D Sosna
Biographic Data
| ID | 46423 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Sosna |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Sosna |
| SIGNATURE | SOSNA D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of West Bohemia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1625-0587 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Resources
Using and valuing resources is a vital component of human life. Yet as much as resources such as water, land, or fuel contribute to the flourishing of communities, they also constitute objects of contestation and conflict. This entry highlights a range of conceptual and thematic ways in which anthropologists have studied resources. First, resources constitute a means of livelihood and sociality that shape human lives in significant ways. Second, …
Ecologies of quantification in waste management
Quantification has become a privileged form of knowing and vehicle of governance. Anthropological critique has demonstrated that a view of numbers as independent carriers of meaning is untenable; instead, numbers should be conceptualized as being part of relations and temporalities, opening space for shifts in understanding. Proposing the perspective of 'ecologies of quantification', we acknowledge the wider notion of ecology that accommodates ma…
The Inner Dynamics of Moral Economies
This article examines the internal dynamics and relationality of moral economies. It focuses on labor relations to understand how people find balance between collective moral frameworks and individual everyday acts. Drawing on ethnographic research among Czech landfill workers during the neoliberalization of the waste industry in the 2010s, the article explores two spheres of waste management: the informal scavenging of landfill workers and the m…
Magnetism of strangeness
Why do certain parts of landscape become places for waste disposal? This simple question seems to be easy to answer given the existence of sophisticated tools for formal modelling of a range of environmental, economic, social, and political variables which are supposed to minimize risk, cost, and disequity. There are, however, more subtle factors that shape waste disposal and its inscription in landscape. Using examples of two Czech landfills and…
Drinking and dreaming in the dormitories
This article focuses on alcohol consumption among the migrant workers living in the dormitories in the Pilsen region, Czech Republic, to understand different notions of personhood in the changing and uncertain environment of multinational industrial companies. The authors combined garbological analysis of waste with interaction with the inhabitants of two dormitories to account for potential bias in exploring a sensitive topic such as alcohol con…
Shape matters
Zhodnocení možností odhadu pohlaví autorů paleolitických nástěnných maleb z otisků ruky
Ačkoliv jsou za autory paleolitického nástěnného umění tradičně považováni muži, otisky rukou, které se v kontextu maleb vyskytují, patří podle většiny recentních studií ženám. Překvapivé výsledky vyvolaly v posledních letech mezi archeology, biologickými a socio-kulturními antropology mezioborovou diskusi, která přesahuje až k chápání rolí mužů a žen v paleolitických společnostech. Cílem této studie je ukázat, že všechny dosavadní studie zabývaj…
Harmonizing Diversity
The contributions in this issue of Social Science Computer Review represent a range of computational approaches to theoretical and disciplinary specializations in anthropology that reflect on and expand the future orientation and practice of the formal and comparative agenda in the context of an increasing emphasis on complexity in anthropology as a discipline. Themes covered in this issue include kinship, funerary burials, urban legends, eye tra…
Burials and Graphs
This article demonstrates the analytical potential of graph theory for understanding mortuary practices in past societies. We take advantage of social network analysis software PAJEK to model relationships among burials. The case study of the Early Bronze Age cemetery Rebešovice (Czech Republic) is used to explore the potential of the network approach to explain the contrast between the center and the periphery of the cemetery. Two hypotheses are…
Modeling neolithic dispersal in Central Europe
On the basis of new examination of ancient DNA and craniometric analyses, Neolithic dispersal in Central Europe has been recently explained as reflecting colonization or at least a major influx of near eastern farmers. Given the fact that Neolithic dispersal in Central Europe was very rapid and extended into a large area, colonization would have to be associated with high population growth and fertility rates of an expanding Neolithic population.…
A resampling approach to gender relations
Human manipulative behavior in the Central European Late Eneolithic and Early Bronze Age
It is assumed that the transition from the Late Eneolithic to the Early Bronze Age in Central Europe was associated with substantial changes in subsistence and the perception of gender differences. However, the archeological record itself does not entirely support this model. Alternatively, this transition may be interpreted as a continuous process. We used asymmetry in external dimensions, and asymmetry in size and distribution of cortical tissu…
Human manipulative behavior in the Central European Late Eneolithic and Early Bronze Age
It is assumed that the transition from the Late Eneolithic to the Early Bronze Age in Central Europe was associated with substantial changes in subsistence and the perception of gender differences. However, the archeological record itself does not entirely support this model. Alternatively, this transition may be interpreted as a continuous process. We used asymmetry in external dimensions, and asymmetry in size and distribution of cortical tissu…
Shape matters
Burials and Graphs
This article demonstrates the analytical potential of graph theory for understanding mortuary practices in past societies. We take advantage of social network analysis software PAJEK to model relationships among burials. The case study of the Early Bronze Age cemetery Rebešovice (Czech Republic) is used to explore the potential of the network approach to explain the contrast between the center and the periphery of the cemetery. Two hypotheses are…
A resampling approach to gender relations
Modeling neolithic dispersal in Central Europe
On the basis of new examination of ancient DNA and craniometric analyses, Neolithic dispersal in Central Europe has been recently explained as reflecting colonization or at least a major influx of near eastern farmers. Given the fact that Neolithic dispersal in Central Europe was very rapid and extended into a large area, colonization would have to be associated with high population growth and fertility rates of an expanding Neolithic population.…
