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Anthropology
Carla J. Hart, Tammie King
Summary: Owning and walking a dog is reported to have physical and emotional health benefits, but owners of reactive dogs may face additional challenges that affect their pet ownership experience. This study found that the biggest challenge for owners of reactive dogs is the lack of understanding from others, leading to inappropriate behavior from the owners or the dogs. Many owners try to control the situation by avoiding crowded places or walking at less popular times. Walking a reactive dog often causes stress and anxiety.
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Anthropology
David M. Kennedy, Bruno David, Joanna Freslov, Ashleigh J. Rogers, Russell Mullett, Jessie Birkett-Rees, Olivia Bowman, Patrick Faulkner
Summary: This article discusses the importance of protecting coastal archaeological sites, emphasizing the need to understand geomorphological context, assess erosion risks, and establish effective management plans.
AUSTRALIAN ARCHAEOLOGY
(2023)
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Anthropology
Paula Escribano
Summary: Small-scale agroecological production in Spain has emerged in response to the environmental and food crisis. However, the lack of legal protection, multiple sanctions, and the political inertia of economic growth are severely limiting and altering the nature of these initiatives. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the formalization and institutionalization of the agroecology sector through new regulations.
JOURNAL OF PEASANT STUDIES
(2023)
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Anthropology
Nathan F. Sayre
Summary: Debates on modern beef production overlook a significant historical factor - the closed nutrient loop used in feedlots for over a century to maintain soil fertility. The development of cattle-grain-beef complex due to industrial capitalist urbanization has impacted land use, tenure systems, management practices, and environmental politics, leading to the sacrifice of tall-grass prairies and disrupted agrarian resistance.
JOURNAL OF PEASANT STUDIES
(2023)
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Anthropology
Goknur Karahan, Kadriye Ozcelik, Harun Taskiran
Summary: This paper presents a comprehensive study on the Levallois technology in Turkey, focusing on the analysis of cores and endproducts. It reveals that knappers demonstrate a flexible production approach based on the Levallois Volumetric Concept, providing possible solutions to meet their needs.
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Anthropology
Amanda Anne Burtt, Della Collins Cook
Summary: This study presents a rare case of atlantoaxial abnormality in a wild animal, specifically an eastern wapiti. Macroscopic and radiographic examination confirmed the segmentation defects in the spine, along with evidence of inflammatory response and functional compromise. Such pathologies have been underrepresented in the past and present.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OSTEOARCHAEOLOGY
(2023)
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Anthropology
Alex Golub
Summary: An examination of American anthropology from 1974 to 2024 reveals new challenges facing the discipline in today's meta or media ecosystem, specifically two challenges in theory and two challenges in ethnography. Anthropology must address these challenges in order to sustain its success.
AMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST
(2023)
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Anthropology
Jadran Mimica
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Anthropology
Veronica Mingo, Jayanthi Mistry
Summary: This research examines the caregiving practices of low-income immigrant mothers and their young children in Chile, highlighting the influence of sociocultural and material contexts on parenting. The study reveals how caregivers make sense of their realities and actively negotiate with everyday life. It also explores the mobilizing effect of hopes and dreams on striving for a better life and the personal and contextual resources mothers utilize to provide physical care to their children.
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Anthropology
Peifeng Hu, Eileen M. Crimmins, Jung Ki Kim, Alan Potter, Jake Cofferen, Sharon Merkin, Heather McCreath, Teresa Seeman
Summary: This study harmonized biomarker data from nine nationally representative studies of people 50 years of age and over by adjusting for assay platforms and type of specimens. The results showed a high correlation between biomarker values obtained by different laboratories, but significant differences in absolute values.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN BIOLOGY
(2023)
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Anthropology
Youjin B. Chung
Summary: This article examines the discourse and practice of sustainable livestock intensification in Africa, using Tanzania as a case study. By studying the archives and conducting ethnographic research, the author argues that the current interest in animal genetic improvement for efficiency and sustainability has similarities with earlier colonial cattle crossbreeding experiments. The colonial efforts aimed to improve yields while conserving the environment and ultimately led to state control over indigenous peoples and animals. These historical legacies have significant implications for climate justice in pastoral settings where interspecies relations, knowledge, and care practices are crucial.
