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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Over the last 25 years, perceptions of the early prehistory of Northwest Africa have undergone radical changes due to new fieldwork projects and a corresponding growth in scientific interest in the region. Much of this work has been focused in Morocco, known for its extremely rich fossil and archaeological records in caves and rock shelters.
Nick Barton +3 more
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What remains of cinema in TV series?
Interfaces, 2022 The early semiology of cinema considered that cinema and television obeyed the same codes. Today, TV series lovers refuse such a similarity, and filmmakers, in turn, have a great distrust of TV series, as evidenced by the Film Selector of the Cannes Film
François Jost
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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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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Our current understanding of the origins of Homo sapiens is limited, in part, by the fragmented fossil record from Late Pleistocene and early Holocene Africa. Here, we re‐examine the Kabua 1 cranium, an enigmatic and little‐studied Kenyan fossil discovered in the 1950s. We compare virtual reconstructions created previously by our team with a wide range
Abel Marinus Bosman +7 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.The Eastern Mediterranean lies directly on the principal migration route for human groups dispersing across Africa, Europe, and Asia. It also encompasses the Balkans, where fauna and flora, as well as hominin populations, are thought to have persisted through glacial periods.
Katerina Harvati
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Jeu d’auteurs : The Beginner’s Guide de Davey Wreden
Interfaces Numériques, 2018 Cet article propose l’analyse esthétique des nouvelles formes d’écritures interactives dans le champ du jeu vidéo à travers l’exemple du jeu de Davey Wreden, The Beginner’s Guide (TBG).
Claire Siegel, Patrice Cervellin
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Based on ethnographic research at Rūm Orthodox Christian monasteries in Lebanon, the article studies scenes of Islam at the monastery as they intersect with anxious public debates on, and anthropological theorizations of, sectarianism and ‘Muslim–Christian’ relations in the Mashriq.
Aaron F. Eldridge
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Quand les créations numériques consomment les spectateurs
Interfaces Numériques, 2018 Cet article aborde les questions de création et de consommation en étudiant un type d’œuvres d’art numérique, de plus en plus représenté dans les expositions : les objets aux comportements autonomes. Il s’appuie principalement sur une exposition récente,
Celio Paillard
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.For over a century, anthropologists have documented the many institutions that exist to respond to witchcraft and the uncanny that it names: oracles that attempt to produce certainty by naming the witch; moots in which grievances are aired; trials in magistrates’ courts that attempt to satisfy the community while preserving the life of the accused ...
Chloe Nahum‐Claudel
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L’expérience au corps, du Nouveau Roman à la Réalité Virtuelle
Interfaces Numériques, 2019 La possibilité d’incarner un personnage serait-elle l’apanage de la réalité virtuelle ou l’héritage d’expérimentations pré-électroniques ? La réponse tient peut-être à Michel Butor, théoricien et romancier, qui a enfermé en 1957 en un roman de multiples ...
Sébastien Allain
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