The Neolithic Revolution narrative associates early-mid Holocene domestications with the
development of agriculture that fueled the rise of late Holocene civilizations. This narrative …

Recent calls for 'other-than-human'ethnographies draw attention to dimensions of life that
have allegedly been overlooked or marginalised in anthropological writings. We take such …

In his book A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans, originally published in1934,
Jakob von Uexküll argued that all living beings–no matter how simple or complex–had to be …

Near Human takes us into the borders of human and animal life. In the animal facility, fragile
piglets substitute for humans who cannot be experimented on. In the neonatal intensive care …

The adze resulted from the bringing together of different materials and it enabled the
creation of further assemblages. This remarkable object appears to have been made for a …

In this perspectives essay, I propose some ways in which current thinking in anthropology
might inform the emergent cross-disciplinary field of coexistence studies. I do so following …

The new political communities that emerged in Mesopotamia during the fourth and third
millennia BCE have long been held up as classic cases of early state formation. Over the …

The nature and timing of the transition to farming north of the Linearbandkeramik zone in
Europe is the subject of much debate, but our understanding of this fundamental shift in …

Through ethnographic attunement to the emotionally complex relationships between
zookeepers and nonhuman animals, commodification in the political economy of …

Data are versatile objects that can travel across contexts. While data's travels have been
widely discussed, little attention has been paid to the sites from where and to which data …