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Dear Colleagues, The combination of anthropological, archaeological, biological, ecological, and paleontological research focused on animal remains is a defining characteristic of the zooarchaeology. Zooarchaeological interpretations are based on the premise that there is a systemic relationship between humans and their environment, especially betw...

Book in press (out in 2024) on the implications of the hypothetical emergence of human-level artificial intelligence for the notions of human distinctiveness and imago Dei in theological anthropology.

Resumo: Este artigo é uma etnografia do Sítio camponês a partir das classificações das crianças Capuxu, do sertão da Paraíba. Por meio da observação participante, das conversas informais e dos desenhos por elas produzidos, as crianças revelaram classificações do Sítio que diluem a clássica dicotomia casa/roçado formatada pelos estudos do rural (Woo...

This article is an ethnography of the peasant ranch (sítio) as classified by Capuxu children, inhabitants of the hinterlands of the Brazilian state of Paraíba. Through participant observation, informal conversations, and the drawings produced by children, they revealed classifications of the ranch that blur the classic house/garden dichotomy establ...

Forthcoming contribution to the 30th anniversary "Frontiers of Social Inquiry" special issue with Social Research (December 2023). / ABSTRACT: If the central paradox of the High Anthropocene is that we are fated to imagine alternative (energy) futures that are at the same time impossible, then the task of anthropology should be to help to understan...

Invited essay about the current status of the anthropology of law in the face of wider, planetary crises associated with anthropocenic transformation and widely differential human and institutional culpability.

Jornal com Resultados sobre Pesquisas em Antropologia no Povoado de Arez-RN, entrevistas com pessoas, memórias de personalidades do lugar, cultura popular, lendas, etc.

Jornal com Resultados sobre Pesquisas em Antropologia no Povoado de Arez-RN, entrevistas com pessoas, memórias de personalidades do lugar, cultura popular, lendas, etc.

Jornal com Resultados sobre Pesquisas em Antropologia no Povoado de Arez-RN, entrevistas com pessoas, memórias de personalidades do lugar, cultura popular, lendas, etc.

Jornal com Resultados sobre Pesquisas em Antropologia no Povoado de Arez-RN, entrevistas com pessoas, memórias de personalidades do lugar, cultura popular, lendas, etc.

Jornal com Resultados sobre Pesquisas em Antropologia no Povoado de Arez-RN, entrevistas com pessoas, memórias de personalidades do lugar, cultura popular, lendas, etc.

Jornal com Resultados sobre Pesquisas em Antropologia no Povoado de Arez-RN, entrevistas com pessoas, memórias de personalidades do lugar, cultura popular, lendas, etc.

Jornal com Resultados sobre Pesquisas em Antropologia no Povoado de Arez-RN, entrevistas com pessoas, memórias de personalidades do lugar, cultura popular, lendas, etc.

Jornal com Resultados sobre Pesquisas em Antropologia no Povoado de Arez-RN, entrevistas com pessoas, memórias de personalidades do lugar, cultura popular, lendas, etc.

Jornal com Resultados sobre Pesquisas em Antropologia no Povoado de Arez-RN, entrevistas com pessoas, memórias de personalidades do lugar, cultura popular, lendas, etc.

Jornal com Resultados sobre Pesquisas em Antropologia no Povoado de Arez-RN, entrevistas com pessoas, memórias de personalidades do lugar, cultura popular, lendas, etc.

Jornal com Resultados sobre Pesquisas em Antropologia no Povoado de Arez-RN, entrevistas com pessoas, memórias de personalidades do lugar, cultura popular, lendas, etc.

Jornal com Resultados sobre Pesquisas em Antropologia no Povoado de Arez-RN, entrevistas com pessoas, memórias de personalidades do lugar, cultura popular, lendas, etc.

Jornal com Resultados sobre Pesquisas em Antropologia no Povoado de Arez-RN, entrevistas com pessoas, memórias de personalidades do lugar, cultura popular, lendas, etc.

Jornal com Resultados sobre Pesquisas em Antropologia no Povoado de Arez-RN, entrevistas com pessoas, memórias de personalidades do lugar, cultura popular, lendas, etc.

