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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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Cultural Anthropology Background Reading [PDF]

, 2016
Top 100 books on cultural ...
Hallqvist Albertson
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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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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, Block, Bourdieu, Boyer, Boyer, Catton, Fox, Graeber, Hall, Isenhour, Isenhour, Jakob, Latour, Love, McCright, Mitchell, Murphy, Nader, Oreskes, Ortner, Prieto, Stern, Tainter, Tainter, Tsing, Tyfield, Wilhite, Wilhite, Wolf   +28 more
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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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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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