Marriage and Migration
Caroline B. Brettell
Vol.46, 2017
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Caroline B. Brettell
Vol.46, 2017
Natasha Dow Schüll
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Margaret Lock
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Ilana M. Gershon
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Alex W. Barker
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Brian Boyd
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Andrew Jones
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Rodney Harrison
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Timothy Earle, Elizabeth DeMarrais
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Luis Alberto Barba Pingarrón, Alessandra Pecci
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Barbara Mills
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Glenn M. Schwartz
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Richard B. Lee
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Katherine Hinde
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Michelle Bezanson
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Jessica Lynch Alfaro
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Anne Meneley
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Giovanni da Col
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Helen F. Siu, Mike McGovern
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Anita Hardon
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Karen B. Strier, Don Brenneis
Vol.45, 2016
Matthew Wolfgram
Vol.45, 2016, pp. 33–44
This review of research literature on the language practices associated with the production and circulation of scientific knowledge documents four discourse-ideological processes: data/theory enregisterment, objectification, visualization, and ...Read More
Roma Chatterji
Vol.45, 2016, pp. 377–394
Although the notion of world anthropology has opened up a space to consider non-Western scholarly traditions as crucial in the making of anthropology as a discipline, it is still too readily assumed that the boundaries of the political community are ...Read More
William Honeychurch and Cheryl A. Makarewicz
Vol.45, 2016, pp. 341–359
Pastoral nomadism encompasses an array of specialized knowledge concerned with the daily rhythms and long-term tempos of caring for herd animals in order to extract subsistence livelihoods. It also embodies the relational lives of herders and the diverse ...Read More
Clifford J. Jolly
Vol.45, 2016, pp. 1–15
I am delighted to contribute this career piece, although there are many other aged physical anthropologists who are more distinguished! I have tried to avoid duplicating another retrospective rumination (Jolly 2009) while describing personal academic ...Read More
Danilyn Rutherford
Vol.45, 2016, pp. 285–300
This review article approaches the turn to affect theory as diagnostic of broader currents in cultural anthropology. This is a time of increased curiosity within the subfield. It is also a time of increased anxiety, as researchers feel mounting pressure ...Read More
Arlen F. Chase and Diane Z. Chase
Vol.45, 2016, pp. 361–376
Humans consistently modify their environments—both directly and indirectly. However, the linkage between human activity and anthropogenic landscapes intensifies in urban situations. The artificial landscapes and dense concentrations of human populations ...Read More
Benjamin Alberti
Vol.45, 2016, pp. 163–179
Bruno Latour and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro provided the initial impetus for explicitly ontological research in archaeology. Their impact on archaeologists, however, has been quite different. What I call the “metaphysical archaeologists” trace their ...Read More
Alejandro Haber
Vol.45, 2016, pp. 469–485
Decolonizing archaeological thought in South America happens through three paths: (a) a critical approach to the ways archaeology contributes to coloniality, (b) a criticism of the mechanisms by which coloniality informs archaeology, and (c) a varied ...Read More
Susan Pollock
Vol.45, 2016, pp. 215–231
In the contemporary world, archaeology has become drawn, sometimes in dramatic fashion, into the violence of war. Archaeologists have taken part in monitoring and attempting to protect sites, museums, and monuments. However, they have engaged to a lesser ...Read More
Sharon N. DeWitte
Vol.45, 2016, pp. 63–77
The recent Ebola epidemic provides a dramatic example of the devastation and fear generated by epidemics, particularly those caused by new emerging or reemerging diseases. A focus on the control and prevention of diseases in living populations dominates ...Read More
Chip Colwell
Vol.45, 2016, pp. 113–127
In the 1970s, public archaeology, a major theme in anthropology, sought to articulate the field's new orientation toward engaging the nonprofessional, general public, particularly in the realm of cultural resource management (CRM). Over the decades that ...Read More
Leore Grosman
Vol.45, 2016, pp. 129–145
Archaeologists generally agree that high-power computer technology constitutes the most efficient venue for addressing many issues in archaeological research. Digital techniques have become indispensable components of archaeological surveys, fieldwork, ...Read More
Connie J. Mulligan
Vol.45, 2016, pp. 233–249
The field of social and behavioral epigenetics examines the role of epigenetic modifications to mediate the effect of psychosocial stressors on an individual's health and well-being. Epigenetic modifications influence gene expression, which can lead to ...Read More
Michael P. Muehlenbein
Vol.45, 2016, pp. 395–416
Understanding pathogen exchange among human, wildlife, and livestock populations, and the varying ecological and cultural contexts in which this exchange takes place, is a major challenge. The present review contextualizes the risk factors that result ...Read More
K. Christopher Beard
Vol.45, 2016, pp. 199–213
Anthropoid primates other than humans show a conspicuously disjunct geographic distribution today, inhabiting mostly tropical and subtropical parts of Asia, Africa, and Central and South America. During the latter part of the Eocene, early anthropoids ...Read More
Deborah A. Bolnick, Jennifer A. Raff, Lauren C. Springs, Austin W. Reynolds, and Aida T. Miró-Herrans
Vol.45, 2016, pp. 319–340
Studies of Native American genetic diversity and population history have been transformed over the last decade by important developments in anthropological genetics. During this time, researchers have adopted new DNA technologies and computational ...Read More
Jürgen Jaspers
Vol.45, 2016, pp. 147–162
Sociolinguists are deeply politically committed to (dis)fluency. They have generally seen it as their task to revise popular wisdom on the presumed disfluency of nonstandard, accented, or multilingual speakers and to demonstrate regularity and competence ...Read More
Alexander S. Dent
Vol.45, 2016, pp. 17–31
This review argues that the elastic space between intellectual property (IP) and unauthorized use (including piracy and counterfeiting) is an increasingly important feature of contemporary textual production and circulation. Within the context of digital ...Read More
Erik Harms
Vol.45, 2016, pp. 45–61
The much-vaunted growth of cities across Asia has been accompanied by new forms of urban exclusion. This article reviews recent research into urban space and exclusion in Asia, focusing on anthropology as well as on key works in cognate fields such as ...Read More
In this conversation Dr. Peter Ellison talks with Dr. Irven DeVore about his career in anthropology.
Karen Strier, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and Editorial Committee Member of the Annual Review of Anthropology, talks to Anna Rascouët-Paz about her work with the northern muriqui monkeys of Brazil.
In 1998, observers at Gombe witnessed a brutal and possibly fatal attack on a young male chimpanzee from Kalande. This video showcases that attack.
Karen Strier, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and Editorial Committee Member of the Annual Review of Anthropology, talks to Anna Rascouët-Paz about her work with the northern muriqui monkeys of Brazil.
Karen Strier, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and Editorial Committee Member of the Annual Review of Anthropology, talks to Anna Rascouët-Paz about her work with the northern muriqui monkeys of Brazil.