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How the diversity of human concepts of nature affects conservation of biodiversity. [PDF]
Conserv Biol, 2021 Abstract Protecting nature has become a global concern. However, the very idea of nature is problematic. We examined the etymological and semantic diversity of the word used to translate nature in a conservation context in 76 of the primary languages of the world to identify the different relationships between humankind and nature.
Ducarme F, Flipo F, Couvet D.
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Journal of Animal Ecology, Volume 92, Issue 3, Page 606-618, March 2023., 2023 This article accounts for species absences before occupancy analyses, addressing a long‐standing concern of whether absence is true or due to low sampling effort. The authors affiliate long‐term bird species trends with functional traits in a lowland tropical rainforest landscape in southeast Mexico to help guide land management and conservation ...
Dallas R. Levey +2 more
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Objects Don't Have Desires: Toward an Anthropology of Technology beyond Anthropomorphism
American Anthropologist, Volume 123, Issue 4, Page 753-766, December 2021., 2021 ABSTRACT “Postdualist” approaches, such as the material turn in the humanities and social sciences, represent understandable reactions to the humanist and idealist traditions in Western thought, but tend to be deluded by a focus on individual artifacts rather than on the global, material relations on which their existence depends.
Alf Hornborg
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The perils of flawed science in wildlife trade literature
Conservation Biology, Volume 35, Issue 5, Page 1396-1404, October 2021., 2021 Abstract Despite broad scientific consensus that sustainable use of wildlife can enhance conservation efforts, ethical concerns have led some community groups to oppose use of wild animals. Voicing those concerns is legitimate, but underlying philosophical bias should not influence science‐based analysis and interpretation.
Daniel J. D. Natusch +2 more
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Starchy shells: Residue analysis of precolonial northern Caribbean culinary practices
Archaeometry, Volume 62, Issue 2, Page 362-380, April 2020., 2020 Determining culinary practices is critical for understanding phytocultural complexes, transported landscapes and human niche constructions. Starch analysis is an exemplary method for reconstructing human–plant dependencies. However, certain types of artefacts from the Greater Caribbean region, such as flaked lithics, lithic griddles, coral artefacts ...
A. J. Ciofalo +2 more
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Adornos corporales y género en las fotografías etnográficas de Yámana/Yagán
Universitas, 2017 Este trabajo se propone discutir el aporte del estudio de las fotografías etnográficas acerca de los adornos corporales y las regulaciones de género de la sociedad Yámana/Yagán de Tierra del Fuego (Argentina y Chile). Se entiende a la fotografía como un
Ana Butto, Danae Fiore
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INDEX Revista de Arte Contemporáneo, 2020 Aunque se han hecho grandes avances en el reconocimiento de los productos de la investigación-creación en el sistema nacional que regula la investigación en Colombia, persisten resistencias a la hora de pensar que el arte puede producir nuevo ...
Elsa María Beltrán +1 more
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El giro posthumanista en las humanidades y sus implicaciones para la filosofía de la técnica
Isegoría, 2020 El presente trabajo pretende evaluar críticamente los impactos del denominado “giro posthumanista” para la filosofía de la técnica, con especial referencia al problema del estatuto ontológico de los artefactos.
Diego Parente
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Ибероамериканские тетради, 2016 The aim of the article is to analyse the discourse of Eva Peron, the famouse first lady of Argentina during the presidence of Juan Domingo Peron. Her manner of appearing in public, the language of her speeches, poor and simple, but very efficient, her ...
GALA Romanova
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Anales del Sistema Sanitario de Navarra, 2015 Fundamento. Las imágenes obtenidas mediante estudios con TC pueden ser alteradas por la presencia de artefactos metálicos, induciendo en ocasiones a malinterpretación en la correcta ubicación de los tornillos pediculares en columna lumbar.
L. M. Romero Muñoz +2 more
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