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Y‐chromosome short tandem repeats in forensics—Sexing, profiling, and matching male DNA
WIREs Forensic Science, Volume 1, Issue 4, July/August 2019., 2019 STR markers located on the Y chromosome and the Y Chromosome Haplotype Reference Database (YHRD) are used to analyze and interpret DNA evidence in sexual assault investigations. Abstract The analysis of short tandem repeat (STR) markers located on the Y chromosome is an established method in forensic casework analysis. Usually this method is applied in
Lutz Roewer
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Word Family with a Common Base чомуо [chomu] ‘to be big’ in Language of Forest Yukaghirs
Научный диалогThis study analyzes the word family with a common base чомуо [chomu] in the language of Forest Yukaghirs. It demonstrates that this word family comprises a collection of words sharing a common element, interconnected through synchronous derivational ...
A. E. Prokopyeva
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Disparate Ontologies? Revisiting Descola’s Ontological Schema among Northern Societies [PDF]
, 2023 Disparate Ontologies? Takes a critical look at Philippe Descola’s four-field anthropological model for ontologies among hunter-gatherer societies. Descola’s model juxtaposes animism, totemism, analogism, and naturalism as reflecting different expressions
Geertz, Armin W. +5 more
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Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract This manuscript documents a systematic ethnomycological analysis of ethnographic archives. Focusing on texts describing human–fungi interactions, I conduct a global, cross‐cultural review of mushroom use, covering 193 societies worldwide. The study reveals diverse mushroom‐related cultural practices, emphasizing the significance of fungi ...
Roope O. Kaaronen
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue S1, Page 67-84, March 2026.Nyau masked dancers embodying a variety of people, animals, and objects appear at many public events in Chewa areas of Malawi. Understood to be the physical manifestation of ancestral spirits, these entities are classified as ‘not human’ and transgress ordinary morality, mocking and threatening audiences.
Sam Farrell
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Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng‐nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo‐Siberian Language
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 1, Page 29-52, March 2026.Abstract The Xiōng‐nú were a tribal confederation who dominated Inner Asia from the third century BC to the second century AD. Xiōng‐nú descendants later constituted the ethnic core of the European Huns. It has been argued that the Xiōng‐nú spoke an Iranian, Turkic, Mongolic or Yeniseian language, but the linguistic affiliation of the Xiōng‐nú and the ...
Svenja Bonmann, Simon Fries
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The origin of the reflexive prefix in Rgyalrong languages [PDF]
, 2010 International audienceIn the Sino-Tibetan family, reflexivity is either not expressed on the verb as in Chinese or Tibetan or expressed by means of a ‘middle' marker as in Dulong or Kiranti languages.
Jacques, Guillaume
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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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Parts of speech systems as a basic typological parameter. [PDF]
, 2004 This paper argues that the word order possibilities of a language are partly determined by the parts-of-speech system of that language. In languages in which lexical items are specialized for certain functionally defined syntactic slots (e.g.
Hengeveld, Kees +2 more
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Virtually Shamans: An Anthropological Perspective on AI Chatbots
Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 36, Issue 2, Fall 2025.ABSTRACT This article explores the emerging relationship between humans and AI chatbots through the anthropological lens of shamanic practice, proposing the concept of “virtually shamans” to understand these digital interactions. Drawing on ethnographic traditions of studying magic, spirituality, and technological mediation, we argue that AI chatbot ...
Mark Friis Hau, Jakob Krause‐Jensen
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