Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: The Secret World of Women as Seen by Men by Adriana Kaplan, Babucarr Cham, Lamin A. Njie, Ana Seixas, Sandra Blanco, Mireia Utzet

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Däbrä Aron: A Rock-cut Monastic Church, Mäqet District of Northern Ethiopia by Tsegaye Ebabey Demissie

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MOVILIDAD ESPACIAL Y HORTICULTURA EN EL VALLE MEDIO DE RÍO NEGRO: LA CONSTRUCCIÓN DE UN TERRITORIO MIGRATORIO by Flavio D. Abarzúa, María S. Brouchoud

“…This work is addressed from an interdisciplinary approach in which the contributions of anthropology and sociology add to geography, and allow closer to understanding the complexity that characterizes migration. …”
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Patterns of physical activity in hunter-gatherer children compared with US and UK children by Luke Kretschmer, Mark Dyble, Nikhil Chaudhary, David Bann, Gul Deniz Salali

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Bioimpedance assessment of body composition in the first adulthood period of somatic types residing in highland by Kozuev Kadyr, Tulekeev Toktogazy, Dzholdubaev Sagynbek, Toichieva Zarina, Abdullaeva Zhypargul

“…The current stage of development of medical science is characterized by growing interest in constitutional typology and clinical anthropology. The anatomical-anthropological approach is an integrative technique of biology and medicine that allows us to determine the criteria for normality and pathology of a person. …”
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What can mathematical models tell us about the relationship between circular migrations and HIV transmission dynamics? by Aditya S. Khanna, Dobromir T. Dimitrov, Steven M. Goodreau

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The Importance of Unprotected Areas as Habitat for The Leopard Cat (Prionailurus bengalensis javanensis Desmarest, 1816) on Java, Indonesia by Nanang Irawan, Satyawan Pudyatmoko, Pujo Semedi Hargo Yuwono, Muhammad Tafrichan, Anthony J. Giordano, Muhammad Ali Imron

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Female Offenders at the Confluence of Medical and Penal Discourses: Towards a Gender-Specific Criminology (1860s-1920s) by Alice Bonzom

“…This polyphonic discourse incorporated many disciplines such as biology, psychiatry, anthropology and social science. This convergence of intellectual fields could be seen as gender-based. …”
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Retóricas em disputa: o debate intelectual sobre as políticas de ação afirmativa para estudantes negros no Brasil by Karine Pereira Goss

“…For this, the main proposals presented for social scientists, more specifi cally anthropology and sociology representatives will be analyzed. …”
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Guest Editorial: The Gig Economy and Women Workers in the Middle East by Stella Morgana

“…By proposing a collection of original and pioneering research on an understudied topic as applied to specific contexts in the Middle East, the special issue broadens the analysis of the so-called gig economy beyond a mere economic lens, bringing together multi-disciplinary insights and approaches from sociology, political economy and digital anthropology. It shows that online gig work is neither a crystallised nor monolithic dimension. …”
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Introducing “Disrupted Histories, Recovered Pasts” by Sian Sullivan, Michèle Baussant, Lindsey Dodd, Olivette Otele, Irène Dos Santos

“…We have conducted oral history and archival research in multiple contexts, from disciplinary bases in anthropology and history. Our aim has been to interrogate relationships between oral histories and amateur histories with more formal written archives and historiography in a series of disrupted settings: evictions in colonial and apartheid west Namibia (SULLIVAN); memories and historical interpretations of the Egyptian Jewish diaspora (BAUSSANT); the evacuation of children in Second World War France (DODD); recent maritime exodus of migrants from Africa (OTELE); and rupture from a hegemonic imperial-nostalgic narrative in Portugal (DOS SANTOS). …”
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A place holder: the social sciences of monkeys and apes by Véronique Servais

“…It does not take account of the contributions, whether desirable or not, made by natural sciences to sociology or anthropology, but rather argues in favor of a sociology of primates. …”
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De-Mystifying Mysticism: A Critical Realist Perspective on Ambivalences in the Study of Mysticism by Ali Qadir, Tatiana Tiaynen-Qadir

“…Our primary data are key pieces of scholarly literature on mysticism, including interdisciplinary studies and disciplinary literature from religious studies, history, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, and psychology. This review draws on a metatheoretic perspective of critical realism and is not meant to be comprehensive but rather analytical, seeking to identify patterns in scholarship. …”
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Critiquing representations of intellectual disability in occupation-based literature by Rachel Reparon, Pamela Block, Ann Fudge Schormans, Debbie Laliberte Rudman, Gail Teachman

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Social support may buffer, to an extent, the impact of stigma on health-related quality of life among type 2 diabetes mellitus patients by Desmond Uchechukwu Onu, Christy Ngozi Obi-keguna, Osadebe Nnabuike Oguguam, Chukwuedozie K. Ajaero, Elisha John Igwe

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Canine perspective taking: Anticipating the behavior of an unseen human by Ludwig Huber, Pauline van der Wolf, Machteld Menkveld, Stefanie Riemer, Christoph J. Völter

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PHILOSOPHICAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE NATURE OF VIOLENCE by N. M. Boychenko

“…To the extent that the influence of ethics on changes in human culture and sociality in the counterfactual regime is increasing, one should also speak of the anthropological significance of ethics. Conclusions. From the socio-philosophical point of view, it is necessary to specify exactly which social institutions and in which constellation generate violence. …”
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The Power of Mimesis and the Mimesis of Power in the Production of Subjectivity by A. S. Kondakova

“…The article compares and analyses two approaches to the production of subjectivity — Foucauldian and Girardian — within the context of contemporary political philosophy and philosophical anthropology. These two theories—which are arguably dominant in their respective fields—are compared due to their shared focus on the role of power and violence in the formation of the subject. …”
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THE THEORY OF CIVILIZATIONS THROUGH THE LENS OF CONTEMPORARY HUMANITIES by T. V. Danylova

“…In particular, a new theory has to take into account both classic and contemporary investigations in the field of philosophical anthropology and theory of values. The increasing threat posed by the clash of civilizations can become a swan song of humanity. …”
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