A cost for signaling: do Hadza hunter-gatherers forgo calories to show-off in an experimental context? (2023)
Journal Article
Stibbard-Hawkes, D. N., Amir, D., & Apicella, C. L. (2023). A cost for signaling: do Hadza hunter-gatherers forgo calories to show-off in an experimental context?. Evolution and Human Behavior, 44(5), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2022.10.004

Hadza food-sharing is extremely generous and often extends to individuals outside the household. Some anthropologists have proposed that individuals, especially men, share food beyond the household in order to signal foraging skill. While correlation... Read More about A cost for signaling: do Hadza hunter-gatherers forgo calories to show-off in an experimental context?.

A Bear and Those Things Beneath my Knees: Nature in Settler-Colonial Los Angeles (2023)
Book Chapter
Anyadike-Danes, C. M. (2023). A Bear and Those Things Beneath my Knees: Nature in Settler-Colonial Los Angeles. In F. Edwards, L. A. Popartan, & P. I. Nilstad (Eds.), Urban Natures: Living the More-than-Human City (73-87). London: Berghahn Books. https://doi.org/10.3167/9781805390824

Boxing family: Theorising competition with boxers in Accra, Ghana (2023)
Journal Article
Hopkinson, L. (2023). Boxing family: Theorising competition with boxers in Accra, Ghana. Critique of Anthropology, https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275X231202083

Anthropologists have often conceptualised competition by contrasting it with cooperation, even when collective ends are sought and achieved by competing. This approach tells us little about the qualities of the relationships and subjectivities that c... Read More about Boxing family: Theorising competition with boxers in Accra, Ghana.

Common Difference: Conceptualising Simultaneity and Racial Sincerity in Jewish-Muslim Relations in the United Kingdom (2023)
Journal Article
Egorova, Y. (2023). Common Difference: Conceptualising Simultaneity and Racial Sincerity in Jewish-Muslim Relations in the United Kingdom. Anthropological Theory,

Building upon ethnographic research conducted among participants in UK-based initiatives in Jewish-Muslim dialogue, the paper contributes to anthropological literature on the essentialising nature of state sponsored constructions of minoritised group... Read More about Common Difference: Conceptualising Simultaneity and Racial Sincerity in Jewish-Muslim Relations in the United Kingdom.

Doing Anthropology in a Sporting World: Knowledge, Representation, and Collaboration in the Digital Age (2023)
Book
Carter, T., Heath, S., Hildred, B., & Neuhaus, H. (Eds.). Doing Anthropology in a Sporting World: Knowledge, Representation, and Collaboration in the Digital Age. Vernon Press. Manuscript submitted for publication

Preservation by Demolition: Toxic Heritage in Contemporary China (2023)
Book Chapter
Lou, L. I. (2023). Preservation by Demolition: Toxic Heritage in Contemporary China. In E. Kryder-Reid, & S. May (Eds.), Toxic Heritage: Legacies, Futures, and Environmental Injustice (174-198). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003365259-20

This chapter explores how residents in a Chinese neighbourhood bargained with their “toxic heritage.” Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between the spring and autumn of 2018, the chapter details how the villagers of Samtilwei, a periurban nei... Read More about Preservation by Demolition: Toxic Heritage in Contemporary China.

The Cultural Transmission and Evolution of Folk Narratives (2023)
Book Chapter
Tehrani, J. (2023). The Cultural Transmission and Evolution of Folk Narratives. In J. Tehrani, J. Kendal, & R. Kendal (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution (C39S1-C39P96). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198869252.013.39

Folk narratives—such as fairy tales, legends, and fables—are products of tradition, rather than individual authors. As they get passed on from person to person and from generation to generation new variants evolve, some of which catch on and generate... Read More about The Cultural Transmission and Evolution of Folk Narratives.

Cinderella’s Family Tree. A Phylomemetic Case Study of ATU 510/511 (2023)
Journal Article
Sakamoto Martini, G., Kendal, J., & Tehrani, J. J. (2023). Cinderella’s Family Tree. A Phylomemetic Case Study of ATU 510/511. Fabula: Journal of Folktale Studies, 64(1-2), 7-30. https://doi.org/10.1515/fabula-2023-0002

This case study contributes to recent attempts to apply “phylomemetic” methods derived from computational biology to oral traditions, where the aim is to trace the mutation and diversification of folk narratives as they get passed on from generation... Read More about Cinderella’s Family Tree. A Phylomemetic Case Study of ATU 510/511.

Implementation and impact of a social prescribing intervention: an ethnographic exploration (2023)
Journal Article
Pollard, T., Gibson, K., Griffith, B., Jeffries, J., & Moffatt, S. (2023). Implementation and impact of a social prescribing intervention: an ethnographic exploration. British Journal of General Practice, https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp.2022.0638

Background: Social prescribing involves referral of patients from primary care to link workers, who work with them to access appropriate local voluntary and community sector services. Aim: Our aim was to explore how a social prescribing intervention... Read More about Implementation and impact of a social prescribing intervention: an ethnographic exploration.

Anthropology and Contemporary Space Exploration, with a Note on Hopi Ladders (2023)
Book Chapter
Praet, I. (2023). Anthropology and Contemporary Space Exploration, with a Note on Hopi Ladders. In J. F. Salazar, & A. Gorman (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Social Studies of Outer Space. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003280507-6

This chapter offers an introduction to the emerging field of outer space studies, with a specific focus on anthropological contributions. An outstanding characteristic of this field is that it radically breaks with the typically modern division of la... Read More about Anthropology and Contemporary Space Exploration, with a Note on Hopi Ladders.

