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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 456-473, June 2026.While death remains a popular topic for anthropology, relatively few ethnographic accounts consider the modern bureaucratic processes accompanying it. One such process is public health autopsy, which scholars have largely taken for granted. Existing analysis has regarded it as a form of ‘cultural brokering’ and autopsy reluctance in communities is seen,
David M.R. Orr
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 554-574, June 2026.The contested dynamics of slum gentrification in Rio de Janeiro came into focus during the brief period of relative peace brought by the pacification policy leading up to the 2016 Olympics. In this unprecedented moment, Rio's South Zone favela residents experienced a respite from the daily confrontations with police operations and drug trade violence ...
Angela Torresan
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Displaced Impacts: Visibility, Care, and Humanitarian Filmmaking in Iran
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 2, Page 297-307, June 2026.ABSTRACT Socially oriented documentary films are increasingly expected to articulate “impact” goals to gain international distribution, yet what counts as impact for those represented remains contested. This article examines how narratives about working and displaced youth in Iran are produced and circulated through social filmmaking.
Nat Nesvaderani
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Minor epic: Notes toward a different “Anthropoetry”
Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 1, June 2026.Abstract Anthropologists have often turned to poetry as a means of accessing emotional registers of which conventional academic prose is unable to avail. In doing so, they have tacitly conflated poetry with lyric poetry, today probably the most widely practiced poetic genre, associated in particular with the expression of inner feelings and subjectival
Stuart McLean
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“A Minimum of Domination”—The Overt Normative Orientation of Foucault's Work
European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 736-759, June 2026.Abstract Answering the charge of ‘crypto‐normativity’ that has long overshadowed Michel Foucault's work, I argue that this work is animated by an overt normative orientation to keep domination to a minimum. This orientation operates both at the level of content and form.
Fabian Freyenhagen
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Lost in the North Sea-Geophysical and geoarchaeological prospection of the Rungholt medieval dyke system (North Frisia, Germany). [PDF]
PLoS One, 2022 Wilken D +10 more
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History and Theory, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 203-236, June 2026.ABSTRACT In 1955, Hisayuki Miyakawa published an article that sought to introduce American and European scholars to the work of the Japanese Sinologist Naitō Konan (1866–1934). Miyakawa drew particular attention to what he called the “Naitō hypothesis”—that is, Naitō’s argument that China became modern during the Song dynasty (960–1279).
CHRISTIAN DE PEE
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Combining geophysical prospection and core drilling: Reconstruction of a Late Bronze Age copper mine at Prigglitz-Gasteil in the Eastern Alps (Austria). [PDF]
Archaeol Prospect, 2022 Trebsche P +2 more
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Expert Memories: The Professional Construction of the Past and the Mnemonic Making of Occupations
Journal of Management Studies, Volume 63, Issue 4, Page 1709-1738, June 2026.Abstract This article introduces the special issue on occupations and memory in organizations. To foster increasing collaboration from scholars from both fields, we offer a general argument connecting memory and occupations on two levels. At the societal level, we show how memory experts, such as historians, archivists, and museologists, have played a ...
Diego M. Coraiola +4 more
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