Abstract Sub-Saharan Africa is experiencing a growth in the number of children who need
formal alternative care. One of the principal factors contributing to this is orphanhood. While …

Linguistic anthropologists have shown that the way a person reports speech or represents
discourse—for example, whether they 'put on an accent'or merely repeat attributed words …

In the face of settler colonial expansion, contemporary environmental change, and
contradictory revitalization practices, language activists in Napo, Ecuador are increasingly …

On the surface, population statistics can seem like straightforward descriptions. Birth rates,
for example, seem to represent phenomena—swells and ebbs in populations—that would …

Throw Your Voice is a story of loss and recovery. It relates how children placed in a
temporary care institution make sense of their situations. Moving between a Kazakhstan …

This article analyzes the aging of a figure of labor: the male Korean office manager. In
contrast to its normative heyday in late 20th century East Asia, the figure of the older …

This article introduces puppet animation as a process of dicentization, in which the puppet's
resemblance to a living creature is treated as if it resulted from the object being alive. This …

This article explores how the affordances of pictorial representations of sign language forms
(as enacted by illustrated signers) impact institutional processes of enskillment to sign …

In 2010s Britain, expectations for parents living on low incomes to pursue aspirations for
their children's upward social mobility converged with a concentration of forcible child …

The study presents an in-depth investigation of one focus family—mother, father, one
biological child and twins (adopted children)—within an experimental Kitezh Children's …