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Are there anthropological problems? (2023)
Book Chapter
Heywood, P. (2023). Are there anthropological problems?. In P. Heywood, & M. Candea (Eds.), Beyond Description: Anthropologies of Explanation (25-44). Cornell University Press

Towards a praxis of care in post-pandemic fieldwork: Comparing ethnographic encounters during Covid-19 (2023)
Journal Article
Cîrstea, A., Johnson, L., & Phiri, C. (2024). Towards a praxis of care in post-pandemic fieldwork: Comparing ethnographic encounters during Covid-19. SSM - Qualitative Research in Health, 5, Article 100387. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2023.100387

The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of ensuring the wellbeing of both researchers and participants throughout the research process. In this paper, we argue that in order to produce caring research, the wellbeing of researchers must n... Read More about Towards a praxis of care in post-pandemic fieldwork: Comparing ethnographic encounters during Covid-19.

Open plains are not a level playing field for hominid consonant‑like versus vowel‑like calls (2023)
Journal Article
Gannon, C., Hill, R., & Lameira, A. R. (2023). Open plains are not a level playing field for hominid consonant‑like versus vowel‑like calls. Scientific Reports, 13(1), Article 21138. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-48165-7

Africa’s paleo-climate change represents an “ecological black-box” along the evolutionary timeline of spoken language; a vocal hominid went in and, millions of years later, out came a verbal human. It is unknown whether or how a shift from forested,... Read More about Open plains are not a level playing field for hominid consonant‑like versus vowel‑like calls.

Transport access routes for motor cycles in Liberia (2023)
Book Chapter
Peters, K., & Jenkins, J. (in press). Transport access routes for motor cycles in Liberia. In S. Mayhew, & M. Hammer (Eds.), The Elgar Companion to Health and the Sustainable Development Goals. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing

Children's experiences of care on walking and cycling journeys between home and school in Healthy New Towns: Reframing active school travel (2023)
Journal Article
Tupper, E., Morris, S., Lawlor, E. R., Summerbell, C., Panter, J., Jago, R., & Pollard, T. (2024). Children's experiences of care on walking and cycling journeys between home and school in Healthy New Towns: Reframing active school travel. Health & Place, 85, Article 103147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.103147

The Healthy New Town programme in England set out to 'put health into place' by supporting the design and construction of healthy places to live, including by creating safe environments for active travel. To explore the impact of this approach, this... Read More about Children's experiences of care on walking and cycling journeys between home and school in Healthy New Towns: Reframing active school travel.

Beyond Description: Anthropologies of Explanation (2023)
Book
Heywood, P., & Candea, M. (Eds.). (2023). Beyond Description: Anthropologies of Explanation. Cornell University Press

Beyond Description brings anthropologists and other social scientists together to examine the problem of explanation. What is "an explanation?" What can it add? What makes it authoritative, clarifying, or misleading? Whom does it serve and how is it... Read More about Beyond Description: Anthropologies of Explanation.

‘Occupying’ the womb: Disrupted kinship futures and sovereign logics in sexual violence during wars (2023)
Journal Article
Mookherjee, N. (2023). ‘Occupying’ the womb: Disrupted kinship futures and sovereign logics in sexual violence during wars. Critique of Anthropology, 43(4), 422-443. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275X231216250

This article seeks to ethnographically highlight the multiple uses of gene/alogy (as explored by Franklin and McKinnon in the 2000s) in the context of the Bangladesh war of 1971, and hence maps out the range of violence and ambivalences at the heart... Read More about ‘Occupying’ the womb: Disrupted kinship futures and sovereign logics in sexual violence during wars.

Part 1: Tribal Peoples, History and Ethnology (2023)
Journal Article
Simpson, B., Barkhoda, D., & Okely, J. (2023). Part 1: Tribal Peoples, History and Ethnology. Learning and Teaching, 16(3), 4-30. https://doi.org/10.3167/latiss.2023.160303

Three authors reflect on their conversations and interactions with Sue with particular reference to her fieldwork in south-west Iran in the mid-1970s and how that influenced her subsequent research on community development, organisations and social c... Read More about Part 1: Tribal Peoples, History and Ethnology.

