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Monpa, memory, and change: an ethnobotanical study of plant use in Mêdog County, South-east Tibet, China

open access: yesJournal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2020
Background Due to their relative isolation, the previous studies of Monpa plant use were only conducted in north-east India. In October 2013, Mêdog County was no longer remote, thanks to completion of a highway into the county.
Shan Li   +4 more
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Social Learning Strategies and Cooperative Behaviour: Evidence of Payoff Bias, but Not Prestige or Conformity, in a Social Dilemma Game

open access: yesGames, 2021
Human cooperation, occurring without reciprocation and between unrelated individuals in large populations, represents an evolutionary puzzle. One potential explanation is that cooperative behaviour may be transmitted between individuals via social ...
Robin Watson   +4 more
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Cosmopolitan cities: The frontier in the 21st century?

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2015
People with independent (vs. interdependent) social orientation place greater priority on personal success, autonomy, and novel experiences over maintaining ties to their communities of origin.
A. Timur Sevincer   +2 more
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Formation of the younger Pre-Roman Iron Age cultural model in Wielkopolska [PDF]

open access: yesPlural: History, Culture, Society, 2017
The start of the younger Pre-Roman Iron Age was the time of a transformation of the communities residing in this region into a new civilizational quality that was radically different from the quality of the preceding period.
Andrzej Michałowski, Milena Teska
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Are common names becoming less common? The rise in uniqueness and individualism in Japan

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2015
We examined whether Japanese culture has become more individualistic by investigating how the practice of naming babies has changed over time. Cultural psychology has revealed substantial cultural variation in human psychology and behavior, emphasizing ...
Yuji eOgihara   +8 more
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Changing Research Culture [PDF]

open access: yesThe Annals of Family Medicine, 2004
Although there is general agreement that family medicine has a lot to offer to the health care system, the academic dimension is still not widely understood. There are two main reasons why family medicine needs to develop its scientific potential: to address the true nature of the discipline, and to help in its recognition.
openaire   +2 more sources

Diversity and Resistance to Change: Macro Conditions for Marginalization in Post-industrial Societies

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2018
We argue that two society-level properties—resistance to change and diversity within a culture—significantly affect agents' degrees of marginalization, which is here defined as access to cultural knowledge and institutional means for accomplishing ...
Charles Lassiter   +3 more
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Changing Fashion Cultures

open access: yesCoRR, 2017
The paper presents a novel concept that analyzes and visualizes worldwide fashion trends. Our goal is to reveal cutting-edge fashion trends without displaying an ordinary fashion style. To achieve the fashion-based analysis, we created a new fashion culture database (FCDB), which consists of 76 million geo-tagged images in 16 cosmopolitan cities.
Kaori Abe   +5 more
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Cultural Tourism: Cultural Presentation at the Basotho Cultural Village, Free State, South Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Published ArticleSouth Africa is a unique country with a melting pot of miscellaneous cultures. Many of these cultures have been preserved and displayed in the form of cultural villages. To sustain these cultural villages, it is important to invest in
Mokoena, Lehlohonolo Gibson
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Religious Discourse and Gender Security in Southern Thailand

open access: yesASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, 2019
This article describes the complexity of applying human security through the notion of gender equality in southern Thailand where violent conflict has been prevalent for nearly half a century in a Malay-Muslim-dominated society.
Amporn Marddent
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