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Objects as Knowledgeable Elders: Lessons From the Reindeer Calf Halter Mȯnggu̇i
Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.ABSTRACT This article presents ongoing research that reconnects a historical ethnographic collection housed in a European museum with the descendants of its source communities in the transnational Inner Asian region, specifically among the Tozhu and Tukha reindeer herders of the Tyva Republic and Mongolia.
Victoria Soyan Peemot
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Reaching for Ancestral Heritage: Sakha Collections in the Museums of the World
Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.ABSTRACT This paper is devoted to the collections of old Sakha objects produced by Indigenous craftsmen in the north of the Russian Empire and now located in many museums around the world. For several centuries, objects representing Sakha material culture were taken away from their place of origin by explorers, scholars, collectors, and missionaries ...
Tatiana Argounova‐Low
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Cave Palaeolithic of the Ural Mountains – a review
Boreas, Volume 55, Issue 1, Page 4-28, January 2026.The Ural Mountains are of fundamental importance for studying early human migrations along the geographical limits between Europe and Asia. Geological processes and past climates gave rise to numerous caves, mostly in Palaeozoic carbonate formations.
Jiri Chlachula
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When Everything Old Was New Again: Reclaiming Ethnonational Tradition in Post‐Soviet Buryatia
The Russian Review, Volume 84, Issue 3, Page 443-461, July 2025.Abstract Why greet your family in Buryat rather than Russian? What does it matter how many times you fold the dough of a meat dumpling? How should one celebrate a holiday? In early twenty‐first‐century Buryatia, the Buryat Buddhist New Year, Sagaalgan, emerged as an important domain within which such small practices were reified as expressive of Buryat
Kathryn E. Graber
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Metaverse in Tourism and Hospitality: A Framework‐Based Systematic Review
Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.The metaverse is projected to contribute over $3 trillion to the global economy by 2031. Major technology firms, including Unity Technologies, Meta, Epic Games, Valve Corporation, Alphabet, and Roblox, invest billions of dollars in its development. Adopting digital technologies such as mixed reality (MR), virtual reality (VR), extended reality (ER ...
Chiranjeeb Debnath +2 more
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Commensal Attraction: Eating Together as a Social Tool
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 54, Issue 4, Page 556-570, December 2024.Abstract Social and human sciences have demonstrated again and again how commensality—the practice of eating together—has substantial implications, across time and place, for how social life is configured. Closely related phenomena have also been explored in biologically oriented sciences focused on human behavior.
Nicklas Neuman
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Gender &History, Volume 36, Issue 3, Page 890-903, October 2024.Abstract Gendered order in the Soviet camp system shaped women inmates’ experiences of labour and factored in their survival. This article zooms in on the published memoirs of four women political prisoners who survived the Gulag and explores how they experienced and narrated carceral labour.
Zhanna Popova
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The Russian Review, Volume 83, Issue 4, Page 548-572, October 2024.Abstract The aim of this article is to bring the issue of peace more definitively into the increasingly complex vision we have of the postwar era and to give particular thought to the place of the military man within a society that was now supposedly orientated toward peace.
Claire E. McCallum
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Nature in Seclusion. The Monastic Republic of Letters in Southern Germany**
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Volume 47, Issue 3, Page 215-241, September 2024.Abstract Monasteries were famous for their extensive libraries and richly decorated churches. Less well known are their observatories and their mathematical‐physical collections with telescopes, air pumps, and friction machines. But how did the way of life in the monastery and scientific practices influence each other?
Julia Bloemer
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Round Trip Policies: Housing and Self‐Management, from Europe to Latin America and Back Again
Antipode, Volume 56, Issue 2, Page 446-468, March 2024.Abstract Current debates in radical urban studies and comparative urbanism focus in part on the denunciation of universalisation in urban theories as an expression of Eurocentrism. Decolonial and postcolonial scholars risk rejecting general theorising in the name of particularism, difference, and the fragmentary character of the world and reducing ...
Ibán Díaz‐Parra +2 more
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