Matthew Engelke (ed.), 2009, The Objects of Evidence. Anthropological approaches to the production of knowledge
Journal Title: Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology - Year 2011, Vol 2, Issue 2
Abstract
Authors and Affiliations
Simona Ciotlăuș
More than addiction: Examining the role of anonymity, endless narrative, and socialization in prolonged gaming and instant messaging practices
This ethnographic study explores a user’s prolonged engagement within virtual gaming communities. Likening prolonged engagement with addiction, this research provides an alternative perspective into virtual addiction fo...
Vaccines: saving lives or depopulating the world? A discourse analysis
In the present paper, we have analyzed the discourse of four pro and anti-vaccine Facebook pages, in order to understand how the discourse of each party is constructed and to observe the main similarities and differences...
From pathological to professional: gambling stories
Theories on gambling are as disparate as they are diverse. While on the one hand gambling is condemned as being pathological, a curable addiction, on the other it is regarded as merely leisure. While playing on the exter...
¿Mi cuerpo? ¡Mi vida! Voicing Latin American transgenders in Antwerp’s sex industry
Prostitution is a well-known universal social phenomenon, from anywhere and at all times, that attracts many migrants. Yet sex work is clearly not evenly integrated into society. After all, there are still existing domin...
No crumb shall be left behind. Perceptions of food waste across generations
This paper aims to explore whether there are age-specific differences in perceptions about food waste in two groups of women living in Bucharest (born in/after 1989 vs mature in 1989), as well as the extent to which such...