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The mind & muscles: Introducing a validated EEG/EMG protocol for recording cognitive-muscular interactions in experimental archaeology. [PDF]

PLoS One
Eteson B, Affinito S, Karakostis FA.
europepmc   +1 more source

Fiscal grievance politics: wealth taxation and master‐race democracy in post‐coup Bolivia Politique des griefs fiscaux : impôt sur la fortune et démocratie de la race maîtresse en Bolivie post‐coup d’État

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
wiley   +1 more source

From chisel to inscription: affordable protocols for the digital documentation of stone carving techniques. An experimental archaeology and traceological approach applied to epigraphy. [PDF]

PLoS One
Previti G, Kusumastuti S, Luci B, Malatesta L, Lemorini C.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Dwelling in a post‐fallout landscape: re‐shaping and sustaining life in a former evacuation zone in Fukushima Habiter après la catastrophe : redonner forme au monde et entretenir la vie dans une ancienne zone évacuée à Fukushima

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article explores the activities of daily life in a village neighbouring the TEPCO nuclear power plant in Fukushima. It argues that one of the potentials of taking a dwelling perspective – a phenomenological approach to living within the ecological and social environments – emerges most compellingly within a polluted landscape.
Tomoko Sakai
wiley   +1 more source

Autopsy, deathways, and intercultural healthcare in the southern Peruvian Andes Autopsie, pratiques mortuaires et soins de santé interculturels dans le sud des Andes péruviennes

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
While death remains a popular topic for anthropology, relatively few ethnographic accounts consider the modern bureaucratic processes accompanying it. One such process is public health autopsy, which scholars have largely taken for granted. Existing analysis has regarded it as a form of ‘cultural brokering’ and autopsy reluctance in communities is seen,
David M.R. Orr
wiley   +1 more source

Unveiling bast fiber production in Upper Paleolithic North China: Microfibers and usewear traces on stone tools from Shizitan. [PDF]

PLoS One
Liu L, He Y, Cohen D, Chen X, Shi J, Song Y.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Comment by Joel Robbins

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Abstract Comment on ‘On the problem of continuity: a theory of culture beyond invention’ by Paolo Heywood and Thomas ...
Joel Robbins
wiley   +1 more source

Modeling identities among the first-sedentary communities: Emergence of clay personal ornaments in Epipaleolithic Southwest Asia. [PDF]

Sci Adv
Davin L, Sindel M, Yeshurun R, Weinstein-Evron M, Kaufman D, Shklyar B, Grosman L, Belfer-Cohen A, Khalaily H, Valla FR.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Images of the Past: illustrating and imaging archaeology [PDF]

, 2009
Thomas, Gordon
core  

Serendipitous ritualization: dynamics of lay connectivity in Chinese Buddhist temples and beyond Ritualisation fortuite : dynamique de la connectivité des laïques dans les temples bouddhistes chinois et au‐delà

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article contributes to rethinking the dichotomy between informal sociality and ritual formality by examining the occasional ritual encounters surrounding spirit‐tablet inscription in Chinese Buddhist temples. Rather than viewing rituals as enactments of established orders, it presents ritual engagement as a contingent process of relational ...
Yang Shen
wiley   +1 more source