Jornal com Resultados sobre Pesquisas em Antropologia no Povoado de Arez-RN, entrevistas com pessoas, memórias de personalidades do lugar, cultura popular, lendas, etc.

Jornal com Resultados sobre Pesquisas em Antropologia no Povoado de Arez-RN, entrevistas com pessoas, memórias de personalidades do lugar, cultura popular, lendas, etc.

Jornal com Resultados sobre Pesquisas em Antropologia no Povoado de Arez-RN, entrevistas com pessoas, memórias de personalidades do lugar, cultura popular, lendas, etc.

Jornal com Resultados sobre Pesquisas em Antropologia no Povoado de Arez-RN, entrevistas com pessoas, memórias de personalidades do lugar, cultura popular, lendas, etc.

Jornal com Resultados sobre Pesquisas em Antropologia no Povoado de Arez-RN, entrevistas com pessoas, memórias de personalidades do lugar, cultura popular, lendas, etc.

Jornal com Resultados sobre Pesquisas em Antropologia no Povoado de Arez-RN, entrevistas com pessoas, memórias de personalidades do lugar, cultura popular, lendas, etc.

Jornal com Resultados sobre Pesquisas em Antropologia no Povoado de Arez-RN, entrevistas com pessoas, memórias de personalidades do lugar, cultura popular, lendas, etc.

Jornal com Resultados sobre Pesquisas em Antropologia no Povoado de Arez-RN, entrevistas com pessoas, memórias de personalidades do lugar, cultura popular, lendas, etc.

Jornal com Resultados sobre Pesquisas em Antropologia no Povoado de Arez-RN, entrevistas com pessoas, memórias de personalidades do lugar, cultura popular, lendas, etc.

Jornal com Resultados sobre Pesquisas em Antropologia no Povoado de Arez-RN, entrevistas com pessoas, memórias de personalidades do lugar, cultura popular, lendas, etc.

This book provides an opportunity for students, academicians, scholars, and researchers in India and around the world to familiarize themselves with the evolution, diversification, and development of anthropological research in India. Comprised of nineteen chapters written by a diverse group of scholars and researchers, Anthropological Research in...

Jornal com Resultados sobre Pesquisas em Antropologia no Povoado de Arez-RN, entrevistas com pessoas, memórias de personalidades do lugar, cultura popular, lendas, etc.

Jornal com Resultados sobre Pesquisas em Antropologia no Povoado de Arez-RN, entrevistas com pessoas, memórias de personalidades do lugar, cultura popular, lendas, etc.

Jornal com Resultados sobre Pesquisas em Antropologia no Povoado de Arez-RN, entrevistas com pessoas, memórias de personalidades do lugar, cultura popular, lendas, etc.

Jornal com Resultados sobre Pesquisas em Antropologia no Povoado de Arez-RN, entrevistas com pessoas, memórias de personalidades do lugar, cultura popular, lendas, etc.

This article aims to present the existing epistemological ties between the sensorial turn in anthropology and collaborative forms of production of knowledge in the framework of shared anthropology. From this perspective, the major debates in anthropology regarding the senses and emotions and their epistemological implications will be critically ana...

Digital Humanities, Corpus and Language Technology: A look from diverse case studies is an outstanding collection of research contributions that explores the intersection of technology and the humanities. The authors provide a comprehensive overview of how these technologies can enhance research across various disciplines, from literature to histor...

O público-alvo do artigo são as pessoas interessadas em religião, filosofia, antropologia e ficção ci-entífica. O artigo é destinado a um público leitor que tenha um nível médio ou superior de forma-ção, que possua uma mente aberta e crítica, e que esteja dis-posto a conhecer e a dialogar com outras formas de religiosidade. O artigo é também destin...

En el marco de los 500 años de la experiencia que dio base a los Ejercicios Espirituales de Ignacio de Loyola, este artículo se aproxima a los Ejercicios desde su dinámica vocacional. Para ello, se presenta en una primera parte la vocación como un concepto inclusivo, integrador y dinámico que busca articular identidad, libertad personal y llamado d...

This article reviews the article written by the author Prof. Abhijit Guha, contrasting the remarks made by the world-renowned social scientist Partha Chatterjee about the lack of practice of social-cultural anthropology in the Department of Anthropology during its inception at the University of Calcutta (CU). While doing so, the article also provid...

