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A Review on Current and Emerging Application Possibilities for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Acta Technologica Agriculturae, 2016 This paper presents a review on current and emerging application possibilities for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The introduction section of the paper briefly describes some of the application areas in which drones are currently being used.
Beloev Ivan H.
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article explores the activities of daily life in a village neighbouring the TEPCO nuclear power plant in Fukushima. It argues that one of the potentials of taking a dwelling perspective – a phenomenological approach to living within the ecological and social environments – emerges most compellingly within a polluted landscape.
Tomoko Sakai
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A Arqueologia Aérea: Métodos e Técnicas para a Observação de Dolmens. O Caso de Mora e Arraiolos. [PDF]
, 2017 Aerial archaeology allows the observer to observe the world through space and understand the landscape to be natural or anthropic. Based on the understanding of aerial archaeology and the concept of photo interpretation, it is shown here how the dolmens ...
Batista, Teresa +2 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.The production‐distribution‐consumption triad has structured how anthropologists understand exchange for roughly a century. This article argues for expanding this triad to include an explicit focus on acquisition – the systems, processes, and practices of acquiring.
Hanna Garth
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For an inviting anthropology Pour une anthropologie accueillante
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Anthropologists have recently become inspired, captivated even, by the practices of the arts, design, and architecture in efforts to renew anthropology's modes of engagement and understandings of its relevance, particularly affecting how we approach ethnographic fieldwork.
Tomás Criado +2 more
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Magnetic Gradient Survey at the M. S. Roberts (41HE8) Site in Henderson County, Texas [PDF]
, 2017 The M. S. Roberts site is located in Henderson County, Texas and it represents one of the few known Caddo mound sites in the upper Neches River Basin in northeast Texas (Figure 1). The site is situated along Caddo Creek – an eastward-flowing tributary of
McKee, Arlo +2 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Anthropologists, in common with social theorists more generally, have often understood social life as an emergent phenomenon grounded in practices of creativity and improvisation. Where stasis and continuity feature, these are often presented as illusory manifestations of underlying processes of ‘invention’, or as external impositions upon otherwise ...
Paolo Heywood, Thomas Yarrow
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Abstract Towards the end of their Introduction, the editors of this special issue suggest that a principal challenge in ethnographic description is ‘how to measure the measures of others’. It is their own measure of persons, say, or of transactions, on which anthropologists frequently draw in adjudicating social phenomena, not least when characterizing
Marilyn Strathern
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GeomaticsDocumenting and preserving cultural heritage assets is increasingly important, with threats from natural disasters, conflicts, climate change, and neglect, and some sites are both contested and physically difficult to access or document, posing the issue
Mehmetcan Soyluoğlu +3 more
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Towards an automated georeferencing and orthorectification of archaeological aerial photographs [PDF]
, 2013 Briese, Christian +5 more
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