The Archaeological Chess Set by Ezra B. W. Zubrow & Ted Banning
Chess is a game associated with thought. The game’s history has been related to war and peace, science and the humanities, as well as engineering and art. It has been […]
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“When earth and sky almost meet”: The Conflict between Traditional Knowledge and Modernity in Polynesian Navigation by Luke Strongman
This paper provides an account of the differing ontologies of Polynesian and European navigation techniques in the Pacific. The subject of conflict between traditional knowledge and modernity is examined from […]
Caching, Money, Magic, Derivatives, Mana and Modern Finance by Niccolo Caldararo
This paper investigates aspects of economics in the context of animal caching and the nature of investment devices in cross-cultural comparison, placing special attention on the new global issues […]
Civilization, Transformation and Collapse by Kurt D. Springs, M. Litt
The subject of how civilizations, cultures, and states vanish has long been a topic of interest for historians, political theorists, philosophers, and archaeologists. It is also a subject of […]
Leisure & Young Married Women in Malta by Stephanie Borg & Marilyn Clark
The impact of leisure on personal development and subjective well-being makes it a critical issue in women’s studies. Leisure time gives women the space in which they can experiment […]
A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Practices Relating to Widowhood and WidowInheritance Among the Igbo and Yoruba in Nigeria by Dr. O.O. Fasoranti and Miss J.O. Aruna
Bereavement is a social fact in any culture but reactions and practices relating to this vary from culture to culture. The Igbo people live in the South Eastern part […]
The social construction of ‘self’’ and Womanhood in a Hindu village of Bangladesh by Ishrat Jahan
In order to understand the empowerment situation of the women exhibiting a rigid social setting cushioned by religious impositions, it is important to envisage how women as subjects construct […]
Intrasite Spatial Analysis of a Late Upper Paleolithic French Site Using Geographic Information Systems by Dustin Keeler
This paper is an analysis of site structure as it applies to social and behavioral organization within Paleolithic hunter-gather camp sites. A complete understanding of site structure requires the […]
A Comparison of the Cultural Heritage Laws in the State of New York and Province of Ontario by Kurt D. Springs
Prehistoric populations were not separated by current political or legal differences that currently separate national, state, or provincial laws, especially those regarding cultural and archaeological heritage. Indeed, the Iroquois nations, […]
Transethnic Sojourns for Ethnomedical Knowledge among Igbo Traditional Healers in Nigeria: Preliminary Observations by C. Otutubikey Izugbara & Emmanuel C.J Duru
Traditional medicine occupies a central place in healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa, serving the needs of up to 80% of the population in the region. More recent events including […]
Exploring the Digital Information Experiences of Ethnographers
Dr Faye Miller Queensland University of Technology, Australia Over the past year I have had the privilege of being involved in the development of the open access journal Global Ethnographic. So far the work-in-progress has been a virtual collaboration …
Introduction: Japan’s Possible Futures – Pivots of Social Transformation
Japan’s Possible Futures: Pivots of Social Transformation SPECIAL COLLECTION Edited by Bruce White Photo by Jeremy Keith ‘Tokyo horizon’ Papers & Thematics Re-thinking Japanese Society Gender Collaboration or Equality? The Past, P…
Nostalgia for ‘Asian’ Traditions and Energy – Encounters with Chinese and Koreans in Japanese TV Dramas
Nostalgia for ‘Asian’ Traditions and Energy – Encounters with Chinese and Koreans in Japanese TV Dramas Hilaria Gössmann, Griseldis Kirsch Photo coffee shop Aizen by m-louis Introduction—Television Dramas and the Myth of Japanese Homogeneity Since 1953…
Gender Equality Policy in Japan: Current Difficulties and Signs of Change
Shunta Mori Introduction In the 1980s and the early 1990s there were three camps competing for representation of women’s roles in Japan: the Neotraditionalists; “New Women”; and Radical Egalitarians. Neotraditionalists promoted the idea that women’s pr…
Emergent Japanese Discourses on Minorities, Immigrants, Race, Culture, and Identity
Introduction Anthropologist Harumi Befu claims that the appreciation of “diversity within diversity” is essential for twenty-first century Japan (Befu 2008, p. xxiv). The immensity of this c…
Globalization, New Religions and the Contemporary Re-Imagining of Japanese Identity
John Clammer (Photo by FreeDigitalPhotos.net coward_lion) Social scientists are wont to announce “crises” in the societies that attract their scholarly attention. While it might be stretching the evidence a little too far to suggest that co…
Facing the World, Facing the Future: How Japan is Working to Represent Itself as a Nation at Sport Mega-Events
Wolfram Manzenreiter, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna Introduction The 2002 FIFA World Cup Korea/Japan was the first to be staged on the world’s most populous continent, Asia, and it was the first to be co-hosted by two nations. …