Results 111 to 120 of about 15,314 (327)

Could guns and rain spell the end for the Karamojong? [PDF]

, 2010
Over one million people live in Karamoja, a region found in the north Eastern part of Uganda. To a visitor passing through from the capital city Kampala, Karamoja may look like any other region in Uganda but appearances can be deceptive.
Ferloni, Mark, O'Brien, Geoff, O'Keefe, Mark, O'Keefe, Phil   +3 more
core  

No egalitarianism in the Wa hills: relative commensuration in kinship, sacrifice, and war Nul égalitarisme dans les hautes terres Wa : commensuration relative dans la parenté, le sacrifice et la guerre

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The autonomy of the United Wa State Army of Myanmar today is said to be based on the egalitarianism of Wa communities in the past. The analysis of commensuration in kinship, sacrifice, and war challenges these portrayals of autonomy and egalitarianism.
Hans Steinmüller
wiley   +1 more source

Community-based methods to reduce crop loss to elephants: experiments in the communal lands of Zimbabwe

Pachyderm, 2002
This study compared an experimental community based strategy for protecting crops with current deterrent methods involved 7 villages in a high elephant population area in Guruve District in northern Zimbabwe.
Ferrel Osborn, Guy Parker
doaj   +1 more source

Society beyond morality: mimesis, sovereignty, and being not‐human in the Nyau associations of Malawi La société par‐delà la moralité : mimèse, souveraineté et existence non humaine dans les sociétés Nyau du Malawi

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Nyau masked dancers embodying a variety of people, animals, and objects appear at many public events in Chewa areas of Malawi. Understood to be the physical manifestation of ancestral spirits, these entities are classified as ‘not human’ and transgress ordinary morality, mocking and threatening audiences.
Sam Farrell
wiley   +1 more source

The costs of living with elephants in the areas adjacent to Marsabit National Park and Reserve

Pachyderm, 2009
Crop raiding by elephants is a serious management problem around protected areas in Kenya. This is because of changes in the land use systems in these areas, with crop farming occurring in areas where it did not previously. Crop raiding by elephants was
Shadrack Ngene, Patrick Omondi
doaj   +1 more source

Community Management of Natural Resources in Africa: Impacts, Experiences and Future Directions [PDF]

, 2009
More than twenty years have passed since community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) rose to prominence in different parts of Africa as a strategy for rural development, local empowerment, and conservation.
Chris Sandbrook, Dilys Roe, Fred Nelson
core  

‘Let's Turn the Grass Into Meat’: Animal Husbandry as Women's Work in Cold War North Korea

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In postcolonial North Korea, the future of the nation was said to be a function of the feedlot. Unobtainable on the battlefields of the recently ended Korean War, liberation and unification of the peninsula became a question of competitive developmentalism.
Sunho Ko, Derek J. Kramer
wiley   +1 more source

The population status and maize crop-raiding activities of Papio anubis and Chlorocebus pygerythrus in the Abala Abaya forest, located in southern Ethiopia

Discover Applied Sciences
Species and subspecies of primates occur in different parts of Ethiopia, and some of them are successful crop raiders. We conducted a study on the population status and maize crop-raiding activities of Anubis baboons (Papio anubis) and Vervet monkeys ...
Senait Samuel, Wondimagegnehu Tekalign
doaj   +1 more source

The inherent values of observation and description: A case study in the spiny solanums of Australia

TAXON, EarlyView.
Christopher T. Martine
wiley   +1 more source

‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
wiley   +1 more source