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Trading Zones Between Thick and Thin: Anthropological Description as Scaffold or Mosaic

American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 1, Page 159-170, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Referring to the work of historian of science Peter Galison, I argue that anthropology requires thin description as an essential counterpart for thick description. Thin accounts provide the scaffolding within which thick descriptions sit. Galison uses the idea of a “trading zone” connecting different communities who, despite their differences (
David Zeitlyn
wiley   +1 more source

Late shellmound occupation in southern Brazil: A multi-proxy study of the Galheta IV archaeological site. [PDF]

PLoS One
Mendes Cardoso J, Merencio F, Villagran X, Wesolowski V, Estevam R, Fuller BT, DeBlasis P, Pierre-Gilson S, Guiserix D, Méjean P, Figuti L, Farias D, Guimaraes G, Strauss A, Jaouen K.   +14 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Nondestructive Nonlinear Optical Microscopy Revealed the Blackening Mechanism of Ancient Chinese Jades. [PDF]

Research (Wash D C), 2023
Chen Y, Wang R, Ji M.
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Feelings Without Emotion: Rethinking Male Friendship and the Value of Personal Reticence

American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 1, Page 171-182, March 2026.
ABSTRACT In various Euro‐American contexts, commentators have highlighted how emotional reticence inhibits men's ability to understand themselves and connect with others. More generally, public discourses of affective expressivity often present curtailed emotion as a form of “repression.” Through an ethnographic account of male railway enthusiasts ...
Thomas Yarrow
wiley   +1 more source

Climate variability and Germanic settlement dynamics in the Middle Danube region during the Roman Period (1st-4th Century CE). [PDF]

PLoS One
Vlach M, Komoróczy B, Torbenson MCA, Esper J, Brázdil R, Büntgen U, Semerádová D, Urban O, Balek J, Kolář T, Rybníček M, Trnka M.   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Breathing Life Flows Through Chaos: Reconfiguring the Effectiveness of Five‐Finger Breathing in Mental Health First Aid

Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT This article questions the moral and causal certainties attributed to the clinical assumptions of the breath of chaos. Instead of seeing chaos as an exceptional intruder that causes problems in health, I suggest that chaos underlines the changing conditions of health and it's an intrinsic part of breathing and everyday life. I discuss the five‐
Yuxin Peng
wiley   +1 more source

Diets, stress, and disease in the Etruscan society: Isotope analysis and infantile skeletal palaeopathology from Pontecagnano (Campania, southern Italy, 730-580 BCE). [PDF]

PLoS One
Riccomi G, Simonit R, Maudet S, Scott E, Lucas M, Giuffra V, Roberts P.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

“This Is Legacy Cooking”: Black Women's Aesthetic Labor in Newberry County, South Carolina

Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Black women in the US South have carried forward the legacy culinary and care traditions of their mothers, grandmothers, and ancestors from Africa and the African diaspora. In this paper, we extend Katherine McKittrick's concept of aesthetic labor—the “music, groove, text, poem, photo” that make Black consciousness and life possible on its own
Reagan Ross, Carrie Chennault, Shelvy Ham, Judy Sanders   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cultural heritage of the Qin-Shu Ancient Road in Shaanxi: Spatial distribution characteristics and influencing factors. [PDF]

PLoS One
Li K, Huang Z, Pang Y, Chen S, Fan Y, Yin M, Shi C.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Egyptian metallic inks on textiles from the 15^th century BCE unravelled by non-invasive techniques and chemometric analysis. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2019
Festa G, Christiansen T, Turina V, Borla M, Kelleher J, Arcidiacono L, Cartechini L, Ponterio RC, Scatigno C, Senesi R, Andreani C.   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source