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Conceptual colour: race, economic knowledge, and the anthropology of financialization De la couleur comme concept : race, connaissances économiques et anthropologie de la financiarisation

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Economic anthropologists now carry out fieldwork in settings for which the ethnographic method was never designed, amongst powerful financial actors who are notoriously difficult to access, and in contexts which transcend geographical boundaries. This has engendered a re‐orientation of anthropology, to consider not only the economic lives of people but
Kimberly Chong
wiley   +1 more source

Correction: Child-mother relationships and childhood dietary patterns in the Iberian Peninsula uncovered by Bayesian isotopic approaches. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Toso A, Casimiro S, Oxborough C, Schifano S, García-Collado MI, Cardoso FA, Soares J, Valente MJ, Santos R, Filipe V, da Silva Gonçalves MJ, Neto N, Rebelo P, da Silva RB, de Castro Filipe AN, Alexander M.   +15 more
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The company you keep: becoming one(self) in an Indonesian convent En bonne compagnie : devenir (quelqu’)un dans un couvent indonésien Pergaulan dalam biara di Indonesia: sebuah proses pembentukan diri*

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article investigates companionate processes of self‐making in a religious community of Catholic nuns in eastern Indonesia. I argue that the sociality of the convent establishes a unique context for understanding the effects of one's company on processes of self‐becoming.
Meghan Rose Donnelly
wiley   +1 more source

Seabirds shaped the expansion of pre-Inca society in Peru. [PDF]

PLoS One
Bongers JL, Milton EBP, Osborn J, Drucker DG, Robinson JR, Scaffidi BK.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The birth of an earth being: ‘Rights of nature’ in Brazilian Amazonia and elsewhere Naissance d'un être de la terre : « droits de la nature » en Amazonie brésilienne et ailleurs

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In June 2023, the Laje River, located in the traditional territory of the Wari’ Indigenous people in Rondônia, Brazil, was declared a legal entity, an earth being, with rights, following the co‐ordinated action of an indigenous councillor and non‐indigenous activists.
Aparecida Vilaça
wiley   +1 more source

Boredom, despondency, and the scourge that lays waste at noon: an anthropology of acedia Ennui, abattement et le fléau qui frappe à midi : une anthropologie de l'acédie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Attentive to the ways that inertia can take hold of life, Catholic monks recognize despondency as a potential not only within the monastery, but in contemporary society more widely. Such experiences are regularly mapped onto an understanding of what early Christian monks termed ‘acedia’ (a Greek term that can be translated as ‘lack of care’). Taking as
Richard D.G. Irvine
wiley   +1 more source

Snakes and Ladders: A technological approach to tool maintenance byproducts using module flake categories. [PDF]

J Archaeol Method Theory
Nora D, Malinsky-Buller A, Gasparyan B, Petrosyan A, Frahm E.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 116-136, March 2025.
Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
wiley   +1 more source

Technological innovations and hafted technology in central China ~160,000-72,000 years ago. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Yue JP, Song GD, Yang SX, Kang SG, Li JY, Marwick B, Ollé A, Fernández-Marchena JL, Shu PX, Liu HY, Zhang YX, Huan FX, Zhao QP, Qiao BT, Shen ZS, Deng CL, Petraglia M.   +16 more
europepmc   +1 more source