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Initial Estimates of Soil Mercury Emissions Induced by Soil Heating During Global Wildfires
Earth's Future, Volume 14, Issue 3, March 2026.Abstract Wildfires, increasingly frequent extreme events driven by global change, have significantly accelerated the release of mercury (Hg) stored in soils. However, a systematic quantification of Hg emissions from topsoil heating during global wildfires has been lacking.
Danyu Wang +9 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 293-312, March 2026.What do communicating with a baby, with an animal, and with an ancestor have in common? In all three cases, people engage in opaque communication that is far from the standard psycholinguistic model of transparent interaction based on shared intentionality.
Charles Stépanoff
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Sources for the study of Amerindian contact vernaculars in Ecuador [PDF]
, 1980 Contains fulltext : 3849.pdf (publisher's version ) (Open ...
Muysken, P.C.
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue S1, Page 7-27, March 2026.Egalitarianism is often idealized, but many anthropologists have noted its potential for nightmare scenarios involving envy, mistrust, and violence. This introduction outlines a framework for understanding the negative emotions and violence associated with the forces of commensuration that are necessary to make people equal.
Natalia Buitron +2 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue S1, Page 28-48, March 2026.The Shuar of Ecuadorian Amazonia once pursued eminence through warfare and vision quests. While vision quests have been retained, today – settled in villages – they seek eminence through economic success and political leadership. This article examines an apparent paradox: whilst envy suspicions pervade public life, they legitimize rather than level ...
Natalia Buitron, Grégory Deshoullière
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Pathways to Higher Education [PDF]
, 2008 Presents case studies from Ford's initiative to support efforts to transform universities abroad to enable poor, minority, and otherwise underrepresented students to obtain a university degree.
Irma Rosa Martinez +4 more
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How to Fish With Respect: A Transformation of Human‐Fish Relations in Riverside Amazonia
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 1, Page 63-72, March 2026.ABSTRACT Riverside inhabitants of the Middle Xingu River Basin, in the Brazilian Amazonia, frequently say that it is important to respect animals and the forest spirits who protect them. In recent decades, however, the development of an iced fish industry in the region has changed what respect means and how it is expressed when it comes to fishing ...
Vinicius de Aguiar Furuie
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Semantically-Oriented Vowel Reduction in an Amazonian Language
Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 2010 While it is an interesting phenomenon, semantically-oriented vowel reduction has only been demonstrated in studies with English-speaking participants. The primary objective of the current endeavor is to establish whether or not there is cross-linguistic evidence for semantically-oriented vowel reduction.
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Cannibal Salvage Expenditure: The Subaltern Style of the Urban Peruvian Amazon
Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.ABSTRACT This paper explores the political ecology of subaltern existence at the urban cutting edge of our apocalyptic present, in the case of Iquitos in the Peruvian Amazon. Through an ethnographically surrealist montage of multiple elements across the themes of accumulation, architecture, and art, cannibal salvage expenditure emerges as a subversive ...
Japhy Wilson
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Road Blockades During the Pandemic: Indigenous Citizenship and New Territoriality
Area, Volume 58, Issue 1, March 2026.Short Abstract In the Peruvian Amazon, the blocking of land and river routes has become an increasingly common strategy among indigenous groups to exercise active citizenship. The adoption of this protest tactic during the pandemic raises two central questions: First, what socio‐political and cultural factors shaped this collective action? Second, what
Silvia Romio +2 more
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