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Homo Memorabiliaxis: Souvenirs and the Evolution of Autobiographical Memory and Self
Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, Volume 35, Issue 4, December 2026.ABSTRACT Humans routinely keep souvenirs objects retained for the memories they evoke, yet the evolutionary and cognitive consequences of mnemonic collecting remain unclear. Existing discussions of curated objects concentrate on later prehistory and modern humans and view such objects at the social level, as carriers of shared cultural meaning or as ...
Ran Barkai +5 more
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American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 4, Page 875-881, December 2026.ABSTRACT The Arabic phrase Allāhu a‘lam—“God knows best”—is used frequently in everyday Muslim speech and to conclude seemingly assertive statements or fatwas. At its heart lies the recognition that God is the All‐Knowing, whereas humans know next to nothing. Reflecting on this recognition, this essay discusses Sufi refusals of the ethnographic project
Amira Mittermaier
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The Anthropocene and the End of Nuclear Disaster: Normalizing the Fukushima Nuclear Accident
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 4, Page 730-743, December 2026.ABSTRACT This article places the concept of disaster in critical dialogue with that of the Anthropocene, which introduces new imaginaries that negatively affect the governance of crises like nuclear accidents. I argue that tropes surrounding the Anthropocene can depict certain events as apocalyptic calamities while also portraying other events as mere “
Maxime Polleri
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How Anthropology Can Harm Students During a Genocide
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 4, Page 882-888, December 2026.ABSTRACT This essay is about the harm that is committed in the name of care. More specifically, it is about student requests for support during the ongoing genocide in Palestine and an anthropology department's use and weaponization of the language of “care” to do the exact opposite: to cause harm.
Girish Daswani
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Spectral Ecologies: Sintering More‐Than‐Human Pasts to Less‐Than‐Certain Futures
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 4, Page 910-916, December 2026.ABSTRACT How do we mourn the loss of more‐than‐human beings, and what becomes of them when they are gone? This commentary examines two installations in Spectral Remix, an art exhibition at the 2025 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in New Orleans.
Suraiya Luecke
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Medical Archaeology and the Research Roads of Global Health in the Age of Eugenics
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 4, Page 826-847, December 2026.ABSTRACT This article centers on an underexplored dimension of archaeology—the role of medicine and medical doctors in the ways archaeological excavations connected at times with early global health research and infrastructures. Its case studies focus on archaeology's role in the institutional networks, research routes, and racialized pathologies that ...
Franco D. Rossi
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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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American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 4, Page 809-825, December 2026.ABSTRACT In response to the planetary climate crisis, influential scholarship has directed us to decenter the human, recognize nonhuman agency, and imagine more‐than‐human futures. But what might this leave out? Drawing on Indigenous forest worlds in India and the incarcerated intellectual‐activists who struggled alongside them, this article develops a
Alpa Shah
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American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 4, Page 863-874, December 2026.ABSTRACT In Himachal Pradesh, India, village deities act as political figures who play an active role in communal affairs, especially during periods of social change. Bakhan, an annual divination ritual in which these deities speak through human mediums, is a public event that offers forecasts and instructions. I argue that the bakhan is a social arena
Asaf Sharabi
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, 2011 The Social Brian Hypothesis predicts the cognitive ability of hominin species by utilising estimated brain and group sizes in relation to an ordinal scale of cognitive complexity expressed as orders of intentionality.
Cole, James Nathan
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