JOURNAL OF PEASANT STUDIES
(2023)
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Anthropology
Giordano Marmone
Summary: This article discusses the definition and characteristics of institutions and their variations in different societies, focusing on the specific manifestation and role of institutions among the Samburu people in East Africa. The study finds that age class systems are the product of changing identities during the maturation process among the Samburu, and these institutionalized life cycles regulate power, rights, and duties within the community.
JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE
(2023)
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Anthropology
Jack Sidnell
Summary: Ho Chi Minh's extended essay discusses the organizational and practical problems faced by the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the obstacles to mass mobilization. It highlights the negative effects of a speech sickness called "ba hoa" on lower and middle-ranking cadres and proposes Ho Chi Minh's own mode of expression as an exemplary model. This analysis provides insights into the semiotics of exemplarity in contemporary Vietnam.
JOURNAL OF LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY
(2023)
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Anthropology
Qing-Xiong Ba, Hong-Zen Wang, Mei-Hsiang Wang
Summary: Agrobiodiversity plays a crucial role in maintaining sustainable agriculture and supporting social institutions and cultures. Rukai farmers protect agrobiodiversity through various agricultural practices and integrate them into social institutions and culture to maximize productivity and reduce risks posed by climate change.
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Anthropology
Veronika Zacherl, Gisela Grupe, Andrea Goehring
Summary: Stable isotope analysis is a routine method in archaeometry, and cluster analysis is superior to traditional evaluations in detecting multidimensional similarities among isotopic signatures. This study reevaluates previously published isotopic datasets from early medieval skeletal finds in Upper Bavaria, Germany, using Gaussian Mixture Model clustering to demonstrate its potential for paleodiet reconstruction.
ANTHROPOLOGISCHER ANZEIGER
(2023)
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Anthropology
Jason Danely
Summary: This article explores the phenomenology of gratitude as a moral mood through ethnographic episodes of gratitude between older care-recipients and their unpaid family carers in Japan. It argues that gratitude generates an aesthetic atmosphere that attunes carer and cared-for to each other. The Japanese notion of "kage" or the shadow is used to explain this shared interdependence and vulnerability, providing space for complex relational experiences and easing emotional strain.
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Anthropology
Jack Sidnell
Summary: This essay explores how the question of the relationship between language and action is understood in the context of language reform by Vietnamese communist revolutionaries. It suggests that reconfiguring the language-action relationship is achieved through identifying and proscribing disconnected speech and promoting speech that is aligned with action.
JOURNAL OF LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY
(2023)
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Anthropology
Marisa Gonzalez Montero de Espinosa, Ana Alaminos Torres, Roberto Pedrero Tome, Juan Francisco Romero Collazos, Maria Dolores Marrodan Serrano
Summary: This study compared the accuracy and consistency of anthropometry, Near Infrared Interactance (NIR), and Bioimpedance Analysis (BIA) in measuring body fat percentage (%BF) in children and adolescents. The results showed a high level of agreement among the three methods in measuring %BF.
ANTHROPOLOGISCHER ANZEIGER
(2023)
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Anthropology
T. M. Luhrmann
Summary: This essay invites us to understand ethnography not only as a scientific comparative enterprise but also as a spiritual discipline, allowing us to imagine alternative ways of living and gaining an external perspective on ourselves, leading to a nuanced understanding of what constitutes the good.
AMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST
(2023)
Article
Anthropology
Gokce Gunel, Chika Watanabe
Summary: Patchwork ethnography highlights how researchers conduct fieldwork while balancing personal and professional responsibilities, advocating for separating home and work for prolonged periods. By interrogating the impact of personal lives on knowledge production and showcasing innovations that result from balancing multiple commitments, patchwork ethnography not only improves anthropological research practices, but also influences research methodologies in other social sciences.
AMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST
(2023)
