To learn about pediatric vaccine decision-making, we surveyed and interviewed US parents with at least one child kindergarten age or younger (N = 53). Through an anthropologically informed content analysis, we found that fully vaccinating parents (n = 33) mostly saw vaccination as routine. In contrast, selective and nonvaccinating parents (n = 20) exhibited the type of self-informed engagement that the health care system recommends. Selective vaccinators also expressed multiple, sometimes contradictory positions on vaccination that were keyed to individual children's biologies, child size, environmental hazards, specific diseases, and discrete vaccines. Rather than logical progressions, viewpoints were presented as assembled collections, reflecting contemporary information filtering and curation practices and the prevalence of collectively experienced and constructed digital "hive" narratives. Findings confirm the need for a noncategorical approach to intervention that accommodates the fluid, polyvalent nature of vaccine reasoning and the curatorial view selectively vaccinating parents take toward information while honoring their efforts at engaged healthcare consumption.

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In 2018 the Anthropology Museum at California State University San Bernardino (USA) opened an exhibition entitled In|Dignity. The collaborative endeavour combined social science techniques, documentary photography, and theatre performances to present first person narratives of 43 community members. Participants represented marginalized demographics and intersectional identities that extended far beyond standardized approaches to ‘diversity’. Their stories provided an intimate look into experiences of discrimination, microaggressions, harassment, exclusion, and other affronts to self-worth and barriers to community belonging. This article argues that connecting individuals through telling and listening to stories is a valid strategy to promote social justice. In|Dignity provides one case study of a museum using the narrative form and the processes of exhibition development to disrupt power hierarchies, uplift community concerns, and promote human dignity.

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Let's start with the contested term "Anthropocene": contested because of its association with overzealous rewilding schemes, deprioritizing of intact ecosystems, potentially enabling the use of "degraded" environments, and creating public pessimism. Or not-let's just explore 294 pages of catastrophes in primate conservation.The editors clearly want to ensure the continued existence of the species that they study by moving from a focus on behavioral ecology to multidisciplinary teams working at the human/nonhuman interface (using Fuentes's constructs of humans and primates as "co-resident in ecological and social landscapes"). This is a passionate perspective, but do we have an either/or problem of "threats vs. theory"? Malone (chapter 2) discusses the "dynamics of shared human-gibbon spaces." While I'd be the first to recognize that "sharing space" is necessary for creating coexistence, when humans build places of worship, log, and extract honey, this is commercialization, not sharing. As Fernandez shows for the endemic Tanzanian Sanje mangabey (chapter 3), understanding the factors influencing female mangabey reproductive success contributes to long-term population viability. Even here, however, economic arguments (primates as a long-term commoditized resource) come into play. Can one separate capitalism from conservation? The ecotourism arguments now appear to be hollow: it has long been challenged for a lack of environmental sustainability and vulnerablity to terrorist threats, civil wars, or diseases such as MERS and Ebola before COVID-19 ended tourism. And surely the editors should have caught the use of the term "human-wildlife conflict." Conflict is what happens between humans, not between baboons, elephants, and farmers. The animals are merely foragers on something new in their habitats. We would do far better calling these conservation conflicts between the Tanzanian National Parks Authority and people around Udzungwa Mountains