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Managing death in exile

Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 1, June 2026.
Abstract Managing Death in Exile is a theatrical performance that draws on ethnographic research with long‐term asylum‐seekers from sub‐Saharan Africa in Hong Kong since 2012. The performance told the story of Denise (pseudonym), who had to manage the illness, funeral, cremation, and repatriation of ashes of her good friend, Rosie (pseudonym). Dying in
Sealing Cheng
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Le passage de la frontière

Ateliers d'Anthropologie, 2012
For three ethnic groups that practiced capture war (Aztecs, Iroquois and Tupinamba), the ritual that started with capture and continued beyond the execution served to assimilate the prisoner with his conqueror, the Other with the Self.
Claude François Baudez
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Held in a story: Relatability across plates and places

Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 1, June 2026.
Abstract This piece explores the power and ambivalence of storytelling through a dinner with Jemimah, a counseling psychologist and a trained educator with a keen interest in using storytelling as pedagogy in Northeast India. As the evening unfolds in her dining room, stories and memories are exchanged, revealing how relatability is not inherent but ...
Anna Notsu
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Fluctuations and remaining bonds: Challenging undynamic fetal personhood through women's experiences of early pregnancy endings in England

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Volume 40, Issue 2, June 2026.
Abstract Women's subjective relationship with their pregnancy is central in understanding fetal personhood, a relationship that is theirs to assemble and disassemble. A rigid perception of personhood as either present or absent is problematized, instead revealing an evolving approach.
Susie Kilshaw
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Anthropologist, heal thyself: Toward an anthropology of healing through relational interbeing

Feminist Anthropology, Volume 7, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract I call for an anthropology that confronts its own woundedness. Anthropologists often bear witness to suffering but rarely examine how our own grief, trauma, and institutional distress shape the affective tone of our work. Drawing on fieldwork with Runa (Quechua) women affected by forced sterilization in Peru and guided by my collaborator and ...
Lucía Isabel Stavig
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Collective grief, liminality, and redressive action in Black fans' embodied engagement with Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract Marvel's 2022 blockbuster film Black Panther: Wakanda Forever was marked by the death of lead actor Chadwick Boseman in 2020, resulting in the cinematic death of his character T'Challa. For US Black audiences, the imagined nation of Wakanda served as more than entertainment, but a diasporic “home” at a time of deepening anti‐Blackness and ...
Marissa Smith Morgan
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How to Decolonize Philosophy: Methodological Pathways in Latin America and Africa

RUDN Journal of Philosophy
The question of how to decolonize philosophy has moved from rhetorical consensus to methodological urgency. This study addresses the lack of operational procedures in decolonial thought by examining philosophical methods developed in Latin America and ...
Chadwin Harris, Agemir Bavaresco
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Urban socioeconomic, vegetation, and mosquito interactions in the United States: Current research and future directions

Ecosphere, Volume 17, Issue 3, March 2026.
Abstract With the introduction and adaptation of non‐native mosquitoes to cities, vector‐borne diseases are emerging concerns in the United States of America. A growing body of literature suggests that mosquito infestations and associated diseases are a greater burden in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas within the heterogeneous urban ecosystem ...
Sarah E. Rothman, Shannon L. LaDeau, Paul T. Leisnham   +2 more
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La représentation du Brésil et de ses habitants dans l’Europe de la fin du xvie siècle

Confins, 2010
At the end of the 16th century, the protestant engraver Theodor de Bry illustrated two travels to a part of America: Brazil. In this country, Europeans met a tribe who used to eat humans during a ritual ceremony. With the third part of the Grands Voyages,
Grégory Wallerick
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Haunted by Houses: Built and Lived Absences in a Transnational Mexican Community

Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT Globally, millions of migrants have sent money home to build a house. In early phases of migration, remittance houses are aspirational objects that materialize the continuous belonging of migrants to a community. In later stages, experiences of loss, estrangement, deportation, and death increasingly challenge these attachments.
Julia Pauli
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