Transformation of artistic style and innovative design of oriental folk patterns based on AIGC Technology-A case study of Zhuxian town new year paintings from China. [PDF]
PLoS OneZhang J +5 more
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The Mutable Original: How Chinese Counterfeits Become Nigerian Originals in African Markets
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 3, Page 581-594, September 2026.ABSTRACT Affordable Chinese copies of Western brands are ubiquitous in African markets. Despite democratizing consumer access, these goods appear to cement hegemonic value hierarchies that rank Chinese or local products as inferior to Western goods.
Jing Jing Liu
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The earliest known ceramic beads as adornment from Nanzhuangtou site in North China 10,000 years ago. [PDF]
Sci RepChen J +7 more
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Modulating Hunting Atmospheres: Mud and Material Flows Beyond the Kill
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 3, Page 629-639, September 2026.ABSTRACT This article argues that hunting is not a bounded event but a materially redistributed atmosphere that extends beyond the kill and across field, truck, clothing, and home. Drawing on long‐term ethnographic fieldwork with wild boar hunters in Uruguay, I show how mud, odors, blood, and bodily residues carry the sensory, affective, and material ...
Juan Martin Dabezies
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A Case Study in Arts-Informed Ethics Education in the Nuclear and Radiological Sciences. [PDF]
Sci Eng EthicsMartinez NE +3 more
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Political Animals: To Live & Die in More‐Than‐Human Worlds
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 3, Page 660-667, September 2026.ABSTRACT What does it mean to live—and therefore die—in a more‐than‐human world? This review essay explores that question through reflections on teaching Political Animals: Species, Class, Race, and Gender, an undergraduate course that introduces students to scholarship on human‐nonhuman relations.
Luísa Reis‐Castro
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Research on the Composition and Manufacturing Technology of the Single-Eared Octagonal Gold Cup Unearthed from the Turki Mountain Tomb in Inner Mongolia. [PDF]
Materials (Basel)Zhang Y, Dong L, Hu W, Yang L, Li L.
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(Un)threading Rhythms: On Affect and Vibe in a Rave
Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 2, Fall 2026.ABSTRACT In Toronto, raves arise across large nightclubs, DIY venues and outdoors, despite changing regulations that have further arranged and narrowed their possibility in the past 4 years. Following a rave in Toronto, this work explores ways that potentialities and affects emerge in a single night, through my entry of taking part in dancing and ...
Tatiana Yunadi
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Therapeutic use of art with active duty military members and Veterans with PTSD: A scoping review. [PDF]
J Mil Veteran Fam HealthKudar K +4 more
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The Vicissitudes of the Nafs: Madness, Paralysis, and the Work of Transgression in Sufi Ethics
Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 2, Fall 2026.ABSTRACT How should we theorize Sufi ethics when the practice of zikr (remembrance) that leads to spiritual enlightenment (tazkiyya) might also bring one to the brink of majzubiyat (madness)? What forms of regulation or restraint are imagined or enacted by practitioners to prevent spiritual boundlessness from perverting into its underside of paralysis (
Muhammad Osama Imran
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