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The artisanal underground: gold, subsistence, and subsurface materiality in Colombia

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 353-375, June 2025.
Abstract This article focuses on subsurface materiality to explore how small‐scale gold miners in Colombia navigate formal politics. In much critical research, the underground appears as a space of great developmentalist ambition, whose resources enable corporate expansion and bureaucratic rule.
Jesse Jonkman
wiley   +1 more source

LA-ICPMS for In Situ U-Th Dating of Holocene Stalagmites. [PDF]

open access: yesAnal Chem
Wu CC   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Our other Others: on perpetration, morality, and ethnographic unease

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 454-473, June 2025.
Abstract This article critically assesses the impact of political and moral positions within contemporary anthropology. Re‐examining ideas of advocacy and the ethical within the discipline, it argues for an alternative political anthropology that focuses on perpetration rather than victimhood, offenders rather than the offended.
Trine Mygind Korsby, Henrik Vigh
wiley   +1 more source

Women who pay their own brideprice: reimagining provider masculinity through Uganda's thriving wedding industry

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 493-512, June 2025.
Abstract In Uganda, the ‘traditional’ wedding, wherein a groom brings money and gifts to his father‐in‐law's home, has long been understood as the ultimate demonstration of a man's social maturity. Yet masculine adulthood is becoming increasingly elusive as weddings become more difficult to afford.
Erin V. Moore, Nanna Schneidermann
wiley   +1 more source

Sincere critique in Israeli filmmaking

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 531-548, June 2025.
Abstract This article investigates an increasingly observable yet insufficiently studied phenomenon: the emphasis placed by artists on personal experience as the most legitimate inspiration for art. To this end, I introduce the term ‘sincere realism’ to describe an emerging form of personal cinema in Israel, illustrating how sincerity has evolved into ...
Maayan Cohen
wiley   +1 more source

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