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Mining and/in outer space: Verticality, analogy, and infrastructural mediation in subarctic Sweden Les mines et/dans l'espace : verticalité, analogie et médiation infrastructurelle dans les régions subarctiques de Suède

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 605-625, June 2025.
Space activities in subarctic Sweden are predicated on older infrastructures of underground resource extraction. The ongoing expansion of the country's rocket launch site outside Kiruna relies on the Swedish state's historical construction of the region as a resource frontier.
Chakad Ojani
wiley   +1 more source

Economic inequality is fueled by population scale, land-limited production, and settlement hierarchies across the archaeological record. [PDF]

open access: yesProc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Kohler TA   +27 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Complaint culture: the non‐market economy and moral disappointment in a late‐socialist kibbutz La culture des réclamations : économie non marchande et déception morale dans un kibboutz aux derniers temps du socialisme

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In recent years, the kibbutz – a once‐idealized socialist commune in Israel – has become a common object of critique in Israeli popular culture. Many critiques focus on what can be described as the old kibbutz's ‘moral harshness’, highlighting the prevalence of informal surveillance, peer pressure, and public moralizing.
Omri Senderowicz
wiley   +1 more source

Early human collective practices and symbolism in the Early Upper Paleolithic of Southwest Asia. [PDF]

open access: yesProc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Barzilai O   +25 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 116-136, March 2025.
Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing neighborhoods, wealth differentials, and perceived inequality in preindustrial societies. [PDF]

open access: yesProc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Thompson AE   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Strangers on the ladder of the party‐state: Women in teaching in Nationalist Taiwan, 1940s–1980s

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract As the ruling party of a party‐state in China and Taiwan, the Nationalist Party (Kuomintang/Guomindang) built a close relationship with the teaching profession. Many teachers joined the party and there was a well‐trodden pathway from teaching into local representative politics and civil service.
Joseph Lawson
wiley   +1 more source

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