When does the story end? Presence, the present and ‘the contemporary world’
Abstract We write and read ethnography in the wake of time passing: a fact that has long thrown up a host of epistemological and ethical issues for the doing of anthropology. In this essay I revisit this classic problem—the problem of the ethnographic present—asking what happens when we rethink the relationship between ‘the present’ and ‘presence’, the
Michael Edwards
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Old Armenian and Caucasian calendar systems : the Albanian month names [PDF]
Gippert, Jost
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Phylogenetic and phenotypic evidence of <i>Bannoa</i> (Erythrobasidiales, Erythrobasidiaceae) revealing one new genus and four new species in China. [PDF]
Xi ZW, Song BY, Chai CY, Niu QH, Hui FL.
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Abstract How can anthropologists ensure the accuracy of the statements they make in their publications, especially in an era of ever increasing budgetary and bureaucratic pressures that limit the duration of fieldwork? What should the role of language abilities be in this context and to what degree is it necessary to learn the language of the place ...
Mark Collins, Tukul Walla Kaiku
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Unveiling cryptic diversity: integrative taxonomy discovers eight new species of moths and exposes biodiversity shortfalls in a Neotropical region. [PDF]
Moraes SS +7 more
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Fractured selves, contested lands: Marlpa identity and the politics of native title
Abstract This article examines the constitution of marlpa identity in the Pilbara, emphasising the interplay between Aboriginal ontologies, kinship systems and the institutional frameworks of native title. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and oral histories, it argues that marlpa belonging is constituted through cognatic descent, consubstantial ...
Nayeli Torres‐Montenegro
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Revision of the comose flame moths of the genus <i>Sosxetra</i> Walker (Noctuidae, Dyopsinae), with descriptions of a new genus and three new species. [PDF]
Martinez JI +5 more
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Will you teach me? From seriousness to sincerity with apprentice phenomenography
Abstract By pushing for adequate modes of conceptualisation, ontological turn theorists have made significant headway in the attempt to take seriously ontological worlds that are typically considered irreconcilable to those of the Western intellectual project.
Daniel Tranter‐Santoso
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Nerium oleander L., a circum-Mediterranean study of the etymological, ecological, historical, mythological, and ethnobotanical roots of its vernacular names. [PDF]
Dafni A +9 more
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Abstract Ethnographers observe and engage the field. They live with, play with, eat with, dance with, feel with, and, increasingly, write or film with their interlocutors. But most of all, they listen and converse. As they enter the lingual ecology of their hosts through a range of practices of communication, ethnographers begin a multi‐faceted journey
Borut Telban, Ute Eickelkamp
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