All over the world, people disappear from their families, communities and the state’s bureaucratic gaze, as victims of oppressive regimes or while migrating along clandestine routes. This volume brings together scholars who engage ethnographically with such disappearances in various cultural, social and political contexts. It takes an anthropologic...

En este artículo se hace un recuento sucinto del Programa de Maestría en Antropología Social de la Escuela de Antropolo�gía e Historia del Norte de México (EAHNM). La historia de este posgrado en el norte de México permite visualizar los re�tos institucionales que ha significado dejar de ser un programa interinstitucional con la participación de...

This paper discusses the topics of mobility and migration in the field of archaeological sciences. Theoretical models used to interpret mobility data are adapted from anthropology, social history, and gender studies. Migration is seen as a complex and heterogeneous social process conditioned by various factors affecting the form and scale of moveme...

The Mothers of May Movement is a network of mothers and relatives of the victims of the May 2006 Crimes, an episode in which the murders of more than 600 people in the state of São Paulo committed by state agents became known. From their union and struggle, the Mothers of May became one of the main movements to confront the genocide of the poor, bl...

Niniejszy artykuł omawia powstanie antropologiczno-aksjologicznej kategorii ludzkiej godności w pismach Hieronima ze Strydonu. Aby ocenić oryginalność Hieronima, artykuł omawia jego źródła: pisma Orygenesa z Aleksandrii i Cycerona De officiis. Identyfikacja przełomowego w historii europejskiego myślenia o ludzkiej godności momentu utworzenia przez...

Este trabalho propõe-se a traçar o percurso histórico da Comunicação Organizacional (CO) em Portugal a partir de estudos publicados nas atas da Associação Portuguesa de Ciências da Comunicação (SOPCOM), desde os anos 2000. Esta associação existe desde 1998 e destina-se a potenciar e a divulgar a investigação em Ciências da Comunicação em Portugal,...

Hospitality' are pleased to invite book chapters from academicians, research scholars, policy makers and industry practitioners for the same, to be published by Apple Academic Press, Exclusively co-publishing with CRC press, Taylor and Francis Group, USA. The events and festivals industry is expanding at an increasing rate, presenting brand-new pos...

Indian anthropology, though established under the British rule had developed its own tradition of anthropological study. Some of the notable Indian anthropologists however critiqued their own anthropology as being colonial. In this paper, I have argued that quite remarkable anthropological studies were done by outstanding Indian anthropologists aft...

Cruelty based on caste prejudice has occurred in Indian culture throughout history. Caste has been explored from a variety of perspectives by academics, with sociology and anthropology serving as essential disciplines in the process. Movie, as an art form and as a mirror of society, reflects many elements of society via a cinematic lens, providing...

This book provides an opportunity for students, academicians, scholars, and researchers in India and around the world to familiarize themselves with the evolution, diversification, and development of anthropological research in India. Comprised of nineteen chapters written by a diverse group of scholars and researchers, Anthropological Research in...

Decorridos duas décadas da promulgação da lei 10.639/2003, que estabelece a obrigatoriedade do ensino de História da África e da Cultura afro-brasileira e uma década e meia da lei 11.645/2008, que dá a mesma orientação quanto a temática indígena nas instituições de educação públicas e privadas de ensino fundamental e médio de todo o país, ainda ass...

Resumo: O presente artigo tem como tema o Programa Nacional do Livro Didático, reconhecido como uma importante política pública educacional do país. O objetivo é refletir sobre a importância desta política educacional e as formas como vem sendo construída a representação do negro neste material didático. A partir de um levantamento bibliográfico, a...

The experience of pain spans biological, psychological and sociocultural realms, both basic and complex, it is by turns necessary and devastating. Despite an extensive knowledge of the constituents of pain, the ability to translate this into effective intervention remains limited. It is suggested that current, multiscale, medical approaches, largel...

Taking a comparative approach to two field sites – Shanghai in China and Dublin in Ireland – this paper explores the relationship between ageing, home, and the impact of the smartphone on domestic space. Although Shanghai and Dublin are extremely diverse contexts, both have seen rapid social shifts in recent decades, and domestic life seems to refl...

