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Reindeer herding statistics in Russia: issues of reliability, interpretation, and political effect

open access: yesPastoralism, 2022
Official reindeer herding statistics are an invaluable source of data for both social and natural scientists wishing to understand and model ecological systems in the Arctic.
Kirill V. Istomin   +2 more
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Downplaying Euroscepticism in Mainstream Media: The Schengen Accession of Romania and Bulgaria

open access: yesMedia and Communication, 2023
Scholars have expressed concern about the growth of Eurosceptic discourses in the media since Taggart’s (1998) article on Euroscepticism. While some progress has been made in understanding the media’s role in increasing Euroscepticism, previous studies ...
Adriana Ștefănel   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring willingness-to-pay for ‘malaria-free’ rice among rural consumers in Rwanda: examining the potential for a local voluntary standard

open access: yesAgricultural and Food Economics, 2023
Rice cultivation in Sub-Saharan Africa produces a negative externality in the form of higher malaria risk. Larval source management, such as the application of bio-larvicides in rice fields, is available to mitigate the problem.
Alexis Rulisa   +2 more
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Lexibank, a public repository of standardized wordlists with computed phonological and lexical features

open access: yesScientific Data, 2022
Measurement(s) expressions Technology Type(s) data aggregation Factor Type(s) none Sample Characteristic - Organism human language Sample Characteristic - Location global ...
Johann-Mattis List   +5 more
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Criminalized hospitality: The case of Velika Kladuša [PDF]

open access: yesGlasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2020
The article examines how discourses of hospitality towards migrants/refugees are changing in Velika Kladuša, a town in Bosnia and Herzegovina close to the Croatian border.
Lipovec-Čebron Uršula   +2 more
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The influence of task difficulty, social tolerance and model success on social learning in Barbary macaques

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2023
Despite playing a pivotal role in the inception of animal culture studies, macaque social learning is surprisingly understudied. Social learning is important to survival and influenced by dominance and affiliation in social animals. Individuals generally
Ivan Garcia-Nisa   +2 more
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After International Law: Anthropology Beyond the “Age of Human Rights”

open access: yesAJIL Unbound, 2021
This essay examines the ways in which anthropologists have tracked the rise and fall of international law after the end of the Cold War. It argues that anthropological research has made important contributions to the wider understanding of international ...
Mark Goodale
doaj   +1 more source

Land, sugar and pastoralism in Ethiopia: Comparing the impact of the Omo-Kuraz sugar projects on local livelihoods and food (in) security in the lower Omo Valley

open access: yesPastoralism, 2022
This study assesses the impact of a large, state-sponsored sugar plantation scheme on agro-pastoralists’ livelihoods and local land use change in southern Ethiopia, specifically in the lower Omo Valley.
Adane Kebede Gebeyehu, Jon Abbink
doaj   +1 more source

“I Want to Bury It, Will You Join Me?”: The Use of Ritual in Prenatal Loss among Women in Catalonia, Spain in the Early 21st Century

open access: yesReligions, 2022
Prenatal loss, such as miscarriage and stillbirth, may be understood as the confluence of birth and death. The most significant of life’s transitions, these events are rarely if ever expected to coincide.
Lynne McIntyre   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Applying a synthetic approach to the resilience of Finnish reindeer herding as a changing livelihood

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2016
Reindeer herding is an emblematic livelihood for Northern Finland, culturally important for local people and valuable in tourism marketing. We examine the livelihood resilience of Finnish reindeer herding by narrowing the focus of general resilience on ...
Simo Sarkki   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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