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Life on the Porch: Marginality, Women, and Old Age in Rural Bhutan Journal of Anthropological Research (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Kelzang T. Tashi
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Sorcery in Mesoamerica. Jeremy D. Coltman and John M. D. Pohl, eds. Louisville: University Press of Colorado, 2020, 422 pp. $125.00, cloth. ISBN 978-1-60732-944-2. Journal of Anthropological Research (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Anath Ariel de Vidas
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Hunters of the Mid-Holocene Forest: Old Cordilleran Culture Sites at Granite Falls, Washington. James C. Chatters, Jason B. Cooper, and Philippe D. Letourneau. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2020, 240 pp. $55.00, paper. ISBN 9781647690069. Journal of Anthropological Research (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Roy L. Carlson
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Raising Children in Intercultural Marriages: Challenges and Cultural Navigation among Sino-African Couples Journal of Anthropological Research (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Yang Zhou,Qiuyu Jiang
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Reckonings: Numerals, Cognition, and History. Stephen Chrisomalis. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2020, 264 pp. $35.00, cloth. ISBN 9780262044639. Journal of Anthropological Research (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Karenleigh A. Overmann
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Archaeologies of Violence and Privilege. Christopher N. Matthews and Bradley D. Phillippi, eds. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2020, 320 pp. $85.00, cloth. ISBN 9780826361844. Journal of Anthropological Research (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 April E. Kamp-Whittaker
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Introduction to the Science of Kinship. Murray J. Leaf and Dwight Read. Washington, DC: Rowman and Littlefield, 2020, 336 pp. $120.00, cloth. ISBN 978-1-7936-3237-1. Journal of Anthropological Research (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Peter M. Whiteley
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Climate Change and the Neolithic in the American Southwest Journal of Anthropological Research (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Bradley J. Vierra,James M. Vint
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Olmec Lithic Economy at San Lorenzo. Kenneth G. Hirth and Ann Cyphers. Louisville: University Press of Colorado, 2020, 480 pp. $95.00, cloth. ISBN 978-1-64642-056-8. Journal of Anthropological Research (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Charles L. F. Knight
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Plains Paleoindian Projectile Point Penetration Potential Journal of Anthropological Research (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Metin I. Eren,Michelle R. Bebber,Edward J. Knell,Brett Story,Briggs Buchanan
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Ancient Maya Rural Settlement Patterns, Household Cooperation, and Regional Subsistence Interdependency in the Río Bec Area: Contributions from G-LiHT Journal of Anthropological Research (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Scott R. Hutson,Nicholas P. Dunning,Bruce Cook,Thomas Ruhl,Nicolas C. Barth,Daniel Conley
Research on intensive agricultural features contributes to the social relations of farming, including the means by which farmers mobilize labor and the possible destination of surplus. Lidar provides high-resolution data on ancient houses and agricultural features at a regional scale. This paper uses lidar data from NASA’s G-LiHT airborne imager to derive insights about rural demography, interhousehold
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From Trees to the Ground: The Significance of Australopithecus anamensis in Human Evolution Journal of Anthropological Research (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Yohannes Haile-Selassie
Recent fossil discoveries of early human ancestors from paleoanthropological sites in Africa and elsewhere have demonstrated how various phases of human evolutionary history were much more complicated than previously thought. The fossil record is always far from complete, and in some time slices too scarce, to provide a very detailed picture of how we became who we are today. Inadequate sample size
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JAR in the Time of COVID: The Editor’s Thanks Journal of Anthropological Research (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Lawrence Guy Straus
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Finny Merchandise: The Atlantic Cod (Gadus morhua) Trade in Gold Rush–Era San Francisco, California Journal of Anthropological Research (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Cyler Conrad,Upuli Desilva,Brittany Bingham,Brian M. Kemp,Kenneth W. Gobalet,Kale Bruner,Allen G. Pastron
During California’s Gold Rush of 1849–1855, thousands of miners rushed to San Francisco, Sacramento, and elsewhere throughout northern California, creating a significant demand for food. Here we investigate the role of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) and Pacific cod (G. macrocephalus) during the Gold Rush era using historical records, ancient DNA, and vertebral morphology in the cod assemblage recovered
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Spirit Lands of the Eagle and Bear: Numic Archaeology and Ethnohistory in the Rocky Mountains and Borderlands. Robert H. Brunswig, ed. Louisville: University Press of Colorado, 2020, 432 pp. $97.00, cloth. ISBN 978-1-64642-017-9. Journal of Anthropological Research (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Kate Magargal
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Archaeologies of Empire: Local Participants and Imperial Trajectories. Anna L. Boozer, Bleda S. Düring, and Bradley J. Parker, eds. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2020, 344 pp. $39.95, paper. ISBN 978-0-8263-6175-2. Journal of Anthropological Research (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Di Hu
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Leprosy: Past and Present. Charlotte A. Roberts. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2020, 450 pp. $130.00, cloth. ISBN 9781683401841. Journal of Anthropological Research (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Douglas H. Ubelaker
