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From mammoth to miniature: ‘Model of a summer encampment of the Yakuts’ as a narrative object Du mammouth à la miniature : La maquette de camp d’été des Yakoutes comme objet de narration

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 111-131, March 2026.
Classic anthropological accounts of miniature objects have focused on their spatial and aesthetic dimensions, with more recent work addressing their communicative potential, connections with play, and role in protecting threatened cultural knowledge. This article analyses responses to a miniature landscape model of yhyakh, a festival celebrated in the ...
Alison K. Brown
wiley   +1 more source

Development of a 5K Liquid-Phase Genome-Wide Breeding Chip for Xinglong Buffalo. [PDF]

Animals (Basel)
Jiao Y, Jiang J, Li S, Chen T, Qiu X, Cui K, Li B, Chen S, Chen Q, Du L, Man C, Li L, Wang F, Gao H.   +13 more
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Measuring MAN (incorporating JRAI): Computational anthropological analysis and quantitative speculation

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 32-54, March 2026.
Abstract In this paper, we present a foray into the computational study of anthropological texts. Drawing on a corpus of approximately 2,500 articles published in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (formerly Man) from 1950 to 2018, we discuss selected findings from the deployment of two methods for computational text analysis, namely ...
Kristoffer Albris, Matei Candea, Thyge Enggaard, Terne Sasha Thorn Jakobsen, Morten Axel Pedersen   +4 more
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Toxic tides of change: Ocean pollution as a cultural tipping point. [PDF]

Ambio
Vandenberg JM, Ritts E, Ota Y, Fielding R.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Egalitarians despite themselves: envy and leadership in Ecuadorian Amazonia Égalitaires malgré eux : envie et leadership en Amazonie équatorienne

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue S1, Page 28-48, March 2026.
The Shuar of Ecuadorian Amazonia once pursued eminence through warfare and vision quests. While vision quests have been retained, today – settled in villages – they seek eminence through economic success and political leadership. This article examines an apparent paradox: whilst envy suspicions pervade public life, they legitimize rather than level ...
Natalia Buitron, Grégory Deshoullière
wiley   +1 more source

Classifying Convergences in the Light of Horizontal Gene Transfer: Epaktovars and Xenotypes. [PDF]

Mol Biol Evol
McInerney JO.
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Tactile tensions: uncertainty, mutuality, and therianthropic nightmares in Highland Odisha Tact et tensions : incertitude, mutualité et cauchemars thérianthropiques dans les hautes terres de l'Odisha

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue S1, Page 49-66, March 2026.
In the central highlands of Odisha, India, Kutia Kondh families navigate a precarious reality shaped by productive autonomy, decentralized authority, and material and relational uncertainty. Abundance and destitution are finely balanced in a world where humans, animals, ancestors, and spirits are co‐present and co‐dependent but also opaque and ...
Sam Wilby
wiley   +1 more source

Being (a) patient-navigating desire through online communities in assisted reproductive technology. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Decataldo A, Andreoni E.
europepmc   +1 more source

Society beyond morality: mimesis, sovereignty, and being not‐human in the Nyau associations of Malawi La société par‐delà la moralité : mimèse, souveraineté et existence non humaine dans les sociétés Nyau du Malawi

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue S1, Page 67-84, March 2026.
Nyau masked dancers embodying a variety of people, animals, and objects appear at many public events in Chewa areas of Malawi. Understood to be the physical manifestation of ancestral spirits, these entities are classified as ‘not human’ and transgress ordinary morality, mocking and threatening audiences.
Sam Farrell
wiley   +1 more source

Nature-based interventions for enhancing resilience in children: a systematic review and meta-analysis. [PDF]

Discov Ment Health
Fan MSN, Li WHC, Ho LLK, Choi KC, Phiri L, Pacchiani S, Antal B, Cheung CSK, Khaleel DKA.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source