This introduction provides a basic description of the Anthropology of Smartphones and Smart Ageing (ASSA) project, including the project’s range of field sites, methods, and ethics. I compare this project with prior comparative studies in the anthropology of ageing. I also discuss certain other findings of the ASSA project as they relate to the ASS...

This paper is a reflective discussion of the research method developed by a small research team over a 5-year period as it intra-acted with the south Asian monsoon in three south/southeast Asian cities. It reflects on how the team’s practice was transformed from being research on or about the monsoon as a discrete unit of analysis, to research in t...

In Syracuse, New York more than 10% of children are lead poisoned each year, a toxic exposure that lowers the children's ability to learn and increases risky behaviors in adolescence. African American children are affected at nearly twice the rate of White children. We describe a community‐university collaboration to reduce childhood lead poisoning...

In this paper, we investigate whether there exists in different societies something analogous to the idea of ‘life purpose.’ Drawing on examples from across the entire range of ASSA project field sites, the paper is organised as a spectrum, starting from the case of Japan where ikigai is the most explicit example of having a life purpose and is a c...

Esse texto é a apresentação feita pelo urbanista italiano Alberto Magnaghi ao volume Del Destino della Città, uma antologia de textos de Choay traduzidos para o italiano e publicada em 2008. A antologia organizada por Magnaghi inclui oito textos de Pour une Anthropologie de l’Espace (2006). A eles Magnaghi acrescentou apenas a introdução de Choay à...

Este artigo tem como objetivo estudar a relação entre a antropologia e a ética no pensamento de Karol Wojtyla. A antropologia personalista de K. Wojtyla evidencia a relação ontológica entre o momento do ser e do agir, que, por sua vez, corresponde ao significado moral da relação entre a pessoa e a ação. Partindo da experiência humana, conforme indi...

El propósito del artículo consiste en indicar la posibilidad de un diálogo interpelador entre Filosofía y teología, partiendo no de la epistemología de cada una de ellas, sino de los rasgos esenciales del concepto de persona humana sin entrar en una antropología, sobre todo teológica, que la va exigiendo. Esto hace posible valorar la noción de expe...

Physical resurrection has long been a controversial issue among Islamic theologians and philosophers. Among the philosophers, Masha's wisdom used certain ontological and anthropological foundations to explain spiritual resurrection And according to those principles, the sages of enlightenment have concluded an exemplary resurrection. Mulla Sadra ex...

En este trabajo nos ocupamos de analizar las similitudes y diferencias sociales y culturales en los procesos de construcción de identidades nacionales en NuevaZelanda y Costa Rica. En particular, llevamos a cabo un análisis de los mecanismos de consolidación de identidades nacionales en Nueva Zelanda desde unaperspectiva del Caribe costarricense. E...

In the psychological topics of Islamic philosophy, the faculty of imagination as one of the inner faculties of man is the preserver and preceptor of imaginary forms and it has epistemological, anthropological and eschatological functions. Mullah Sadra, unlike the previous philosophers, by proving the Abstractness of faculty of imagination, makes it...

Anthropology in the nascent branch of psychology under the title of "personality theories" has been able to be effective in the field of behavioral studies and interpersonal relationships. The need to explain and analyze the true nature of man in the field of "being"-contrary to psychological personality theories that generally identify human natur...

El presente trabajo es un estado de la cuestión sobre la historia de la conquista y colonización de Siberia. Se recopilan las fuentes a las que he tenido acceso sobre el tema en la investigación durante el curso 2021/2022 como punto de partida para más investigaciones sobre el tema y para identificar los temas y discusiones actuales al respecto. De...

Allah swt has universally positioned men as having several advantages compared to women, as Allah swt says in the Al-Quran, Surah An-Nisa, verse 34. Men must provide family support to their wives and children, thus requiring them to actively try and work to meet the household's needs. In some religious literature, it is stated that men are the back...

Societal Impact Statement Agricultural techniques are inherently connected to social organization. Under colonialism, broadly understood as foreign powers suppressing (parts of) a local population, escape agriculture offers a way to avoid despotism by producing food and other produce in independent and sustainable ways. Crop diversity plays an impo...

