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Homo Explorens and Their Nostalgia. Cultural Contexts of Amateur Genealogy in Contemporary Poland

Etnografia Polska
The article deals with the cultural contexts of the phenomenon of popular genealogy in contemporary Poland. The author looks at the external and internal factors shaping the phenomenon of Polish genealogical research and discusses the results of her ...
Marta Raczyńska-Kruk
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And then there was us Et puis nous sommes apparus

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In 1987, the academic conference ‘Origins and Dispersals of Modern Humans: Behavioural and Biological Perspectives’ was held in Cambridge, UK. Subsequently referred to as the ‘Human Revolution’ conference, this meeting brought together the most prominent academics working in the field of human origins, including archaeologists and palaeoanthropologists,
Emma E. Bird, Julia Galway‐Witham, Chris Stringer   +2 more
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The Disciplinary Society and the Birth of Sociology: A Foucauldian Perspective [PDF]

Družboslovne Razprave, 2016
This paper is genealogical research that aims to present one of the historical ways that led to the emergence of sociology as a modern science.
Dušan Ristić, Dušan Marinković
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Rethinking empirical research into Children in Care and Contact [PDF]

, 2016
Current literature in relation to contact for Children in Care reveals that there have been a number of theories that have informed the current notion of contact and these are underpinned by psychological and psychosocial assumptions about identity ...
Simpson, Jenny
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Serendipitous ritualization: dynamics of lay connectivity in Chinese Buddhist temples and beyond Ritualisation fortuite : dynamique de la connectivité des laïques dans les temples bouddhistes chinois et au‐delà

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article contributes to rethinking the dichotomy between informal sociality and ritual formality by examining the occasional ritual encounters surrounding spirit‐tablet inscription in Chinese Buddhist temples. Rather than viewing rituals as enactments of established orders, it presents ritual engagement as a contingent process of relational ...
Yang Shen
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Uncovering Names and Connections: The “Polish Jew” Periodical as a Second-Tier Record for Holocaust Remembrance and Network Analysis in Jewish Genealogy

Genealogy
This paper explores the Polish Jew journal as a pivotal second-tier record for advancing Holocaust studies and Jewish genealogy. Traditionally underutilized in academic research, this periodical provides a unique repository of names and narratives of ...
Amanda Kluveld
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Acknowledgment Research Genealogy for Today’s Quantified Academia

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of CAIS / Actes du congrès annuel de l'ACSI, 2016
Acknowledgments are recognized as relevant objectsof study in the sociology of science; yet it is difficult toextract a clear understanding of their value andfunctions in the reward system of science. Ouracknowledgment research genealogy suggests that aliterature-based framework could guide furtherstudies and research evaluation in academia.Les ...
Adèle Paul-Hus, Nadine Desrochers, Jen Pecoskie, Vincent Larivière   +3 more
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The choice to submit: freedom, gender, and the figure of God in Pentecostal Nigeria Le choix de se soumettre : liberté, genre et figure divine chez les Pentecôtistes du Nigeria

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Why do some women choose to submit to their husbands in marriage? In anthropology, the paradox of ‘chosen submission’ has famously been explored by Saba Mahmood. Her work amongst Egyptian women donning the veil in the Islamic da'wa movement spotlights the notion of ‘piety’ to explore how devotion to God can act as a powerful motivator of human ...
Naomi Richman
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The tamga of Mamai in the Glinsky princes seals of the 16th and 17th centuries

Золотоордынское обозрение
To compare two sets of sources – ornithomorphic tamga marking coins issued in the Mamai Horde in the late 14th century, and variants of tamga-shaped figures on the seals of the Glinsky princes in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Khoruzhenko O.I.
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Conceptual colour: race, economic knowledge, and the anthropology of financialization De la couleur comme concept : race, connaissances économiques et anthropologie de la financiarisation

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Economic anthropologists now carry out fieldwork in settings for which the ethnographic method was never designed, amongst powerful financial actors who are notoriously difficult to access, and in contexts which transcend geographical boundaries. This has engendered a re‐orientation of anthropology, to consider not only the economic lives of people but
Kimberly Chong
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