The article considers the example of dummy tanks used to deceive the enemy during WWII, the false expectations of the Allied forces that led them to believe that Franco’s fascist regime would fall long before it did, and the therapeutic promises offered by messianic leaders of totalitarian regimes.
This article argues that a paradigm change in political anthropology might be reasonable and realistic as a way of establishing dams against human self-destruction in the Anthropocene.
With reference to the Satoyama Initiative of the Japanese government, this article looks at how biocultural diversity projects can move beyond reproducing the old dichotomy between “modern” scientific and “traditional” local knowledge.
This article looks at how forest management policies in Ghana have been influenced by desires to maximize timber production, with negative consequences.
This article considers how causality may not itself be a feature of the world as much as it is a result of the way the human brain encodes and structures experience.
Using McGilchrist’s study The Master and His Emissary, Frank Zelko discusses possible neurobiological origins of the tension between holistic and reductive thought, specifically by looking at the structure of the two hemispheres of our brains.
This introduction to the RCC Perspectives volume discusses some of the diverse opportunities and pitfalls that neurohistory may face in the future.
This paper adds to current debates surrounding jhum cultivation, forest conservation, and agrarian change in Mizoram by looking at jhum cultivation in relation to the New Land Use Policy introduced by the government of Mizoram in 1984.
This article considers how the cosmology of the Sateré-Mawé, an indigenous tribe located in the Brazilian Amazon, interacts with the pressures of the modern era.
This article looks at how the ongoing processes of border-making are experienced and negotiated by the ethnic minorities who live in the Himalayan mountain peripheries.