We are inviting submissions of original papers and book reviews to be considered for publication in the fifth and sixth NAM issues specialized in Ancient Military History. Papers should deal with warfare in the ancient world, with particular attention to the Greek, Roman, and Byzantine worlds, and may cover different topics: tactics; strategy; armo...

O Boi-de-Reis é de origem portuguesa, mas o Boi dançando é invenção brasileira. Tal como ocorre no Brasil não é invenção portuguesa e nem africana, é trabalho mestiço, imaginação do mulato. É o bailado mais notável do Brasil. Sua música é muito graciosa. A colaboração popular é intensa. É o folguedo brasileiro de maior significação estética e socia...

We are inviting submissions of original papers and book reviews to be considered for publication in the fourth and fifth NAM issues specialized in Medieval Military History (VIII-XV century). publishes articles and reviews on a wide range of aspects, not only military (as tactics; strategy; armour, fortifications, navies, mercenary, cartography and...

Under conditions of anarchy, the predominant assumption is that scarcity leads to conflict. I contrast traditional Inuit walrus hunt practices to Rousseau’s stag hunt to demonstrate how mainstream international relations has it wrong on three counts: (1) radical scarcity need not lead to conflict-prone outcomes, (2) the historical eighteenth-centur...

This technical note aims to characterize and contextualize the creation of a new collection of identified skeletons stored in the University Institute of Health Sciences—CESPU. This project presents unique and innovative pedagogical opportunities, with students actively involved in the cleaning and processing of the bones and antemortem/postmortem...

Cosmology in physics deals with the study of the birth and death of the Universe using the science of gravity and quanta. But in Anthropology it deals with a People’s way since ancient times of explaining their relationship to the world around them and the Heaven’s (stars, moon, sun, and planets). Given today’s data concerning the world and the Uni...

Este ensayo presenta un análisis de lo “permitido” y lo “posible” en la creación de un “lenguaje museal”, tomando como punto de partida los espacios de poder por los que circuló la práctica curatorial realizada en el año 2018 en el Museo Nacional de Etnografía y Folklore de La Paz-Bolivia.

Digital libraries are a powerful tool for preserving and disseminating information in a technology-driven world. Providing options for housing non-traditional information, such as three-dimensional (3D) data, digital libraries also address barriers (e.g., geographic location and physical space) that affect traditional libraries. While there are cer...

Marxist anthropology, as a kind of philosophical anthropology and an integral part of Marxist philosophy, seeks to find an answer to the question of its primary concern—what is humanity or human nature? From the Marxist perspective, human beings are distinguished from animals by making and using tools, and the creation of tools is closely related t...

En este artículo se describe el proceso mediante el que un grupo de comunidades nahuas y equiparables de Tlaxcala exige el respeto al derecho de nombrar a sus autoridades por sistemas normativos comunitarios (derecho electoral indígena). La lucha en la sede jurisdiccional fue encabezada por San Felipe Cuauhtenco y tuvo como objetivo exigir el respe...

White Privilege Antiracist Razor: The best way to test a theory is, of course through observation of tradition, risk analysis, and skin in the game(paying a price for failure or citing those who do). And more specific theories are easier to support in the social sciences if the evidence can be highly interdisciplinary(involve more and more discipl...

O artigo investiga a produção de sentidos sobre refúgio, migração e a discussão do que é ser brasileiro e o que é ser estrangeiro a partir do discurso da telenovela Órfãos da Terra (TV Globo, 2019). A análise aborda a vinda de pessoas em situação de refúgio para o Brasil, dentro do contexto de guerras e crises humanitárias em seus países. O estudo...

The following paper offers a comparative study of Song Neo-Confucian and late Ming Jesuit arguments on the exceptionality of human beings and the role played by non-human others in the process of producing the discursive premises of the anthropological difference. It focuses on the arguments made by Zhu Xi (朱熹, 1130‒1200) and Matteo Ricci (1552‒161...

This chapter proposes an introductory conceptual framework to better understand some aspects of everyday relations of people and spaces. From the perspective of anthropology of space, it first provides a reflection on issues that are important for understanding these relationships, to then, in a second step, address the relevance of walking as a me...

