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Secrets Buried in the Pits: Ritual Activities in Western Anatolia in the First Half of the Second Millennium bce (2024)
Journal Article
Gündoğan, Ü. (online). Secrets Buried in the Pits: Ritual Activities in Western Anatolia in the First Half of the Second Millennium bce. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0959774324000222

Western Anatolian ritual pits provide valuable insights into socio-cultural, economic and symbolic practices during the Early to Middle Bronze Age. Findings in feasting pits, such as carbonized seeds and animal bones, indicate a strong link between r... Read More about Secrets Buried in the Pits: Ritual Activities in Western Anatolia in the First Half of the Second Millennium bce.

Blessed acts of oblivion on the ethics of forgetting (2024)
Journal Article
Heywood, P. (in press). Blessed acts of oblivion on the ethics of forgetting. Cultural Anthropology,

This paper explores the ethics of forgetting as a technology of the self. Forgetfulness is a feature of a range of contexts of political conflict and ‘difficult’ heritage. Such forgetfulness is often imagined as an imposition (as when states deny the... Read More about Blessed acts of oblivion on the ethics of forgetting.

Selecting participants for dyslexia studies : Complexities and challenges (2016)
Book Chapter
Lopes, S., Gomes, C., Oliveira, C., & Elliott, J. (2016). Selecting participants for dyslexia studies : Complexities and challenges. In M. Frazier (Ed.), Dyslexia: Perspectives, Challenges and Treatment Options. Nova Science Publishers

Elephants Are Stories Now: Understanding The Loss Of Elephants In South Sudan (2024)
Report
Waanzi Hillary, I., Amuom, M., & Leonardi, C. (2024). Elephants Are Stories Now: Understanding The Loss Of Elephants In South Sudan. Rift Valley Institute

“Extraordinarily Inconspicuous” Elephants: The Interspecies Constitution and Contestations of the Ivory Commodity Frontier in Nineteenth-Century South Sudan (2024)
Journal Article
Leonardi, C. (2024). “Extraordinarily Inconspicuous” Elephants: The Interspecies Constitution and Contestations of the Ivory Commodity Frontier in Nineteenth-Century South Sudan. Environmental History, 29(2), 254-280. https://doi.org/10.1086/729404

Elephants have been extraordinarily inconspicuous in the history of the ivory trade in nineteenth-century southern Sudan. One explanation for this is the process of commodification, which abstracted ivory from its animal origins and rendered invisibl... Read More about “Extraordinarily Inconspicuous” Elephants: The Interspecies Constitution and Contestations of the Ivory Commodity Frontier in Nineteenth-Century South Sudan.