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Applying a synthetic approach to the resilience of Finnish reindeer herding as a changing livelihood
Ecology 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
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Religions, 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
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Culture, Nature, and the Valuation of Ecosystem Services in Northern Namibia
Ecology and Society, 2014 Defining culture as shared knowledge, values, and practices, we introduce an anthropological concept of culture to the ecosystem-service debate. In doing so, we shift the focus from an analysis of culture as a residual category including recreational and
Michael Schnegg +2 more
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For a cultural anthropology of the last Neanderthals
Quaternary Science Reviews, 2019 The chronological and territorial expansion of neandertalian societies, their capacities of adaptation and expansion, show that their brutal extinction, which not only affects their ways of life but also their biological reality, cannot be rationally ...
L. Slimak
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Energy and Economy: Recognizing High-Energy Modernity as a Historical Period [PDF]
, 2016 This introduction to Economic Anthropology’s special issue on “Energy and Economy” argues that we might find inspiration for a much more engaged and public anthropology in an unlikely place—19th century evolutionist thought.
Berman +28 more
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Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2020 Background It is only recently that written sources of local knowledge on plants are not being ignored by scholars as not belonging to “traditional” knowledge.
Iwona Kaliszewska, Iwa Kołodziejska
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Cultural Anthropology Background Reading [PDF]
, 2016 Top 100 books on cultural ...
Hallqvist Albertson
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International Journal of the Commons, 2016 In recent decades, water management in Namibia has profoundly changed. Beginning in the 1990s the Namibian state has incrementally turned ownership of and the responsibility for its rural water supply to local user groups.
Michael Schnegg, Theresa Linke
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“She’s Surrounded by Loved Ones, but Feeling Alone”: A Relational Approach to Loneliness
Social Inclusion, 2021 Loneliness poses one of the significant problems of our modern post‐industrial societies. Current research on loneliness has been developed primarily by psychology, biomedicine, nursing, and other health‐related disciplines, showing a surprising number ...
Hugo Valenzuela-Garcia +2 more
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Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology
, 2015 The Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology, now in its second edition, maintains a strong benchmark for understanding the scope of contemporary anthropological field methods.
Jeffrey C. Johnson, D. Hruschka
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