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Mortal relationality: waria family care and the ethics of dying in Bali Relationnalité mortelle : soins familiaux des waria et éthique des mourants à Bali

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Can a good death occur for those who balance on the edges of grievability? In Bali, where death marks a transition within the cycles of reincarnation, a good death depends on the mortuary care performed by intimate others – care that may be foreclosed to those whose lives are shaped by stigma.
Sylvia Tidey
wiley   +1 more source

Accounting for uncertainty and bias in archaeological and historical evidence on wealth inequality. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Fochesato M, Bowles S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Vital events, vital relations: the structure of relations in an identity database Événements vitaux, liens vitaux : la structure des liens dans une base de données d'identité civile

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) manages Pakistan's biometric‐based national identity database, one of the largest identification systems of its kind in the world. This article examines bureaucratic practices used during identity registration to record ‘vital events’ in the lives of citizens: birth, marriage, divorce, and death.
Zehra Hashmi
wiley   +1 more source

Pre-agricultural intensification of plant use in Pleistocene Sri Lankan rainforests. [PDF]

Nat Ecol Evol
Bourgon N, Oelze M, Amano N, Wedage O, Perera N, Roberts P.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Cutting freedom down to size Liberté calibrée

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Freedom, as a concept and a value, presents limited prospects for anthropological comparison. The study of enslavement, much neglected in attempts to develop an anthropology of freedom, shows that freedom has been imagined by the enslaved as the opposite of their condition only under particular circumstances.
Harri Englund
wiley   +1 more source

Evidence from Buhais Rockshelter for human settlement in Arabia between 60,000 and 16,000 years ago. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Bretzke K, Kim S, Jasim SA, Yousif E, Preusser F, Preston GW, Pallottino F, Parker AG.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Modern theatrics of love: desires and consumption in the Indian middle class Le théâtre moderne de l'amour : désirs et consommation dans la classe moyenne indienne

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article analyses class construction amongst the urban Indian middle class, through a novel prism of romantic love, specifically performances of romantic love which in turn highlight anxieties of being middle class. The article explains how a performance of romantic love before marriage is used as a basis by the middle class to claim being global ...
Parul Bhandari
wiley   +1 more source

Archaeomagnetic dating as a tool to overcome the Hallstatt plateau: A combined chronological approach at the salt production site of Piscina Torta (Rome, Italy). [PDF]

PLoS One
Alessandri L, Di Chiara A, Bonilla-Alba R, Cusimano L, Della Sala GA, Fiorillo A, Gianni V, Rossi C, Sotgia A, Florindo F.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Gough's Cave and biomolecular archaeology: a story of evolving interpretation Archéologie biomoléculaire à la grotte de Gough's Cave : une interprétation en constante évolution

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Gough's Cave is a key archaeological site that has been at heart of British archaeology for the past century. Professor Chris Stringer, whom this special issue honours, has been a key figure in excavations and research projects at the site for many decades.
William A. Marsh
wiley   +1 more source

Late Antique-Early Byzantine urban transformation in Mid-Northern Anatolia: A multiproxy approach from Pompeiopolis. [PDF]

PLoS One
Uzdurum M, Tatbul MN, Mentzer SM.
europepmc   +1 more source