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Staging the Semahs: Performing Aleviness in Turkey and Europe

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The semah, a genre of music and movement practices imbued with values of gender, class, age and ethical egalitarianism, lies at the core of the Alevis' ayn‐i cem rituals. Since the 1970s, processes of urbanisation, migration, folklore production and heritage‐making have facilitated the circulation of semah beyond ritual contexts, particularly ...
Sinibaldo De Rosa
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Archaeogenetics reconstructs demography and extreme parental consanguinity in a Bronze Age community from Southern Italy. [PDF]

Commun Biol
Fontani F, Larocca F, Cilli E, Iacovera R, Andrews AJ, Latorre A, Arena F, Veneziano R, Calcagnile L, Quarta G, Ringbauer H, Stockhammer PW, Krause J, Luiselli D, Mittnik A.   +14 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Alevi Spatial Politics: Placemaking and the Negotiation of Visibility Across Diaspora and Homeland

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines Alevi spatial politics by analysing how space is produced, practised and negotiated across diaspora and homeland. Drawing on multi‐sited ethnographic research conducted among British Alevis in London and in Alevi villages in the Afşin–Elbistan region of Turkey, it focuses on cemevis (cem houses) as key sites of religious ...
Hayal Hanoğlu
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Reassessing Rujm el-Hiri: Aerial imagery and stone circles in the proto-historic Southern Levant. [PDF]

PLoS One
Birkenfeld M, Khabarova O, Eppelbaum LV, Berger U.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Right to Exist as the Foundation of Equal Citizenship: An Ontological Inquiry of State‐Citizen Relations in Türkiye

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite enduring decades of advocacy, Alevi communities in Türkiye find themselves in a constant state of anticipation for acknowledgment from the Turkish state. Previous studies have long documented the marginalized status of Alevis within Turkish society and their ongoing struggle for recognition; however, they have overwhelmingly framed the
Aslı Gücin
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The Roman Military Community as a Melting Pot: Biomolecular Evidence from the Lower Rhine Limes

De Coster M, Furni F, Vos WK, Oosterbaan J, Davies GR, Kootker LM.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Ancient genomes uncover dynamic cultural and genetic interplay in the eastern Tianshan. [PDF]

Mol Biol Evol
Yang X, Zou X, Li H, Yang X, Wang B, Ma H, Wang Y, Xu Y, Li C, Wang CC.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

On language, (inter)disciplinarity, and collaboration with local scholars in Papua New Guinea environmental anthropology

The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.
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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Ancient DNA analysis of elite nomadic warrior from Chinge-Tey I funerary commemorative complex in the "Valley of the Kings", Tuva. [PDF]

BMC Genomics
Nedoluzhko A, Vergasova E, Sharko F, Agapitova N, Kharitonov D, Sukhanova X, Pushkina O, Pankova S, Slobodova N, Boulygina E, Plotnikov N, Kim A, Uchaneva E, Pogodina N, Ilinskaya A, Rakitko A, Chugunov K, Ilinsky V.   +17 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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

The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.
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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