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Craft in an age of creativity: disengagement as a new mode of craftsmanship among traditional potters in Japan

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Abstract Embedded within Japan's demographic and economic stagnation, traditional craftsmanship unexpectedly aligns with the discourse of creativity. This study delves into the intricacies of this convergence through ethnographic details, shedding light on how endeavours to preserve local crafts intertwine with the burgeoning discourse of creativity ...
Shilla Lee
wiley   +1 more source

Laser imaging of ancient tattoos: New tools illuminate established knowledge. [PDF]

open access: yesProc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Deter-Wolf A, Robitaille B, Krutak L.
europepmc   +1 more source

‘Home is not what it was’: making, unmaking, and remaking precarious homes among housing activists in Spain

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Activists fighting evictions in Madrid develop various social, affective, and material connections with and disconnections from their homes. This is especially important for people who are immersed in a regime of economic austerity and neoliberal housing policies that have provoked the social and material unmaking and remaking of homes. These processes
Ana Paola Gutiérrez Garza
wiley   +1 more source

Changes in agglomeration and productivity are poor predictors of inequality across the archaeological record. [PDF]

open access: yesProc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Ortman SG   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Agropastoral possibilism and the trajectorial affordances of Danish inland heaths: a study of deep‐time entrapment Possibilisme agropastoral et affordances des trajectoires dans les landes de l'arrière‐pays danois : une étude des entraves dans le passé lointain

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
History does not unfold along a single trajectory, and yet the socioecological configuration of landscapes may narrow the directions history can take. This article develops a framework for assessing the directionality of history in a (pre)historic heath landscape in Denmark.
Zachary Caple, Mette Løvschal
wiley   +1 more source

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