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Autopsy, deathways, and intercultural healthcare in the southern Peruvian Andes Autopsie, pratiques mortuaires et soins de santé interculturels dans le sud des Andes péruviennes

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
While death remains a popular topic for anthropology, relatively few ethnographic accounts consider the modern bureaucratic processes accompanying it. One such process is public health autopsy, which scholars have largely taken for granted. Existing analysis has regarded it as a form of ‘cultural brokering’ and autopsy reluctance in communities is seen,
David M.R. Orr
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Reply to Bourguignon et al.: Convergence is a plausible hypothesis for Quina technology in East Asia. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Ruan QJ, Li H, Marwick B, Peresani M, Moncel MH, Xiao PY, Monod H, Li B, Delpiano D.   +8 more
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‘Vitamins’, shortcuts, and athletic citizenship in Ethiopia and Cameroon: considering sporting ethics beyond biomedicine « Vitamines », courts‐circuits et citoyenneté sportive en Éthiopie et au Cameroun : l’éthique du sport, au‐delà de la biomédecine

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article argues that the current way of thinking about ethics in sport in primarily biomedical terms, and in particular in terms of the presence of particular pharmaceutical substances, fails to account for broader notions of sporting ethics and fairness in the Global South.
Michael Crawley, Uroš Kovač
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The earliest elephant-bone tool from Europe: An unexpected raw material for precision knapping of Acheulean handaxes. [PDF]

Sci Adv
Parfitt SA, Bello SM.
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On the problem of continuity: a theory of culture beyond invention Le problème de la continuité : une théorie de la culture au‐delà de l'invention

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Anthropologists, in common with social theorists more generally, have often understood social life as an emergent phenomenon grounded in practices of creativity and improvisation. Where stasis and continuity feature, these are often presented as illusory manifestations of underlying processes of ‘invention’, or as external impositions upon otherwise ...
Paolo Heywood, Thomas Yarrow
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Archaeology, history and biosciences

, 2019
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Earliest evidence of smoke-dried mummification: More than 10,000 years ago in southern China and Southeast Asia. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Hung HC, Deng Z, Liu Y, Ran Z, Zhang Y, Li Z, Kaifu Y, Huang Q, Nguyen KTK, Le HD, Xie G, Nguyen AT, Yamagata M, Simanjuntak T, Noerwidi S, Fauzi MR, Tolla M, Wetipo A, He G, Sawada J, Zhang C, Bellwood P, Matsumura H.   +22 more
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Views of Vidigal: negotiating opportunities and risks in a gentrifying favela in Rio de Janeiro Favela avec vue : négocier opportunités et risques dans un quartier en voie de gentrification à Rio de Janeiro

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The contested dynamics of slum gentrification in Rio de Janeiro came into focus during the brief period of relative peace brought by the pacification policy leading up to the 2016 Olympics. In this unprecedented moment, Rio's South Zone favela residents experienced a respite from the daily confrontations with police operations and drug trade violence ...
Angela Torresan
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Mitogenomic analysis of a representative of the Chernyakhov culture in the Middle Dniester and their genetic relationship with the Slavs in the context of paleoanthropological data. [PDF]

Vavilovskii Zhurnal Genet Selektsii
Rozhdestvenskikh EV, Andreeva TV, Malyarchuk AB, Adrianova IY, Khodyreva DS, Evteev AA, Buzhilova AP, Rogaev EI.   +7 more
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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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