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Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
wiley   +1 more source

The distribution of power and inclusiveness across deep time. [PDF]

Sci Adv
Feinman GM, Stasavage D, Carballo DM, Barber SB, Green A, Holland-Lulewicz J, Lawrence D, Munson J, Nicholas LM, Fulminante F, Klassen S, Kintigh KW, Douglass J.   +12 more
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Fiscal grievance politics: wealth taxation and master‐race democracy in post‐coup Bolivia Politique des griefs fiscaux : impôt sur la fortune et démocratie de la race maîtresse en Bolivie post‐coup d’État

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
wiley   +1 more source

Landscape-wide cosmogram built by the early community of Aguada Fénix in southeastern Mesoamerica. [PDF]

Sci Adv
Inomata T, Triadan D, Vázquez López VA, García Hernández M, Fernandez-Diaz JC, Sharpe AE, Alvarado C, Flores A, Ceballos X, Hanson KE, Chen R, Beach T, Omori T, Nasu H, Aoyama K, Yamada K, Kitaba I, Nakagawa T.   +17 more
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Dwelling in a post‐fallout landscape: re‐shaping and sustaining life in a former evacuation zone in Fukushima Habiter après la catastrophe : redonner forme au monde et entretenir la vie dans une ancienne zone évacuée à Fukushima

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article explores the activities of daily life in a village neighbouring the TEPCO nuclear power plant in Fukushima. It argues that one of the potentials of taking a dwelling perspective – a phenomenological approach to living within the ecological and social environments – emerges most compellingly within a polluted landscape.
Tomoko Sakai
wiley   +1 more source

Prehistoric hunting megastructures in the Adriatic hinterland. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Vrhovnik DM, Fabec T.
europepmc   +1 more source

Towards an anthropology of acquisition: ‘How did you get that?’ Vers une anthropologie de l'acquisition : « Où as‐tu trouvé ça ? »

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The production‐distribution‐consumption triad has structured how anthropologists understand exchange for roughly a century. This article argues for expanding this triad to include an explicit focus on acquisition – the systems, processes, and practices of acquiring.
Hanna Garth
wiley   +1 more source

A method for planning cycling networks in traditional village contiguous areas using Wi-Fi probe-based attractiveness evaluation. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Liu S, Wang S, Gao Y, Zhou Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

Autopsy, deathways, and intercultural healthcare in the southern Peruvian Andes Autopsie, pratiques mortuaires et soins de santé interculturels dans le sud des Andes péruviennes

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
While death remains a popular topic for anthropology, relatively few ethnographic accounts consider the modern bureaucratic processes accompanying it. One such process is public health autopsy, which scholars have largely taken for granted. Existing analysis has regarded it as a form of ‘cultural brokering’ and autopsy reluctance in communities is seen,
David M.R. Orr
wiley   +1 more source

The earliest elephant-bone tool from Europe: An unexpected raw material for precision knapping of Acheulean handaxes. [PDF]

Sci Adv
Parfitt SA, Bello SM.
europepmc   +1 more source