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Theorizing White Ignorance From Du Bois to Mills: Narrative and Consumptive Innocence

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Starting with Du Bois, scholars of race have investigated the role of White ignorance as it perpetuates White supremacy. Today, Charles Mills and scholars continue this inquiry by expanding the importance of White ignorance to include multiple forms. This article contributes to this inquiry by highlighting the role and types of White innocence.
Miguel Montalva Barba, Camille Petersen
wiley   +1 more source

Rise of the south: How Arab‐led maritime trade transformed China, 671–1371 CE

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 3-38, March 2025.
Abstract China's center of socioeconomic activities was in the North prior to the Tang dynasty but is in the South today. We demonstrate that Arab and Persian Muslim traders triggered that transition when they came to China in the late seventh century, by lifting maritime trade along the South Coast and re‐creating the South.
Zhiwu Chen, Zhan Lin, Kaixiang Peng
wiley   +1 more source

“We All Live in One World”: Challenging Settler Mythologies With Sovereign Assertions

Anthropology &Education Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The paper examines how settler colonial myths perpetuate systemic inequities in the education of Native students in Southern Utah. It critiques the “two‐worlds” narrative used to justify marginalization and explores how Native parents use sovereign assertions to challenge these injustices.
Cynthia Benally, Donna Deyhle, Beth King
wiley   +1 more source

“Like We're Meeting the Ancestors”: Toward an Lˈnucentric Archaeology in Miˈkmaˈki

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We explore the possibilities for an archaeology that is relevant to, and empowering of, Indigenous futures by reflecting on four seasons of archaeological fieldwork, our encounters with Lˈnu (or Miˈkmaw) material culture, our experiences returning to ancestral Lˈnu places, and our engagements with sociocultural and archaeological ...
Michelle Lelièvre, Cynthia Martin, Mallory Corbett, Sarah Brooks, Hannah Martin   +4 more
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The Art of Remembering and Making a Way: Going There, Knowing There, and Other Curious Lessons From “The Genius of the South”

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How do we imagine the future, especially in our current moment? This keynote encourages us to consider lessons learned and shared by those who have gone before us. This includes a giant of our discipline, Zora Neale Hurston, whose praxis challenges us to be present and to listen and learn from another vantage point.
Antoinette Jackson
wiley   +1 more source

Reframing the Chipped Edge: Combining Materiality, Ontology, and Embodiment to Rethink Stone Tool‐Making and Human Conscious Behavior in the Paleolithic Past

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Combining different theoretical frameworks can lead to new insights into the role of material things in shaping human experience in the Paleolithic period. This paper first presents a historical review of three theoretical approaches in archaeology, anthropology, and the philosophy of mind: Material culture and materiality studies, the ...
Bar Efrati
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The exploitation of silver deposits in early medieval Europe: some documentary, economic and social problems

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract Focusing on Southern Europe, this article sheds light on the mining landscape of the early Middle Ages. Based on the current state of historical and archaeological knowledge, the article raises a number of questions that can be extended to other European regions.
Nicolas Minvielle Larousse
wiley   +1 more source

Living by the lake: Plant food diversity in a prehistoric lake‐dwelling community in the Republic of North Macedonia

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the relationship between wetland ecosystems and prehistoric lakeshore settlements within the Lake Ohrid basin (a biodiversity hotspot) by considering plant food systems at Ploča Mičov Grad, North Macedonia. The mid‐fifth millennium (c.4555–4373 to 4437–4241 cal BCE) waterlogged assemblage contained a diverse spectrum of ...
Amy Holguin, Michael Charles, Ferran Antolín, Rachel Ballantyne, Müge Ergun, Albert Hafner, Stefanie Jacomet, André F. Lotter, Goce Naumov, Johannes Reich, Raül Soteras, Elizabeth Stroud, Willy Tinner, Rachel Wood, Amy Bogaard   +14 more
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‘Missing persons’: Ancient legacies of human–environment interaction in tropical natural properties inscribed under the 1972 World Heritage Convention

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract Cultural and natural values form the core of World Heritage designation. Properties displaying both values, however, comprise a fraction of inscriptions (currently c. 3%) to the World Heritage List. In 1992, when that fraction stood at c. 5%, adoption of the popular ‘cultural landscapes’ category of cultural heritage in 1992 was therefore ...
Ryan J. Rabett
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Lithic analysis in African archaeology: Advances and key themes

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract Stone artifacts (lithics) preserve for extended periods; thus they are key evidence for probing the evolution of human technological behaviors. Africa boasts the oldest record of stone artifacts, spanning 3.3 Ma, rare instances of ethnographic stone tool‐making, and stone tool archives from diverse ecological settings, making it an anchor for ...
Deborah I. Olszewski, Amanuel Beyin, Justin Pargeter   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source