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Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring 2026.ABSTRACT Combining different theoretical frameworks can lead to new insights into the role of material things in shaping human experience in the Paleolithic period. This paper first presents a historical review of three theoretical approaches in archaeology, anthropology, and the philosophy of mind: Material culture and materiality studies, the ...
Bar Efrati
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Avanços nas pesquisas etnobotânicas no Brasil Advances in ethnobotany research in Brazil
Acta Botânica Brasílica, 2009 A Etnobotânica moderna é produto de mudanças históricas ocorridas dentro e fora da academia. O trabalho buscou traçar a trajetória dessa disciplina e suas tendências no Brasil. Para tal foi realizado um levantamento dos trabalhos, no período de 1968-2007,
Flávia Camargo de Oliveira +3 more
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Haunted Care: Engaging Health Hauntology to Understand Health Citizenship in Evolving Welfare States
Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring 2026.ABSTRACT This paper applies a hauntological framework to explore how health citizenship in the UK is shaped by the spectral presence of neoliberal policies, particularly through increased use of Public‐Private Partnerships (PPPs) in the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS).
Anna Horton
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Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring 2026.ABSTRACT This article questions the moral and causal certainties attributed to the clinical assumptions of the breath of chaos. Instead of seeing chaos as an exceptional intruder that causes problems in health, I suggest that chaos underlines the changing conditions of health and it's an intrinsic part of breathing and everyday life. I discuss the five‐
Yuxin Peng
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The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 1, March 2026.ABSTRACT Pastoralism worldwide faces a complex landscape of increased pressures and exclusion. Beyond ecological and economic challenges, pastoralists suffer eroding cultural identity, limited generational renewal, and political marginalization. Yet pastoral livelihoods are increasingly recognized as stewards of sustainable futures and amongst the best
Greta Semplici, Pablo Manzano
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Quantitative Ethnobotany or Quantification in Ethnobotany?
Ethnobotany Research and Applications, 2009 www.ethnobotanyjournal.org/vol7/i1547-3465-07-001.pdf Ethnobotany Research & Applications 7:001-003 (2009) Ulysses Paulino de Albuquerque, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Departamento de Biologia, Area de Botânica. Laboratorio de Etnobotânica Aplicada (www.etnobotanicaaplicada.com.br). Dom Manoel de Medeiros s/n.
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Scientific Ritual: The Institutional Review Boards for Human Clinical Trials in Israel
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Volume 40, Issue 1, March 2026.Abstract This ethnographic study analyzes Israeli Institutional Review Boards (IRBs’) main practices and discourses. I describe IRB operations as bureaucratic rituals derived from idealized scientific values, with physician‐scientist members serving as gatekeepers who perform boundary work to preserve professional independence.
Hedva Eyal
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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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Ethnobotany of Dayak medicinal plants in Kayu Ara village, Landak regency as a learning resource
JPBI (Jurnal Pendidikan Biologi Indonesia)The lack of scientific documentation on the ethnobotany of Dayak medicinal plants makes this knowledge vulnerable to disappearing. Ethnobotany as a learning resource is one very effective step to make students more familiar with and love the knowledge of
Dede Sunarya +2 more
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Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.ABSTRACT This article examined the decision‐making process and practice of a small academic museum as it strived to comply with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). Using the New Mexico State University Museum as a case study, it explores key questions related to NAGPRA compliance: How did the NMSU Museum determine that ...
Fumi Arakawa, Stanley Berryman
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