{"title":"Hierarchy as a Democratic Value in India","authors":"Anastasia Piliavsky","doi":"10.1086/727010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/727010","url":null,"abstract":"Current Anthropology, Ahead of Print. <br/>","PeriodicalId":48343,"journal":{"name":"Current Anthropology","volume":"21 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50166953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jesper Borre Pedersen, Jakob Johann Assmann, Signe Normand, Dirk Nikolaus Karger, Felix Riede
{"title":"Climate Niche Modeling Reveals the Fate of Pioneering Late Pleistocene Populations in Northern Europe","authors":"Jesper Borre Pedersen, Jakob Johann Assmann, Signe Normand, Dirk Nikolaus Karger, Felix Riede","doi":"10.1086/726700","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/726700","url":null,"abstract":"Current Anthropology, Ahead of Print. <br/>","PeriodicalId":48343,"journal":{"name":"Current Anthropology","volume":"21 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50166955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Gendering of Anthropological Theory since 2000","authors":"Joshua Reno, Britt Halvorson","doi":"10.1086/726074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/726074","url":null,"abstract":"Current Anthropology, Ahead of Print. <br/>","PeriodicalId":48343,"journal":{"name":"Current Anthropology","volume":"21 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50166960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In Search of an American Dream","authors":"Rachel Howard","doi":"10.1086/727009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/727009","url":null,"abstract":"Current Anthropology, Ahead of Print. <br/>","PeriodicalId":48343,"journal":{"name":"Current Anthropology","volume":"20 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50166964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Misinterpretations of Shimao Research and Chinese Archaeology","authors":"Li Liu, Xingcan Chen","doi":"10.1086/726447","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/726447","url":null,"abstract":"In their article, Jaffe, Campbell, and Shelach-Lavi (2022) allege that Chinese archaeological research and interpretations of the Shimao site mainly serve to reinforce linear histories purporting to explain the rise of dynastic China in the Central Plains. This article is full of factual errors, misleading interpretations, and distortions of people’s arguments. As the corresponding author (Li Liu) for a major research paper on Shimao (Sun et al. 2018) and coauthors of six publications cited numerous times but not invited to provide comments for this article, we are obligated to respond here, although with a restricted word limit. The authors classify research into two types, based on tendentiously selected publications. The first type associates Shimao with legendary figures like the Yellow Emperor. Actually, this approach does not represent mainstream archaeological research on Shimao. Most of the references cited in their article are not written by archaeologists. Shen Changyun’s (whose name is spelled three different ways by the authors: Chen Changgyun, Shen Changyun, and Shen Chengyun) speculative connection between the Yellow Emperor and Shimao was already rejected by the Shimao excavators eight years ago (Sun and Shao 2015). The second type of research, also considered faulty, is said to promote a unilinear evolutionary view of Chinese civilization. Jaffe, Campbell, and Shelach-Lavi applied this allegation freely, without providing a definition of this concept as used in China. In fact, since the 1980s, most Chinese archaeologists have supported a multilinear evolutionary model, as discussed in many influential publications, some with reference to Shimao (Dai 2020; Gao 2013). These works were completely ignored by the authors. Jaffe, Campbell, and Shelach-Lavi state that “arguments about the military expansion of Erlitou (Liu 2004:232–234) are based on some very rudimentary similarities in the pottery found in different regions” (99). In the three pages cited from Liu (2004), the words “pottery similarities” do not appear. Rather, issues related to settlement patterns and distribution of various material","PeriodicalId":48343,"journal":{"name":"Current Anthropology","volume":"64 1","pages":"464 - 465"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45894363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Refusing Rohingya","authors":"Elliott Prasse-Freeman","doi":"10.1086/726125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/726125","url":null,"abstract":"Members of the Rohingya ethnos must navigate the Myanmar state’s “blunt biopolitics”—a mode of regulation that neither protects nor intensively knows, but rather uses violence to govern, the populations rather than individuals it takes as its object. As classic resistance is ineffective against the excessive sovereign force activated in blunt biopolitics, Rohingya communities across Asia enact strategies of refusal—what this article theorizes as methods for navigating regimes of biopolitical governmentality. As Rohingya refuse literal erasure to persist as a population, that Rohingya identity has become an amorphous object as members manuever between rejection of and assent to their symbolic effacement. They reformulate the ethnic category’s contours, both consciously/directly (in response to changing dynamics that their refusal has generated) and indirectly: not only as they enter and exit the ethnos, mimicking spatial peregrinations amid mass expulsion, but also in terms of disjunctive affiliations in which people simultaneously inhabit positions of identification with and refusal of “Rohingya.” Refusal hence opens up a consideration of the collective refusing subject that acknowledges that it is simultaneously hypostatized (qua collective actor) while also malleable (qua its ever-mutating constituents and self-conceptions).","PeriodicalId":48343,"journal":{"name":"Current Anthropology","volume":"64 1","pages":"432 - 453"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42776667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chinese Archaeology: Unilinear or Multilinear?","authors":"Xiangming Dai","doi":"10.1086/726448","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/726448","url":null,"abstract":"Starting from discussion on discoveries at the Shimao site and related studiesofthem, “ Shimao and the Rise of StatesinChina ” (Jaffe, Campbell","PeriodicalId":48343,"journal":{"name":"Current Anthropology","volume":"64 1","pages":"468 - 469"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43371440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}