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Indigenous Futurities: Theorizing Futurity in the Past and Present

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over the past 20 years, a growing number of activists, scholars, writers, and visual artists have engaged with futurism as a framework for representing the lives of Indigenous peoples. Inspired by this hopeful reframing of the past‐present‐future, contributions to this special section of American Anthropologist address the question: How can ...
Lindsay Martel Montgomery   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

On account of doomsday

open access: yesAmerican Ethnologist, EarlyView.
Abstract In recent years, Berlin has emerged as an epicenter of climate activism in Germany. There, a range of groups have mobilized in opposition to the role of the German state and the EU in accelerating the climate crisis. Many activists now see conventional political responses as exhausted and have turned to increasingly radical forms of civil ...
Max Jack
wiley   +1 more source

The Unbecoming Ghost: Spectropolitics in the Making and Unmaking of BHU's Bhoot Vidya Ayurveda Certificate Program

open access: yesAnthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
wiley   +1 more source

Volunteering While Researching Conflict and Violence: Reflections on Listening, Solidarity, and Decoloniality in Myanmar's Borderlands

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholars working on conflict and violence often engage with local organisations, yet the methodological and ethical implications of volunteering‐while‐researching are rarely discussed in writing. This article contributes to debates on decolonizing research by conceptualising volunteering‐while‐researching as a practice that—while imbued with ...
Shona Loong
wiley   +1 more source

Brokers, Collaborators and Knowledge Translators: Expanding the Role of Research Assistants in Geographic Research

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While ‘local’ research assistants (RA) often play a key role in knowledge production in fieldwork‐based disciplines like geography, their role and agency often remain silenced. This paper brings together scholarship in feminist geography and critical development studies to reposition RAs as brokers, collaborators, and knowledge translators.
Zali Fung
wiley   +1 more source

Integrating Sr isotopes, microchemistry, and genetics to reconstruct Salmonidae species and life history

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent approaches to fisheries research emphasize the importance of the coproduction of knowledge in building resilient and culturally mindful fisheries management frameworks. Despite widespread recognition of the need for Indigenous knowledge and historical reference points as baseline data, archaeological data are rarely included in ...
Ross Salerno   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Multi‐Analytical Approach for the Compositional Characterization and Chronological Discrimination of Benin (Nigeria) Metal Sculptures

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents a multi‐analytical archaeometric approach for the compositional characterization and chronological discrimination of Benin metal sculptures in relation to the 1897 Punitive Expedition. The methodology integrates elemental composition (XRF and ICP), stable lead isotope ratios (MC‐ICP‐MS) for alloy system characterization ...
I. Torraba   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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