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How to Fish With Respect: A Transformation of Human‐Fish Relations in Riverside Amazonia

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Riverside inhabitants of the Middle Xingu River Basin, in the Brazilian Amazonia, frequently say that it is important to respect animals and the forest spirits who protect them. In recent decades, however, the development of an iced fish industry in the region has changed what respect means and how it is expressed when it comes to fishing ...
Vinicius de Aguiar Furuie
wiley   +1 more source

Trading Zones Between Thick and Thin: Anthropological Description as Scaffold or Mosaic

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Optoacoustic response of gold nanorods in soft phantoms using high-power diode laser assemblies at 870 and 905 nm: erratum

open access: gold, 2017
Luca Leggio   +6 more
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Feelings Without Emotion: Rethinking Male Friendship and the Value of Personal Reticence

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In various Euro‐American contexts, commentators have highlighted how emotional reticence inhibits men's ability to understand themselves and connect with others. More generally, public discourses of affective expressivity often present curtailed emotion as a form of “repression.” Through an ethnographic account of male railway enthusiasts ...
Thomas Yarrow
wiley   +1 more source

Erratum: Liver cancer initiation is controlled by AP-1 through SIRT6-dependent inhibition of survivin [PDF]

open access: bronze, 2013
Lihua Min   +12 more
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The Unbecoming Ghost: Spectropolitics in the Making and Unmaking of BHU's Bhoot Vidya Ayurveda Certificate Program

open access: yesAnthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
wiley   +1 more source

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