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Vital events, vital relations: the structure of relations in an identity database Événements vitaux, liens vitaux : la structure des liens dans une base de données d'identité civile

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) manages Pakistan's biometric‐based national identity database, one of the largest identification systems of its kind in the world. This article examines bureaucratic practices used during identity registration to record ‘vital events’ in the lives of citizens: birth, marriage, divorce, and death.
Zehra Hashmi
wiley   +1 more source

A refined phylochronology of the second plague pandemic in Western Eurasia. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Keller M, Guellil M, Slavin P, Saag L, Irdt K, Kabral H, Solnik A, Malve M, Valk H, Kriiska A, Cessford C, Inskip SA, Robb JE, Cooper C, von Planta C, Seifert M, Reitmaier T, Baetsen WA, Walker D, Lösch S, Szidat S, Metspalu M, Kivisild T, Tambets K, Scheib CL.   +24 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Cutting freedom down to size Liberté calibrée

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Freedom, as a concept and a value, presents limited prospects for anthropological comparison. The study of enslavement, much neglected in attempts to develop an anthropology of freedom, shows that freedom has been imagined by the enslaved as the opposite of their condition only under particular circumstances.
Harri Englund
wiley   +1 more source

Stakeholder-based assessment of historical urban landscapes as cultural heritage within the context of sustainable development: a case study of İznik (Nikaia). [PDF]

Sci Rep
Kapuci U, Cengiz C, Smardon RC, Cengiz B.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Modern theatrics of love: desires and consumption in the Indian middle class Le théâtre moderne de l'amour : désirs et consommation dans la classe moyenne indienne

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article analyses class construction amongst the urban Indian middle class, through a novel prism of romantic love, specifically performances of romantic love which in turn highlight anxieties of being middle class. The article explains how a performance of romantic love before marriage is used as a basis by the middle class to claim being global ...
Parul Bhandari
wiley   +1 more source

Global tastes, local choices: Strontium isotope and concentration evidence for changing dietary input in Roman Nijmegen, the Netherlands. [PDF]

PLoS One
De Coster M, Hendriks J, James HF, Snoeck C, Davies GR, Kootker LM.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Gough's Cave and biomolecular archaeology: a story of evolving interpretation Archéologie biomoléculaire à la grotte de Gough's Cave : une interprétation en constante évolution

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Gough's Cave is a key archaeological site that has been at heart of British archaeology for the past century. Professor Chris Stringer, whom this special issue honours, has been a key figure in excavations and research projects at the site for many decades.
William A. Marsh
wiley   +1 more source

Maize-based polyculture, not monoculture, sustained precolonial societies in the Brazilian Cerrado. [PDF]

Sci Adv
Chim E, Fernandes HLA, Viana SA, Straioto H, Mayer E, Huesges S, Scott E, Mendes DT, Zardo DR, Stríkis NM, Henriques G, de Souza RL, Correia MA, Nicolau LC, Rocha ES, Koole E, Rodrigues JC, Lima T, Liryo A, Isnardis A, Bueno L, de S Santos J, Etchevarne C, Alves MA, Prous A, Steinhof A, da Cruz Júnior FW, Ilgner J, Fernandes R, Roberts P, Strauss A.   +30 more
europepmc   +1 more source

False kings and imagined protestants: why schismogenesis does not explain variation in inequality among Indigenous societies of the Pacific Coast Faux rois et protestants imaginaires: pourquoi la schismogenèse n'explique pas les variations des inégalités parmi les sociétés autochtones de la côte pacifique nord‐américaine

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Indigenous societies along the temperate Pacific coast of North America embody diverse cultural institutions. This variation is conventionally classified into two distinct cultural areas: the Northwest Coast (NWC) and California (CAL). Discussion of the environmental, material, social, and ideological variation in these societies has a long and ...
Eric Alden Smith, Brian F. Codding
wiley   +1 more source

Horse genetics, archaeology, and the beginning of riding. [PDF]

Sci Adv
Anthony D, Trautmann M, Heyd V.
europepmc   +1 more source