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I stumbled when I saw: Fieldwork, fallibility, and the politics of being wrong

Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 2, December 2026.
Abstract What does it mean for an anthropologist to be wrong? This essay takes the question seriously in two registers at once: the everyday mistakes of fieldwork, from mistranslating a greeting to misreading a shaved head as a sign of mourning, and the deeper entitlement through which our discipline claimed authority over other people's languages and ...
Mark Turin
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The ANT‐Mobilities Framework: Transectionality and a Post‐Materialist Historical Sociology

Sociology Lens, Volume 39, Issue 3, Page 498-506, September 2026.
ABSTRACT The ANT‐Mobilities framework synthesizes Actor‐Network Theory, the mobilities paradigm, and historical sociology to analyze complex social transformations. This paper develops the framework through empirical engagement with post‐disaster rehabilitation networks following the 2005 Pakistan earthquake, demonstrating how crisis contexts generate ...
Farrukh A. Chishtie
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Rethinking ‘Hill‐Valley Divide’ in Darjeeling District, India: An Autoethnographic Approach to Highland Identities

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Volume 26, Issue 2, Page 292-301, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This research examines the Hill‐Valley divide in Darjeeling district, West Bengal, India, where Nepali‐speaking hill communities coexist with Bengali‐speaking valley populations. It argues that this division is a colonial construct, shaped by British policies that romanticised the hills as a ‘mini‐England’ while separating them from the valley
Yalember Dewan
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Exhumation history of the Higher Himalayan Crystalline along Dhauliganga-Goriganga river valleys, NW India: new constraints from fission track analysis [PDF]

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New apatite and zircon fission track data collected from two transects along the Dhauliganga and Goriganga rivers in the NW Himalaya document exhumation of the Higher Himalayan Crystalline units. Despite sharing the same structural configuration and rock
Patel, R.C., Carter, Andrew
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Environmental Humanities South: Decolonizing Nature in Highland Asia

Challenges
We, a group of native scholars based in the Himalayan region, co-author this article to propose an environmental humanities South—concurrently as an Asia-specific interdisciplinary field and a planetary human–nature epistemology of the Global South ...
Dan Smyer Yü, Ambika Aiyadurai, Mamang Dai, Razzeko Delley, Rashila Deshar, Iftekhar Iqbal, Chi Huyen Truong, Bhargabi Das, Mongfing Lepcha, Thinley Dema, Madan Koirala, Zainab Khalid, Zhen Ma   +12 more
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Delomization, or the esoteric Nechung kang so, the Dalai Lama, and exilic imaginings of a Tibetan community

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, August 2026.
Abstract I propose the concept of delomization, the process whereby a sign comes to be understood as a symbol. I term such signs delomes. With rhematization and dicentization, delomization completes the triplet that linguistic anthropologists derive from Charles Sanders Peirce's third trichotomy.
Urmila Nair
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Global Drivers of Morphological Variation in Grey Wolves

Diversity and Distributions, Volume 32, Issue 6, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Aim To investigate the ecological and evolutionary drivers of morphological variation in grey wolves (Canis lupus) across their global range: Location The entire Holarctic distribution of grey wolves, from Greenland to New Mexico in North America, from Norway to Israel in Eurasia, including several samples from Russia and India.
Dominika Bujnáková, Sarah J. du Plessis, Daniele Falcinelli, Carsten Gundlach, Katja Holmala, Jonathan S. Keller, Mohammed Khumri, John Korbin, Robert W. Mysłajek, Sabina Nowak, Ladislav Paule, Katrine Raundrup, Madeline K. Rowland, Mikkel‐Holger S. Sinding, Davide Tamagnini, Mia Valtonen, Jouni Aspi, Laura Kvist, Christy Anna Hipsley   +18 more
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Divine intimacy, frustration and the madness of the city: Changing transhuman kinship in China

Ethos, Volume 54, Issue 2, June 2026.
This essay shows the affective resonances of the collision of gods, humans, and rapidly shifting landscapes in a newly urbanized part of Suzhou, China. The first section discusses how ties to spirits are not just metaphors or projections of human kinship, but literal parts of a kinship system that invoke responsibilities of care, based on links of both
Keping Wu, Robert P. Weller
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Heart (break) as a Witness: Fieldwork in the Times of Hindu Majoritarianism

PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Volume 49, Issue 1, May 2026.
ABSTRACT How does it feel to observe, participate, document, and eventually analyse ‘material’ where the ethnographer studies her own community's complicity, consensus and actions toward a majoritarian state? When anti‐Muslim sentiment is on the surface of things: temples on ruins of demolished mosques and graves, renamed cities which sound ...
Surya Ghildiyal
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Ethnolinguistic associations and genetic diversity of rice landraces in Nagaland, India

Plants, People, Planet
Societal Impact Statement Preserving and conserving crop landraces, tended by indigenous farming communities, is crucial for future food security. This research focused on rice landrace diversity in the north‐eastern Himalayan region of Nagaland, India ...
Somnath Roy, Bhaskar Chandra Patra, Jitendra Kumar, Puranjay Sar, Uma Shankar Jogi, Zenwang Konyak, Amrita Banerjee, Nabaneeta Basak, Nimai Prasad Mandal, Kailash Chander Bansal   +9 more
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