Beyond market share: Accounting for doctoral program size in recent rates of anthropology faculty job placement.

Job placement trends in higher education at US institutions are bleak. Within anthropology and other social science disciplines this problem appears to be particularly pronounced. Recent studies focusing on placement in Anthropology using market share analysis have suggested that specific doctoral programs offer a greater chance of placing their graduates in faculty positions. Here we expand on that work, looking beyond market share to the number of graduates placed in positions relative to the total number of program graduates. Our results suggest that while large programs do indeed command the majority of tenure track placements by market share, much of this may be a product of the high numbers of graduates from these programs. Smaller programs can be proportionally as successful at placing their students in tenure track positions. The majority of PhDs in anthropology should anticipate gaining employment outside of a tenure track position. Training students for positions in private industry, government, and other non-faculty opportunities is essential.

Weave another Basket of Knowledge? A remote collaborative research on the covid-19 pandemic / Tecer outro Cesto de Conhecimentos? Pesquisa colaborativa e remota na pandemia de covid-19

Resumo A partir da experiência do projeto Respostas Indígenas à COVID-19 no Brasil: arranjos sociais e saúde global (PARI-c), na região do Alto Rio Negro (AM), buscamos refletir neste artigo sobre as possibilidades e implicações da produção colaborativa de conhecimento com pesquisadoras indígenas, levando em consideração a emergência sanitária, as imobilidades territoriais, as desigualdades sociais e as diferenças epistemológicas e de políticas ontológicas. A partir da ideia de Cestos de conhecimento, pensamos as formas e possibilidades dessa colaboração, à luz de discussões contemporâneas sobre processos de "descolonização" da saúde pública (global, planetária) e do conhecimento em saúde. A base empírica para este artigo é uma descrição da experiência metodológica, de produção de conhecimento, focada em duas faces: o campo e a escrita. Esse material nos permite tecer algumas considerações em torno da relevância e do sentido de formas de geração de "saberes híbridos", para lidar com contextos de crises globais ou sindemias. Estas formas, como veremos, atravessam o realinhamento das alianças e têm na escrita de mulheres um lugar especial de atenção.

Abstract From the experience of the project Indigenous Responses to COVID-19 in Brazil: social arrangements and global health (PARI-c), in the region of Alto Rio Negro (AM), we seek to reflect in this article on the possibilities and implications of collaborative knowledge production with indigenous researchers, taking into account the health emergency, territorial immobilities, social inequalities, and epistemological and ontological policy differences. From the idea of Baskets of knowledge, we think about the forms and possibilities of this collaboration, in the light of contemporary discussions on processes of "decolonization" of public health (global, planetary) and health knowledge. The empirical basis for this article is a description of the methodological experience of knowledge production, focused on two aspects: the field and writing. This material allows us to make some considerations around the relevance and meaning of ways of generating "hybrid knowledge", to deal with contexts of global crises or syndemics. These ways, as we shall see, cross the realignment of alliances and find a special focal point on women's writing.

Thinking global health from the perspective of anthropology.

COVID-19 has brought about political, economic, cultural, and interspecies problems far from medical areas, which challenges academia to rethink global health. For holism principle, anthropology offers valuable insights into these health issues, including the political economy of inequality, cultural diversity, and cultural adaptations, as well as the study of multispecies ethnography. These perspectives indicate that unequal political and economic systems contribute to health problems when people acknowledge disease and illness mechanisms. Moreover, cultural diversity and cultural adaptation are essential for providing appropriate medical solutions. Lastly, as a research method of studying interspecies relationships, multispecies ethnography promotes one health and planetary health from the ultimate perspective of holism. In conclusion, global health is not only a bio-medical concept but also involves political economy, culture, and multispecies factors, for which anthropology proffers inspiring theories and methods.