial Board is delighted to announce the winner of the 2018 Sites Senior Student Essay Competition. This year’s winner is Mika Young, a third year student majoring in Anthropology at the University of Otago. Her winning essay is entitled 'Tā Moko and the Cultural Politics of Appropriation'. This essay will be published in the 2018 December issue of Sites. |
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| Posted: 2018-08-16 |
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New issue available: Sites 14(2) now available |
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| Sites 14(2), published in December 2017, opens with the winning essay by Claire Black, winner of the Sites Graduate Student Essay Competition. This is followed by a dialogue on the theory and politics of cosmopolitanism between Nigel Rapport and Brigitte Lewis. This issue also features two other articles that attend to health technologies in the form of patient portals and health apps. Other contributors examine various aspects of identity politics – the perspectives of New Zealand expatriates living in London, and the film representation of a violent episode in New Caledonia’s history. Collective memory work is explored as a methodology with potential for anthropological research, and this issue also offers an examination of the various discourses of toilet training, death notices, and mountain biking. Several book reviews complete the issue. |
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| Posted: 2017-12-07 |
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