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Trading Zones Between Thick and Thin: Anthropological Description as Scaffold or Mosaic

American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 1, Page 159-170, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Referring to the work of historian of science Peter Galison, I argue that anthropology requires thin description as an essential counterpart for thick description. Thin accounts provide the scaffolding within which thick descriptions sit. Galison uses the idea of a “trading zone” connecting different communities who, despite their differences (
David Zeitlyn
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Phonographic Recordings in Finno‐Ugric Languages in Finnish Archives

Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT This review discusses audio recordings made by Finnish scholars among the Russian Arctic people in the early twentieth century and stored in various archives in Finland. The background of the recordings, together with their broader meaning and the possibilities for research they offer, is brought out.
Karina Lukin
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Bridging Spiritual Healing with Occupational Identity: Perspectives of Hmong Shamans [PDF]

Hmong Studies Journal
Occupational Therapy Practitioners (OTPs) can serve as a bridge between Western medicine and traditional healing by educating health professionals about the role of Hmong shamans.
Mai Moua, Alysha Skuthan
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Covert Institutionality: Sacred Mountains, Witches and Exorcists

Phenomenology and Mind, 2016
I develop an account of covert institutional facts by examining sacred objects, witches, shamans and exorcists. I present an account of sacred objects as covert institutional entities, and distinguish between true beliefs that help create the ...
Filip Buekens
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“Seen Again”: Ethnography, Immersive Technologies, and Temporality in the Siberian Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum

Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper proposes Virtual Reality (VR) and 360 film as promising fieldwork tools for addressing problematic temporalities in ethnographic museums and for collaborating with communities of origin. Focusing on the Maria Czaplicka Siberian collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, we examine how previous methods of display marginalized the
Anya Gleizer, Jaanika Vider, Pablo Fernández Velasco   +2 more
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Adaptive hybrid optimization strategy for calibration and parameter estimation of physical models

, 2011
A new adaptive hybrid optimization strategy, entitled squads, is proposed for complex inverse analysis of computationally intensive physical models. The new strategy is designed to be computationally efficient and robust in identification of the global ...
Atmadji, Carrera, Clerc, Cooren, Dahlin, Dawkins, Digalakis, Dokou, Dylan R. Harp, Ghaffari-Miab, Griewank, Harp, Jessell, Krasnogor, Lagarias, Levenberg, Locatelli, Marquardt, Meek, Moscato, Nelder, Nocedal, Pan, Poeter, Poeter, Rao, Rosenbrock, Shang, Snodgrass, Sun, Velimir V. Vesselinov, Vesselinov, Vrugt, Wang, Wilson, Zhang   +35 more
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Objects as Knowledgeable Elders: Lessons From the Reindeer Calf Halter Mȯnggu̇i

Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT This article presents ongoing research that reconnects a historical ethnographic collection housed in a European museum with the descendants of its source communities in the transnational Inner Asian region, specifically among the Tozhu and Tukha reindeer herders of the Tyva Republic and Mongolia.
Victoria Soyan Peemot
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Reaching for Ancestral Heritage: Sakha Collections in the Museums of the World

Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper is devoted to the collections of old Sakha objects produced by Indigenous craftsmen in the north of the Russian Empire and now located in many museums around the world. For several centuries, objects representing Sakha material culture were taken away from their place of origin by explorers, scholars, collectors, and missionaries ...
Tatiana Argounova‐Low
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Shamanistic Rituals to Âşıks Performances: Symbolism of Summoning Spirits

Religions
Âşıks, renowned for their adeptness at improvisational poetry, are viewed as the inheritors of certain shamanic functions within historical contexts. Originally, shamans assumed diverse roles encompassing poetry, medicine, and priesthood before social ...
Ünsal Yılmaz Yeşildal, Banu Güzelderen, Fatih Düzgün   +2 more
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Persisting Modulation of Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation on Near‐Future Winter Precipitation Projections in Northern Europe

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 53, Issue 3, 16 February 2026.
Abstract European winter precipitation profoundly influences regional hydroclimate, yet the relative roles of internal variability and external forcing in its decadal changes remain elusive. Using large‐ensemble climate simulations, we identify the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation (IPO) as a potential driver of interdecadal changes in winter northern ...
Mengyuan Yao, Haosu Tang, Gang Huang
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