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Modulating Hunting Atmospheres: Mud and Material Flows Beyond the Kill
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 3, Page 629-639, September 2026.ABSTRACT This article argues that hunting is not a bounded event but a materially redistributed atmosphere that extends beyond the kill and across field, truck, clothing, and home. Drawing on long‐term ethnographic fieldwork with wild boar hunters in Uruguay, I show how mud, odors, blood, and bodily residues carry the sensory, affective, and material ...
Juan Martin Dabezies
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Relatively open vegetation landscapes promoted early Pleistocene hominin evolution
Communications Earth & EnvironmentVegetation structure and landscape openness are key ecological factors influencing human behavioural and cultural adaptation strategies. However, there is ongoing debate and lack of quantitative assessment about which vegetation landscape and openness ...
Baoshuo Fan +12 more
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Political Animals: To Live & Die in More‐Than‐Human Worlds
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 3, Page 660-667, September 2026.ABSTRACT What does it mean to live—and therefore die—in a more‐than‐human world? This review essay explores that question through reflections on teaching Political Animals: Species, Class, Race, and Gender, an undergraduate course that introduces students to scholarship on human‐nonhuman relations.
Luísa Reis‐Castro
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(Un)threading Rhythms: On Affect and Vibe in a Rave
Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 2, Fall 2026.ABSTRACT In Toronto, raves arise across large nightclubs, DIY venues and outdoors, despite changing regulations that have further arranged and narrowed their possibility in the past 4 years. Following a rave in Toronto, this work explores ways that potentialities and affects emerge in a single night, through my entry of taking part in dancing and ...
Tatiana Yunadi
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‘Do larger molars and robust jaws in early hominins represent dietary adaptation?’ A New Study in Tooth Wear [PDF]
, 2013 Diet imposes significant constraints on the biology and behaviour of animals. The fossil record suggests that key changes in diet have taken place throughout the course of human evolution.
Clement, A
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Evidence for independent brain and neurocranial reorganization during hominin evolution. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2019 Alatorre Warren JL +3 more
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Where the Magician Lives: An Ontological Problem in the Anthropology of Magic
Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 2, Fall 2026.ABSTRACT The purpose of the present study is to outline a theoretical framework in which the anthropologist can introduce a naturalistic approach, which will not be conflicted with scientific discourses, into his ethnographic work. First of all, I argue that the principles of magic can be understood as a part of social cognitive causal chains, based on
Keishi Okamoto
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Journal of Anatomy, Volume 249, Issue 3, Page 544-564, September 2026.Variation in arboreality across gorilla populations is associated with systematic differences in manual digital lengths. Using a new dataset of linear metrics from the Bwindi mountain gorillas, we quantify metacarpal and phalangeal lengths in eastern and western gorilla populations across all five rays. Consistent with quantified behavioral differences,
Elliot G. Greiner +16 more
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The Philosophy of Comparative Psychology
Philosophy Compass, Volume 21, Issue 5, September/October 2026.ABSTRACT The philosophy of comparative psychology investigates a range of issues connected to the study of animal minds. These include first‐order questions about the nature of certain cognitive traits, the cognitive abilities implicated in their exercise, and the distribution of these traits in the animal kingdom; and second‐order questions about how ...
Richard Moore +2 more
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