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DNA Barcoding of Head Lice from a ~1500-Year-Old Salt-Preserved Mummy from the Chehrabad Salt Mine, Iran. [PDF]

Insects
Bizhani N, Ashfaq M, Hebert PDN, Prosser S, Dupouy-Camet J, Ali A, Stöllner T, Boenke N, Naddaf SR, Mowlavi G.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Toward a Politics of (In)Fertility: Reproductive Debility in Africa

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sub‐Saharan Africa has some of the highest estimated rates of infertility or involuntary childlessness in the world, leading epidemiologists to refer to parts of the region as the “infertility belt.” The medicalization of infertility and the situating of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) as the treatment for infertility have siphoned ...
Tessa Moll
wiley   +1 more source

Human dissection and comparative anatomy: Archaeological evidence for nineteenth-century anatomical practice at University College London. [PDF]

J Anat
Birch W, Kausmally T.
europepmc   +1 more source

Beyond the Dichotomy of Success and Failure: Making Activism Meaningful in South Korea and France

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT First deployed in the 1970s, prefiguration has recently gained traction among ethnographers of political action as a descriptor for activist practices that foreground participatory democracy, horizontality, and direct action, as seen in social movements like Occupy Wall Street. Notably, ethnographers have come to understand these prefigurative‐
Guilherme Fians, Sera Yeong Seo Park
wiley   +1 more source

Stable isotope evidence of anthropocene disruption in African softshell turtle foraging. [PDF]

PLoS One
de Kock W, van der Meer MTJ, van Bommel R, Taurozzi AJ, Von Tersch M, Allentoft ME, Mackie M, Ramsøe M, Collins M, Alexander M, Palsbøll PJ, Çakırlar C, Turkozan O.   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Pre-Editorial: Towards a Public Archaeology

AP, 2016
Jaime Almansa Sánchez
doaj   +1 more source

The Anthropocene and the End of Nuclear Disaster: Normalizing the Fukushima Nuclear Accident

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article places the concept of disaster in critical dialogue with that of the Anthropocene, which introduces new imaginaries that negatively affect the governance of crises like nuclear accidents. I argue that tropes surrounding the Anthropocene can depict certain events as apocalyptic calamities while also portraying other events as mere “
Maxime Polleri
wiley   +1 more source

In foreign pastures: Livestock mobility at Hazor and the permeability of Iron Age geopolitical borders in the Southern Levant. [PDF]

PLoS One
Makarewicz CA, Martini S, Marom N, Bechar S.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Four Questions for Ethnographers Under Trumpian Authoritarianism

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines evolving challenges and ethical dilemmas facing ethnographers working under intensifying authoritarianism in the United States. Because very little of what the United States is experiencing is new, my work here is primarily curatorial in nature, drawing upon the lessons offered by scholars across disciplines in the United
Elizabeth Hanna Rubio
wiley   +1 more source

Equal in death: Ancient genomic analysis of children's early Christian burials. [PDF]

Sci Adv
Krzewińska M, Kjellström A, Yaka R, Rodríguez-Varela R, Pochon Z, Kempe Lagerholm V, Hedenstierna-Jonson C, Zachrisson T, Kashuba N, Sobrado V, Naidoo T, Vural KB, Jakobsson M, Kılınç GM, Storå J, Götherström A.   +15 more
europepmc   +1 more source