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Torture and scepticism in Papua New Guinea witch hunts Torture et scepticisme dans les chasses aux sorcières en Papouasie‐Nouvelle‐Guinée

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
For over a century, anthropologists have documented the many institutions that exist to respond to witchcraft and the uncanny that it names: oracles that attempt to produce certainty by naming the witch; moots in which grievances are aired; trials in magistrates’ courts that attempt to satisfy the community while preserving the life of the accused ...
Chloe Nahum‐Claudel
wiley   +1 more source

Gender pay gaps in the social sciences. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Gneezy A, Gneezy U, Zivin JG, Khanna G, Lyons E, Serra-Garcia M.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Vital events, vital relations: the structure of relations in an identity database Événements vitaux, liens vitaux : la structure des liens dans une base de données d'identité civile

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) manages Pakistan's biometric‐based national identity database, one of the largest identification systems of its kind in the world. This article examines bureaucratic practices used during identity registration to record ‘vital events’ in the lives of citizens: birth, marriage, divorce, and death.
Zehra Hashmi
wiley   +1 more source

The crime of surviving: Suicide recriminalization and mental health in Pakistan. [PDF]

PLOS Ment Health
Mashhood A, Khan MM.
europepmc   +1 more source

Cutting freedom down to size Liberté calibrée

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Freedom, as a concept and a value, presents limited prospects for anthropological comparison. The study of enslavement, much neglected in attempts to develop an anthropology of freedom, shows that freedom has been imagined by the enslaved as the opposite of their condition only under particular circumstances.
Harri Englund
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond the scalpel: forensic patterns, epistemic limits, and the medico-legal classification of femicide. [PDF]

Clinics (Sao Paulo)
Miziara CSMG, Miziara ID.
europepmc   +1 more source

False kings and imagined protestants: why schismogenesis does not explain variation in inequality among Indigenous societies of the Pacific Coast Faux rois et protestants imaginaires: pourquoi la schismogenèse n'explique pas les variations des inégalités parmi les sociétés autochtones de la côte pacifique nord‐américaine

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Indigenous societies along the temperate Pacific coast of North America embody diverse cultural institutions. This variation is conventionally classified into two distinct cultural areas: the Northwest Coast (NWC) and California (CAL). Discussion of the environmental, material, social, and ideological variation in these societies has a long and ...
Eric Alden Smith, Brian F. Codding
wiley   +1 more source

Reply to Letter to the Editor on: A. G. Nerlich, J. C. Dewaal, A. Perciaccante, S. Di Cosimo, L. Cortesi, J. Wimmer, S. T. Donnell, R, Bianucci: Did Michelangelo paint a young adult woman with breast cancer in "The Flood" (Sistine Chapel, Rome)? Breast 2024, 78, 103823 by Dr. Paul Gelinsky. [PDF]

Breast
Di Cosimo S, Nerlich AG, DeWaal JC, Perciaccante A, Wimmer J, Donnell ST, Bianucci R, Cortesi L.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Studies of Legal Anthropology and Legal Pluralism in Indonesia (Multiple Legal Institutions and Cultures : From the Perspective of Legal Anthropology and Jurisprudence)

The Studies of Legal Anthropology and Legal Pluralism in Indonesia (Multiple Legal Institutions and Cultures : From the Perspective of Legal Anthropology and Jurisprudence)
The primary aim of this paper is to describe the progress of legal anthropological and legal pluralism studies in Indonesia in the last 50 years. This paper presents some notes on historical background. How legal anthropology, and socio-legal studies at large, have been developed in academic circumstances. It will be divided into three phases, that is (
openaire   +1 more source

The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
wiley   +1 more source