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Water Beings and Capitalist Relations in India's Sundarbans Delta
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 3, Page 595-606, September 2026.ABSTRACT This article explores entanglements between water cosmologies and capitalist transformation in the Sundarbans delta of West Bengal, India. It traces how “awakened” tidal creeks have been iteratively enclosed as private fisheries from the colonial period to the present, with particular focus on the expansion of commercial aquaculture over the ...
Calynn Dowler
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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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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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Dart and the Taung juvenile: making sense of a century-old record of hominin evolution in Africa. [PDF]
Biol LettRowan J, Wood B.
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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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Obstetrical Constraints and the Origin of Extended Postnatal Brain Maturation in Hominin Evolution. [PDF]
Biology (Basel)Frémondière P +4 more
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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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Homo naledi and Pleistocene hominin evolution in subequatorial Africa. [PDF]
Elife, 2017 Berger LR +4 more
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