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Social anthropology with indigenous peoples in Brazil, Canada and Australia : a comparative approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
A partir da noção de “estilos de antropologia” usada por Roberto Cardoso de Oliveira em suas pesquisas nos anos 1990, que examinou diversas “antropologias periféricas”, em países onde a antropologia foi implantada posteriormente, fora dos países centrais
Baines, Stephen Grant
core   +2 more sources

Reading Through Traces: Xaverian Strategies of Including Chinese Folk Deities’ Statues in Museum Displays and Fictions in Parma, Italy

open access: yesMuseum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT This work reflects on the presence of a desacralized Buddha statue in the Museum of Chinese Art and Ethnography, established in Parma, Italy, in 1901 by Xaverian missionaries. The Buddha's hollowed back is a potent trace of the transnational interactions between these Roman Catholic missionaries and folk believers from the Henan region ...
Valentina Gamberi
wiley   +1 more source

Provincializing Frankfurt: A Postcolonial Rereading of Habermasian Theory

open access: yes
Constellations, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 14-24, March 2026.
Floris Biskamp
wiley   +1 more source

Religion and Official Politics in Contemporary China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan

open access: yesReligion Compass, Volume 20, Issue 2, March/April 2026.
ABSTRACT With increasing discussions on political deification and the official references to traditional religions in the People's Republic of China (PRC), recent debates on the PRC's alleged infiltration over Taiwan elections through the goddess Mazu, and the post‐Handover government's emphasis on filiality to China in Hong Kong, it is high time to ...
Ting Guo
wiley   +1 more source

Bottled Water and the Social Sciences: A Review and Agenda for Future Research

open access: yesSociology Compass, Volume 20, Issue 3, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Social sciences approach the steady rise of bottled water consumption at the beginning of the 21st century from four analytical vantage points: political economy, semiotics and lifestyle, political ecology, and materiality‐centered. Each analytic has crucial methodological and conceptual contributions to make, as well as zones of potential ...
Liviu Chelcea
wiley   +1 more source

Geospatial modeling approach to monument construction using Michigan from A.D. 1000–1600 as a case study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Building monuments was one way that past societies reconfigured their landscapes in response to shifting social and ecological factors. Understanding the connections between those factors and monument construction is critical, especially when multiple ...
Howey, Meghan L.   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

Dynamic history of the Central Plain and Haidai region inferred from Late Neolithic to Iron Age ancient human genomes

open access: yesCell Reports
Summary: The peopling history of the Yellow River basin (YR) remains largely unexplored due to the limited number of ancient genomes. Our study sheds light on the dynamic demographic history of the YR by co-analyzing previously published genomes and 31 ...
Hui Fang   +17 more
doaj   +1 more source

An Empirical Analysis of Income Inequality between a Minority and the Majority in Urban China: The Case of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region [PDF]

open access: yes
Based on the urban survey data of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in 2006, this paper studies the impact of ethnic characteristics on the income determination mechanism in the same economic region.
Ding Sai, Li Shi
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Contextualizing Native Resistance: Precedents for the Movement Against the Dakota Access Pipeline [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In 2016, news of the Standing Rock resistance against the Dakota Access Pipeline swept through the social media sphere. Although many young people had never seen anything like it, this article shows that the “water protectors” are part of a long ...
Dietz, Grace
core   +1 more source

“The Place of Dance in Human Life” : Perspectives on the Fieldwork and Dance Notation of Gertrude P. Kurath [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This article provides a brief biographical sketch of Gertrude P. Kurath and introduces her as a central figure in twentieth century dance scholarship. Her role in the emergence of the field of dance studies in the academia is examined and her promotion ...
Caldwell, Mary Channen
core   +1 more source

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