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Religio‐Governmental Infrastructures: Islam, Infrastructure, and Populist Mobilization in Turkey

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 2, Page 272-283, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Turkish mosques are staffed by state‐appointed imams and callers to prayer whose practices are regulated through a complex bureaucratic network operating on an internet‐based data‐management and communication infrastructure. A centralized mosque loudspeaker network enables the broadcast of calls to prayer and other Islamic recitations across ...
Hikmet Kocamaner
wiley   +1 more source

Миски из скифских погребальных памятников конца IV-II в. до н.э. на левобережье Нижнего Днестра / Bowls from the scythian burial monuments of the end of IV-II century BC on the left bank of the Lower Dniester

open access: yesTyragetia, 2014
In the article there are published and analyzed bowls from the Scythian burial complexes of the cemetery near the village of Glinoe (Hlinaia) and from some barrows of the late 4th - 2nd century BC on the left bank of the Lower Dniester, near Tiraspol ...
Nicolae Telnov, Vitalii Sinika
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A fragmented history: demography, identity and the cremation rite in early Medieval North Lincolnshire

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Cremation was one of the primary funerary rites practiced in North Lincolnshire from the fifth to sixth centuries. Despite the destructive nature of the cremation process, a wealth of information can be extracted from the resultant burned skeletal ...
SQUIRES, Kirsty
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Minor epic: Notes toward a different “Anthropoetry”

open access: yesAnthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 1, June 2026.
Abstract Anthropologists have often turned to poetry as a means of accessing emotional registers of which conventional academic prose is unable to avail. In doing so, they have tacitly conflated poetry with lyric poetry, today probably the most widely practiced poetic genre, associated in particular with the expression of inner feelings and subjectival
Stuart McLean
wiley   +1 more source

Managing death in exile

open access: yesAnthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 1, June 2026.
Abstract Managing Death in Exile is a theatrical performance that draws on ethnographic research with long‐term asylum‐seekers from sub‐Saharan Africa in Hong Kong since 2012. The performance told the story of Denise (pseudonym), who had to manage the illness, funeral, cremation, and repatriation of ashes of her good friend, Rosie (pseudonym). Dying in
Sealing Cheng
wiley   +1 more source

Biological and substitute parents in Beaker period adult-child graves. [PDF]

open access: yesSci Rep, 2023
Zedda N   +14 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Neighbours and networks: funerary trends among cremation practicing groups in early medieval England and north-western Europe

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Our understanding of the cremation rite in early Anglo-Saxon England (5th-mid 6th century A.D.) has become clearer over recent years owing to detailed osteological and artefact studies of large cemetery sites.
SQUIRES, Kirsty
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Held in a story: Relatability across plates and places

open access: yesAnthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 1, June 2026.
Abstract This piece explores the power and ambivalence of storytelling through a dinner with Jemimah, a counseling psychologist and a trained educator with a keen interest in using storytelling as pedagogy in Northeast India. As the evening unfolds in her dining room, stories and memories are exchanged, revealing how relatability is not inherent but ...
Anna Notsu
wiley   +1 more source

Fats, Fire and Bronze Age Funerary Rites: Organic Residue Analysis of Wide Horizontal Rim Vessels From Burial Contexts in Northwest Portugal

open access: yesArchaeometry, Volume 68, Issue 3, Page 298-310, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This study presents the first GC‐MS–based analyses of wide horizontal rim vessels with well‐defined funerary contexts, from Middle Bronze Age Portugal (Quinta do Amorim 2 and Pego). Organic residues from two vessels revealed ruminant fats and plant oils, alongside molecular markers of heat exposure.
João Vinícius Back   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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