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What Do Lithics Tell Us About Cultural Evolution? Insights From the Central African Record

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While Western historical narratives often incorporate a biased vision of human evolution—driven by a progressive view tied to a progressively evolving state of culture—this paper proposes combining archaeological lithic data with epistemological reflections to critique the modern regime of historicity, where progress is assumed as rational ...
Isis Isabella Mesfin
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CHURU-KOHO POTTERY OF LAM DONG PROVINCE IN RELATION TO CHAM POTTERY

Tạp chí Khoa học Đại học Đà Lạt, 2023
This article examines Churu-Koho pottery in relation to Cham pottery in Central Vietnam and the Central Highlands. Research shows that Churu-Koho pottery (Lam Dong Province) is related to Cham pottery in Bau Truc (Ninh Thuan Province) and Binh Duc (Binh
Van Mon Truong
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Unfixing Place: Time and Value in the Anthropology of Food

Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although many anthropologists have engaged with the political and economic work of “place” in qualifying and working with food, time has rarely featured substantively in the economic and political life of the comestible. Gathering themes from my ethnographic research in Northern Italy and excavation time in anthropological scholarship on food,
Janita Van Dyk
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ETHNOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE

EtnoAntropoZum, 2018
The paper presents a brief overview of the situation of ethnology and anthropology in Bosnia and Herzegovina, from theirs constitution as disciplines to the contemporary period, in various socio-economic systems and cultural frameworks, as well as ...
Bogdan Drazheta
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Constructing National Identity Through Museums in Early Republican Turkey: Historical Narrative, Spatial Transformation, Exhibiting Modernity, and Monumentality

Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the role of museums in the construction of national identity during the Early Republican Period in Turkey (1923–1950). Drawing on theoretical approaches that interpret museums as spaces in which collective memory and national identity are materially organized and publicly communicated, the study analyzes museums as key ...
Duygu Atalay Şimşek
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[Review of] Alain LeRoy Locke (Jeffrey C. Stewart, ed.). Race Contacts and Interracial Relations: Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Race [PDF]

, 1993
Scholars of the history of race and race relations social science should be deeply indebted to Jeffrey C. Stewart for uncovering and meticulously reconstructing these extant lectures by the philosopher better known for his later contributions to the ...
Williams, Vernon, Jr
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“THE NORMAL EXCEPTION”: “MICROANALYSIS AND SOCIAL HISTORY” (1977)*

History and Theory, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT “The normal exception” has long been a slogan of microhistory. This oxymoronic phrase is the iconic rendering of an incidental sentence that appeared in a 1977 article published by Edoardo Grendi in the Italian journal Quaderni storici, which functioned as the incubator of Italian microhistory.
EDOARDO GRENDI
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From the Editors

Perspektywy Kultury, 2023
The current issue of our quarterly is special for at least four organizational and administrative reasons. Firstly, the Ignatianum Academy in Cracow has become a university and as of October 1, 2023, its new name is Ignatianum University in Cracow ...
Łukasz Burkiewicz
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The Bigman Metaphor for Entrepreneurship: A Library Tale with Morals on Alternatives for Further Research [PDF]

, 1990
Melanesian Bigmanship (a meritocratic, enacted career of political-economic leadership) is recounted as an anthropological metaphor for entrepreneurship. This “library tale” has two purposes.
Stewart, Alex
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Living at the Edge: Religion, Capitalism, and the End of the Nation-State in Taiwan [PDF]

, 2000
This is a preprint (author's original) version of an article published in the journal Public Culture in 2000. The final version of this article may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/08992363-12-2-477 (login may be required)
Weller, Robert
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