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Following the recent release of The Ontological Turn: An Anthropological Exposition, we interview the book's authors, Martin Holbraad and Morten Axel Pedersen, to find out more...
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Babies everywhere are delivered, usually welcomed, and often celebrated . . . but in the Beng community of Côte d’Ivoire, they are also lured back into this life from wrugbe, the afterlife, where Beng souls are said to live after death until they are reborn. How do you care for a baby who’s come from […]
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Spanning the entire history of the city of Rome from Iron Age village to modern metropolis, this is the first book to take the long view of the Eternal City as an urban organism. Beatrice Rehl, editor of Rome: An Urban History from Antiquity to the Present, tells us more...
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An introduction from Commisioning Editor Michael Sharp The ancient Greek and Roman worlds were defined by their cities. Ancient Greece actually comprised a large collection of cities, some of which founded offshoots across the Eastern and Western Mediterranean and into the Black Sea region, and it was in these cities that the foundations of Western […]
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Zimbabwe’s Migrants and South Africa’s Border Farms: The Roots of Impermanence began with my interest in people’s experiences of uprootedness and settlement. At the time, the Zimbabwean-South African border was receiving a lot of press attention about ‘floods’ of migrants fleeing the Zimbabwean Crisis. I wanted to understand first-hand this displacement from migrants’ own points […]
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From the moment I first saw the enigmatic Scottish carved stone balls, I was intrigued. Although many purposes had been suggested for their purpose during the Neolithic, none had included the possibility that they were memory devices. Yet their size, designs and archaeological contexts matched the pattern of such objects that I had found in […]
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How often do we discourage our children from handling dangerous objects--things like matches and knives? Are we protecting them, or failing to let them learn valuable lessons about the world we live in? David F. Lancy, the author of The Anthropology of Childhood, breaks down these questions from an anthropological stance.
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James G. Carrier, the co-editor of Anthropologies of Class, explores the impact of studying class.
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