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Pastoralism, 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
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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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Anthropology and cultural heritage [PDF]
Vibrant: Virtual Brazilian Anthropology, 2013 The author argues that anthropology can help define a much broader, richer and culturally more diverse concept of heritage. He advocates for a more democratic and pluralist State policy that takes into account the diversity and complexity of Brazilian society, valuing traditions, symbolic systems and cultural manifestations from all sectors.
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Cultural Anthropology Background Reading [PDF]
, 2016 Top 100 books on cultural ...
Hallqvist Albertson
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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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“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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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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Regulating Reprogenetics: Strategic Sacralisation and Semantic Message [PDF]
, 2007 This paper forms part of the feminist critique of the regulatory consequences of biomedicine's systematic exclusion of the role of women's bodies in the development ofreprogenetic technologies.
Mackenzie, Robin
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