Hobbes and Kant: Materialism and Rhetoric by Gonzalo Bustamante Kuschel

“…Hobbes, who advocated for monarchy, criticized rhetoric from the perspective of a materialist anthropology influenced by Lucretius. However, he paradoxically employed rhetorical strategies in his new scientia civilis. …”
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Quand les hommes se font passer pour des garçonnes : de l’agentivité du travestissement en moga dans le Japon de l’entre-deux-guerres by Camille Lenoble

“…The growing interest for gender fluidity in social sciences, and especially in history and anthropology, interrogates the genealogy of gender categories. …”
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Time after Time: Narratives of the Longue Durée in the Anthropocene by Stephen W. Sawyer

“…Following recent work in anthropology that has attempted to break down the nature-culture barrier, this article suggests that the Anthropocene has generated a new arrangement of temporal scales and therefore a poignant rearticulation of the long and short durée as well as the agency that drives action within these two realms.…”
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Teologiczne znaczenie osoby i natury w świetle chrystologii Soboru Chalcedońskiego by Giacomo Calore

“… Council of Chalcedon is an actual closing point for Christology and a starting point for anthropology. Behind the teachings of the Council of Chalcedon, together with later clarifications added by the Second and the Third Councils of Constantinople, there were centuries of dispute between the School of Alexandria and the School of Antioch about the person and natures of Christ (4th/5th – 7th centuries). …”
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The Value of Rubbish in Francophone Chinese Art Installations by Rosalind Silvester

“…This article investigates the presentation and function of rubbish in transcultural installation art and rethinks the aesthetic value of waste in the broad context of two contemporary theories of cultural production – the anthropology of waste and the cultural history of waste. …”
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The new frontier of age limits, or youthoods among the Meru (Kenya) by Anne-Marie Peatrik

“…The article offers a contribution to an anthropology of youth, viewed here from the perspective of its limits, and aims to put the rite of passage back in its rightful place within processes that concern both complex trajectories and the crucial junctions of existence.…”
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Time, Infrastructure and Knowledge: Rethinking Temporality in the Anthropocene by Vando Borghi, Luigi Pellizzoni, Paolo Savoia

“…Early modern natural history is revealed as preluding anthropology that blurred nature-culture divides and anticipates a notion of “third nature” which challenges the scalability logic characteristic of modernity.…”
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Bilateral Tuberculum Sextum of Maxillary Permanent First Molar by Mrunali Prashant Deshkar, Yash Naik, Ramakrishna Yeluri, Nilima Thosar, Monika Khubchandani, Meenal Pande

“…According to the literature, cusp 6 is also known by other anthropologic designations, such as “Tuberculum Sextum” or “Entoconulid”. …”
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Love and anger in Amazonia and in academia: a disciple’s account of Joanna Overing’s oeuvre and teachings by Carlos D. Londoño Sulkin

“…He thought that she and her students were doing the most exciting research in Amazonianist anthropology at the time. Meeting him was the first in a chain of fortunate events that led to my doing a Ph.D. under Joanna’s supervision and witnessing a golden but embattled era in her career. …”
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Measuring postal access and direct delivery services among Native American reservations in Montana and South Dakota by Ryan Weichelt

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Enjeu des droits fonciers dans la gestion des ressources naturelles by Caroline Plançon

“…This paper underlines that the individual, absolute ownership is not the only possible way to productive use of land and natural resources, it means that the land title is not the only possible manner to put the land in use, despite of the main stream of thinking.For this purpose, it is useful to specify some legal categories and concepts, such as the governance, its link with the right/law, and to present how legal anthropology can bring to the environmental questions in situations of legal pluralism, in particular by underlining that this methodology takes into account the various legal cultures to the natural resources management, in particular by focusing that lands and natural resources are not always considered with a commercial and financial point of view. …”
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Revisiting Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus capucinus) and the Ancient Maya by Mary Baker

“…Originally refuted by Baker (1992), this paper reevaluates the evidence from both papers, taking an ethnoprimatological, four‑field approach and integrating content from cultural, biological, linguistic and archaeological anthropology to discuss evidence that capuchin monkeys (Cebus capucinus) were also found within the Maya region in ancient times. …”
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Vers un anthropomorphisme critique by Aurélie Choné

“…To do so, it relies on theoretical approaches derived from two fields of research: the anthropology of nature and New Materialism. First, this paper argues that the thesis of ontological pluralism, as formulated by Philippe Descola, can enable a critical use of the notion of anthropomorphism in literary and cultural studies, while it takes on a different meaning when viewed within the framework of a non-naturalistic ontology such as analogism, and even loses all relevance within the framework of an ontology of nature such as animism. …”
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Erich Neumann – Der mystische Mensch by Véronique Liard

“…His purpose will be to establish a mystical anthropology. For Neumann, any experience of the numinous, which finds its source in the creative unconscious, is mystical. …”
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Autonomia delle persone in movimento e antropologia compromessa: riflessioni sulle reciproche influenze nella gestione dell’immigrazione in Perù by Irene Palla

“…Entering into the Latin American debate and placing it in dialogue with the concept of 'other meaning' by Ferdinando Fava, the text questions the contribution of compromised anthropology to the critical reflection of studies on the autonomy of migrations, highlighting the peculiarities of Peru. …”
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Devins sur le pas de la porte : notes pour une anthropologie visuelle du seuil en Galice by Anxo Fernández Ocampo

“…This article is the result of an experience at the crossroads of traductology and visual anthropology. It highlights the capacity of the domestic thresholds to cope with the alien by the means of traces or objects that are invested with an “exoticising” value, either because these traces or these objects are identitary representations of the past, or because they embody the other and the elsewhere. …”
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Temporality of Movements of Northern Baikal Reindeer Herders, Hunters and Fishermen by Vladimir Davydov

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Hypothetical 3D reconstruction of the tomb of the nomarch Ini from Gebelein by Wojciech Ejsmond, Jakub Stępnik

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Kulturní dějiny? Kulturní dějiny! by Milena Lenderová

“…Semiotic (symbolic) determination of culture based on social (cultural) anthropology is a methodology background of the everyday life history. …”
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La recomposition des savoirs au Maghreb à l’époque de la coopération by Jean-Robert Henry

“…Indeed, a theoretical universalism intended as replacement for discriminating colonialist discourse, vested itself in a more or less modernized Marxist vulgate of the economy, sociology, linguistics, law, anthropology. More generally, the mission of serving development was conceived in new world time as somehow an echo of the civilizing mission of the past. …”
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