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The tentacles of surveillance: Cephalopods and United States satellite intelligence

open access: yesJournal for the Anthropology of North America, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the symbol placed on a US spy satellite, National Reconnaissance Office Launch–39 (NROL‐39). In 2013, NROL‐39 was launched into space, the payload vehicle and mission patch emblazoned with a gigantic octopus, its tentacles surrounding the globe, and the words “Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach” written below the globe.
Andrew Bickford
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing Histotaphonomy: A Pilot Study Using Image Analysis for Quantitative Scoring of Bone Diagenesis

open access: yesInternational Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This pilot study focusses on improving the methodological approach of histotaphonomy by integrating image analysis software for assessing bone diagenesis in both bone histological sections and microcomputed tomography (μ‐CT) scans of the same bone slice. Femurs and ribs from six individuals buried at the churchyard of St.
Lolita Trenchat   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ethnoecological perspectives on environmental stewardship: Tenets and basis of reciprocity in Gitxsan and nłeʔkepmx (Nlaka'pamux) Territories

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Local and Indigenous Peoples steward and protect a significant proportion of biologically diverse ecosystems globally. This fact is increasingly acknowledged by researchers and international organizations, offering both opportunities and challenges at the intersection of Indigenous and western knowledge production in the context of ...
Chelsey Geralda Armstrong   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Clumsy solutions and climate change: A retrospective

open access: yesWIREs Climate Change, Volume 14, Issue 1, January/February 2023., 2023
Clumsy solutions for a wicked world. Abstract In 1989, Steve Rayner chided fellow anthropologists for “fiddling while the world warms.” This was the starting point of a decades‐long application to human‐made climate change of the cultural theory that he had developed with Mary Douglas and Michael Thompson.
Marco Verweij
wiley   +1 more source

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