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Archaeology & Anthropology Editor's Choice

Each article in this free collection has been hand-picked by our journal editors and demonstrates the rich breadth of research within Archaeology and Anthropology.

Covering topics such as the anthropological relationships between humans and animals, the Vendel boat-graves, Polish medieval burials and LGBT displacement in natural disasters, this anthology examines multiple facets of human existence, both past and present.

This collection is free to view until December 31st 2015

• Folklore
• Anthrozoös
• World Archaeology
• History and Anthropology
• Anthropological Forum
• Asian Anthropology
• Anthropology & Medicine
• Archaeological Journal
• Anthropology Southern Africa
• Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa
• Time and Mind
• Norwegian Archaeological Review
• Danish Journal of Archaeology
• The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology
• Ethnos
• Home Cultures

Folklore

• Anthropological Places, Digital Spaces, and Imaginary Scapes: Packaging a Digital Sámiland

  • Coppélie Cocq

• Understanding Figurative Proverbs: A Model Based on Conceptual Blending

  • Daniel Andersson

• Umm al-Ghulam: Zār Spirit or Half-forgotten Saint? Making Sense of an Egyptian Zār Song

  • Richard Johan Natvig

• ‘He Who is a Devourer of Things’: Monstrosity and the Construction of Difference in |Xam Bushman Oral Literature

  • Mark McGranaghan

• The Poetics of the Flute: Fading Imagery in a Sepik Society

  • Borut Telban

Anthrozoös

• Local Tolerance of Hyena Attacks in East HarargeRegion, Ethiopia

  • Marcus Baynes-Rock

• Pet's Presence and Owner's Blood Pressures during the Daily Lives of Pet Owners with Pre- to Mild Hypertension

  • Erika Friedmanna, Sue A. Thomasa, Heesook Sonb, Deborah Chapab & Sandra McCunec

• Animal-Assisted Interventions in Children'sHospitals: A Critical Review of the Literature

  • Anna Chur-Hansena, Michelle McArthurb, Helen Winefieldc, Emma Haniehd & Susan Hazelb

• Carnivorous Cats, Vegetarian Dogs, and the Resolution of the Vegetarian's Dilemma

  • Hank Rothgerber

• Companion Animals and Loneliness: A SystematicReview of Quantitative Studies

  • Andrew Gilbeya & Kawtar Tania

World Archaeology

• Reconsidering obstetric death and female fertility in Anglo-Saxon England

  • Duncan Sayer, Sam D. Dickinson

• Vampires, criminals or slaves? Reinterpreting ‘deviant burials’ in early medieval Poland

  • Leszek Gardeła, Kamil Kajkowski

• ‘There is no heritage in Qatar’: Orientalism, colonialism and other problematic histories

  • Karen Exell, Trinidad Rico

• Beyond hierarchy: the archaeology of collective governance

  • Susan Oosthuizen

• The significance of places: the Christianization of Scandinavia from a spatial point of view

  • Anders Andrén

History and Anthropology

• Too Soon for Post-Feminism: The Ongoing Life of Patriarchy in Neoliberal America

  • Sherry B. Ortner

• Asia and Europe

  • Jack Goody

• Repertoires of Family Life and the Anchoring of Afghan Trading Networks in Ukraine

  • Magnus Marsden & Diana Ibañez-Tirado

• Suppressing the Mad Elephant: Missionaries, Lamas, and the Mediation of Sacred Historiographies in the Tibetan Borderlands

  • Matthew W. King & Pamela E. Klassen

• Observing, Collecting and Governing “Ourselves” and “Others”: Mass-Observation's Fieldwork Agencements

  • Rodney Harrison

Anthropological Forum

• Zombie Linguistics: Experts, Endangered Languages and the Curse of Undead Voices

  • Bernard C. Perley

• Notes on the Sociology of Wantoks in Papua New Guinea

  • Ryan Schram

• The Moves of a Bajau Middlewoman: Understanding the Disparity between Trade Networks and Marine Conservation

  • Annet P. Pauwelussen

• Experiential Autochthony in the Okavango Delta, Botswana

  • Catie Gressier

• Remodeling the Fortress of Conservation? Living Landscapes and the New Technologies of Environmental Governance

  • Tracey Heatherington

Asian Anthropology

• Urban Japan's “Fuzzy” New Families: Affect and Embodiment in Dog–Human Relationships

  • Paul Hansen

• Contradictory moralities: alcohol consumption in Inner Mongolia

  • Paula Haas

• Intimate expectations and practices: freeter relationships and marriage in contemporary Japan

  • Emma E. Cook

• Exit, or Evict: Re-grounding Rights in >Needsi> in China's Urban Housing Demolition

  • Cheuk Yuet Ho

• Chinese popular religion and Hong Kong identity

  • Joseph Bosco

Anthropology & Medicine

• Medical crises and therapeutic talk

  • David Parkin

• Listening to disembodied voices: anthropological and psychiatric challenges

  • Helene Basu

• Commentary on ‘listening to disembodied voices’

  • Roland Littlewood

• The rhetoric of women and children's rights in Indian psychiatry

  • Jocelyn Marrow

• Social suffering and the culture of compassion in a morally divided China

  • Khun Eng Kuah-Pearcea, Arthur Kleinmanb & Emily Harrison

Archaeological Journal

• A Hedgehog on the Heath: The Second World War Landscape of Exercise ‘Kruschen’, Dunwich, Suffolk

  • Robert Liddiard & David Sims

• Landscapes of Stone: Contextualizing Greenstone Working and Lithics from Clodgy Moor, West Penwith, Cornwall

  • Andy M. Jones et al.

