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Mythogeographies of anthropological knowledge: writing over the lines and footsteps of history in Southwest China

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 808-829, September 2025.
In this article, I delve into the field diary of Ma Changshou – a major Chinese ethnohistorian and social anthropologist active between the 1930s and 1960s – to show how his journeys through Liangshan, a mountainous land in Southwest China inhabited by the Nuosu‐Yi, led to a new kind of anthropological knowledge.
Jan Karlach
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Forma y función en la arquitectura vernácula vasca: el ejemplo de las casas de seroras (siglos XVI-XVIII) [PDF]

Munibe Antropologia-Arkeologia
La arquitectura vernácula vasca ofrece una amplia variedad de tipologías y variantes regionales. Ejemplo prominente de ello son las casas de seroras, construidas durante la Edad Moderna en las inmediaciones de iglesias y ermitas para albergar a las ...
Josu Narbarte, Aritz Díez Oronoz
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The value of transformation: agricultural labour and shifting bodies in the Bolivian highlands La valeur de la transformation : main‐d’œuvre agricole et corps changeants dans les hautes terres de Bolivie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 899-916, September 2025.
This article explores transformation as a way of being in the rural Andes. It traces how transformation connects, and produces value within, multiple different spheres of life, specifically agricultural labour, personhood, identity, and space and movement.
Miranda Sheild Johansson
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On the Lack of Domestic Dogs in Pre‐Columbian Lowland Amazonia and Their Deep History of Entanglements With Humans in South America

The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 30, Issue 2, June 2025.
ABSTRACT Data from archaeology, ethnography, and ethnohistory document entanglements of dogs among South American Indigenous societies during pre‐Columbian and colonial times. The prolific presence and uses of dogs in the Central Andes and in parts of the Paraná Basin, Patagonia, and Circum‐Caribbean regions contrast with the conspicuous lack of ...
Marcelo R. Sánchez‐Villagra, Cristiana Bertazoni, Felipe Vander Velden   +2 more
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«Como caçica y señora desta tierra mando...». Insignias, funciones y poderes de las soberanas del norte andino (siglos XV-XVI)

Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines, 2008
Between 1530 and 1560, ethnic female authorities appear in the historical documents. The authority and positions of power of these elite women become apparent through the identification and analysis of emblematic objects tied to the possession and ...
Chantal Caillavet
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Anthropology and change over the ‘land rights era’: Towards treaties?

The Australian Journal of Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 19-39, April 2025.
Abstract Australia has made no treaties with its Indigenous peoples. Despite that, over the past five decades (the ‘land rights era’ of the title), Australia has granted proportionally more land area to Indigenous interests than have other, treaty‐making Anglo settler colonies (Canada, the United States, New Zealand). Despite complexities of comparison
Francesca Merlan
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The Ethnos, Histories, and Cultures of Ethnohistory: A view from the US Academy

Memoria Americana, 2012
Critical commentary on Ana María Lorandi’s essay titled “Ethnohistory, historical anthropology or simply history?” published in this volume, written by Thomas Abercrombie.  
Thomas Abercrombie
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Las batallas de Kuruyuki. Variaciones sobre una derrota chiriguana

Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines, 2005
The battle of Kuruyuki, in 1892, was the last time in which part of the Chiriguano of the Bolivian Chaco fought against the Whites. Several opinions have stated that this battle meant the end of this ethnic group.
Isabelle Combès
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Alice Duncan‐Kemp's ‘Warrior Lodges’ and Kooroongoora: Structures of Resistance During Australia's Frontier Wars

Oceania, Volume 95, Issue 1, Page 71-93, March 2025.
ABSTRACT Addressing recent critiques concerning the accuracy of Alice Duncan‐Kemp's accounts of the Channel Country, this essay evaluates her extraordinary statements concerning the structure of the Kooroongoora millenarian movement and what she called ‘warrior lodges’.
Ray Kerkhove
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‘Tearing Off the Bonds’: Suffrage Visual Culture in Australia, New Zealand and the USA, 1890–1920

Gender &History, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 234-266, March 2025.
Abstract This article will examine how transpacific suffrage visual culture imagined and reimagined an artistic tradition centred around the figure of the bound woman. White suffragists and anti‐suffragists in Australia, New Zealand and the United States used the iconography of bonds, chains and whips to mediate the possibility of women’s ...
Ana Stevenson
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