The Inner Dynamics of Moral Economies
This article examines the internal dynamics and relationality of moral economies. It focuses on labor relations to understand how people find balance between collective moral frameworks and individual everyday acts. Drawing on ethnographic research among Czech landfill workers during the neoliberalization of the waste industry in the 2010s, the article explores two spheres of waste management: the informal scavenging of landfill workers and the m…
Drinking and dreaming in the dormitories
This article focuses on alcohol consumption among the migrant workers living in the dormitories in the Pilsen region, Czech Republic, to understand different notions of personhood in the changing and uncertain environment of multinational industrial companies. The authors combined garbological analysis of waste with interaction with the inhabitants of two dormitories to account for potential bias in exploring a sensitive topic such as alcohol con…
Harmonizing Diversity
The contributions in this issue of Social Science Computer Review represent a range of computational approaches to theoretical and disciplinary specializations in anthropology that reflect on and expand the future orientation and practice of the formal and comparative agenda in the context of an increasing emphasis on complexity in anthropology as a discipline. Themes covered in this issue include kinship, funerary burials, urban legends, eye tra…
A resampling approach to gender relations
Human manipulative behavior in the Central European Late Eneolithic and Early Bronze Age
It is assumed that the transition from the Late Eneolithic to the Early Bronze Age in Central Europe was associated with substantial changes in subsistence and the perception of gender differences. However, the archeological record itself does not entirely support this model. Alternatively, this transition may be interpreted as a continuous process. We used asymmetry in external dimensions, and asymmetry in size and distribution of cortical tissu…
Modeling neolithic dispersal in Central Europe
On the basis of new examination of ancient DNA and craniometric analyses, Neolithic dispersal in Central Europe has been recently explained as reflecting colonization or at least a major influx of near eastern farmers. Given the fact that Neolithic dispersal in Central Europe was very rapid and extended into a large area, colonization would have to be associated with high population growth and fertility rates of an expanding Neolithic population.…
Harmonizing Diversity
The contributions in this issue of Social Science Computer Review represent a range of computational approaches to theoretical and disciplinary specializations in anthropology that reflect on and expand the future orientation and practice of the formal and comparative agenda in the context of an increasing emphasis on complexity in anthropology as a discipline. Themes covered in this issue include kinship, funerary burials, urban legends, eye tra…
Burials and Graphs
This article demonstrates the analytical potential of graph theory for understanding mortuary practices in past societies. We take advantage of social network analysis software PAJEK to model relationships among burials. The case study of the Early Bronze Age cemetery Rebešovice (Czech Republic) is used to explore the potential of the network approach to explain the contrast between the center and the periphery of the cemetery. Two hypotheses are…
Zhodnocení možností odhadu pohlaví autorů paleolitických nástěnných maleb z otisků ruky
Ačkoliv jsou za autory paleolitického nástěnného umění tradičně považováni muži, otisky rukou, které se v kontextu maleb vyskytují, patří podle většiny recentních studií ženám. Překvapivé výsledky vyvolaly v posledních letech mezi archeology, biologickými a socio-kulturními antropology mezioborovou diskusi, která přesahuje až k chápání rolí mužů a žen v paleolitických společnostech. Cílem této studie je ukázat, že všechny dosavadní studie zabývaj…
Shape matters
Drinking and dreaming in the dormitories
This article focuses on alcohol consumption among the migrant workers living in the dormitories in the Pilsen region, Czech Republic, to understand different notions of personhood in the changing and uncertain environment of multinational industrial companies. The authors combined garbological analysis of waste with interaction with the inhabitants of two dormitories to account for potential bias in exploring a sensitive topic such as alcohol con…
Magnetism of strangeness
Why do certain parts of landscape become places for waste disposal? This simple question seems to be easy to answer given the existence of sophisticated tools for formal modelling of a range of environmental, economic, social, and political variables which are supposed to minimize risk, cost, and disequity. There are, however, more subtle factors that shape waste disposal and its inscription in landscape. Using examples of two Czech landfills and…
The Inner Dynamics of Moral Economies
This article examines the internal dynamics and relationality of moral economies. It focuses on labor relations to understand how people find balance between collective moral frameworks and individual everyday acts. Drawing on ethnographic research among Czech landfill workers during the neoliberalization of the waste industry in the 2010s, the article explores two spheres of waste management: the informal scavenging of landfill workers and the m…
Ecologies of quantification in waste management
Quantification has become a privileged form of knowing and vehicle of governance. Anthropological critique has demonstrated that a view of numbers as independent carriers of meaning is untenable; instead, numbers should be conceptualized as being part of relations and temporalities, opening space for shifts in understanding. Proposing the perspective of 'ecologies of quantification', we acknowledge the wider notion of ecology that accommodates ma…
Resources
Using and valuing resources is a vital component of human life. Yet as much as resources such as water, land, or fuel contribute to the flourishing of communities, they also constitute objects of contestation and conflict. This entry highlights a range of conceptual and thematic ways in which anthropologists have studied resources. First, resources constitute a means of livelihood and sociality that shape human lives in significant ways. Second, …
Archaeology (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (3 works) · Biology (3 works)