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Anthropology
James A. Davenport, Marie-Claude Boileau
Summary: Ychsma, a hierarchical society in Peru, underwent significant changes during the Inca Empire. A study reveals that although cephalomorphic bottles and cara-golletes have similar shapes and appearances, they were formed using completely different methods.
Article
Anthropology
Thangjam Chitralekha Devi, Huidrom Suraj Singh
Summary: This study investigates the outcomes of pregnancies in Meitei women in Northeast India who conceive at advanced maternal age (AMA) and the maternal complications after childbirth. The study found that AMA women have a significantly higher risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes and postpartum complications, including placenta previa, induction of labor, caesarean section, gestational diabetes, pregnancy-induced hypertension, urinary tract infections, preterm delivery, and postpartum complications. The study suggests that counseling on the risks of AMA should be provided, especially for high-risk groups.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN BIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Anthropology
Fatma Dogan Akkaya
Summary: Intergenerational ethnographic research faces practical, epistemological, and ethical challenges. This study addresses these complexities by encouraging researchers to construct personalised ethnographic toolkits, which provide insights into the complex subjectivities of research populations through intergenerational narratives. Based on research among the Turkish community in London, the study reveals compelling examples of symbolic communication used by individuals of different generations, genders, and social roles. The research illustrates how this ethnic community integrates into multicultural environments and manifests their belonging in transnational contexts through language, fashion, and religion.
Article
Anthropology
Adam Z. Reynolds, Sara D. Niedbalski
Summary: The study explores the variation in sex-biased gene expression across 11 human populations and investigates whether this variation may have evolved as an adaptive response to ancestral environments experienced by these populations. The results show that sex-biased gene expression is highly variable, mostly population-specific, and demonstrates reversals between populations. This indicates that sex-biased gene expression is more flexible and depends on complex interactions between population-specific molecular evolution and physiological responses to contemporary socioecologies.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Anthropology
Philip Adebahr, Sylvia Keim-Klaerner, Andre Knabe, Andreas Klaerner
Summary: In a study on poverty in Germany, both qualitative interviews and quantitative data collection using a name-generator approach were conducted. The study developed a typology of negative ties based on the qualitative data and evaluated how well the name generator measured these ties. The study found that while the name generator captured some complexity of negative ties, it only captured a small fraction mentioned in the interviews and missed some specific ones.
Article
Anthropology
Sidney M. Greenfield, Antonio Mourao Cavalcante
Summary: The theme of this paper is that people in Northeast Brazil refuse to let a good person who helped them during his (or her) lifetime die. They do this through several of the religious traditions practiced in the region. Beings, human and other, now in another plane of reality established in modern thinking, cross the conceptual divide and return through mediums or other intermediaries to heal the living.
ANTHROPOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS
(2023)
Review
Anthropology
Nicole R. Y. Chen, Nadyanna M. Majeed, Gloria J. Lai, Paye Shin Koh, K. T. A. Sandeeshwara Kasturiratna, Manmeet Kaur, Alycia Z. Y. Ho, Jose C. Yong, Andree Hartanto
Summary: Pet ownership and interactions with animals have physiological and psychological benefits, increasing empathy and prosocial behaviors in humans. The type of prosociality measure, nature of human-animal interaction, animal species, and animal class significantly moderate this relationship. These findings have important implications for theory, methodology, and practical applications, and suggest directions for further research.
Article
Anthropology
Jessica Fernandes, Liliana Sousa, Pedro Sa-Couto, Joao Tavares
Summary: Companion animals play an important role in providing companionship for older people. However, research on their impact on community-dwelling older adults is insufficient and yields inconsistent results. This study found that people with depressive symptoms were more likely to have companion animals, but companion animals did not seem to be instrumental in terms of social interaction and satisfaction with life.
Article
Anthropology
Anna Frohn Pedersen
Summary: Artisanal and small-scale mining is a significant livelihood in rural areas of the global south, often conducted without geological data. This study explores how artisanal and small-scale mining navigate elusive geologies and shows how geo-uncertainty influences lives and landscapes in northern Tanzania. By focusing on the concept of 'not yet' minerals, the author argues that understanding geo-uncertainty in extractive industries can shed light on practices that create futures of hope, precarity, and environmental degradation.
Article
Anthropology
Andrew B. Kipnis
Summary: This article suggests a decline in attention to linguistic difference and translation in ethnography and explores the associated theoretical trends in anthropology. It analyzes the issues in ethnographic contexts where Chinese to English translation, particularly in terms related to the English semantic field of 'happiness', have social implications, as well as recent theoretical trends that encourage ethnographers to disregard linguistic structure. Using Actor Network Theory and anthropological theorizations of translation, it argues that linguistic structure should be recognized as a significant force in the world and its interaction with other forces should be understood.
