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La demarcazione religiosa del territorio nel Bhutan
EtnoAntropologia, 2015 This paper deals with the symbolic organization of space in the traditional Bhutanese society on the background of the Buddhist religion. The author argues that there are different semantic networks whose ‘knots’ are monasteries, temples, stupa (mound ...
Pietro Scarduelli
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The British Journal of Sociology, Volume 74, Issue 4, Page 690-710, September 2023., 2023 Abstract Pierre Bourdieu argued for the existence of general properties and even laws of social fields. In contrast to spaces of class relations and patterns of cultural lifestyles, however, almost no systematic comparative research exists on the homologies of national social fields of a more specialised nature.
Jan Fredrik Hovden
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Perception gaps that may explain the status of taro (Colocasia esculenta) as an “orphan crop”
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 3, Issue 2, Page 99-112, March 2021., 2021 Using Taro (Colocasia esculenta) as a case study, we examine how perception gaps contribute to negative feedback loops that create or maintain the orphan status of certain crops. For students and researchers seeking uncrowded areas for study, orphan crops and crop‐wild‐relatives offer large open spaces, figuratively and literally.
Peter Joseph Matthews +1 more
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Challenging the state by reproducing its principles. The demand for “Gorkhaland” between regional autonomy and the national belonging [PDF]
, 2013 Contrary to assumptions about the dualist relationship between region and nation, I propose to understand both as simultaneously emerging. An analysis of the rhetoric of the “Gorkhaland” movement that demands a separate union state in India to be carved ...
Wenner, Miriam
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On ergativity in Bumthang [PDF]
, 2016 This report investigates the uses of the ergative case marker in transitive clauses in Bumthang, a language of Central Bhutan. We discuss the conditions under which the ergative is required and show that a simple analysis involving multiple influences ...
Donohue, CJ, Donohue, MH
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Campbell Systematic Reviews, Volume 11, Issue 1, Page 1-176, 2015., 2015 This Campbell systematic review examines why the implementation of preventive interventions to reduce youth involvement in gangs and gang crime may fail or succeed low and middle‐income countries. The review summarises findings from four studies conducted in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Angela Higginson +5 more
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The Current State of Linguistic Research on the Relatedness of the Language Families of East and Southeast Asia [PDF]
, 1996 The current state of knowledge on the relatedness of the major language families of East and Southeast Asia is summarized following a major conference on this topic in Hawai‘i in 1993.
Reid, Lawrence A.
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From Popular Pilgrimage Festival to State Monastic Performance – The Politics of Cultural Production at Gomphu Kora, East Bhutan [PDF]
, 2018 In den letzten beiden Jahrzehnten wurde der buddhistische Pilgerort Gomphu Kora in eine touristische Hauptattraktion im Osten Bhutans transformiert. Das dort jährlich stattfindende Volksfest war bekannt dafür, dass es verschiedene ethno-linguistische ...
Schrempf, Mona
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Environmental Humanities South: Decolonizing Nature in Highland Asia
ChallengesWe, a group of native scholars based in the Himalayan region, co-author this article to propose an environmental humanities South—concurrently as an Asia-specific interdisciplinary field and a planetary human–nature epistemology of the Global South ...
Dan Smyer Yü +12 more
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Animal slaughter and religious nationalism in Bhutan [PDF]
, 2021 Published ...
Korom, Frank J. +2 more
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