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Reconstructing Multiple Injuries through Osteobiography: A Case Study from Italy
No full textThis investigation aims to underscore the value of an osteobiographical approach that focuses on understanding the interactions between status, medical treatments, and disability. This article presents the interpretation of a multitrauma case within an archaeological framework. The site of Selvicciola, dated between the first half of the fourth century C.E. and the beginning of the eighth century C.E., with its Roman villa rustica and a cemetery with a church, provides the background context for this study. The individual (T90/5) has been selected from the funerary area for this investigation. During his life, T90/5 experienced several injuries. He received care and rehabilitation but died within weeks from a femoral neck fracture.
Questa indagine si propone di valorizzare un approccio osteobiografico che esplora le interazioni tra stato sociale, trattamenti medici e disabilità. L’articolo presenta l’interpretazione di un caso di multi-trauma all’interno di un contesto archeologico proveniente dal sito di Selvicciola. L’area archeologica, datata alla prima metà del IV secolo d.C. con continuità d’uso fino all’VIII secolo d.C., include una villa rustica romana e un cimitero con una chiesa. L’individuo al centro di questa indagine (T90/5), rinvenuto nell’area cimiteriale, subì durante la sua vita diversi traumi fisici, ricevendo dalla comunità cure e riabilitazione. Morì poche settimane dopo la frattura del collo del femore
Accessibility and Educational Standards in Human Osteology through Digital Learning Practices
No full textThis article explores the growing use of digital tools in teaching human osteology, highlighting the need for standardized educational practices in biological anthropology and proposing ways to enhance accessibility and ethical guidelines through digital pedagogy. Digital tools are becoming more prominent in the teaching and education of human skeletal remains. Currently, no standards exist regarding educational practices utilizing digital pedagogical tools in biological anthropology. To better understand current practices of digital pedagogy for human osteology, a survey was distributed to professionals and students in biological anthropology inquiring about teaching methods in osteology-related courses. The goal of this survey was to gauge current applications of digital osteological pedagogy to serve as a foundation to initiate conversations around standard digital education in biological anthropology. The results indicate that, while most educators have access to physical remains, almost half of the survey participants incorporate digital tools in teaching. Additionally, we found that respondents almost unanimously believe digital tools should be included in our educational practices and that digital learning can improve accessibility to education. Incorporating pedagogical theories and current virtual anthropology research, we propose ways to move education and training in biological anthropology forward through digital pedagogical tools, training, and collections while promoting both standard educational and ethical practices
Non-Aligned Movement Summits: A History by Jovan Čavoški
No full textReview of: Non-Aligned Movement Summits: A History by Jovan Čavoški. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. (312 pages) 
Contributors
No full textNotes on contributors to volume 51, number `1 of the Journal of Political & Military Sociology. 
Subverting the Archetype: Heterogeneous Masculinities in Contemporary Arab American Women’s Fiction
No full textThis article examines the heterogeneous Arab masculinities which contemporary Arab American women’s novels offer. This diversity, as this article contends, dismantles the universalizing discourses on Arab men as identical and the conventional fathering model inspired by patriarchy and social conventions as the only option. The Western hegemonic conceptualization of Arab masculinity is that of dominance, patriarchy, oppression, and the like, hence rendering Arabs identically isomorphic and denying them the possibility of change and progress. However, contemporary Arab American literature subverts this ideologically driven representation through presenting miscellaneous Arab masculinities. The dissimilarity of Arab migrant fathers in The Other Americans (2019), The Inheritance of Exile (2007), and Swimming toward the Light (2007) suggests the plurality of Arabs, the malleability of Arab masculinities, the heterogeneity of Arab fathers and their fathering models, and the invalidity of the monolithic and essentialist Western discourse
Brazil, India, and South Africa and the Use of Force in Peace Operations: Pragmatism Rather Than Inconsistency
No full textContemporary peace operations are often authorized to use force to accomplish their mandates and protect civilians under threat. This coercive turn often faces significant challenges. Some countries are resistant to the use of force at the political level but are more accepting at the operational and tactical levels. This article explores the Brazilian, Indian, and South African involvement in peacekeeping and highlights their position regarding the use of force to protect civilians during peace operations. It outlines political and practical approaches to engagement in peacekeeping to evidence the main argument that a restrictive stance on the use of force at the political level can coexist with the acceptance of forceful mandates to protect populations at the operational and tactical levels. Moreover, this acceptance can be explained through the pragmatism of their foreign policies that are connected to their views and aspirations as emerging countries
Hanchey, Jenna N. The Center Cannot Hold: Decolonial Possibility in the Collapse of a Tanzanian NGO
No full textReview of: Hanchey, Jenna N. The Center Cannot Hold: Decolonial Possibility in the Collapse of a Tanzanian NGO. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023
Smith, Richard G. Student Resistance to Dictatorship in Chile, 1973–1990: ‘Security to Study, Freedom to Live!’
No full textReview of: Smith, Richard G. Student Resistance to Dictatorship in Chile, 1973–1990: ‘Security to Study, Freedom to Live!’ London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024