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Chroniclers who make ancestral knowledge visible

open access: yesEm Questão, 2020
Resumen: Un tema central en las políticas de conservación de Patrimonio Inmaterial o Intangible es la recuperación de oficios y saberes tradicionales, entendidos como ejemplos de manifestaciones expresiones, conocimientos y prácticas que dan a la comunidad y a un grupo humano un sentido de identidad, pertenencia y continuidad histórica.
Henriquez, Alejandro   +1 more
openaire   +1 more source

Do Tax Incentives for Farmland Leases Increase Farm Supply? Evidence From Iowa's Beginning Farmer Tax Credit

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In recent decades, agriculture has become increasingly concentrated through horizontal mergers and acquisitions via corporate entities, and policy makers are concerned this will be exacerbated by the aging population of farm operators. To reduce market concentration in agriculture, many states have enacted policies to entice new prospective ...
Justin M. Ross   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainability of industrial forest plantations and indigenous land rights in the Philippines : a thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Philosophy in Resource and Environmental Planning at Massey University [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
In the Philippines, forest management two decades ago was mainly aimed at addressing the need for economic growth. There was low priority accorded to the long-term sustainability and inherent environmental functions of the country's forests as well as ...
Gonzales, Allan L
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Strengthening school coexistence through ancestral knowledge

open access: yesRevista Iberoamericana de la Educación
The general objective of this research project is to strengthen the school coexistence of the students of the Jaime Roock Educational Institution, El Caimito, rural area of the district of Buenaventura, through a pedagogical strategy based on ancestral knowledge. A qualitative approach of participatory action research is used.
Gina Katherin Jiménez Palacios   +1 more
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Material‐Based Intelligence: Autonomous Adaptation and Embodied Computation in Physical Substrates

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This perspective formulates a unifying framework for Material‐Based Intelligence (MBI), defining the physical requirements for materials to achieve embodied action, active memory and embodied information processing through intrinsic nonequilibrium dynamics. The design of intelligent materials often draws parallels with the complex adaptive behaviors of
Vladimir A. Baulin   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ancestral Knowledges, Spirituality and Indigenous Narratives as Self-Determination [PDF]

open access: yesAlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 2013
Indigenous knowledge systems and spiritual traditions are intricately interwoven. They sustained First Nations peoples for centuries, are part of the everyday lives of Indigenous peoples and are at the core of Indigenous epistemologies. This paper argues that, despite the adverse impacts of Canada's colonial policies on Indigenous peoples, their ...
openaire   +1 more source

Ecological niche modeling reveals habitat differentiation and climatic vulnerability in two imperiled, sympatric southern Appalachian carnivorous plants

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Abstract Premise Understanding the habitat requirements of imperiled flora is critical for informing ex situ conservation practices, designing effective reintroduction strategies, and understanding how climate change will impact such species, especially in montane regions with high levels of environmental heterogeneity. In southern Appalachia, USA, the
Nicholas J. Chang   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Entretejidos ye’kuana: oralidad, mito, artesanía

open access: yesAntípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología, 2018
This article explores indigenous art-crafts of the Ye’kuana society of the Venezuelan Amazon. In particular, it focuses on its basketry: its mythical meaning as well as its importance as a mediator with the criollo or Westernized world.
Alessandra Caputo Jaffe
doaj   +1 more source

Social Contradiction and Symbolic Resolution: Practical and Idealized Affines in Taiwan [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This is a publisher's version of an article published in the journal Ethnology in 1984. The offprint is posted here in accordance with existing publisher policy, or by special permission via correspondence ...
Weller, Robert
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Population History and Gene Divergence in Native Mexicans Inferred from 76 Human Exomes. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Native American genetic variation remains underrepresented in most catalogs of human genome sequencing data. Previous genotyping efforts have revealed that Mexico's Indigenous population is highly differentiated and substructured, thus potentially ...
Burchard, Esteban G   +13 more
core   +1 more source

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