News and Perspectives: Words matter in primatology (2023)
Journal Article
Bezanson, M., Cortés-Ortiz, L., Bicca-Marques, J. C., Boonratana, R., Carvalho, S., Cords, M., de la Torre, S., Hobaiter, C., Humle, T., Izar, P., Lynch, J. W., Matsuzawa, T., Setchell, J. M., Zikusoka, G. K., & Strier, K. B. (2024). News and Perspectives: Words matter in primatology. Primates, 65, 33–39. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329-023-01104-6

Postings on social media on Twitter (now X), BioAnthropology News (Facebook), and other venues, as well as recent publications in prominent journals, show that primatologists, ecologists, and other researchers are questioning the terms “Old World” an... Read More about News and Perspectives: Words matter in primatology.

Nest traits for the world's birds (2023)
Journal Article
Sheard, C., Street, S. E., Healy, S. D., Troisi, C. A., Clark, A. D., Yovcheva, A., …Lala, K. N. (2024). Nest traits for the world's birds. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 33(2), 206-214. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13783

Motivation
A well-constructed nest is a key element of successful reproduction in most species of birds, and nest morphology varies widely across the class. Macroecological and macroevolutionary studies tend to group nest design into a small number... Read More about Nest traits for the world's birds.

Relational chronicities: kinship, care, and ethics of responsibility. (2023)
Journal Article
Zabiliūtė, E., & McNeilly, H. (2023). Relational chronicities: kinship, care, and ethics of responsibility. Anthropology and Medicine, 30(3), 171-183. https://doi.org/10.1080/13648470.2023.2255771

Care for chronic illness in clinical and everyday settings is relational and underpinned by ethical dilemmas about kinship care responsibilities as much as it is about self-care practices and technologically aided living. Such is the central argument... Read More about Relational chronicities: kinship, care, and ethics of responsibility..

Sleep tight! Adolescent sleep quality across three distinct sleep ecologies (2023)
Journal Article
Silva-Caballero, A., Ball, H. L., Kramer, K. L., & Bentley, G. R. (2023). Sleep tight! Adolescent sleep quality across three distinct sleep ecologies. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, 11(1), 448-460. https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoad040

Background and objectives
Good sleep quality, associated with few arousals, no daytime sleepiness and self-satisfaction with one’s sleep, is pivotal for adolescent growth, maturation, cognition and overall health. This article aims to identify what... Read More about Sleep tight! Adolescent sleep quality across three distinct sleep ecologies.

Emergent Explanation (2023)
Book Chapter
Matt, C., & Thomas, Y. (2023). Emergent Explanation. In P. Heywood, & M. Candea (Eds.), Beyond Description: Anthropologies of Explanation (81-103). Cornell University Press

Ethics without Borders: Solidarity and Difference in Inter-community Dialogue (2023)
Journal Article
Egorova, Y. (2024). Ethics without Borders: Solidarity and Difference in Inter-community Dialogue. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 30(2), 265-281. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.14057

The article offers an ethnographically embedded analysis of a UK-based Jewish-Muslim inter-community network to contribute to anthropological research into the ethical efforts that groups seen as polarized invest in negotiating boundaries of differen... Read More about Ethics without Borders: Solidarity and Difference in Inter-community Dialogue.

Leopard density and the ecological and anthropogenic factors influencing density in a mixed-use landscape in the Western Cape, South Africa (2023)
Journal Article
Hinde, K., Wilkinson, A., Tokota, S., Amin, R., O’Riain, M. J., & Williams, K. S. (2023). Leopard density and the ecological and anthropogenic factors influencing density in a mixed-use landscape in the Western Cape, South Africa. PLoS ONE, 18(10), Article e0293445. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0293445

Large carnivores face numerous threats, including habitat loss and fragmentation, direct killing, and prey depletion, leading to significant global range and population declines. Despite such threats, leopards (Panthera pardus) persist outside protec... Read More about Leopard density and the ecological and anthropogenic factors influencing density in a mixed-use landscape in the Western Cape, South Africa.