• The Biography of a Settlement: An Analysis of Middle Iron Age Deposits and Houses at Howe, Orkney

  • Kate Waddington

• Wood and Fire: Scotland’s Timber Cursus Monuments

  • Kenneth Brophy & Kirsty Millican

Anthropology Southern Africa

• The politics and aesthetics of commemoration:national days in southern Africa

  • Heike Beckerab & Carola Lentz

• Beyond ethical imperatives in South Africananthropology: morally repugnant and unlikeable subjects

  • Ilana van Wyk

• The Human Economy Project: first steps

  • John Sharpa, Theodore Powersa & Vito Laterzaa

• “An African way of doing things”: reproducinggender and generation

  • Nolwazi Mkhwanazi

• Warriors of the rainbow nation? South African rugby after apartheid

  • Isak Niehaus

Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa

• Earliest fire in Africa: towards the convergence of archaeological evidence and the cooking hypothesis

  • John A.J. Gowletta & Richard W. Wrangham

• Debating Great Zimbabwe

  • Innocent Pikirayia & Shadreck Chirikureb

• The sixteenth-century ritual precinct at Koticha Kesi in the Gilgel Gibe Valley, southern Ethiopia

  • John Kinahan

• Liquid gods within cellular landscapes: micro-monuments, ethnic pluralism and the political landscape of Hueda, Bénin, 1650–1727

  • Neil L. Norman

• The archaeology of northern Nigeria: trade, people and polities, 1500 BP onwards

  • Abubakar Sani Sulea & Anne Haour

Time and Mind

• Why Does Lindow Man Matter?

  • Ronald Hutton

• Marks of Sanctity? Discovery of Rock Art on the Gower Peninsula, South Wales

  • George Nash, Peter van Calsteren & Louise Thomas

• Bridging Realms: Towards Ethnographically Informed Methods to Identify Religious and Artistic Practices in Different Settings

  • J. David Lewis-Williams & Johannes H. N. Loubser

• Sacred Imagery and Ritual Landscape: New Discoveries at the Biluut Petroglyph Complex in the Mongolian Altai

  • Richard Kortum

• Psychoactive Substances in Prehistoric Times: Examining the Archaeological Evidence

  • Elisa Guerra-Doce

Norwegian Archaeological Review

• We Have Never Been Latourian: Archaeological Ethics and the Posthuman Condition

  • Tim Flohr Sørensen

• The First Eastern Migrations of People and Knowledge into Scandinavia: Evidence from Studies of Mesolithic Technology, 9th-8th Millennium BC

  • Mikkel Sørensen et al

• What Happened in Neiden? On the Question of Reburial Ethics

  • Asgeir Svestad

• Things in the Eye of the Beholder: A Humanistic Perspective on Archaeological Object Biographies

  • Nanouschka M. Burström

• Abandon Ship! Digging out the Dead from the Vendel Boat-Graves

  • Alison Klevnäs

Danish Journal of Archaeology

• A biomolecular archaeological approach to ‘Nordic grog’

  • Patrick E. McGovern, Gretchen R. Hall & Armen Mirzoian

• New light on the early urbanisation of Copenhagen: with the Metro Cityring excavation at Rådhuspladsen (Town Hall square) as a point of departure

  • Hanna Dahlström

• Negotiating normativities – ‘Odin from Lejre’ as challenger of hegemonic orders

  • Elisabeth Arwill-Nordbladh

• Repeating boundaries – repertoires of landscape regulations in southern Scandinavia in the Late Bronze Age and Pre-Roman Iron Age

  • Mette Løvschal & Mads Kähler Holst

• First evidence of lime burning in southern Scandinavia: lime kilns found at the royal residence on the west bank of Lake Tissø

  • Peter Steen Henriksen & Sandie Holst

The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology

• Terminally Haunted: Aviation Ghosts, Hybrid Buddhist Practices, and Disaster Aversion Strategies Amongst Airport Workers in Myanmar and Thailand

  • Jane M. Ferguson

• Paying for the Dead: On the Politics of Death in Independent Timor-Leste

  • Judith Bovensiepen

• Manufacturing Kinship in a Nation Divided: An Ethnographic Study of North Korean Refugees in South Korea

  • Markus Bell

• Translating ‘Sustainability’ in Hawai'i: The Utility of Semiotic Transformation in the Transmission of Culture

  • Kyung-Nan Koh

• Ethnographic Film as Exchange

  • Ton Otto

Ethnos

• Opportunism and Diversification: Entrepreneurship and Livelihood Strategies in Uncertain Times

  • Daniel Martyn Knight

• Revolución o muerte: Self-Sacrifice and the Ontology of Cuban Revolution

  • Martin Holbraad

• The Aesthetics of Diaspora: Ownership and Appropriation

  • Pnina Werbner, Mattia Fumanti

• A Shared Intentional Space of Witch-Hunt and Sacrifice

  • Knut Rio

• Moral Selves and Moral Scenes: Narrative Experiments in Everyday Life

  • Cheryl Mattingly

Home Cultures

• Separation, Connection, and the Ambiguous Nature of Émigré Houses in Rural Highland Madagascar

  • Luke Freeman

• The Family Living Room: A Child's Playpen? A Recent History of Material Colonization

  • Irene Cieraad

• For Home UnMaking

  • Richard Baxter, Katherine Brickell

• The Fabric of Life Time and Textiles in an Eighteenth-Century Plebeian Home

  • Alice Dolan

• Queer Domicide LGBT Displacement and Home Loss in Natural Disaster Impact, Response, and Recovery

  • Andrew Gorman-Murray, Scott McKinnon, Dale Dominey-Howes