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Deciphering Neolithic Habitation in Aegean Thrace Through Geophysical Prospection Surveys

open access: yesArchaeological Prospection, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the relatively extensive archaeological research conducted in Greece focusing on the Neolithic period, Aegean Thrace remains one of the least studied regions. To address this gap, the MAPFARM (Mapping the Early Farmers in Thrace) project employed systematic archaeological surface survey combined with large‐scale geophysical prospection
A. Sarris   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Polygyny in Islamic Law and Pukhtun Practice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This is a postprint (accepted manuscript) version of the article published in Ethnology 47(3):181-93. The final version of the article can be found at http://www.jstor.org/stable/25651559 (login required to access content).
Lindholm, Charles
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Marketless trading in Hammurabi’s time: A re-appraisal [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In this article I revisit Karl Polanyi’s writings on ancient Mesopotamia. I begin by situating them in the context of his general approach to trade, markets and money in the ancient world. Next, I reconstruct his major theses on Mesopotamia, drawing upon
Dale, G
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Traditional knowledge promotes the protection of large old trees: A case from China's richest biocultural diversity area

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Large old trees are important ecological entities in human settlements, providing cultural values and ecological services that are threatened by current and future changes in global climate, land use and disturbance regimes. Some studies suggest incorporating social and cultural significance into the conservation of large old trees.
Zhuo Cheng   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring MAN (incorporating JRAI): Computational anthropological analysis and quantitative speculation

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper, we present a foray into the computational study of anthropological texts. Drawing on a corpus of approximately 2,500 articles published in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (formerly Man) from 1950 to 2018, we discuss selected findings from the deployment of two methods for computational text analysis, namely ...
Kristoffer Albris   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bulharská postsocialistická etnologie [PDF]

open access: yesStudia Ethnologica Pragensia, 2016
Main purpose of the text is to present specifics of development of contemporary Bulgarian ethnology which are potentially not well known in the Czech Republic.
Vladimir Penčev
doaj  

Upper Neches River Basin Caddo Ceramic Vessels from Anderson, Cherokee, and Henderson Counties in East Texas [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (NMNH) has extensive collections of artifacts from ancestral Caddo sites in the Caddo area.
Perttula, Timothy K.
core   +1 more source

The Structure of Violence Among the Swat Pukhtun [PDF]

open access: yes, 1981
This is a postprint (accepted manuscript) version of the article published in Ethnology 20(2):147-156. The final version of the article can be found at http://www.jstor.org/stable/3773062.
Lindholm, Charles
core   +2 more sources

Post‐liberalism and the politics of liberation: Brazilian favelas as emergent territories of freedom Postlibéralisme et politique de la libération : les favelas brésiliennes, territoires de liberté émergents

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Brazilian favelas (shantytowns) are often considered as marginalized urban territories that must be better integrated into the nation‐state to obtain legitimacy under the Rule of Law. Based on years of fieldwork in one of the largest shantytowns in Rio de Janeiro (Rocinha), this article suggests that the absence of a (normative) liberal apparatus in ...
Moises Lino e Silva
wiley   +1 more source

Europäische Ethnologie. Diagnose und Prognose einer kultur- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Volkskunde

open access: yesÖsterreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, 2004
As a discipline, European Ethnology draws inspiration both anthropology, interested in the non-European and ›foreign‹ and from folklore, which concerns itself with ›native‹ European culture.
Johanna Rolshoven
doaj   +1 more source

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