Payments for ecosystem services in an African protected area: exploring issues of legitimacy, fairness, equity and effectiveness [PDF]
, 2012 Adrian Martin +11 more
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How investors account for the quick and the dead
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Frederick F. Wherry
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H‐2A Adverse Effect Wage Rates and U.S. farm wages
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Recently proposed legislation regarding farm labor would impact the minimum wage for workers with H‐2A visas. Adverse Effect Wage Rates (AEWRs) are regional minimum wages paid to foreign farmworkers working in the United States under the H‐2A temporary agricultural guest worker program.
Zachariah Rutledge +3 more
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Elephant Days and Nights: Ten Years with the Indian Elephant [PDF]
, 1997 Book review for the following title: Elephant Days and Nights. By Raman Sukumar (George B.
Dale, Robert H.I.
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How to Fish With Respect: A Transformation of Human‐Fish Relations in Riverside Amazonia
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Riverside inhabitants of the Middle Xingu River Basin, in the Brazilian Amazonia, frequently say that it is important to respect animals and the forest spirits who protect them. In recent decades, however, the development of an iced fish industry in the region has changed what respect means and how it is expressed when it comes to fishing ...
Vinicius de Aguiar Furuie
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Trading Zones Between Thick and Thin: Anthropological Description as Scaffold or Mosaic
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Referring to the work of historian of science Peter Galison, I argue that anthropology requires thin description as an essential counterpart for thick description. Thin accounts provide the scaffolding within which thick descriptions sit. Galison uses the idea of a “trading zone” connecting different communities who, despite their differences (
David Zeitlyn
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Devouring the Invaders: The Racial‐Ecological Politics of the Chinese Crayfish Trade in Kenya
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines entanglements of ecology, race, and foodways at Lake Naivasha in Kenya. Nonnative Louisiana red swamp crayfish (Procambarus clarkii), first introduced to Kenya in the 1960s, were once viewed as invasive but are now sought after as a delicacy among Kenya's Chinese community.
Amanda Kaminsky
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American Ethnologist, EarlyView.Abstract In 2012 the UN Security Council and the European Union bolstered US economic sanctions on Iran, disembedding the country's economy from financial markets. Since then, the sanctions have radically devalued Iran's currency, leading Iranians to seek a viable standard of value elsewhere. They have done so through ghachagh (fugitive) configurations
Emrah Yıldız
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The monkey is not always a God: Attitudinal differences toward crop-raiding macaques and why it matters for conflict mitigation. [PDF]
Ambio, 2018 Anand S, Binoy VV, Radhakrishna S.
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Investigating relationships among strontium, barium, and seasonality in wild baboons
Archaeometry, EarlyView.Abstract Geochemical profiles of Australopithecus africanus and baboon teeth show fluctuating trace elements, possibly reflecting seasonal diets. Here we use laser ablation–inductively coupled plasma–mass spectrometric measurements of calcium‐normalized strontium and barium ratios (Sr/Ca and Ba/Ca) and ion microprobe analyses of oxygen isotopes (δ18O ...
Maya Bharatiya +12 more
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