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How to Be Hopeful About Climate Change
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 1, Page 148-158, March 2026.ABSTRACT Why do people in climate‐vulnerable regions of Kenya and Namibia express more hope for the future than many in Germany, despite facing greater environmental threats? Drawing on ethnographic research and the philosophy of Gabriel Marcel, we make two arguments.
Julian Sommerschuh, Michael Schnegg
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Trading Zones Between Thick and Thin: Anthropological Description as Scaffold or Mosaic
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 1, Page 159-170, March 2026.ABSTRACT Referring to the work of historian of science Peter Galison, I argue that anthropology requires thin description as an essential counterpart for thick description. Thin accounts provide the scaffolding within which thick descriptions sit. Galison uses the idea of a “trading zone” connecting different communities who, despite their differences (
David Zeitlyn
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Devouring the Invaders: The Racial‐Ecological Politics of the Chinese Crayfish Trade in Kenya
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 1, Page 183-194, March 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines entanglements of ecology, race, and foodways at Lake Naivasha in Kenya. Nonnative Louisiana red swamp crayfish (Procambarus clarkii), first introduced to Kenya in the 1960s, were once viewed as invasive but are now sought after as a delicacy among Kenya's Chinese community.
Amanda Kaminsky
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Rivista di Storia dell'Università di TorinoThe treatise for confessors Speculum peccatoris, confessoris simul et praedicatoris in materia restitutionis seu satisfactionis, preserved in manuscript 37 of the Biblioteca de la Real Colegiata de San Isidoro de León, offers valuable insights into the ...
Paolo Rosso
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Christianity of Conscience: Religion Over Politics in the Williams-Cotton Debate [PDF]
, 2018 This research project examines Roger Williams’s representation of the relationship between church and state as demonstrated in his controversy with the Massachusetts Bay Puritans, specifically in his pamphlet war with Boston minister John Cotton ...
Farthing, Sophie
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Functionaries: A Distributional Approach to Institutional Analysis
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 56, Issue 1, March 2026.ABSTRACT This paper outlines a distributional approach to institutional analysis, reconceptualising institutions as distributions of knowledge and activity across people. We argue that institutionalisation and institutional change are best understood by focussing on actors with the requisite knowledge and motivation to keep institutional patterns going,
Dustin S. Stoltz +2 more
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Investigating fundamentalist trends in the Orthodox Church of Greece: Balancing between traditionalism and fundamentalism. [PDF]
Z Relig Ges Polit, 2022 Sakellariou A.
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Phonographic Recordings in Finno‐Ugric Languages in Finnish Archives
Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.ABSTRACT This review discusses audio recordings made by Finnish scholars among the Russian Arctic people in the early twentieth century and stored in various archives in Finland. The background of the recordings, together with their broader meaning and the possibilities for research they offer, is brought out.
Karina Lukin
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Vaccination Hesitancy Among Greek Orthodox Christians: Is There a Conflict Between Religion and Science? [PDF]
J Relig Health, 2023 Issaris V, Kalogerakos G, Milas GP.
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