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English translation of the essay on theatre anthropology written by Franco Ruffini in 1986 and published in the first issue of the Italian journal Teatro e Storia.
Ruffini, Franco
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The pelvis doesn't walk by itself: Wider pelves reduce the cost of walking over unstable surfaces
Abstract Walking over variable and/or unstable terrain is a key aspect of daily life and was crucial to the evolution of bipedalism. The ability to find gait solutions that maintained stability over uneven terrain for the least increase in metabolic cost was likely a hallmark of locomotor effectiveness in early humans, in particular acting as an ...
Cara Wall‐Scheffler +2 more
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English: Luisa Schneider from the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle talks about her research that examines intimacy and state-citizen engagement among unhoused persons in Germany.Deutsch: Die Wissenschaftlerin vom Max-Planck-Institut ...
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Scaling and ecomorphology of lagomorph body shape and appendicular skeleton
Abstract Body shape is one of the most prominent features of phenotypic variation. Yet, mammalian body shapes are poorly quantified and the underlying components contributing to its diversity and its relationship to other skeletal components are rarely tested.
Nia Brice, Coby Huizenga, Chris J. Law
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ABSTRACT In this paper we report on faunal remains recovered from a legacy archaeological excavation undertaken in the rockshelter entrance of Waribruk (New Guinea II Cave), a GunaiKurnai site located on the west bank of the Snowy River, East Gippsland, southeastern Australia.
Matthew C. McDowell +7 more
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This article explores midwives' engagement with emotional labour. Drawing on theorisation first proposed by Arlie Hochschild, we investigate how midwives display emotions to induce certain emotional states in the birthing woman and, while doing so ...
Giulia Sinatti +5 more
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Concomitants of academic anthropology
The article explores concomitants of academic anthropology by discussing what lies underneath our carefully designed research plans. In the course of this, the paper highlights the importance of acknowledging the gap between expectations and realities at
Schneider, L. +2 more
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Classic Concepts in Anthropology [PDF]
The late anthropologist Valerio Valeri (1944–98) was best known for his substantial writings on societies of Polynesia and eastern Indonesia. This volume, however, presents a lesser-known side of Valeri’s genius through a dazzlingly erudite set of ...
Valeri, Valerio
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7000 Years of Aboriginal Mining at Sugarloaf Hill in the Riverland Region of South Australia
ABSTRACT Silcrete and chert are commonly represented in Aboriginal archaeological lithic assemblages across large parts of the southwestern Murray‐Darling Basin (MDB). In South Australia (SA), these materials were sourced from a series of quarries located along the incised course of the Murray River through the upper Riverland region.
Craig Westell +8 more
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The evolutionary dynamics of how languages signal who does what to whom
Languages vary in how they signal “who does what to whom”. Three main strategies to indicate the participant roles of “who” and “whom” are case, verbal indexing, and rigid word order.
Olena Shcherbakova +5 more
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