JASOonline 2016-

Essays and Personal Reflections of Oxford Medical Anthropology Master's Studemts Carlota Solà Marsiñach, Cathryn Klusmeier, Derek Soled, Emma Anderson, Leah Schwartz, Maie Khalil, Mason Alford, Noëlle Rohde, Sarah Grace Black

With an Abridged Version of Frederick Damon's (2003) Article 'What Good are Elections? An Anthropological Analysis of American Elections'

Edited by Elisabeth Hsu and Paola Esposito

CONTENTS

Elisabeth Hsu and Paola Esposito, Anthropology Matters: Introduction, 194-198

Frederick H. Damon, What Good Are Elections? An Anthropological Analysis of American Elections, 199-214

Maie Khalil, Personal Reflection: On Relationality and Illness Narratives in Times of Crisis, 215-218

• Cathryn Klusmeier, Essay 1. Interlaced Illness Narratives, 219-225
• Derek Soled, Essay 2. Illness Narrative as a Lens into Societal Understanding, 226-232

Derek Soled, Personal Reflection: Metrics, Memories, and Relational Thinking, 233-234

• Leah Schwartz, Essay 3. RCTs and Relational Efficacy, 235-242

Mason Alford and Carlota Solà Marsiñach, Personal Reflection. From Pills to Presidents: Understanding Efficacy from an Anthropological Perspective, 243

• Mason Alford, Essay 4. What kinds of efficacies evade Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs)? 244-250

Emma Anderson and Sarah Grace Black, Personal Reflection: Finding a World of ‘Us’ Through Chronic Pain and Fear, 251-252

• Noëlle Rohde, Essay 5. What insights about the body can be gained through anthropological approaches to pain? 253-258
• Sarah Grace Black, Essay 6. Anthropological approaches to pain demonstrate how the body uses creativity, imagination and language to reformulate the sense of self and to create social connections, 259-264

Cathryn Klusmeier and Leah Schwartz, Personal Reflection: What is the Role of Anthropology in Crisis? 265-266

Paola Esposito and Elisabeth Hsu, Outlook: Anthropology Matters, 267-272

Book reviews, 273-291

Nancy Hawker, Kinga Kozminska and Leonie Schulte, Language, indexicality  and belonging: introduction, 1-7

Britta Schneider, Kaleidoscopes of indexicality: multiplex symbolic functions  of language and unfocused social categories, 8-24 

Dionysios Zoumpalidis, Changing attitudes: reconsidering the role of Turkish  in the community of Pontic Greeks in Cyprus, 25-42

Chelsie Yount-André, Indexing integration: hierarchies of belonging in secular Paris, 43-64

Meghanne Barker, Belonging and belongings: kinship narratives and material anchors at a second home in Kazakhstan, 65-82

Jolien Makkinga, Belonging to the old and unsuccessfully aged: language  practices in a home in Maastricht, The Netherlands, 83-101

Abbie Hantgan, Choices in language accommodation at the crossroads: convergence, divergence, and mixing, 102-118

Rebecca Wood, The power of language: indexicality and the sociocultural Environment, 119-133

Michael Silverstein, Standards, styles, and signs of the social self, 134-164

Book reviews, 165-191

Hunter Snyder, Casting and hauling in Nuup Kangalua, Greenland: sensory ethnography for a study of Inuit livelihoods and the body, 285-329

Ann Wand, 'Separate but equal', segregated or stymied? Second language learning issues in South Tyrol, 330-347 

Amier Saidula, Landscapes of spirituality: the topography of Ismaili sacred sites in Xinjiang, China, 348-370

Wei Mei Wong, Past matchmaking norms and their influence on contemporary marriage markets in China, 371-383

Sara Benceković, 'Tell me how you move, and I will tell you where you are from': the EU management of migration as an instrument of othering refugees and re-constituting the meaning of 'Europeanness', 384-451

Riccardo Jaede, Shahana Munazir and Mohammad Talib, Kinship through the parallel lines: probing the social and biological divide, 452-473

Book reviews, 474-493