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“Intuitive districts”: Agentive images in a post‐socialist city
City &Society, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 78-90, August 2024.Abstract Anyone who has lived in a city knows that, separately from the administrative or electoral districts, there are districts that exist in the imagination. Areas of the city seem to have a distinctive character and ethos. The article suggests that such notional place‐forming occurs spontaneously through everyday sensations, life activities, and ...
Caroline Humphrey
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Wild goose in the traditional worldview of the Buryats [PDF]
Вестник археологии, антропологии и этнографииThe purpose of this study is to identify the image of the wild goose in the traditional worldview of the Buryats. The timeframe of this research covers the end of the 19th — middle of the 20th c., the period when the Buryats overall retained their set of
Badmaev A.A.
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The Y-chromosome C3* star-cluster attributed to Genghis Khan\u27s descendants is present at high frequency in the Kerey clan from Kazakhstan [PDF]
, 2012 In order to verify the possibility that the Y-chromosome C3* star-cluster attributed to Genghis Khan and his patrilineal descendants is relatively frequent in the Kereys, who are the dominant clan in Kazakhstan and in Central Asia as a whole ...
Abilev, Serikbai +5 more
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Earth's Future, Volume 12, Issue 4, April 2024.Abstract Wildfires emit atmospheric aerosols, affecting climate and air quality. Siberia is a known source region of wildfires. However, comprehensive knowledge regarding the impact associated with particulate matter pollution due to Siberian wildfires on climate and air quality and their effects on mortality and the economy under present and near ...
Teppei J. Yasunari +4 more
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Global law and human rights: Marxist reflections. How can a political account of human rights avoid Eurocentrism? [PDF]
, 2009 My recent book The Degradation of the International Legal Order? attempts a political account of human rights, and engages with the work of China Miéville and Susan Marks, as well as the extraordinary opus of Alain Badiou. The book has been well received.
Bowring, Bill
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American Journal of Human Biology, Volume 36, Issue 3, March 2024.Abstract The field of human biology has long explored how human populations have adapted to extreme environmental circumstances. Yet, it has become increasingly clear that conditions of social stress, poverty, and lifestyle change play equally important roles in shaping human biological variation and health.
William R. Leonard
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Specific Character of Modern Interethnic Relations in Krasnoyarsk Territory as Per Associative Experiment [PDF]
, 2011 Ethnocultural space of Krasnoyarsk territory is an urgent subject for research nowadays. According to the criteria of conflict, ethnology and sociology theory Krasnoyarsk territory has been both a centre of strained interethnic relations and a specific ...
Kivkutsan, Galina V +1 more
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Two contemporaneous mitogenomes from terminal Pleistocene burials in eastern Beringia [PDF]
, 2015 Pleistocene residential sites with multiple contemporaneous human burials are extremely rare in the Americas. We report mitochondrial genomic variation in the first multiple mitochondrial genomes from a single prehistoric population: two infant burials ...
Ben A. Potter +12 more
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Exemplary differences: ethnicity, mythic histories, and essentialism in Khovd, Mongolia
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 30, Issue 1, Page 97-114, March 2024.Abstract This article provides an ethnographic account of understandings of ‘ethnic’ difference in Khovd province, Mongolia. It attempts to use said material to challenge the terms of debate within the current concern with ‘essentialism’ in social theory.
Joe Ellis
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Quantifying basic colors' salience from cross‐linguistic corpora
Color Research &Application, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 34-50, January/February 2024.From the Basic Color Terms Hierarchy of Berlin and Kay to our proposal based on corpus data from 57 Languages. Abstract A corpus‐based quantitative assessment of Berlin and Kay's proposal is presented. We refine the Basic Color Terms hierarchy proposed by Berlin and Kay, through the concept of salience.
Antoni Brosa‐Rodríguez +1 more
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