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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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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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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Indigenous institutions as adaptive measures to environmental dynamics: an ethnographic study of Loba Community of Upper Mustang, Nepal. [PDF]
Int J Anthropol Ethnol, 2023 Khattri MB, Pandey R.
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Reconsidering the role of patriarchy in upholding female genital modifications: analysis of contemporary and pre-industrial societies. [PDF]
Int J Impot Res, 2023 Gruenbaum E, Earp BD, Shweder RA.
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Non-pharmacological interventions for the prevention of type 2 diabetes mellitus in low and middle-income countries: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. [PDF]
Syst Rev, 2020 Sarker A +3 more
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Universal facial expressions uncovered in art of the ancient Americas: A computational approach. [PDF]
Sci Adv, 2020 Cowen AS, Keltner D.
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Insights from Bacillus anthracis strains isolated from permafrost in the tundra zone of Russia. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2019 Timofeev V +8 more
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