Ellsworth Huntington and the Central Asian Manuscripts at Yale

Nature

Artefacts made from stones, bones and teeth are fundamental to our understanding of human subsistence strategies, behaviour and culture in the Pleistocene. Although these resources are plentiful, it is impossible to associate artefacts to specific human individuals1 who can be morphologically or genetically characterized, unless they are found within burials, which are rare in this time period. Thus, our ability to discern the societal roles of Pleistocene individuals based on their biological sex or genetic ancestry is limited2–5. Here we report the development of a non-destructive method for the gradual release of DNA trapped in ancient bone and tooth artefacts. Application of the method to an Upper Palaeolithic deer tooth pendant from Denisova Cave, Russia, resulted in the recovery of ancient human and deer mitochondrial genomes, which allowed us to estimate the age of the pendant at approximately 19,000–25,000 years. Nuclear DNA analysis identifies the presumed maker or wearer o...

2015

Revista Punto Género, 2024

En este artículo nos proponemos explorar, desde los estudios feministas de la tecnología, los vínculos entre las tecnologías domésticas y el trabajo doméstico remunerado en las sociedades contemporáneas. Si bien en Argentina, y en la región, hay numerosas investigaciones en torno al trabajo doméstico y de cuidados, no existen todavía estudios focalizados en la relación de este con las tecnologías domésticas, las cuales ocupan un lugar fundamental en el desarrollo de las diversas tareas que se realizan dentro del hogar. La indagación sobre las tecnologías domésticas revela que no ahorran mano de obra y tiempo de trabajo, sino que aumentan la productividad y la eficacia del trabajo doméstico remunerado. Asimismo, visibilizan las habilidades y competencias que se necesitan para la producción doméstica, lo cual ha sido infravalorado por los estudios sobre tecnología.

Intimate Mobilities: Sexual Economies, Marriage and Migration in a Disparate World, edited by Christian Groes and Nadine T. Fernandez, 2018

In contrast to intra-ethnic transnaitonal marriages associated with established transnational communities and transnational processes, this article provides an analysis of temporary marriages and intimate relationships that do not necessarily build on and lead to ongoing transnational communities or links across national boundaries. Much like romances and intimate relations between tourists and locals – many of which are short-lived and only “transnational” in a short-term sense – temporary relationships develop between Indonesian or Filipino women domestic workers in Hong Kong and South Asian and African asylum seekers or temporary “illegal” workers. Some consider their relationships “marriages” (and have Muslim nikah rituals), but most are short-lived because neither partner has legal rights to remain in Hong Kong, and few opt to go to the partner’s home country. While such relationships rarely form ongoing “transnational” communities – or have not done so yet – they are nonetheless important for what they reveal about how different types of mobilities intersect, and how sex, gender, and class are related to global inequalities. Temporary cross-border marriages offer unique insights into the functioning of the global economy and reveal the shortcomings of “functional” narratives of transnationalism that reinforce hegemonic win-win notions of migration and development.