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Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
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Medieval weaponry from the River Dziwna, the Wolin Commune, in the light of metallographic analyses
Fasciculi Archaeologiae Historicae, 2015 Technological examinations of weaponry found in the River Dziwna near Wolin were carried out in the Laboratory for Bio- and Archaeometry of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Paweł Gan, Zdzisław Hensel
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Animal 'Ritual' Killing: from Remains to Meanings [PDF]
, 2011 As humans, we interact with our environment and the other species inhabiting it in a variety of ways. Animals not only provide a source of sustenance, but a means for humans to express their social concepts through interaction.
Morris, James
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
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Caddo Ceramic Vessel Sherds in a 2004 Surface Collection from the Sanders Site (41LR2), Lamar County, Texas [PDF]
, 2016 The T. M. Sanders site (41LR2) is one of the more important ancestral Caddo sites known in East Texas, primarily because of its two earthen mounds and the well-preserved mortuary features of Caddo elite persons buried in Mound No.
Perttula, Timothy K., Walters, Mark
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article explores the activities of daily life in a village neighbouring the TEPCO nuclear power plant in Fukushima. It argues that one of the potentials of taking a dwelling perspective – a phenomenological approach to living within the ecological and social environments – emerges most compellingly within a polluted landscape.
Tomoko Sakai
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Aboriginal Ceramic Sherds from 41MA30 in the Navasota River Basin in Madison County, Texas [PDF]
, 2013 Aboriginal ceramic sherds from three sites (41MA27, 41MA29, and 41MA30) in the Navasota River basin in the Prairie Savannah of Texas provided the opportunity to investigate their spatial and temporal nature, and to establish with a reasonable certainty ...
Perttula, Timothy K.
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.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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Lake Naconiche Archaeology And Caddo Origins Issues [PDF]
, 2009 Sometime around ca. A.D. 800, Lake Naconiche sites were no longer occupied by Woodland period groups of the Mossy Grove culture solely making sandy paste pottery or living as mobile hunting-gathering foragers. At this time, from ca. A.D.
Perttula, Timothy K.
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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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