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Recent Publications

Recent publications by the faculty and graduate students of the Department of Anthropology

Willow, A. (2025). Anthropology’s Postapocalyptic Turn: New Temporalities for New Times. Anthropological Theory Commons. 

Wright, H. M., & Piperata, B. A. (2025). Between two worlds: Challenges measuring food insecurity with a standardized scale in a multiethnic peri-urban Indigenous community in the Brazilian Amazon. Ecology of Food and Nutrition.

Rhue, S. J., Piperata, B. A., & Lopes, U. (2025). Coping with water insecurity despite access and abundance in the urban Amazon. Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development. 

McCorriston, J., Ball, L., Harrower, M. J., Hamilton, I. M., Ivory, S. J., Senn, M. J., Steimer-Herbet, T., Buffington, A. F., Al-Kathiri, ‘A. A., & Al-Mahri, ‘A. M. (2025). South Arabia’s prehistoric monument landscape shows social resilience to climate change. PLoS ONE.

Tverskoi, D., Scaggs, S. A., & Downey, S. S. (2025). A complex adaptive systems model of labour reciprocity and normative reasoning in swidden agriculture. Royal Society Open Science. 

Piperata, B. A., Fannin, S. F., Cestonaro, T., Brito-Azevedo, A. C., Tavares da Silva, V. de C., Mendonça Freire Pereira, J., & Bittencourt Tavares Oliveira, R. (2025). Biocultural determinants of mothers’ complementary feeding decisions in the urban Brazilian Amazon. American Journal of Human Biology. 

Moore, E. V., Shearer, K., Thiam, S., Ramakdawala, Z., Yin, L., & Alvelo Colon, G. (2025). #diabetictoddlers and #type1moms: Visibilizing parent–child interembodiment on TikTok. Social Science & Medicine.

Mitchel, A. (2025). Traditional foods forum: A day of Indigenous knowledge at the Society for Applied Anthropology meeting. FoodAnthropology. 

Lemmers, S. A. M., Le Luyer, M., Stoll, S. J., Hoffnagle, A. G., Ferrell, R. J., Gamble, J. A., Guatelli-Steinberg, D., Gurian, K. N., McGrath, K., O’Hara, M. C., Smith, A. D. A. C., & Dunn, E. C. (2025). Inter-rater reliability of stress signatures in exfoliated primary dentition: Improving scientific rigor and reproducibility in histological data collection. PLoS ONE. 

Rhue, S. J. (2025). The world is and has been changing, so must our anthropological training. Practicing Anthropology.