Group size and mating system predict sex differences in vocal fundamental frequency in anthropoid primates (2023)
Journal Article
Aung, T., Hill, A. K., Pfefferle, D., McLester, E., Fuller, J., Lawrence, J. M., …Puts, D. A. (2023). Group size and mating system predict sex differences in vocal fundamental frequency in anthropoid primates. Nature Communications, 14(1), Article 4069. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39535-w

Vocalizations differ substantially between the sexes in many primates, and low-frequency male vocalizations may be favored by sexual selection because they intimidate rivals and/or attract mates. Sexual dimorphism in fundamental frequency may be more... Read More about Group size and mating system predict sex differences in vocal fundamental frequency in anthropoid primates.

Promises of the past: transformations, transitions and traditions (2023)
Book Chapter
Abram, S. (2023). Promises of the past: transformations, transitions and traditions. In C. Eisler, & K. Schuchard (Eds.), Versprechen als kulturelle Konfigurationen in politischen Kontexten. Interdisziplinäre Zugänge und Perspektiven (34-46). Institut für Sächsische Geschichte und Volkskunde. https://doi.org/10.25366/2022.112

Ethics without Borders: Solidarity and Difference in Inter-community Dialogue (2023)
Journal Article
Egorova, Y. (in press). Ethics without Borders: Solidarity and Difference in Inter-community Dialogue. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute,

The paper will offer 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 polarised invest into negotiating boundaries of diff... Read More about Ethics without Borders: Solidarity and Difference in Inter-community Dialogue.

Cultural niche construction with application to fertility control: A model for education and social transmission of contraceptive use (2023)
Journal Article
Denton, K. K., Kendal, J. R., Ihara, Y., & Feldman, M. W. (2023). Cultural niche construction with application to fertility control: A model for education and social transmission of contraceptive use. Theoretical Population Biology, 153, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tpb.2023.06.001

The evolution of a cultural trait may be affected by niche construction, or changes in the selective environment of that trait due to the inheritance of other cultural traits that make up a cultural background. This study investigates the evolution o... Read More about Cultural niche construction with application to fertility control: A model for education and social transmission of contraceptive use.

Does medical humanities matter? The challenge of COVID-19 (2023)
Journal Article
Macnaughton, J. (in press). Does medical humanities matter? The challenge of COVID-19. Medical Humanities, https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2022-012602

Medical humanities has tended first and foremost to be associated with the ways in which the arts and humanities help us to understand health. However, this is not the only or necessarily the primary aim of our field. What the COVID-19 pandemic has r... Read More about Does medical humanities matter? The challenge of COVID-19.

Out of the ordinary: Everyday life and the “carnival of Mussolini” (2023)
Journal Article
Heywood, P. (in press). Out of the ordinary: Everyday life and the “carnival of Mussolini”. American Anthropologist, https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13850

Ordinary life is in many ways the quintessential object of anthropological analysis. Yet little attention has been paid to contexts in which it is important to people themselves that they and their actions are seen to be ordinary and to the work that... Read More about Out of the ordinary: Everyday life and the “carnival of Mussolini”.

Climate, not Quaternary biogeography, explains skull morphology of the long-tailed macaque on the Sunda Shelf (2023)
Journal Article
Grunstra, N. D., Louys, J., & Elton, S. (2023). Climate, not Quaternary biogeography, explains skull morphology of the long-tailed macaque on the Sunda Shelf. Quaternary Science Reviews, 310, Article 108121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108121

Sundaland, comprising the low-lying Sunda Shelf, the major islands of Borneo, Sumatra, and Java, as well as many smaller surrounding islands, formed a contiguous landmass through much of the Pliocene and Pleistocene. Subsequent late-Pleistocene risin... Read More about Climate, not Quaternary biogeography, explains skull morphology of the long-tailed macaque on the Sunda Shelf.

The Anthropology of Sport: New Modes of Theorising Comparison, Scale & Change (2023)
Journal Article
Hildred, B., & Crawley, M. The Anthropology of Sport: New Modes of Theorising Comparison, Scale & Change. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute,

Beyond outmigration: Im/mobilities and futures in peripheral postindustrial cities (2023)
Journal Article
Ringel, F. (in press). Beyond outmigration: Im/mobilities and futures in peripheral postindustrial cities. Mobilities, https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2023.2209829

This paper explores negotiations of futures within and beyond Germany’s formerly fastest shrinking city, the East German city of Hoyerswerda. Originally built for the German Democratic Republic’s miners and energy workers, its model socialist New Cit... Read More about Beyond outmigration: Im/mobilities and futures in peripheral postindustrial cities.

Mental health and well‐being in primatology: Breaking the taboos (2023)
Journal Article
Setchell, J. M., Unwin, S., & Cheyne, S. M. (in press). Mental health and well‐being in primatology: Breaking the taboos. Evolutionary Anthropology, https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.21984

We hope to raise awareness of mental health and well-being among primatologists. With this aim in mind, we organized a workshop on mental health as part of the main program of the Winter meeting of the Primate Society of Great Britain in December 202... Read More about Mental health and well‐being in primatology: Breaking the taboos.