Motivaciones turísticas de las mujeres que realizan solas el Camino Inglés

The goal of the course is to problematize two things-the notion of anthropological archive and practices of ethnographic storytelling that they engender. To pursue this dual task, each week we will explore 1) how the assignment of epistemic value to a distinctive set of artifacts (e.g., objects, bodies, texts, memories, rhetorical tropes, etc.) gen...

Considerando los profundos problemas y dramas que atraviesa el Medio Oriente, un libro sobre sus lenguas puede parecer frívolo o marginal. Sin embargo, nos parece que el análisis de la relación entre lengua y poder es un instrumento muy valioso para entender el Medio Oriente contemporáneo y sus conflictos. Ese entendimiento es un primer paso impres...

The podcast in higher education is becoming widespread as a pedagogical tool that empowers students to take ownership of their own learning. In this article, we analyze a didactic experience carried out with undergraduate students at the Complutense University of Madrid and reflect on its potential for the development of curriculum content and stud...

Book review of Johan Soderberg and Maxigas's 'Resistance to the Current: The Dialectics of Hacking' (2022), published in the Exertions section of the Society for the Anthropology of Work.

The afterword reflects on the generations of anthropological scholarship on the Gaddis of the Western Himalaya, and its import for anthropology itself. It takes up Roy Wagner's productive concept of "strategic relic" to understand the changing place of pastoralism and the enduring ideal of egalitarianism in the Gaddi worldview. This work is licen...

Naming regions or territories, such as the name of a province, regency, subdistrict, or village, is a form of local wisdom carried out by humans in maintaining and manifesting the desire to preserve their environment. This means that names play an important role in human life. Human life's names can be self-names (anthroponymy) and place names (top...

La evaluación del error de medición en estudios odontométricos es importante debido a la necesidad de que los resultados generados sean comparables. Entre las diversas fuentes capaces de introducir error, aquella generada por los diferentes instrumentos empleados puede ser muy relevante. El objetivo del trabajo es evaluar el grado de concordancia e...

Sustantiva y fecunda, la relación entre antropología y performance ha enriquecido el desarrollo de diversos temas y a la vez ha ampliado el enfoque en cuanto a tópicos tradicionalmente abordados por la antropología. En este artículo se comentan algunas propuestas al respecto, entre las que se consideran las miradas renovadas al poder, al juego, al...

Durante los últimos años, y de manera cada vez más fervorosa, han sido claras para muchos investigadores en ciencias sociales y humanidades diversas dificultades propias de los modelos teóricos y metodológicos predominantes en la tan ajetreada porción del mundo conocida como Occidente: parcelaciones disciplinarias (sociología, antropología, medicin...

[Message me for the full text] From the middle of the twentieth-century onwards, there has been a growing emphasis on the importance of relation-ality in what it means to be human, which we call a "relational turn." This is found in various domains, including philosophical psychology , psychoanalysis, and theological anthropology. Many have seen a...

In this article, the notion of entropology introduced by Claude Lévi-Strauss is applied and developed in the context of Georges Bataille’s anthropological philosophy: Bataille’s project is defined as entropological. Four philosophical vectors are chosen for this: the theory of general economy, the concept of decay, the idea of extinction and the no...

Simposio dual: 1. Parte clásica de presentaciones. 2. Parte paseada para reflexiones metodológicas a partir de la in/movilidad del cuerpo. Como indicaran Desjarlais y Throop (2011), la investigación antropológica fenomenológicamente orientada ha crecido en las últimas décadas. Los enfoques fenomenológicos en antropología no conforman un corpus h...

Breast cancer is still one of the leading causes of death in Indonesia. The multifactorial causes of breast cancer, including heredity, carries a risk for the sufferers’ relatives. Vigilance in female relatives of breast cancer patients increases due to hereditary risk factors for having the same disease. This anthropological study aimed to reveal...

This article examines the learning process of candidates in public selection exams for tax auditors in Brazil. Articulating cognitive theories of culture with anthropological studies of the state and its institutions, the author proposes the concept of a cultural model of civil service to explicate the standardized values and behaviours related to...