General Stress in Anthropological Fieldwork

Dangerous Liaisons: Risk, Positionality and Power in Women’s Anthropological Fieldwork

Introduction That social realities are constructed through, and mediated by, interpersonal relationships is a truism for most anthropologists. Yet when it comes to assessing the realities of risk and danger in our own fieldwork, we are less adept at applying this basic premise to the world we inhabit. In the preparation of new fieldworkers, most anthropology schools treat fieldwork risk as exte...

Farm Work and Fieldwork: American Agriculture in Anthropological Perspective

Assessment of Stress in General Dentists in Tehran City

Objectives: This study sought to assess the level of stress in general dentists in the 2nd district of Tehran city in 2014 to find out the stressors and suggest strategies to overcome them. Methods: This descriptive, analytical, cross-sectional study was conducted on 130 general dentists from the 2nd district of Tehran city selected via weighted randomization. Level of stress was assessed us...

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Urban Violence: An Anthropological Study

The study aimed to understand how "distress" is experienced by patients with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in the social-cultural context of São Paulo, Brazil, an urban environment marked by social inequality and high levels of violence. A qualitative study was conducted between 2008 and 2010 with PTSD patients (F43.1, ICD-10, 1997) who had been victims of robberies and kidnappings in S...

Virtual Fieldwork

The morphological properties of genealogical and marriage alliance networks constitute a key to the understanding of matrimonial behavior and social norms, in particular where these norms have not been explicitly formalized. Their analysis, however, faces a major difficulty: the actual datasets which allow researchers to reconstruct kinship and alliance networks are generally subject to a marke...