around which salient local divisions can coalesce, resulting in broad-based, diverse opposition movements; it was not just the material qualities of water or corn, but how those material qualities took on meaning in the Cochabamban and Mexican contexts that contributed to causing widespread ...
Over and Carpenter (2012) argue that overimitation allows children to learn technologies and cultural practices whose meaning is opaque, allowing for fidelity of transmission across generations. On the other hand, children appear to be incredibly selective in how and from whom they learn (Meltzoff ...
In historical accounts of Khoe herding societies observed by Europeans, a large importance of dairy products is attested (Smith and Webley2000; Lombard and Parsons2015). However, even though an emphasis on dairy products may not be directly reflected in bone assemblages, the contribution of these ...
Wind patterns, and currents, are of course critical to the issue of maritime contact and trade in the Arabian Sea. The seasonally changing winds known as the monsoon (from the Arabic mausim, meaning 'season') have long helped to bridge distant continents and people (Chaudhuri 1990; Das ...
. The existential centrality of a cereal like millet makes it a privileged conduct for "storing", troves of knowledge that ritualistically become meaning. The metaphors and symbolic operations through which the life cycle of millet accounts for the cycles governing human life in its personal and ...