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The Work and Influence of Robert L. Carneiro, Cultural Evolutionist and Pioneer in Amazonian Anthropology Journal of Anthropological Research (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Janet Chernela
Robert L. Carneiro (1927–2020) is widely regarded as one of the most outstanding and influential figures in anthropology of the twentieth century. His career of nearly seven decades, most of which was spent as curator of South American ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, had lasting impact in the fields of ethnology, archaeology, geography, history, political science, and
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How Crow-Omaha Skewing Spreads Journal of Anthropological Research (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Peter Whiteley,Patrick McConvell
Crow-Omaha kinship systems skew kin terms intergenerationally. Although occurring worldwide, they are relatively infrequent and often exist in historically unrelated clusters: “similar inventions in areas widely apart” (per Boas). Most analyses have been formalist, evolutionist, or sociological. Here, adding some historical linguistics and focusing on the core kin-term equations via the ethnographic
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Enduring Cancer: Life, Death, and Diagnosis in Delhi. Dwaipayan Banerjee. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. 240 pp. $25.95, paper. ISBN 978-1-4780-0955-9. Journal of Anthropological Research (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Cecilia Coale Van Hollen
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Gardens of Gold: Place-Making in Papua New Guinea. Jamon Alex Halvaksz. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020, 242 pp. $30.00, paper. ISBN 978-0-295-74759-0. Journal of Anthropological Research (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Pamela J. Stewart Strathern,Andrew Strathern
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The Odd, the Unusual, and the Strange: Bioarchaeological Explorations of Atypical Burials. Tracy K. Betsinger, Amy B. Scott, and Anastasia Tsaliki, eds. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2020, 448 pp. $95.00, cloth. ISBN 9781683401032. Journal of Anthropological Research (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Ann M. Palkovich
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Femoral Bicondylar Angles among Dry-Habitat Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) Resemble Those of Humans: Implications for Knee Function, Australopith Sexual Dimorphism, and the Evolution of Bipedalism Journal of Anthropological Research (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Kevin D. Hunt,Sarah E. Dunevant,Ryan M. Yohler,Kristian J. Carlson
We used image analysis software (ImageJ) to measure femoral shaft obliquity in 76 humans, 57 forest chimpanzees, and four dry-habitat (Semliki) chimpanzees. We found that dry-habitat chimpanzee femora were intermediate between forest chimpanzees and humans and significantly different from each (χ2 = 6.21, p = 0.013; χ2 = 11.11, p = 0.001). We further compared human femoral obliquity with the published
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Historical Ecology and Archaeology in the Galápagos Islands: A Legacy of Human Occupation. Peter W. Stahl, Fernando J. Astudillo, Ross W. Jamieson, Diego Quiroga, and Florencio Delgado. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2020, 240 pp. $90.00, cloth. ISBN 9780813066271. Journal of Anthropological Research (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Michael H. Jackson
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Maya Bonesetters: Manual Healers in a Changing Guatemala. Servando Z. Hinojosa. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2020, 256 pp. $29.95, paper. ISBN 978-1-4773-2029-7. Journal of Anthropological Research (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Timothy W. Knowlton
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Locomotor Economy and Foraging Ecology in Hominins Journal of Anthropological Research (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 M. Vidal-Cordasco,J. Rodríguez,O. Prado-Nóvoa,G. Zorrilla-Revilla,A. Mateos
The ratio of net energy gained over time expended while foraging (Net Rate of Energy Gain or NREG) or the ratio of net energy gained over energy expended (Foraging Energy Efficiency or FEE) are commonly used measures of foraging success in modern and ancient hunter-gatherers. This work addresses how and to what extent somatic proportions may influence energy gain during foraging trips. An experimental
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Signals from the Hunt: Widening the Spectrum on Male Pursuits of Dangerous Animals Journal of Anthropological Research (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Meera Anna Oommen,Kartik Shanker
With a long history predating modern humans, big-game hunting has been implicated in catalyzing human evolution through nutritional and provisioning benefits. An alternative view argues for this practice as a costly signaling strategy geared toward increasing male fitness through prestige and status benefits. We examine this possibility across contexts that include early human evolutionary phases,
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Pluriversal Politics: The Real and the Possible. Arturo Escobar. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020, 232 pp. $25.95, paper. ISBN 978-1-4780-0846-0. Journal of Anthropological Research (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Jose Arenas Gómez
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Rules of Descent and Pattern of Authority among the Bakor of Southern Nigeria Journal of Anthropological Research (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Titilayo Cordelia Orisaremi
The Bakor is one of the very few ethnic groups in Nigeria believed to practice a matrilineal descent system. There is either a common assumption that matriliny connotes matriarchy or a confusion between the two concepts among some African feminist scholars. Against this backdrop, this study sought to find out the prevailing rules of descent and the pattern of authority in Bakor society, where women
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