This paper deals with the ceramics of Alvastra pile dwelling. The main question are what the ceramics represent, what it was used for, if it was manufactured in the pile dwelling and if there is any resemblance to other places of interest. The essay uses ceramic material from shaft F and the Western shaft. The result shows four different ceramic gr...
Published in Human ecology: an interdisciplinary journal
Vultures constitute globally the most rapidly declining group of birds. Across their wide distribution range, they share common ecological functions and unfavourable conservation status while being associated with varying habitats, lifestyles, cultural standing, and threats. We reveal conceptualisations about the emblematic yet critically endangere...
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Published in Journal of Medical Humanities
This article argues humans should not be defined strictly at their physical boundaries with clear distinctions between anatomical bodies, mental states, and the rest of the world. Rather, diverse mental states, which are often diagnosed as “mental illness,” take shape within greater environmental forces and flows, including those that are construct...
Published in Neohelicon
In this essay, I suggest to read the sedimenting phases of the Anthropocene by using the oeuvre of Italo Calvino as an imaginative companion to geological processes. Exploring his early writings, I try to show how literature captured the environmental processes preparing the Anthropocene, thus providing—like a sort of “narrative stratigrapher”—a gr...
In this paper we draw up a critical path of the concept and practice of the so-called postmigrant theatre, that has been developing itself as an independent theatrical practice since the dawn of the 21st century, first in the city of Berlin, but the in other German-speaking theatrical milieus. From the reconstruction of the background, history and ...
Published in Anthropocene
Before Spanish Conquest (1519) Tlaxcala was among the most populous parts of America. Sites of the last prehispanic period recorded by archaeological surface surveys, deserted Colonial villages mentioned in historical documents, and eroded badlands mapped by soil scientists often coincide in space. This is not enough, however, to establish a conclu...
Published in Environment, Development and Sustainability
Approaches towards the management of artisanal fisheries have been enlightening the scientific literature for approximately the last 20 years. Coming from diverse disciplines such as anthropology, biology, economy, and ecology (especially human ecology), these approaches have dealt with common theory, strategies for cooperation, decision-making mod...
The culture of poverty was a key component on the comprehension of the poverty consequences from one more critical and personal point of view. Through the local costumes descriptions of the life's styles of different people, anybody link by kinship, who live into poverty conditions in Mexico, Oscar Lewis puts the interesting point towards the publi...
