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  • Books for review

    2024-09-04

    SJSCA - the Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology reviews recent publications that make important theoretical or empirical contributions to anthropology. We have a particular focus on publications originating in the Swiss academic context. Are you interested in writing a book review? Get in touch with one of our book review editors.

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  • Call for papers: "The double consciousness of quantification"

    2024-09-04

    The double consciousness of quantification. Ethnographic approaches to world representation with numbers

    How are the numbers that circulate and that we access in the contemporary world produced? How is the work of configuring algorithms needed to process Big Data or Machine Learning carried out ? What do we know about the “social life of standards” or about ethnic and discrimination statistics ? This special issue starts from the idea that practicing an anthropology of quantification and statistical sciences is necessary to enrich the understanding of both epistemological positions and political arguments about the contemporary world. In particular, we look at the “dirty work” of producing numbers and the technical, engineering and scientific practices associated with it.

    Proposals for articles (approx. 3000 characters) are due by 15 September 2024 and should be sent to e_bourel@yahoo.com and frederic.lemarcis@ens-lyon.fr.

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  • Books for Reviews

    2020-11-27

    SJSCA - the Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology reviews recent publications that make important theoretical or empirical contributions to anthropology. We have a particular focus on publications originating in the Swiss academic context. Are you interested in writing a book review? Get in touch with one of our book review editors.

    Read more about Books for Reviews