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Artifacts and Identity: Exploring Race and Ethnicity through Anthropology in a World History Classroom 文物与身份：在世界历史课堂上通过人类学探索种族和人种

Anthropology now Pub Date : 2021-03-08 DOI: 10.1080/19428200.2020.1884478

Shannon Marie Peck-Bartle

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Open “Secrets” and Uncomfortable Truths: Druze, Jews and Israel’s New Nationality Law 公开“秘密”和令人不安的真相:德鲁兹、犹太人和以色列的新国籍法

Anthropology now Pub Date : 2021-03-06 DOI: 10.1080/19428200.2021.1886500

William F. S. Miles

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Fear, Contradiction, and Coloniality in Settler Archaeology 移民考古学中的恐惧、矛盾和殖民主义

Anthropology now Pub Date : 2021-03-03 DOI: 10.1080/19428200.2020.1884483

Valerie Bondura

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Shit’s Getting Real: A Cultural Analysis of Toilet Paper 大便越来越真实：厕纸的文化分析

Anthropology now Pub Date : 2021-03-03 DOI: 10.1080/19428200.2020.1884487

G. Otsuki

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Photo Editor Introduction 图片编辑简介

Anthropology now Pub Date : 2021-03-03 DOI: 10.1080/19428200.2020.1884474

S. Silverstein

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Doni the Anthropologist’s Dog: A Scent of Ethnographic Fieldwork 人类学家多尼的狗:民族志田野调查的气味

Anthropology now Pub Date : 2021-03-03 DOI: 10.1080/19428200.2020.1884482

G. Kunnath

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Anthropology’s Reckoning with Radical Humanism 人类学与激进人道主义的清算

Anthropology now Pub Date : 2021-03-03 DOI: 10.1080/19428200.2020.1886502

Dwaipayan Banerjee