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Can a good death occur for those who balance on the edges of grievability? In Bali, where death marks a transition within the cycles of reincarnation, a good death depends on the mortuary care performed by intimate others – care that may be foreclosed to those whose lives are shaped by stigma.
Sylvia Tidey
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Evolutionary research on mental health in non-industrialized contexts: An introduction to the special issue. [PDF]
Hunt AD, Ready E, Jaeggi AV.
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Cutting freedom down to size Liberté calibrée
Freedom, as a concept and a value, presents limited prospects for anthropological comparison. The study of enslavement, much neglected in attempts to develop an anthropology of freedom, shows that freedom has been imagined by the enslaved as the opposite of their condition only under particular circumstances.
Harri Englund
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CT-scan examination of sacred Vodun objects (Benin): between diagnosis and research ethics. [PDF]
Charlier P +7 more
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Gough's Cave is a key archaeological site that has been at heart of British archaeology for the past century. Professor Chris Stringer, whom this special issue honours, has been a key figure in excavations and research projects at the site for many decades.
William A. Marsh
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Advanced Materials & Methods for Heritage & Archaeology (Second Edition). [PDF]
Calia A, Lettieri M.
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Indigenous societies along the temperate Pacific coast of North America embody diverse cultural institutions. This variation is conventionally classified into two distinct cultural areas: the Northwest Coast (NWC) and California (CAL). Discussion of the environmental, material, social, and ideological variation in these societies has a long and ...
Eric Alden Smith, Brian F. Codding
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Advancing anthropology in the social and interdisciplinary sciences. [PDF]
Science Advances Archaeology and Anthropology Section Editors.
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Food and alcohol indulgence, along with tea‐drinking, gambling, and gossip, are integral to a characteristically Sichuanese ethos of ‘life enjoyment’ (xiangshou shenghuo). Beyond mere pleasure, sensory, ludic, and comic experiences temporarily strip participants of both their formal and subjective qualities.
Angel Nayden
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Modest doubt: enabling discovery across maritime heritage records. [PDF]
Pink J, Singh S, Chapman A, Sturt F.
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