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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.
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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
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‘Anthropological mutilation’ and the reordering of Cameroonian literature
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
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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
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Anthropology and Philosophy: Creating a Workspace for Collaboration [PDF]
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.
Review of: Kapila, Kriti. 2022. Nullius: The Anthropology of Ownership, Sovereignty, and the Law in India.
del Nido, Juan M.
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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
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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
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Textual Anthropology and the ‘Imagined Community’
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
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An osteohistological analysis of Triceratops (Ornithischia: Ceratopsidae) cranial ornamentation
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
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