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Shellfish exploitation during the Oakhurst at Klipdrift Cave, southern Cape, South Africa
South African Journal of Science, 2019 Klipdrift Cave in the southern Cape, South Africa, provides new insights into shellfish harvesting during the Later Stone Age (14–9 ka) period associated with the Oakhurst techno-complex.
Kokeli P. Ryano +3 more
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Orientalism and the puzzle of the Aryan invasion theory [PDF]
, 2014 The origin of the Aryan invasion theory (AIT) is generally located in the discovery of the Indo-European and Dravidian language families. However, these discoveries cannot account for the emergence of the AIT, because the postulation of the invasion ...
De Roover, Jakob, Keppens, Marianne
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Colonial engagements in the global Mediterranean Iron Age [PDF]
, 2009 The application of globalization theory to colonial contexts in recent years has emphasized articulations of the colonized and the colonizers. For the Mediterranean Iron Age, focus has been upon expressions of local (colonized) identities, and of ...
Hodos, T
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article argues that the current way of thinking about ethics in sport in primarily biomedical terms, and in particular in terms of the presence of particular pharmaceutical substances, fails to account for broader notions of sporting ethics and fairness in the Global South.
Michael Crawley, Uroš Kovač
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How is archaeology of religion possible?
Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2021 The text discusses the epistemological problems and dilemmas of the attempts to study religious life in prehistory by archaeological means. Among numerous difficulties, theoretical as well as practical, hindering these attempts, a general problem is ...
Zorica Kuzmanović
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The Shifting Baselines of the British Hare Goddess
Open Archaeology, 2020 The rise of social zooarchaeology and the so-called ‘animal turn’ in the humanities both reflect a growing interest in the interactions of humans and non-human animals.
Murphy Luke John, Ameen Carly
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Subject index and checklist of history and archaeology dissertations and research essays submitted at the University of Botswana, 1976 - 1998 [PDF]
, 2009 Four MA dissertations and 222 BA research essays are listed alphabetically, and indexed by reference number under three subject categories-geographical area (by district, etc.), ethnic group, and a general subject index of 42 headings.
Darkwah, Kofi +3 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Anthropologists, in common with social theorists more generally, have often understood social life as an emergent phenomenon grounded in practices of creativity and improvisation. Where stasis and continuity feature, these are often presented as illusory manifestations of underlying processes of ‘invention’, or as external impositions upon otherwise ...
Paolo Heywood, Thomas Yarrow
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.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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From Sadness to Madness: Tibetan Perspectives on the Causation and Treatment of Psychiatric Illness
Religions, 2014 Buddhist-derived “mindfulness” practices are currently enjoying popularity amongst both the lay population and health professionals in the West, especially in the treatment of psychiatric conditions such as depression.
Susannah Deane
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