Anthropology

The pre-Columbian World Heritage site of Tiwanaku (AD 600–1100) located in highland altiplano Bolivia is shown to have a unique urban water supply system with many advanc [...]

"'Work Makes Free': The Hidden Cultural Meaning of the Holocaust" uses the methods of symbolic anthropological analysis in an attempt to explain what previously has be [...]

This review sketches a linguistic anthropology of images. While linguistic anthropology has not historically focalized images as a central theoretical object of concern, [...]

In contemporary Singaporean sociopolitical discourse, comparisons with the West—particularly the USA and the UK—have become pervasive across a wide range of critical soci [...]

This discussion with Steven Feld occurred online on May 4, 2020 for around two-and-a-half hours. It covers a wide range of topics: Feld’s training and background; the rel [...]

Science on the Range uses bats and their scientists to provide a historical and ecological account of both the range and Texas’ sovereignty as a settler colonial state. T [...]

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In March 2006, a multiagency field campaign was undertaken in Mexico City called the Megacities Initiative: Local and Global Research Observations (MILAGRO). Two of th [...]

How do we identify ancient fields and farming systems in areas where the same spaces of cultivation have been used repeatedly over thousands of years? In the limestone ka [...]

In 2015, the Zimbabwean government announced that street vendors had one week to clear the streets or the national army would be deployed against them. This was part of [...]

Low-income and socially marginalized people around the world regularly engage in anti-competitive practices. Often illegal and always offensive to those with faith in fr [...]

This dissertation examines the consumption and creative reappropriation of used and discarded material things by urban Chinese, exploring how these practices enable the c [...]

This dissertation is a material attention to the recent past and present in the circumpolar north, a place seen as the Anthropocene’s canary in the coal mine. Specifica [...]

"Trust Your Dog: Training Service Dogs for U.S. Veterans with PTSD" investigates what it means for veterans with PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) to com [...]

Applications of SNA to interpret archaeological evidence have been increasing dramatically, as has an interest in identifying communities and neighborhoods. Social Networ [...]

This dissertation examines early Islamic understandings of godfearingness (taqwā), and how these understandings shape efforts to renew religious discourse in p [...]

This dissertation is a study of an Israeli Jewish national-religious “social settlement” project that has settled in Israel’s binational cities, the moral imagin [...]

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Inequality is present in all human societies, but building a robust understanding of how that inequality developed and persisted for centuries requires historical and [...]

While the impacts of black (Rattus rattus) and brown (Rattus norvegicus) rats on human society are well documented—including the spread of disease, broad-scale environm [...]

This essay examines the interplay of form and content in early Islamic expressions of taqwā (translated variously as piety, or fear or consciousness of God), with a prim [...]

Fisheries encompass complex interplays between social, economic, and environmental factors, but limitations on historical fisheries data can hamper efforts to identify an [...]

Despite the important roles that horses have played in human history, particularly in the spread of languages and cultures, and correspondingly intensive research on this [...]

What is the relationship between vision and sound in more-than-human environmental sensing? This article traces an ethnography of glaciologists' experiences with technolo [...]

Raised-field agricultural systems have received attention from scholars involved in the analysis of prehistoric agricultural intensification in the New World. This paper [...]