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Introduction: Archaeology, Politics, and Environmental Crisis 引言：考古学、政治学和环境危机

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American Anthropologist Pub Date : 2025-07-14 DOI: 10.1111/aman.28106

Amanda M. Gaggioli, R. Alexander Hunter

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Mobilizing an Ancient Lens to Obscure “Disaster” 用古老的镜头掩盖“灾难”

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American Anthropologist Pub Date : 2025-07-14 DOI: 10.1111/aman.28107

Amanda M. Gaggioli

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Old Bones in New Databases: Historical Insights Into Race, Statistics, and Ancestry Estimation in Anthropology 新数据库中的老骨头：人类学中种族、统计和祖先估计的历史见解

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American Anthropologist Pub Date : 2025-07-02 DOI: 10.1111/aman.28095

Iris Clever, Lisette Jong

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Unsettling Production: Affective Geographies of Contested Commodities in Sápmi 不安的生产：有争议的商品的情感地理Sápmi

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American Anthropologist Pub Date : 2025-06-24 DOI: 10.1111/aman.28092

Natalia Magnani, Matthew Magnani

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Toward an Ethnography of God 走向上帝的民族志

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American Anthropologist Pub Date : 2025-06-23 DOI: 10.1111/aman.28094

Amira Mittermaier

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Powers of Pilgrimage: Religion in a World of Movement 《朝圣的力量：运动世界中的宗教

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American Anthropologist Pub Date : 2025-06-23 DOI: 10.1111/aman.28093

Gregory Smith

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Sign Language as “Mother Tongue Orphan”: A Challenge to Raciolinguistic Multiculturalism in Singapore 作为“母语孤儿”的手语：对新加坡种族语言多元文化的挑战

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American Anthropologist Pub Date : 2025-06-05 DOI: 10.1111/aman.28088

Timothy Y. Loh

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(M)other Tongue Aspirations: Negotiating Banjara Language, Identity, and Education Policy in Rural India (M)其他语言的愿望：谈判班加拉语，身份，和教育政策在印度农村

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American Anthropologist Pub Date : 2025-06-05 DOI: 10.1111/aman.28089

Jessica Sujata Chandras, Devayani Tirthali, Sameer Honwad

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This Language Is Mine: US College Students Navigating Contradictions of “Mother Tongue” and Heritage Language 这门语言是我的：美国大学生在“母语”和传统语言的矛盾中导航

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American Anthropologist Pub Date : 2025-06-04 DOI: 10.1111/aman.28090

Arnaaz Khwaja

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Editorial Note: Chronic Erasure 编者按：慢性擦除

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American Anthropologist Pub Date : 2025-06-04 DOI: 10.1111/aman.28091

Uzma Z. Rizvi, Kisha Supernant

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