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Accilien, Cécile and Valérie K. Orlando, eds. Teaching Haiti: Strategies for Creating New Narratives
No full textBuilding a Bioarchaeology of Pandemic, Epidemic, and Syndemic Diseases: Lessons for Understanding COVID-19
No full textAs we enter the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the scientific community has met the SARS-CoV-2 virus with efficient and effective responses in epidemiology, molecular biology, genetics, vaccine development, and new treatment options. Yet the toll of the virus on public health has been uneven globally and within nations to an extent that has led STEM professionals to inevitably conclude that a truly effective response requires insights and mobilization from across the social sciences and humanities. It is hard to express how much the pandemic has impacted almost every aspect of life in human communities and how it has laid bare longstanding social problems, like social inequalities. The pandemic has also illuminated the extent of more recent pernicious social forces, such as disaster capitalism, and provides an ominous window into how some governments and societies will meet challenges such as climate change. This introduction presents six commissioned articles that demonstrate the power of an anthropological approach to the biocultural and evolutionary aspects of pandemic and epidemic diseases in the past. In this article, we also frame a path for bioarchaeologists to contribute to incredibly important questions and debates about the global pandemic by situating the articles into holistic theoretical approaches
Bioarchaeological Analyses of Nasca “Trophy” Head Individuals from the Site of Zorropata, Las Trancas Valley, Peru (450–1000 C.E.)
No full textThe acquisition, modification, and curation of heads was endemic in the ancient Andes, especially among the Nasca (1–650 C.E.) on the south coast of Peru. Analyzing this central cultural behavior in context is crucial to understanding how the Nasca flourished in a marginal region. While well-dated Nasca isolated heads (NIHs) are not common due to looting, we present new bioarchaeological, isotopic, and hormonal data on eight NIHs recovered from the archaeological village site of Zorropata located in the Las Trancas Valley (LTV), Nasca, Peru. The NIHs recovered are from a cache excavated scientifically in 2014. Zorropata dates to the Late Nasca and Middle Horizon (LN, MH; 450–1000 C.E.), a time period including social aggregation, conflict, and Wari imperial incursion. Located near the large Wari site of Huaca del Loro, Zorropata clearly was a defensive site, complete with walls and sling stones. This cache of Zorropata NIHs is stylistically Nasca and isotopic information shows varied diets and likely places of origin. We find that the majority of the individuals in this cache are non-local in contrast to other NIHs. Additionally, hair cortisol data give us a glimpse into the stress associated with death in these individuals. Our study highlights the advantage of analyzing well-dated Nasca individuals to place in context an important cultural behavior during a turbulent time of social and political change.
La adquisición, modificación, y curaduría de cabezas era endémica en los antiguos Andes, especialmente entre los Nasca (1–650 DC) en la costa sur del Perú. El análisis de esta importante práctica cultural en contexto es crucial para entender la manera en que los Nasca florecieron en una región marginal. Aunque no es común encontrar cabezas Nasca aisladas (NIH) con fechados confiables debido al saqueo de los sitios, presentamos nuevos datos bio-arqueológicos, isotópicos, y hormonales de 8 cabezas Nasca aisladas (NIHs) con fechados confiables, recuperadas del sitio arqueológico de Zorropata, en el valle de Las Trancas (LTV) Nasca, Perú. Las NIHs recuperadas proceden de una ofrenda (cache) excavada científicamente en el 2014. Zorropata es un sitio con ocupaciones Nasca Tardío y Horizonte Medio (LN, MH, 450–1000 DC); un período temporal con evidencias de agregación social, conflictos, e incursiones imperialistas Wari. Ubicado cerca del extenso sitio Wari Huaca del Loro, Zorropata claramente fue un sitio defensivo, con evidencias como murallas y piedras usadas como proyectiles para hondas. Este grupo de NIHs en Zorropata es estilísticamente Nasca, con información isotópica mostrando variadas dietas y lugares de origen. Encontramos que la mayoría de los individuos en este grupo no eran locales, en contraste con otras NIHs. Adicionalmente, data del cortisol en los cabellos nos da una idea del estrés asociado a la muerte de estos individuos. Nuestro estudio resalta las ventajas de analizar individuos Nasca con fechados confiables para poner en contexto una importante conducta cultural durante tiempos turbulentos de cambios políticos y sociale
Colonialism and Slavery in Performance: Theatre and the Eighteenth-Century French Caribbean edited by Jeffrey M. Leichman and Karine Bénac-Giroux
No full textA review
Four Poems by José Pedro Leite from The Invention of Summer (2019)
No full textTranslated from Portuguese
Jewish–Muslim Interactions: Performing Cultures between North Africa and France, edited by Samuel Sami Everett and Rebekah Vince
No full textReview of: Samuel Sami Everett and Rebekah Vince, eds. Jewish–Muslim Interactions: Performing Cultures between North Africa and France. Liverpool University Press, 2020. 382 pages
The Archaeologist and Selected Sea Stories by Andreas Karkavitas (trans. by Johanna Hanink)
No full textReview of: Andreas Karkavitsas. The Archaeologist and Selected Sea Stories. Trans. Johanna Hanink. Penguin Press, 2021. 272 pages
States of Depression: Violence and Precarious Coexistence in Southeast Turkey by Zerrin Ozlem Biner
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States of Dispossession: Violence and Precarious Coexistence in Southeast Turkey by Zerrin Ozlem Biner. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. (264 pages; cloth)
The Military’s Cultural Shroud: Media Influence on War Knowledge among Civilians and Military Personnel
No full textThe current study investigates the relationship among media, war knowledge, and military culture through survey data collected at a major eastern university with a sample bifurcated nearly evenly by individuals (currently or previously) in the military and others having no military experience. Survey results demonstrate that the effect of media on war knowledge differs by individuals’ association with the military. Among individuals in or previously in the military, the media had no effect on war knowledge. By contrast, the media was a major predictor of war knowledge for individuals with no military experience. It appears that, for individuals associated with the military, the media is not a major information source because military members (e.g., military leaders and commanders) are viewed as more trustworthy bearers of knowledge, while others who lack a connection to the military depend on the media as their information dissemination source