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Trading Zones Between Thick and Thin: Anthropological Description as Scaffold or Mosaic
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 1, Page 159-170, March 2026.ABSTRACT Referring to the work of historian of science Peter Galison, I argue that anthropology requires thin description as an essential counterpart for thick description. Thin accounts provide the scaffolding within which thick descriptions sit. Galison uses the idea of a “trading zone” connecting different communities who, despite their differences (
David Zeitlyn
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ШагиThe article examines the hypothesis of contextual conditionality linking the assessment of an ethnonym with the context. The assumption that words with negative connotation gravitate towards negative contexts is tested.
E. S. Gromenko, M. A. Krongauz
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Objects as Knowledgeable Elders: Lessons From the Reindeer Calf Halter Mȯnggu̇i
Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.ABSTRACT This article presents ongoing research that reconnects a historical ethnographic collection housed in a European museum with the descendants of its source communities in the transnational Inner Asian region, specifically among the Tozhu and Tukha reindeer herders of the Tyva Republic and Mongolia.
Victoria Soyan Peemot
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Вопросы ономастикиThis article addresses key methodological issues in the study of ethnonymy, focusing on new hypotheses on the origins of Finno-Ugric ethnonyms. The singular nature of ethnonyms, and the apparent lack of opportunity for statistical validation of ...
Vladimir Vladimirovich Napolskikh
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Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 277-298, November 2025.ABSTRACT This article presents an unpublished Sabaic inscription from the ʾAwām sanctuary of ʾAlmaqah, near Maʾrib. The inscription sheds new light on the mid‐third century ad adventures of a mqtwy (‘officer’) of the Sabaean kings already known from epigraphic evidence: Whbʾwm Yʾḏf.
Justine Potts
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Passportization in Tuva and Transformation of Clan/Tribal Names
Oriental StudiesIntroduction. The passportization arrangements resulted in that Tuvans acquired surnames and patronymics: the ethnic naming tradition was thus replaced by a Soviet naming formula.
Elena V. Aiyzhy, Victoria V. Dongak
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‘CELTIC BRITAIN’ IN PRE‐ROMAN ARCHAEOLOGY, RECONSIDERED
Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 44, Issue 4, Page 446-461, November 2025.Summary For forty years archaeologists have avoided referring to pre‐Roman Britain and its inhabitants as ‘Celtic’ on the grounds that contemporaries never described them as such. This is incorrect. The second‐century BC astronomer Hipparchus quotes Pytheas (c. 320 BC) as having referred to Britons as ‘Keltoi’.
Patrick Sims‐Williams
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The Network Expression of a Roma Diaspora
Global Networks, Volume 25, Issue 3, July 2025.ABSTRACT Despite the longstanding debates among ethnographers and policymakers regarding the social organization of the Roma–the largest and most marginalized native ethnocultural minority in Europe–quantitative analyses are limited. This is partly due to a unique combination of social closure and spatial dispersion of most Roma groups, exacerbated by ...
Francisco J. Ogáyar +4 more
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‘The non‐dormant beast’: Antisemitism in communities of Russian nationalists on Vkontakte
Nations and Nationalism, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 361-377, April 2025.Abstract The article explores the specifics of Russian antisemitic discourse of recent years using the example of three nationalist communities on Vkontakte, the most popular Russian social networking site, by means of critical discourse analysis. The main strategies they employ to frame the Jews online are stereotyping Jews as ungrateful and greedy ...
Petr Oskolkov +2 more
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The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 30, Issue 1, March 2025.Abstract Misconceptions about the ethnolinguistic relationship between Haiti and Louisiana persist to the present. Central to this debate is whether Louisiana Creole (LC) is a variety of French, an independent language, or a variant of the better‐known and more widely spoken Haitian Creole (HC). In this paper, I present data from residents of Louisiana
Nathan A. Wendte
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