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Clowns in Anthropology

open access: yesSuomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society, 2008
Clowns are exhilarating and disturbing, funny and frightening. They are ambiguous and confusing, yet capable of skilled disarranging and rearranging of our meaningful contexts. They can be found in rituals and courts as well as theaters and the circus. The clown is related to the trickster, who exists in stories and myths.
openaire   +2 more sources

Origin, evolution and biogeographic dynamics of the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) in Southwestern Europe

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The Pleistocene is a key period for understanding the evolutionary history and palaeobiogeography of the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus). The species was first documented in southeastern Iberia at the beginning of the Middle Pleistocene and appears to have rapidly spread throughout Southwestern Europe, where it was found in numerous ...
Maxime Pelletier
wiley   +1 more source

‘Anthropological mutilation’ and the reordering of Cameroonian literature

open access: yesTydskrif vir letterkunde, 2016
I argue in this article that the postcolonial existential wound, otherwise referred to by Eboussi Boulaga as the anthropological mutilation, represents the intertextual nexus that bridges the generational gap in Francophone Cameroonian literature. The tragic malaise, rooted in absurdity and the dire state of the postcolonial condition, echoes anxieties
openaire   +5 more sources

New techniques for old bones: Morphometric and diffeomorphometric analysis of the bony labyrinth of the Reilingen and Ehringsdorf Neandertals

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Neandertals are known to possess very distinctive traits in their bony labyrinth morphology, such as an inferiorly positioned posterior canal and a very low number of turns in the cochlea. Hence, the inner ear has been often used to assess the Neandertal status of fragmentary fossils.
Alessandro Urciuoli   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Anthropology and Philosophy: Creating a Workspace for Collaboration [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Review of Anthropology & Philosophy: Dialogues on Trust and Hope Sune Liisberg, Esther Oluffa Pederson, and Anne Line Dalsgard (editors)
Kloth, Christopher
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Kapila, Kriti. 2022. Nullius: The Anthropology of Ownership, Sovereignty, and the Law in India.

open access: yes, 2023
Review of: Kapila, Kriti. 2022. Nullius: The Anthropology of Ownership, Sovereignty, and the Law in India.
del Nido, Juan M.
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Una passeggiata letteraria lungo le strade dell’Appennino. Con un racconto inedito di Marco Santagata

open access: yesDNA Di Nulla Academia
This contribution proposes a critical reading of some prose works of twentieth-century Italian literature set in the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines. In the logic of linking the stories and novels to the territory, in a historical, cultural and sociological ...
Alberto Di Franco
doaj   +1 more source

Multi‐method analysis for the three‐dimensional reconstruction of muscle fascicles from DiceCT datasets

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Muscle architecture is a major determinant of muscle performance and, in mammalian lineages, has been correlated with both feeding ecology and locomotor behaviors. Over the past decade, contrast‐enhanced micro‐CT (DiceCT) has emerged as an alternative to traditional dissection‐based measurement.
Aleksandra Ratkiewicz   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Textual Anthropology and the ‘Imagined Community’

open access: yesABEI Journal, 2003
This paper enquires into ‘textual anthropology’ as a new way of reading Irish texts. It has been prompted by two papers given in Sydney last October by Antony Tatlow, Professor of Comparative Literature at TCD, and a passage from the Introduction to ...
Peter Kuch
doaj   +1 more source

An osteohistological analysis of Triceratops (Ornithischia: Ceratopsidae) cranial ornamentation

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Ceratopsids are among the most distinctive and well known extinct Cretaceous vertebrates, yet many details regarding the growth and composition of their cranial features are still not fully anatomically described or understood. In particular, striking cranial adornments such as the postorbital horns and parietal‐squamosal frill of Triceratops ...
Kyle D. Obuszewski   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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