ASIA PACIFIC JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Anthropology
Barbara Mazza, Ana Maria Silva
Summary: The analysis of entheseal changes requires knowledge of the biological profile of the sample. This study analyzed bone elements from Late Mesolithic and Late Neolithic/Chalcolithic archaeological sites in Portugal. The results showed higher entheseal changes in individuals older than 40, with little effect from body size. Biomechanical properties of the bones were positively correlated with some entheseal features, and there was an increase in entheseal changes during the Neolithic.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OSTEOARCHAEOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Anthropology
Sabnum Dharamsi, Giulia Liberatore
Summary: The article discusses the emergence of the Islamic Counselling training model in multicultural Britain and its foundation in classical Sufi notions, Islamic psychology, and decolonial scholarship. The model trains students to engage with relational differences through non-secular concepts and aims for transcendence and understanding of Oneness or Truth. Islamic Counselling offers a radically new approach to handling differences within and beyond the counseling setting.
JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE
(2023)
Article
Anthropology
Vazrick Nazari, Sofia Belardinelli, Andrea Pieroni, Riccardo Motti, Alessandro Chiarucci, Giovanni Destro Bisol, Giorgio Vacchiano, Eugenio Bortolini, Massimo Mezzavilla, Luigi Garaffa, Dietelmo Pievani
Summary: This study aims to explore the links between biological and cultural diversity in present-day Italy. Through a review of previous research, no significant attempts to quantitatively measure biocultural diversity in Italy were found. Although Italy shows a high number of mutual interactions, there is no clear evidence of common drivers and patterns between biological and cultural diversity.
Article
Anthropology
Dengxiao Lang, Maurits W. Ertsen
Summary: This article presents an agent-based model to study the expansion of irrigation farming systems in early Southern Mesopotamia. The model explores the decision-making processes of farms and their farmlands, as well as collective decision-making for irrigation system management. The results show that human decision-making plays a crucial role in influencing the influence and benefits of farms and the overall irrigation system. The Gini coefficient effectively captures the level of inequality in yields among farms based on water availability. The model provides a suitable base for further research on the evolutionary dynamics of irrigation systems in Southern Mesopotamia.
JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL METHOD AND THEORY
(2023)
Article
Anthropology
Ciraj Rassool, Victoria E. Gibbon
Summary: This article examines the differences between the terms "repatriation" and "restitution" and argues for the use of "restitution" as the preferred term for return initiatives.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Anthropology
Angela Muthana, Roy Ellen
Summary: This paper explores the relationship between the landscape of late nineteenth century Kentish Weald, the survey and collecting expeditions conducted by Benjamin Harrison and his associates, and the imagined early Palaeolithic and 'Eolithic' ways of life that these investigators aimed to uncover. It demonstrates how fieldwork influenced thinking and practice, and how walking served as a means to organize the bodily practices of knowledge production.
HISTORY AND ANTHROPOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Anthropology
Ian Towle, Matthew R. Borths, Carolina Loch
Summary: The low prevalence of tooth chipping in the Fayum primate genera suggests a predominantly soft fruit diet and does not support habitual hard food mastication. The presence of caries in the fossils indicates consumption of soft, sugary fruits, at least in the Propliopithecidae. These results provide further evidence for low dietary diversity in early anthropoids, with soft fruits as their likely dominant food source.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Anthropology
Rachel E. Palkovitz, Richard R. Lawler
Summary: The traditional regional focus of evolutionary anthropology can be expanded by conducting research in places like Appalachia, leading to new insights and broader impacts on higher education.
EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Anthropology
Akash Srinivas, Vivek Singh
Summary: This study re-investigates the historical collections from the Mahadeo Piparia site, employing typo-technological and chaine operatoire approaches, to update our understanding of this classic techno-complex and provide a foundation for ongoing research.
Article
Anthropology
Laura Ros, Tom J. Barry, Rigoberto Lopez-Honrubia, Maritza E. Villanueva-Benite, Alberto Morcillo, Jorge J. Ricarte
Summary: The study validates and factor analyzes the Spanish version of the Mini-CERTS and assesses its measurement invariance across Spanish and Peruvian populations. The results indicate that repetitive thinking has constructive and unconstructive factors, with the latter being positively associated with anxiety, depression, and stress measures. However, the lack of measurement invariance across groups suggests caution in cross-group comparisons within these populations.
TRANSCULTURAL PSYCHIATRY
(2023)
