The savage was a familiar as well as deeply problematic figure in late‐Victorian literary and scientific imaginaries. Savages provided an unstable but capacious and flexible signifier to explore human development and human difference, most often in ways that followed a disturbing racial logic.
Diarmid A. Finnegan
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Ancient DNA and spatial modeling reveal a pre-Inca trans-Andean parrot trade. [PDF]
Olah G +5 more
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Conserving ourselves: Embedding significance into conservation decision-making in graduate education [PDF]
Pearlstein, Ellen
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When data becomes information: visualizing archaeological textiles
The main focus of this work is on web visualization technologies that could be applied to visualize archaeological textile data. The datasets used for the project contain more than seven thousand records of textile fragments.The web application Textile Recorder & Visualizer was created based on the WordPress publishing platform to maintain the ...
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Abstract This article explores the marmalade machine, a mechanical device designed to slice orange peel. These niche objects were manufactured between roughly 1870 and 1938 in Britain. As a so‐called ‘labour‐saving’ gadget, the marmalade machine sliced orange peel quickly and effectively, removing the tedious process of slicing orange peel by hand ...
Katie Carpenter
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Aterian shell beads from the coastal site of El Mnasra Cave (Rabat-Témara, Morocco): Specificities of the north African MSA personal ornaments. [PDF]
Campmas E +10 more
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How to Fish With Respect: A Transformation of Human‐Fish Relations in Riverside Amazonia
ABSTRACT Riverside inhabitants of the Middle Xingu River Basin, in the Brazilian Amazonia, frequently say that it is important to respect animals and the forest spirits who protect them. In recent decades, however, the development of an iced fish industry in the region has changed what respect means and how it is expressed when it comes to fishing ...
Vinicius de Aguiar Furuie
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Non-Invasive geophysical imaging reveals ptolemaic tombs at ai-dyabat for global archaeological applications. [PDF]
Abudeif AM, Mohammed MA, Gaber HA.
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Devouring the Invaders: The Racial‐Ecological Politics of the Chinese Crayfish Trade in Kenya
ABSTRACT This article examines entanglements of ecology, race, and foodways at Lake Naivasha in Kenya. Nonnative Louisiana red swamp crayfish (Procambarus clarkii), first introduced to Kenya in the 1960s, were once viewed as invasive but are now sought after as a delicacy among Kenya's Chinese community.
Amanda Kaminsky
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Hidden artistic complexity of Peru's Chancay culture discovered in tattoos by laser-stimulated fluorescence. [PDF]
Kaye TG, Bąk J, Marcelo HW, Pittman M.
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