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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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How the diversity of human concepts of nature affects conservation of biodiversity
Conservation Biology, Volume 35, Issue 3, Page 1019-1028, June 2021., 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.
Frédéric Ducarme +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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Kamchatka: Revista de Análisis Cultural, 2020 Entre 1976 y 1979, cientos de presos políticos en la cárcel de Córdoba fueron sometidos a un régimen de completo aislamiento e inactividad. Se prohibieron estrictamente las cartas, visitas familiares, diarios, revistas, actividades manuales, gimnasia y ...
Fernando Reati
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La configuración de la memoria colectiva: los artefactos. Por caso, la escritura y las imágenes
Entreciencias: Diálogos en la Sociedad del Conocimiento, 2014 En el presente trabajo se argumenta que los artefactos: 1) son una especie de objetos cercanos y significativos, y en consecuencia los objetos distantes que carecen de significado no llegan a serlo; 2) con estos materiales se van edificando los recuerdos
Jorge Mendoza García
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When you cannot ask the judge: Using the case to explore judicial culture
Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 2023 Much of our understanding of the judicial role and culture is grounded in data gathered through interviews, surveys, and observations of judges. However, in the UK access to the judiciary and the nature and form of questions you can ask of them is ...
Rachel Cahill-O'Callaghan
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Representaciones y artefactos de la atrocidad en la postdictadura chilena
Intervención, 2022 Las representaciones públicas sobre perpetradores de crímenes humanitarios en sociedades que están lidiando con memorias de violencia, usualmente divididas, permiten elaborar socialmente la atrocidad. En este artículo me centraré en la producción de una
Daniela Jara Leiva
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El Museo de Prehistoria y Paleontologia de Orce (Granada). Los primeros pobladores de Europa en su contexto paleoecológico y cultural [PDF]
Boletín del Museo Arqueológico Nacional, 2017 La cuenca de Guadix-Baza es una región extraordinariamente rica en yacimientos arqueológicos y paleontológicos relacionados con el origen del poblamiento humano en el continente europeo, especialmente el territorio del municipio de Orce, que atesora ...
José Ramón Martínez Olivares +1 more
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