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Fractured selves, contested lands: Marlpa identity and the politics of native title

The Australian Journal of Anthropology, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 160-173, April 2026.
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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No egalitarianism in the Wa hills: relative commensuration in kinship, sacrifice, and war Nul égalitarisme dans les hautes terres Wa : commensuration relative dans la parenté, le sacrifice et la guerre

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue S1, Page 85-103, March 2026.
The autonomy of the United Wa State Army of Myanmar today is said to be based on the egalitarianism of Wa communities in the past. The analysis of commensuration in kinship, sacrifice, and war challenges these portrayals of autonomy and egalitarianism.
Hans Steinmüller
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Hail to the thief: spectral egalitarianism in the Moroccan High Atlas Songez au voleur ! les spectres de l’égalitarisme dans le Haut‐Atlas marocain

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue S1, Page 104-120, March 2026.
This essay examines the spectres haunting ideas of egalitarianism among Tashelhiyt‐speaking communities in the Moroccan High Atlas: first, the tyrant, an obvious frontal threat to ideas of equality; and then the vastly more complex figure of the thief (amkhar).
Matthew Carey
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Sur le nom de lieu Courtavon (Haut-Rhin): une mise au point étymologique

, 2011
Courtavon liegt im elsässischen Sundgau an der Schweizer Grenze. Sein Name setzt die jurassische curtis-Landschaft fort, deren deutsche Übersetzungen auf -dorf lauten.
Wulf Müller, Jean-Pierre Chambon
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Where do nomads bury their dead? Necro‐ostracism, statelessness, and the pastoral/ peripatetic divide in Afghanistan

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 789-807, September 2025.
This article proposes that stigmas connected to social categories of exclusion prevalent during life extend into dealings with the dead, here referred to as ‘necro‐ostracism’, in the context of death and burial of Muslim nomadic populations in urban Afghanistan. Based on qualitative fieldwork carried out in Kabul, Herat, and Mazar‐e Sharif, it explores
Annika Schmeding
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De l’ethnonyme « tzigane » et des pièges du politiquement correct

Recherches, 2011
Due to the argument that the traditional reference “Gypsies” has offensive aspects and is therefore politically incorrect, the term “Roma” (“Romanies”) has been in use in the European context since the 1970s. This practice was introduced to the Bulgarian
Kléo Protohristova
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Mythogeographies of anthropological knowledge: writing over the lines and footsteps of history in Southwest China

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 808-829, September 2025.
In this article, I delve into the field diary of Ma Changshou – a major Chinese ethnohistorian and social anthropologist active between the 1930s and 1960s – to show how his journeys through Liangshan, a mountainous land in Southwest China inhabited by the Nuosu‐Yi, led to a new kind of anthropological knowledge.
Jan Karlach
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‘Nous, les Artistes Tsiganes’. Intellectual Networks and Cultural Spaces for Ethnic Assertion in France (1949–1989) [PDF]

, 2022
This article focuses on the cultural and artistic side of Tsigane associationism in France. Its purpose is to demonstrate that a new identity was created between the 1950s and the 1980s: the Tsigane artist and intellectual.
Barrera López, Begoña
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On the Nature of the Picts

, 2017
This short note cautions against essentialist ways of thinking about the Picts and reminds readers that the term itself is an exonym and that there is little or no evidence that the people we call Picts had any self identification as a ...
Woolf, Alexander Douglas, Alex Woolf
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Challenging deficit ideologies in Spanish heritage language policies and programs

Foreign Language Annals, Volume 57, Issue 4, Page 944-961, Winter 2024.
Abstract This study analyzes the programs and policies for Spanish heritage language (SHL) students in Iowa high schools. Previous research suggests that SHL students do not enjoy equitable educational experiences in Spanish language classrooms, which are often taught by and designed for traditional second language learners.
David Cassels Johnson, Melanie Carbine, Christine Shea   +2 more
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