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Egalitarians despite themselves: envy and leadership in Ecuadorian Amazonia Égalitaires malgré eux : envie et leadership en Amazonie équatorienne

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The Shuar of Ecuadorian Amazonia once pursued eminence through warfare and vision quests. While vision quests have been retained, today – settled in villages – they seek eminence through economic success and political leadership. This article examines an apparent paradox: whilst envy suspicions pervade public life, they legitimize rather than level ...
Natalia Buitron, Grégory Deshoullière
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The seasonality experiment: Investigating how seasons affect the burning conditions of cremations. [PDF]

PLoS One
Stamataki E, De Mulder G, Hermans R, Vercauteren M, Snoeck C.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Savage Worlds of Henry Drummond (1851–1897): Science, Racism and Religion in the Work of a Popular Evolutionist

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract The savage was a familiar as well as deeply problematic figure in late‐Victorian literary and scientific imaginaries. Savages provided an unstable but capacious and flexible signifier to explore human development and human difference, most often in ways that followed a disturbing racial logic.
Diarmid A. Finnegan
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Educational benefits of laser scanning and 3D printing for studying and preserving Southeast Asian ceramic artifacts. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Chen Y, Wang M, Ni J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Strangers on the ladder of the party‐state: Women in teaching in Nationalist Taiwan, 1940s–1980s

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract As the ruling party of a party‐state in China and Taiwan, the Nationalist Party (Kuomintang/Guomindang) built a close relationship with the teaching profession. Many teachers joined the party and there was a well‐trodden pathway from teaching into local representative politics and civil service.
Joseph Lawson
wiley   +1 more source

Navigating the Narrative: Integrating Traditional Knowledge and Embodied Practice within Computational Models of Ancient Seafaring. [PDF]

J Marit Archaeol
Farr H, Bérard B, Genz J, Leidwanger J, Slayton E.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Civility, honour and male aggression in early modern English jestbooks

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article discusses the comical representation of inter‐male violence within early modern English jestbooks. It is based on a rigorous survey of the genre, picking out common themes and anecdotes, as well as discussing their reception and sociable functions. Previous scholarship has focused on patriarchs, subversive youths and impoliteness.
Tim Somers
wiley   +1 more source

Technological innovations and hafted technology in central China ~160,000-72,000 years ago. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Yue JP, Song GD, Yang SX, Kang SG, Li JY, Marwick B, Ollé A, Fernández-Marchena JL, Shu PX, Liu HY, Zhang YX, Huan FX, Zhao QP, Qiao BT, Shen ZS, Deng CL, Petraglia M.   +16 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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A continuous record of early human stone tool production. [PDF]

Camb Prism Extinct
Key A, Williams EM.
europepmc   +1 more source