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Carneiro’s global dataset of cultural traits in ethnographic and historical societies: a digital edition [PDF]

Scientific Data
The late Robert L. Carneiro was a prominent anthropologist who devoted his life to the study of political evolution and the evolution of complex societies.
Václav Hrnčíř, Robert Forkel, Russell D. Gray   +2 more
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Reindeer herding statistics in Russia: issues of reliability, interpretation, and political effect

Pastoralism, 2022
Official reindeer herding statistics are an invaluable source of data for both social and natural scientists wishing to understand and model ecological systems in the Arctic.
Kirill V. Istomin, Roza I. Laptander, Joachim Otto Habeck   +2 more
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Exploring willingness-to-pay for ‘malaria-free’ rice among rural consumers in Rwanda: examining the potential for a local voluntary standard

Agricultural and Food Economics, 2023
Rice cultivation in Sub-Saharan Africa produces a negative externality in the form of higher malaria risk. Larval source management, such as the application of bio-larvicides in rice fields, is available to mitigate the problem.
Alexis Rulisa, Luuk van Kempen, Dirk-Jan Koch   +2 more
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Downplaying Euroscepticism in Mainstream Media: The Schengen Accession of Romania and Bulgaria

Media and Communication, 2023
Scholars have expressed concern about the growth of Eurosceptic discourses in the media since Taggart’s (1998) article on Euroscepticism. While some progress has been made in understanding the media’s role in increasing Euroscepticism, previous studies ...
Adriana Ștefănel, Antonio Momoc, Romina Surugiu   +2 more
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Re-imagining freedom as elderly female porters: A study of buruh gendong at Beringharjo traditional market of Yogyakarta

Simulacra, 2021
This paper expects to reveal the struggle of elderly female porters or buruh gendong who mostly had a historical background of working in industrial production (factory) but ended up being self-employed at Beringharjo traditional market of Yogyakarta ...
Gilang Mahadika, Setiadi Setiadi
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Lexibank, a public repository of standardized wordlists with computed phonological and lexical features

Scientific Data, 2022
Measurement(s) expressions Technology Type(s) data aggregation Factor Type(s) none Sample Characteristic - Organism human language Sample Characteristic - Location global ...
Johann-Mattis List, Robert Forkel, Simon J. Greenhill, Christoph Rzymski, Johannes Englisch, Russell D. Gray   +5 more
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The influence of task difficulty, social tolerance and model success on social learning in Barbary macaques

Scientific Reports, 2023
Despite playing a pivotal role in the inception of animal culture studies, macaque social learning is surprisingly understudied. Social learning is important to survival and influenced by dominance and affiliation in social animals. Individuals generally
Ivan Garcia-Nisa, Cara Evans, Rachel L. Kendal   +2 more
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California Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Project Cultural Resources Surveying: Ethnographic Resources Candidate Site Selection Phase

, 1987
This report describes the results of an ethnographic study performed by Cultural Systems Research, Incorporated (CSRI) for US Ecology, Inc. The study was part of US Ecology's efforts to select a site for the disposal of Low Level Radioactive Waste (LLRW)
Stoffle, Richard W., Cultural Systems Research, Inc.   +1 more
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Criminalized hospitality: The case of Velika Kladuša [PDF]

Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2020
The article examines how discourses of hospitality towards migrants/refugees are changing in Velika Kladuša, a town in Bosnia and Herzegovina close to the Croatian border.
Lipovec-Čebron Uršula, Fekonja Eva, Ivnik Tina   +2 more
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Land, sugar and pastoralism in Ethiopia: Comparing the impact of the Omo-Kuraz sugar projects on local livelihoods and food (in) security in the lower Omo Valley

Pastoralism, 2022
This study assesses the impact of a large, state-sponsored sugar plantation scheme on agro-pastoralists’ livelihoods and local land use change in southern Ethiopia, specifically in the lower Omo Valley.
Adane Kebede Gebeyehu, Jon Abbink
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