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Refusal and Aporia: At the Limits of Anthropological Knowledge
ABSTRACT As anthropologists increasingly take up refusal, opacity, and other forms of resistance to surveillance and subjugation, this paper questions what implications this has for the discipline in practice. Considering anthropology's enduring centrality in defining what it means to be human, including the various ways that this category has been ...
Cory‐Alice André‐Johnson
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A Review of Research Aims for Historical Anatomical Skeletal Collections in the United States
ABSTRACT Objectives Many osteological methods used by biological anthropologists today were initially developed using historical anatomical skeletal collections such as the Hamann‐Todd and Terry Collections. However, these collections were amassed through state legislation that permitted the dissection and curation of unclaimed individuals.
Allyson M. Simon +2 more
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The particular stigmatization of the passive pederast in the inquiries of forensic medecine in the first part of the XIX centuryForensic medicine in the first part of the 19th century investigations are first work considering the practice of male ...
Thierry Pastorello
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Interpreting sulci on hominin endocasts: Old hypotheses and new findings
Paleoneurologists analyze internal casts (endocasts) of fossilized braincases, which provide information about the size, shape and, to a limited degree, sulcal patterns reproduced from impressions left by the surface of the brain.
Dean eFalk, Dean eFalk
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The Deconversion of Harriet Martineau: An Emotional History of Unbelief
Conceptualising the ‘Victorian crisis of faith’ as a phenomenon fuelled by wider intellectual forces can only take us so far in our understanding of it. The loss of faith of many contemporaries did not merely entail an intellectual volte‐face, but also an affective impact. Scholarly accounts have been primarily written by privileging the role of ideas,
Petros Spanou
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HISTORY AND THEORY AND PHILOLOGY NOW: TOGETHER IN THEORY
ABSTRACT In English‐speaking academe, philology has virtually disappeared as a defined discipline, although its traditional array of skills and techniques for reading, editing, and interpreting texts are indispensable to fields ranging from biblical studies through every language and literature and are central to historical research. Philology's status
Nancy Partner
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The politics of algorithmic governance in the black box city
Everyday surveillance work is increasingly performed by non-human algorithms. These entities can be conceptualised as machinic flâneurs that engage in distanciated flânerie : subjecting urban flows to a dispassionate, calculative and expansive gaze. This
Gavin JD Smith
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Technofuturist Registers for AI and the Future of Work
ABSTRACT This article contributes to sociolinguistic scholarship on register formations, digital technology, and labor by analyzing technofuturist registers—historically inherited, typified, and socially shared modes of speaking about technology. These registers create distinct modes of feeling, relating, idealizing, and desiring technology and its ...
Alfonso Del Percio
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