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“I Want to Bury It, Will You Join Me?”: The Use of Ritual in Prenatal Loss among Women in Catalonia, Spain in the Early 21st Century

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, Bruna Alvarez, Diana Marre   +2 more
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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, Robin Rieprich, Michael Pröpper   +2 more
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Cultural Anthropology Background Reading [PDF]

, 2016
Top 100 books on cultural ...
Hallqvist Albertson
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How practice in plant collection influences interactions with illustrations and written texts on local plants? A case study from Daghestan, North Caucasus

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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Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology

, 2015
The Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology, now in its second edition, maintains a strong benchmark for understanding the scope of contemporary anthropological field methods.
Jeffrey C. Johnson, D. Hruschka
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Travelling models of participation: Global ideas and local translations of water management in Namibia

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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“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, Miranda J. Lubbers, Jose Luis Molina   +2 more
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Energy and Economy: Recognizing High-Energy Modernity as a Historical Period [PDF]

, 2016
This introduction to Economic Anthropology’s special issue on “Energy and Economy” argues that we might find inspiration for a much more engaged and public anthropology in an unlikely place—19th century evolutionist thought.
Berman, Block, Bourdieu, Boyer, Boyer, Catton, Fox, Graeber, Hall, Isenhour, Isenhour, Jakob, Latour, Love, McCright, Mitchell, Murphy, Nader, Oreskes, Ortner, Prieto, Stern, Tainter, Tainter, Tsing, Tyfield, Wilhite, Wilhite, Wolf   +28 more
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Anthropology in the Clinic: The Problem of Cultural Competency and How to Fix It

PLoS Medicine, 2006
Cultural competency has become a fashionable term for clinicians and researchers. Yet no one can defi ne this term precisely enough to operationalize it in clinical training and best practices. It is clear that culture does matter in the clinic.
A. Kleinman, P. Benson
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Immanent Anthropology: A Comparative Study of 'Process' in Contemporary France [PDF]

, 2014
This paper presents a comparative critique of the ‘processual temporalities’ which infuse both social-scientific theorizing and selected Western cultural practices.
Adam, Agamben, Agamben, Agamben, Anderson, Arendt, Arendt, Arendt, Asad, Barnes, Beistegui, Berger, Blackwell, Bourdieu, Bourdieu, Bourdieu, Braudel, Braun, Certeau, Davidson, Deleuze, Deleuze, Deleuze, Fabian, Fabre, Feenberg, Feenberg, Foucault, Foucault, Gell, Giddens, Grimanelli, Grimanelli, Gupta, Gurvitch, Hardt, Heidegger, Helmreich, Henare, Hodges, Hodges, Hodges, Hodges, Husserl, Jameson, Jameson, Koltunow, Koselleck, Landecker, Landecker, Latour, Le Goff, Leblanc, Lyman, Merleau-Ponty, Morson, Munn, Nora, Osborne, Passerin d'Entrèves, Pickering, Pickering, Rescher, Richards, Rose, Schutz, Serres, Smith, Thompson, Turetzky, Turner, Viveiros de Castro, White, Whitehead, Wolf   +74 more
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