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Mummies tell stories: CT investigation of eight members of the Kėdainiai elite (Grand Duchy of Lithuania, 17th-18th centuries AD). [PDF]

Front Med (Lausanne)
Piombino-Mascali D, Girčius R, Tamošiūnas A, Jankauskas R, Brindzaitė R, Kozakaitė J.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Tools for relatedness: “Fetishes” in Burkina Faso and the work of enacted metaphors

American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 2, Page 233-243, June 2025.
Abstract In West Africa, certain objects can act in the world and interact with people as subjects. Labeled “fetishes” by Europeans, these material things have generated centuries of debates on the nature of their agency. In this article, I rely on participant fieldwork as a student in a group of initiated donso hunters in Burkina Faso, which involved ...
Lorenzo Ferrarini
wiley   +1 more source

Expression games in Jane Austen and Erving Goffman: “Family and connections” versus “solitary cultish men”

Anthropology and Humanism, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper brings together two brilliant analysts of social encounters, Jane Austen and Erving Goffman. It proceeds by applying some of Goffman's terms for face‐to‐face interactions to several scenes from Austen's novels in which characters try to extract information from others while preventing others from extracting information from them. In
Richard Handler
wiley   +1 more source

The shifting of buffer crop repertoires in pre-industrial north-eastern Europe. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Abdrakhmanov M, Kempf M, Karaliute R, Guzowski P, Lauzikas R, Depaermentier MLC, Poniat R, Matuzeviciute GM.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Charting the history of premature birth in France from the 17th century to modern state-of-the art care. [PDF]

Acta Paediatr
Houzé de l'Aulnoit A, Charkaluk ML, Drouin E.   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Visually Attending to black Senses of Place Through “Everyday Things” in White City, West London

Antipode, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper shares a practice‐related rendering of Katherine McKittrick's conceptional notion “a black sense of place” by reflecting on visual practices adopted in my research project, “Everyday Things: Visualising Young Black Adults’ Experiences in White City”.
Nathaniel Télémaque
wiley   +1 more source

From Conquests to Epidemics in 18th-Century South America: A Reflection on Social Resilience and Reconstruction: Review of the Literature. [PDF]

Epidemiologia (Basel)
Villafañe JH.
europepmc   +1 more source

Bulbs and Biopower: Managing Produce and Price in the Age of Agri‐Logistics

Antipode, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper deploys the material and discursive politics of storage as a lens into agrarian change in rural India. Focusing on onions (Allium cepa), a price volatile crop and a kitchen staple, it maps out the contested meanings of and motivations for storage among growers, governments, and agri‐logistics companies. Specifically, this paper asks
Tanya Matthan
wiley   +1 more source

Silk road heritage: The artistic representation of port trading culture in the images of characters in Qing Dynasty Guangzhou export paintings. [PDF]

PLoS One
Liu H, Fu C, Li W.
europepmc   +1 more source

Reworlding Antiwork Politics

Antipode, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 1062-1082, May 2025.
Abstract Antiwork praxis has experienced something of a resurgence in the wake of the global financial crisis and COVID‐19 pandemic. Yet the radical potential of antiwork theory and politics is currently limited by its centring of the histories and subjectivities of (post‐)Fordist wage workers in the Global North.
William Monteith
wiley   +1 more source