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Directions in Gender Research in American Indian Societies: Two Spirits and Other Categories [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Indigenous social role categories that represent third and fourth gender characteristics, such as the Lakota (Sioux) winkte and the Dino (Navajo) n and other Native terms, mark the status of these individuals.
Medicine, Beatrice
core   +3 more sources

Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Analysis Explores Diverse Domestic Goose Management Practices in Medieval and Postmedieval Russia

open access: yesInternational Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Studying goose domestication through archaeological finds has been challenging due to the similar skeletal morphology of the European domestic goose and its wild progenitor, the greylag goose (Anser anser). We analyzed stable carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) isotopes from bone collagen of subfossil domestic and potentially domestic geese to ...
Johanna Honka   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Quantitative Approach to Record Skeletal Manifestations of Leprosy and Its Application to St Mary Magdalen Leprosarium, Winchester

open access: yesInternational Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents and tests a new method for publishing and diagnosing leprosy‐related skeletal lesions while making available the leprosy‐related demographic data and pathology for St Mary Magdalen, Winchester (MMW). This method can facilitate interstudy comparisons of leprosy prevalence and severity by improving data comparability.
A. A. Blom   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Socaireños en movimiento: Atácamenos y Calama

open access: yesEstudios Atacameños, 2007
Se analiza la relación de la etnia atacameña con la ciudad de Calama en el norte de Chile. La presencia masiva de atácamenos en dicha ciudad exige observar las prácticas étnicas de construcción del territorio.
Walter A Imilan
doaj  

Anthropological Urban Transect

open access: yes, 2014
This paper presents the application of a methodological approach originally developed for urban planning to urban anthropology. This research approach focuses on different materialities in order to analyze functional zones, special areas and several categories of markers of up- and downgrading processes within a city.
Krebs, Melanie, Pilz, Madlen
openaire   +1 more source

Skeletal Trauma and Social Dynamics in Medieval Silves (Southern Portugal): Islamic Versus Christian Populations

open access: yesInternational Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Skeletal trauma provides insight into both accidental injury and interpersonal violence, reflecting everyday risk and social dynamics. This study tests the hypothesis that trauma, particularly among males, was more prevalent in the Islamic population of Silves (9th–13th centuries) than in the subsequent Christian rule (13th century onwards ...
Ana González‐Ruiz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

What All Americans Should Know About Women in the Muslim World: Clarifying Stereotypes About Muslim Women in Morocco [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The stereotypes about Muslims in Morocco as well as Morocco in general are widespread and often incorrect. The present paper combines both scholarly review and personal experience to clarify stereotypes about public space, work, education, and personal ...
Krain, Alexandra M.
core   +1 more source

City of Strangers: Gulf Migration and the Indian Community in Bahrain [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
{Excerpt} Unpacking and applying the concept of structural violence is one of the principal tasks of this book. To be clear from the outset, however, in lodging the experiences of the men and women I encountered in the larger rubric of structural ...
Gardner, Andrew M.
core   +2 more sources

Foraging and movement flexibility shape seed dispersal by an arboreal primate in a modified landscape

open access: yesOikos, EarlyView.
As habitats change, the effectiveness of animal‐mediated seed dispersal increasingly depends on animal responses to altered structure and resources. With habitat loss and degradation accelerating across the tropics, understanding how dispersers' foraging behavior and movement influence seed removal and deposition is critical to promoting forest ...
Anaid Cárdenas‐Navarrete   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

L’angosciosa resistenza: decostruire la categoria dell’“abbandono istituzionale” nel quartiere di edilizia popolare di San Siro (Milano)

open access: yesArchivio Antropologico Mediterraneo, 2018
Starting from the situational analysis of an event that took place in the public housing neighbourhood of San Siro (Milan) – a social activity organized by a neighbourhood committee that turned into an agora, an assembly, thanks to the participation of ...
Paolo Grassi
doaj   +1 more source

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