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Applying Anthropology to Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting

American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 1, Page 195-205, March 2026.
ABSTRACT In this article, we review how anthropologies from various subdisciplines, from social to evolutionary anthropology, are contributing to our understanding of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C). We focus on four key questions: What are the origins of FGM/C? What functions and meanings are linked to FGM/C?
Hannelore Van Bavel, Mhairi A. Gibson
wiley   +1 more source

Bronze Age non-elite mobility in Denmark examined through a new human-based bioavailable strontium isotope range. [PDF]

PLoS One
Frei KM, Beck MR, Pantmann P, Møller NA, Søvsø M, Frei R.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Trading Zones Between Thick and Thin: Anthropological Description as Scaffold or Mosaic

American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 1, Page 159-170, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Referring to the work of historian of science Peter Galison, I argue that anthropology requires thin description as an essential counterpart for thick description. Thin accounts provide the scaffolding within which thick descriptions sit. Galison uses the idea of a “trading zone” connecting different communities who, despite their differences (
David Zeitlyn
wiley   +1 more source

Integrating remote datasets to identify precontact architecture and settlement patterns along the Wampu River system, Eastern Honduras. [PDF]

PLoS One
Cohen AS, Fernandez-Diaz JC, Groat E, Eury Q.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Reframing the Chipped Edge: Combining Materiality, Ontology, and Embodiment to Rethink Stone Tool‐Making and Human Conscious Behavior in the Paleolithic Past

Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT Combining different theoretical frameworks can lead to new insights into the role of material things in shaping human experience in the Paleolithic period. This paper first presents a historical review of three theoretical approaches in archaeology, anthropology, and the philosophy of mind: Material culture and materiality studies, the ...
Bar Efrati
wiley   +1 more source

A Late Bronze Age foreign elite? Investigating mobility patterns at Seddin, Germany. [PDF]

PLoS One
Frank AB, May J, Sabatini S, Schopper F, Frei R, Kaul F, Storch S, Hansen S, Kristiansen K, Frei KM.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Making geography move: The Royal Geographical Society and the exchange of periodical knowledge, 1830–1900

Area, Volume 58, Issue 1, March 2026.
Short Abstract This paper examines how the Royal Geographical Society's (RGS's) Library and Map Committee disciplined the exchange of the first English‐language geographical journal in the nineteenth century. The periodical's archive reveals the institutional mechanisms that shaped the journal's networks of gifting and exchange but also the deliberate ...
Benjamin Newman
wiley   +1 more source

Dentistry and dental care in antiquity: part 2 - Egypt and the Graeco-Roman World. [PDF]

Br Dent J
Forshaw R.
europepmc   +1 more source

Constructing National Higher Education Brands: Korea, India and Israel Compared

European Journal of Education, Volume 61, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This study examines the websites of the national higher education (HE) brands of Study in Korea, Study in India and Study in Israel, exploring how these ‘offbeat’ destinations position themselves in the global HE market. Drawing on rhetorical analysis and employing a qualitative comparative case study approach, it reveals the key identity ...
Annette Bamberger, Min Ji Kim, Sazana Jayadeva   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

FTIR spectroscopy and VSC-based colour assessment dataset for comparative analysis of cremated bones. [PDF]

Data Brief
Lillak A, Thompson T, Tõrv M, Oras E.
europepmc   +1 more source