From Painting to Picturebook: Bhajju Shyam’s Insider Indigenous Art by Indraprastha University, India

“…Adivasi individuals have borne the brunt of primitivism encouraged by anthropologists, artists, writers, and administrators. …”
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Latest news from the bonobos: Pan paniscus myths and realities by David Beaune

“…They attract much attention from anthropologists who want to better understand our primate origins and more recently from the public because of their remarkable behavior and matriarchal social system. …”
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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

“…The human tooth’s morphology, which includes variations in cusp numbers and patterns, is of tremendous interest to anthropologists, morphologists, and dentists. Cusp 6 is an additional cusp that is very seldom encountered in primary or permanent mandibular molars, especially first molars. …”
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Tracing embodied knowledge in the history of science and medicine: expanding the role of film in historical research by Paul Craddock, Anna Harris

“…Thus, extending from Lucien Taylor’s suggestion that ethnography could be conducted ‘filmically’, we argue that, like anthropologists, historians and museum specialists might also accommodate film as part of a serious research methodology, especially when it comes to respecting the integrity of embodied contributions to the history of science and medicine. …”
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The problem of death in socio-humanitarian studies during the second half of the 20th century by S.Yu. Malysheva

“…The obtained results show that death studies, which were mainly the research on death and funerary rites, appeared in the first half of the 20th century due to anthropologists' efforts. However, a new impetus was given to the research in the middle of the 1950s. …”
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I Can Only Imagine: The Aborted Korean Ministry (1566–1571) of Father Gaspar Vilela, as Recounted by His Letter of 3 November 1571—An Illustration of Jesuit Attitudes on Notions of... by Hayoung Wong

“…The notion of an imagined Korea arguably drew from a creativity implied by the missionary imagination, an idea evidenced in thinking processes of perspective, positive/negative consubstantiality, radical self-assessment, and reduction advocated by anthropologists increasingly willing to engage with theology. …”
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W poszukiwaniu „brakującego ogniwa” by Jacek Tomczyk

“…However, despite the fact that anthropologists wanted to find a “missing link” they rejected those interpretations! …”
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Sistemi di dono-reciprocità nel sistema economico capitalista: utopia o coesistenza feconda? Il caso dell’Economia di Comunione nella libertà by Licia M. Paglione, Maurício C. Serafim

“…Hypothesis of this article is that the EoC, due to his embeddedness in a particular cultural practice, inserts into capitalist system typical  elements from a gift-reciprocity system, similar to the one observed by anthropologists in archaic and traditional societies,  able to create “reciprocity” and “properly social bonds” beside the instrumental and powerfull relationships. …”
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The Political Realities of Social Science Research with Focusing on the book of Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples by Parvin Ghasemi

“…The Maoris always in particular and the Polynesians generally are introduced and identified from the perspective of foreign anthropologists, But in this book, she is a Maori woman who writes and records and expresses her opinion and analysis of the past and anthropology.  …”
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Les rendez-vous manqués de l’ethnologie et de la primatologie de terrain (1960-2010) by Vincent Leblan

“…The ambition of a primate societies ethnography presently called for in ethology is then examined under two different angles:for one part, by tracing the unrecognized descent of the use of the culture concept in primatology to American (USA) cultural anthropologists’ comments on anthropoid psychology during the interwar years, while this invention is often traced exclusively to Japanese primatology in the postwar years. …”
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De la haine au crime by Charles de Lespinay, Frank Alvarez Pereyre

“…All these issues are of a great concern for the anthropologists and for those dealing with law, as well. …”
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Human, almost human: how many human species are there? by Thierry Hoquet

“…In addition, the choice of taxonomic divisions and the names adopted is often controversial as they often reflect implicit beliefs among anthropologists, for example that humans are the apex of primate evolution. …”
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The role of social networks in production of the migrant’s identity by M. A. Panarina, I. A. Lavrov

“…The experience of studying this problem by foreign sociologists and  anthropologists of different years has been considered in the article. …”
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Les musées amérindiens : des lieux de mémoire ou d’anti-mémoire ? by Gérard Selbach

“…If he helped two “anglo” linguists and anthropologists to become famous in the early 20th century, he also saved the Navajo culture, memory and language from disappearance. …”
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La folie de l’arc-en-ciel ou la longue errance de Bwila by Claudie Haxaire

“…It is unfortunate that, like Evans-Pritchard ([1931] 1972), many anthropologists who work on misfortune and illness, and all the more on rituals, did not seek further details of the material or symbolic properties of plants used by healers while following their interlocutors.…”
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On the human nature (following in the steps of Belyaev) by A. L. Markel

“…The review details the views and theoretical concepts of geneticists, sociologists, social psychologists, anthropologists, behaviorists and ethologists in explaining the phenomenon of human evolution. …”
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Postnatal consultations with an obstetrician after critical perinatal events: a qualitative study of what women and their partners experience by Marianne Johansen, Jette Led Sørensen, Stinne Høgh, Laura Emdal Navne, Mette Nordahl Svendsen

“…Interviews were analysed using a phenomenological approach and the thematic analysis was validated by a transdisciplinary group of anthropologists, obstetricians and a midwife.Setting Department of obstetrics at a large hospital in Denmark.Participants We did a qualitative study with 17 participants (10 women and 7 partners) who had experienced critical perinatal events.Results Five major themes were identified: (1) a need to gain understanding and make sense of the critical perinatal events, (2) a need for relational continuity, (3) the importance of discussing emotional effects as well as physical aspects of occurred events, (4) preparing for future pregnancies and (5) closure of the story.Most of the participants emphasised the importance of knowing the obstetrician undertaking the postnatal consultation. …”
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Anthropology and the City. Street Art in Medellín’s Comuna 13: A City-Making Practice and an Ethnographic Tool by Claudio Riga

“…Urban anthropologists are shifting from traditional approaches that treated the city merely as the “object” or “context” of research, focusing instead on the city as a dynamic process, shaped and reshaped by city-making practices implemented by its inhabitants. …”
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Indigenous landscaping and biophilic urbanism: case studies in Noongar Six Seasons by Agata Cabanek, Peter Newman, Noel Nannup

“…The future of biophilic urbanism will depend on whether sufficient contact with historians, anthropologists, and remnant indigenous communities can be made in order to emphasize the value for all aspects of biophilic urbanism in creating a deeper sense of place.…”
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Women and partners’ experiences of critical perinatal events: a qualitative study by Marianne Johansen, Jette Led Sørensen, Stinne Høgh, Laura Emdal Navne, Mette Nordahl Svendsen

“…Interviews were analysed thematically and validated by a transdisciplinary group of anthropologists, obstetricians and a midwife.Setting Department of obstetrics at a tertiary referral university hospital in Denmark.Participants Women and partners who had experienced a critical perinatal event within the past 3–12 months.Results We conducted 17 interviews and identified three main themes: (1) ambivalence towards medicalisation, (2) the extended temporality of a critical birth and (3) postnatal loss of attention from healthcare professionals. …”
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