Humans_MDPI

✨Highly accessed paper 📝The Water Festival (Layimama) and Collective Identity in the Inter-Andean Valley of Ticsani, Southern Peru 👥by Eliseo Zeballos Zevallos et al. #WaterRitual; #CollectiveIdentity; #AndeanCosmology; #Heritage; #WaterGovernance 📖brnw.ch/21x2AGY

👋🏻Meet Us at the Ninth Annual Conference of the European Academy of Religion (EuARe 2026), 30 June–3 July 2026, Rome, Italy 📅Date: 30 June–3 July 2026 🌍Place: LUISS—Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli, Rome, Italy 🔗 brnw.ch/21x2wrd.

📝Talk the Walk: Walking as a Field Method in Natural History, Urban Studies, and Conservation Science 👥by Lav Kanoi, Yufang Gao & Michael R. Dove #Walking; #FieldMethod; #NaturalHistory; #UrbanStudies; #ConservationScience 📖brnw.ch/21x2q3f

✨Highly Accessed Paper 📝The Evolution of Brain and Body Size in Genus Homo 👥by Tesla A. Monson et al. #Encephalization; #FossilRecord; #Cognition; #Allometry; #HomoFloresiensis 📖brnw.ch/21x2jb0

👋🏻Meet Us at the Ninth Annual Conference of the European Academy of Religion (EuARe 2026), 30 June–3 July 2026, Rome, Italy 📅Date: 30 June–3 July 2026 🌍Place: LUISS—Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli, Rome, Italy 🔗 brnw.ch/21x2f0V.

📗Reprint of the Special Issue Systems Thinking in Anthropology: Understanding Cultural Complexity in the Era of Super-diversity 👥Edited by Sylvie Genest 🔗Download here: brnw.ch/21x20vF #SystemThinking; #SystemTheory; #CulturalComplexity; #Anthropology;

📣New Topic alert: Mysticism and Spiritual Syncretism in Ancestral Andean Cultures 👥Topic Editors: Dr. Edgar Gutiérrez-Gómez & Dr. Aldo Bazán-Ramírez #AndeanMysticism; #SpiritualSyncretism; #AncestralAndeanReligions; #AndeanCosmology; #SacredSites brnw.ch/21x20uc

👋🏻Meet Us at the Ninth Annual Conference of the European Academy of Religion (EuARe 2026), 30 June–3 July 2026, Rome, Italy 📅Date: 30 June–3 July 2026 🌍Place: LUISS—Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli, Rome, Italy 🔗 brnw.ch/21x20tm.

MDPI Subject Workshop | Crossing Boundaries: Transdisciplinarity in the Humanities Free participation with advance registration required. 🗓️ Date: 23 May 2026 (Full Day Event) 📍 Location: Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, 123 Queen St W, Toronto, ON 🔗brnw.ch/21x1Ylq

📝The Evolution of Brain and Body Size in Genus Homo 👥by Tesla A. Monson et al. 📖Read the whole study here: brnw.ch/21x1TJT #Encephalization; #FossilRecord; #cognition; #Allometry; #HomoFloresiensis

Check out our speakers at the MDPI Subject Workshop | Crossing Boundaries: Transdisciplinarity in the Humanities Free participation with advance registration required. 🗓️ Date: 23 May 2026 (Full Day Event) 🔗brnw.ch/21x1Ep1

MDPI Subject Workshop | Crossing Boundaries: Transdisciplinarity in the Humanities Free participation with advance registration required. 🗓️ Date: 23 May 2026 (Full Day Event) 📍 Location: Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, 123 Queen St W, Toronto, ON 🔗brnw.ch/21x1rWZ

💬As online spaces grow more hostile, people are fighting back through #Counterspeech. This research offers a fascinating look at how #DigitalEthnography reveals the rise of imagined rhetorical communities shaping #CollectiveIdentity & #IndividualAgency. brnw.ch/21x1nV1

❇️ #ZoraNealeHurston describes herself as “a crow in a pigeon’s nest” in her autobiography. This article engages with discourses on #decolonization & #BlackFeministEpistemologies & acknowledges the differences between Hurston’s & today’s #anthropology. 📖brnw.ch/21x12pj

📢Meet Us at the 53rd CAA International Conference, 31 March–4 April 2026, Vienna, Austria 👋🏻If you plan on attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth and have a conversation with us. 🔗brnw.ch/21x10xK.

📣 Call for Papers – Special Issue on Archaeological Sciences and the Development of Complexity in the Ancient Near East 🔗 Check out more details and submit your paper here: brnw.ch/21x0Uql #Archaeology #AncientNearEast #Bioarchaeology #Proteomics #IsotopeAnalysis

Using the #StrongProgramme in the #SociologyOfScience, this paper reexamines the success of #LewisBinford’s #NewArchaeology, highlighting the pivotal but overlooked role of Sally Rosen in shaping his persuasive style. 📖 brnw.ch/21x0Qox

❇️The #COVID19 pandemic had major impacts on #CommercialArchaeology in the UK. This study reviews two years of practice and policy, showing how archaeology—classified as a ‘protected’ industry—saw a surge in activity despite difficult conditions. 📖brnw.ch/21x0AgP

📃 This essay takes advantage of the current context of #superdiversity to define a form of hybrid heuristics between N. American #anthropology and research-creation “in” the arts. 🆓 Read: brnw.ch/21x0vYW #BoasianAnthropology #CreativeAnthropology

❇️Inspired by the #potlatch, #Indigenous Dene communities in Alaska have adapted rituals of #reciprocity to respond to threats to their autonomy. #Native #Alaska #CommunityResilience 📖 Read more: brnw.ch/21x0tMq