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Performing history, negotiating patriarchy: Actressing as gendered labor and the fragmentation of womanhood in Chinese historical costume drama

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract Gender inequality remains widespread in the film and television production industry, yet it is seldom examined in relation to backstage working environments. This article integrates on‐screen and off‐screen perspectives to investigate the working lives of Chinese actresses.
Yajie Li, Yuhao Ding
wiley   +1 more source

Assemblages of care: Moral economies, classed labor, and affective exhaustion among Karachi's working middle‐class women

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how working middle‐class women in Karachi navigate the intersecting burdens of care and self‐care within the affective, infrastructural, and ideological conditions of urban precarity. Drawing on twelve semi‐structured interviews conducted across homes, workplaces, and cafés in the city, seven of which anchor the primary ...
Muhammad Huzaifa
wiley   +1 more source

Woven Words: Women and Classic Maya Hieroglyphic Writing

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract What survives of Classic Maya (250–925 CE) scribal tradition suggests that production and use of hieroglyphs were dominated by elite men. Ancient texts and imagery, as well as ethnohistorical sources, overwhelmingly position males as agents of writing.
Mallory E. Matsumoto, Mary Kate Kelly
wiley   +1 more source

Population genomics, demography, and circum-Baltic connectivity of Early Medieval southwestern Finland. [PDF]

open access: yesGenome Biol
O'Sullivan RJ   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Body Size, Dental Pathology, and Maternal Genetic Diversity of Ancient Horses in the Eastern Baltic Sea Region and Western Russia

open access: yesInternational Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The early evolutionary history of modern domestic horses (Equus caballus/Equus ferus caballus), known as the DOM2 lineage, is well documented due to numerous archaeological and ancient DNA (aDNA) studies. Although many uncertainties remain in the domestication timeline, current evidence suggests that the domestication of modern horses began in
Johanna Honka   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

High-Throughput Targeted Paleoproteomics Sex Estimation on Medieval Great Moravian Individuals Using MALDI-CASI-FTICR Mass Spectrometry. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Proteome Res
Bray F   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Stable Isotope Research for Human Bioarchaeology in Southeast Asia: A Review of Research Trends, Gaps, and Opportunities

open access: yesInternational Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the increasing number of studies undertaking isotopic analyses on archaeological material, some regions of the world and certain research foci remain underresearched and underrepresented. One of these regions is Southeast Asia, where bioarchaeological research was only comparatively recently established compared with other regions of ...
Brianna J. Muir
wiley   +1 more source

Florence, Italy: Rides in a Post-Modern Italian Theme Park

open access: yes, 2014
Steeped in history and commodified through tourism, Florence, Italy has morphed into a post-modern version of itself. My research project analyzes post-modern Florence, focusing on its identity as a Theme Park City.
Jenkins, Rachel
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