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Culture, Nature, and the Valuation of Ecosystem Services in Northern Namibia
Ecology and Society, 2014 Defining culture as shared knowledge, values, and practices, we introduce an anthropological concept of culture to the ecosystem-service debate. In doing so, we shift the focus from an analysis of culture as a residual category including recreational and
Michael Schnegg +2 more
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After International Law: Anthropology Beyond the “Age of Human Rights”
AJIL Unbound, 2021 This essay examines the ways in which anthropologists have tracked the rise and fall of international law after the end of the Cold War. It argues that anthropological research has made important contributions to the wider understanding of international ...
Mark Goodale
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Religions, 2022 Prenatal loss, such as miscarriage and stillbirth, may be understood as the confluence of birth and death. The most significant of life’s transitions, these events are rarely if ever expected to coincide.
Lynne McIntyre +2 more
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Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2020 Background It is only recently that written sources of local knowledge on plants are not being ignored by scholars as not belonging to “traditional” knowledge.
Iwona Kaliszewska, Iwa Kołodziejska
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International Journal of the Commons, 2016 In recent decades, water management in Namibia has profoundly changed. Beginning in the 1990s the Namibian state has incrementally turned ownership of and the responsibility for its rural water supply to local user groups.
Michael Schnegg, Theresa Linke
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Mudra: Jurnal Seni BudayaBasic human needs, including clothing, have become commodities in the hands of industrial players, leading to a culture of consumption and negatively impacting the environment.
Diaz Restu Darmawan +2 more
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The Return of Culture: Anthropology’s Temptations [PDF]
, 2003 The Return of Culture: Anthropology’s TemptationsAn important turning point in African studies in the 1980s was the emergence of culture as a central concern in fields where it had been quite marginal until then. Development experts began to emphasize culture as crucial to any intervention or project. Economists came into the habit of invoking “culture”
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“She’s Surrounded by Loved Ones, but Feeling Alone”: A Relational Approach to Loneliness
Social Inclusion, 2021 Loneliness poses one of the significant problems of our modern post‐industrial societies. Current research on loneliness has been developed primarily by psychology, biomedicine, nursing, and other health‐related disciplines, showing a surprising number ...
Hugo Valenzuela-Garcia +2 more
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"Ontological Choreography" as an Ethnographic Tool
Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology, 2015 In this article the term "ontological choreography", coined by Charis Thompson, is used as a heuristic analytical device to grasp the different realities of reproductive technologies.
Willemijn de Jong +3 more
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Conservation Science and PracticeRewilding is an increasingly popular nature conservation strategy globally. Originally, the strategy was formulated around the three C's of Carnivores, Cores and Corridors, which captured the ecological aim of rewilding to restore trophic interactions ...
Wisse VanEngelen +7 more
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