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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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“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

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, Bruna Alvarez, Diana Marre   +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, Robin Rieprich, Michael Pröpper   +2 more
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How practice in plant collection influences interactions with illustrations and written texts on local plants? A case study from Daghestan, North Caucasus

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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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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Travelling models of participation: Global ideas and local translations of water management in Namibia

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, Miranda J. Lubbers, Jose Luis Molina   +2 more
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Cultural tourism: A review of recent research and trends

Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, 2018
This review article traces the development of cultural tourism as a field of research over the past decade, identifying major trends and research areas.
Greg Richards
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Cultural Anthropology and the Infrastructure of Publishing

, 2014
The transition of Cultural Anthropology to an open-access publication required that the Society for Cultural Anthropology take on the publishing responsibilities formerly fulfilled by Wiley-Blackwell. This entailed the expanded use of already established
Timothy W. Elfenbein
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Inai Cultural Dialectics: Indigenous Knowledge of Natural Dyes among the Iban Dayak as a Response to the Phenomenon of Fast Fashion

Mudra: Jurnal Seni Budaya
Basic human needs, including clothing, have become commodities in the hands of industrial players, leading to a culture of consumption and negatively impacting the environment.
Diaz Restu Darmawan, Nadia Novianti, Donatianus BSE. Praptantya   +2 more
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