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ANTHROPOLOGY AND HERITAGE IN THE MULTICULTURAL CONTEXT

Jangwa Pana, 2014
This reflection is focused on the role of anthropology in the issue of cultural heritage and cultural policies and their relation with the local identities in the Colombian multicultural context, highlighting the archaeological heritage and the museums ...
Angélica Núñez
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Comment by Sarah Green

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Abstract Comment on ‘On the problem of continuity: a theory of culture beyond invention’ by Paolo Heywood and Thomas ...
Sarah Green
wiley   +1 more source

Comment by Joel Robbins

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Abstract Comment on ‘On the problem of continuity: a theory of culture beyond invention’ by Paolo Heywood and Thomas ...
Joel Robbins
wiley   +1 more source

Serendipitous ritualization: dynamics of lay connectivity in Chinese Buddhist temples and beyond Ritualisation fortuite : dynamique de la connectivité des laïques dans les temples bouddhistes chinois et au‐delà

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article contributes to rethinking the dichotomy between informal sociality and ritual formality by examining the occasional ritual encounters surrounding spirit‐tablet inscription in Chinese Buddhist temples. Rather than viewing rituals as enactments of established orders, it presents ritual engagement as a contingent process of relational ...
Yang Shen
wiley   +1 more source

µCT scanning effects on aDNA and a multi-step workflow for archaeological petrous portions. [PDF]

PLoS One
Menéndez LP, Luisi P, López-Sosa MC, Da Silva SM, Buck LT, Kuzminsky SC, Sánchez MQ, Le Maître A, Chappard C, Rios C, Groh H, Siles W, Hernández GM, Becerra-Valdivia L, Argüelles JM, Yáñez B, de la Fuente Castro C, Tamburrini C, Garcia-Deister V, Contreras-Sieck MA, Pasqualini S, Novellino P, Acosta Morano C, Guevara D, Mansegosa D, Chiavazza H, Giannotti S, Tissera L, Pastor S, Díaz I, Grimoldi MS, Silva-Pinto V, Solari A, Pessis AM, Barberena R, Rascovan N.   +35 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Amidst (waste) abundance: world‐making and struggles in hosting a municipal landfill in the Bolivian lowlands Au milieu de l'abondance (de déchets) : fabrication du monde et luttes liées à la gestion d'une décharge municipale dans les basses terres de Bolivie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In recent decades, solid waste has proliferated worldwide, becoming a pressing global issue. This article explores the role of Indigenous people dwelling within and upon emerging waste scenarios, with a specific focus on involved forms of sociality and ontological contestation. Drawing on the case of a municipal landfill sited on a Guarani community in
Vanesa Martín Galán
wiley   +1 more source

Rapid adoption of bow technology across western North America ∼1,400 years ago. [PDF]

PNAS Nexus
Buchanan B, Hamilton MJ, Eren MI, Walker RS.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The choice to submit: freedom, gender, and the figure of God in Pentecostal Nigeria Le choix de se soumettre : liberté, genre et figure divine chez les Pentecôtistes du Nigeria

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Why do some women choose to submit to their husbands in marriage? In anthropology, the paradox of ‘chosen submission’ has famously been explored by Saba Mahmood. Her work amongst Egyptian women donning the veil in the Islamic da'wa movement spotlights the notion of ‘piety’ to explore how devotion to God can act as a powerful motivator of human ...
Naomi Richman
wiley   +1 more source

Comparative oral health status of two pre-Hispanic archaeological sites in Costa Rica. [PDF]

Front Oral Health
Baldi NF, Fernández-Chaves JM, Ruiz-Imbert AC, Infante-Herrera D, Ibarra-Valverde K, Ramírez K.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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