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Comment by Andrew Shryock

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Abstract Comment on ‘On the problem of continuity: a theory of culture beyond invention’ by Paolo Heywood and Thomas ...
Andrew Shryock
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Earliest millet cultivation reflects steppe connections, dietary flexibility, and resilience in Bronze Age northern Greece. [PDF]

PLoS One
Karanikola K, Valamoti SM, Motuzaite Matuzeviciute G.   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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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The dispersal of domestic cats from North Africa to Europe around 2000 years ago. [PDF]

Science
De Martino M, De Cupere B, Rovelli V, Serventi P, Mouraud B, Baldoni M, Di Corcia T, Geiger S, Alhaique F, Alves PC, Buitenhuis H, Ceccaroni E, Cerilli E, De Grossi Mazzorin J, Detry C, Dowd M, Fiore I, Gourichon L, Grau-Sologestoa I, Küchelmann HC, Kunst GK, McCarthy M, Miccichè R, Minniti C, Moreno M, Mrđić N, Onar V, Oueslati T, Parrag M, Pino Uria B, Romagnoli G, Rugge M, Salari L, Saliari K, Santos AB, Schmölcke U, Sforzi A, Soranna G, Spassov N, Tagliacozzo A, Tinè V, Trixl S, Vuković S, Wierer U, Wilkens B, Doherty S, Sykes N, Frantz L, Mattucci F, Caniglia R, Larson G, Peters J, Van Neer W, Ottoni C.   +53 more
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Amidst (waste) abundance: world‐making and struggles in hosting a municipal landfill in the Bolivian lowlands Au milieu de l'abondance (de déchets) : fabrication du monde et luttes liées à la gestion d'une décharge municipale dans les basses terres de Bolivie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In recent decades, solid waste has proliferated worldwide, becoming a pressing global issue. This article explores the role of Indigenous people dwelling within and upon emerging waste scenarios, with a specific focus on involved forms of sociality and ontological contestation. Drawing on the case of a municipal landfill sited on a Guarani community in
Vanesa Martín Galán
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Genomic ancestry, behavior, and the domestication of the dog. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Lord KA, Larson G, Murphy WJ, Ostrander EA.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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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Using digital archaeology and machine learning to determine sex in finger flutings. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Jalandoni A, Haubt R, Farrar C, Tuxworth G, Zhang Z, Walshe K, Nowell A.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Seabirds shaped the expansion of pre-Inca society in Peru. [PDF]

PLoS One
Bongers JL, Milton EBP, Osborn J, Drucker DG, Robinson JR, Scaffidi BK.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source