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Water Beings and Capitalist Relations in India's Sundarbans Delta
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores entanglements between water cosmologies and capitalist transformation in the Sundarbans delta of West Bengal, India. It traces how “awakened” tidal creeks have been iteratively enclosed as private fisheries from the colonial period to the present, with particular focus on the expansion of commercial aquaculture over the ...
Calynn Dowler
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Estudos geolinguísticos na Amazônia Legal
Domínios de Lingu@gemNas últimas décadas, tem-se observado um aumento significativo na produção de obras geolinguísticas que abordam os nove estados que compõem a região da Amazônia Legal.
Greize Alves da Silva +2 more
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Antimicrobial and Seasonal Evaluation of the Carvacrol-Chemotype Oil from Lippia origanoides Kunth.
Molecules, 2015 This study evaluated the influence of seasonal variation on the yield and composition of essential oil of Lippia origanoides occurring in the Middle Rio Amazonas, Brazil, and the impact on its antimicrobial potential. The average oil yield was 1.7% ± 0.2%
Sandra Layse F. Sarrazin +8 more
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Novidades nas Convolvulaceae da flora amazônica [PDF]
Acta Amazonica, 1981 Resumo Durante um estudo da Convolculaceae na zona neotropical, encontraram-se algumas novidades na Amazônia Legal. Entre essas, estão um nome novo (Ipomoea leprieurii D. Austin), duas espécies novas de (I. carajasense D. Austin e I. cavalcantei D Austin)
Daniel F. Austin
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Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT When mural art in indigenous communities is commissioned as a participatory project, several methodological, epistemological, and aesthetic questions arise. This text proposes a horizontal and investigative approach to what we can simply call ‘muralism in the A'i Cofán community context,’ not as significant works executed in communities, but ...
Daniel Alberto Restrepo Hernández +2 more
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Orchidaceas do estado do Maranhão, Brasil 1 [PDF]
Acta Amazonica, 1999 O Estado do Maranhão faz parte da Amazônia Legal e tem sido um dos mais atingidos pelos projetos impactadores do meio ambiente, causando sérios riscos de extinção de espécies vegetais e animais, algumas, ainda desconhecidas pela ciência.
Manoela F. F da SILVA +2 more
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Conservation Biology, EarlyView.Abstract Reversing ongoing biodiversity loss requires effectively managing anthropogenic threats. Although conservation actions can mitigate these threats, prioritizing and targeting such actions remain challenging because species respond differently depending on the nature of the threats and their biological traits.
Camila Guerrero‐Pineda +3 more
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Revista Colombiana de Ciencia Animal Recia, 2011 Los pequeños dípteros de La familia Ceratopogonidae del género Culicoides Latreille, son conocidos en El Brasil como, mosquitos pólvora y mosquitos del mangle. Este trabajo procuró organizar informaciones sobre la distribución y realizar el mapeo digital
ANA SÍLVIA APARÍCIO A +2 more
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Using the capabilities approach to achieve people‐centered conservation
Conservation Biology, EarlyView.Abstract Top‐down interventions carried out by state and nonstate institutions to conserve biodiversity and improve the lives of forest‐proximate people (FPP) in the Global South tend to reflect economistic understandings of human well‐being. More progressive and people‐centered conservation projects are guided by normative visions of how the world ...
Arthur Rodrigues +4 more
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Cadernos CajuínaEste estudo tem como objetivo mapear e sistematizar, de forma descritiva, as principais ações institucionais desenvolvidas pelas universidades da Amazônia Legal nos eixos do ensino, da pesquisa e da extensão, relacionadas à temática da conservação ...
Dailton Albuquerque de Farias +1 more
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