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ABSTRACT Anthropologists and public health professionals have long recognized the value of people‐centered, community‐based interventions. Securing community buy‐in is an essential precursor to any successful community‐based intervention. We describe the adaptation of pile sort methods to understand existing community relations, establish community buy‐
Jakob Hanschu +2 more
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Forecasting Climate Change Using a Multivariate Cointegrated System
ABSTRACT A cointegrated vector equilibrium correction model of key climate variables including sea surface temperature, ocean heat content, Arctic sea‐ice extent and sea‐level change is built, driven by radiative forcing in which a stochastic trend arises due to anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases.
Jennifer L. Castle +3 more
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In recent years, it has been found that magnetic dip caused by diamagnetic motion of injected plasma can provide an appropriate environment for excitation of electromagnetic ion cyclotron (EMIC) waves.
Zhigang Yuan +4 more
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ABSTRACT This research examines the Hill‐Valley divide in Darjeeling district, West Bengal, India, where Nepali‐speaking hill communities coexist with Bengali‐speaking valley populations. It argues that this division is a colonial construct, shaped by British policies that romanticised the hills as a ‘mini‐England’ while separating them from the valley
Yalember Dewan
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Staging the Semahs: Performing Aleviness in Turkey and Europe
ABSTRACT The semah, a genre of music and movement practices imbued with values of gender, class, age and ethical egalitarianism, lies at the core of the Alevis' ayn‐i cem rituals. Since the 1970s, processes of urbanisation, migration, folklore production and heritage‐making have facilitated the circulation of semah beyond ritual contexts, particularly ...
Sinibaldo De Rosa
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ABSTRACT This work explores the ways autistic individuals describe and perceive their friendship relationships. Through qualitative analysis of participants' accounts, I discuss the importance that autistic adults attribute to values of “comfort,” “acceptance,” and “trust” in their relationships with the people they call “friends” and explain the ...
Jad Brake
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Scents of care: Multispecies relations in Pakistan's heatwave
Abstract This article examines how odour, intensified by heat, shapes the sensory aspects of social and multispecies relations in Pakistan. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Kasur's tanneries and Lahore's animal shelters during a period of record‐breaking heat, it analyses how smell structures inclusion and exclusion, mediates encounters with humans
Muhammad A. Kavesh
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Fugitive Junctures: Life‐Seeking, Route‐Finding and the Mobile Ensemble at Kenya's Borders
Short Abstract Fugitivity has become an important conceptual frame to understand the illegalised mobilities of contemporary migrants in conjunction with enslaved people's historical lines of flight as spatial praxes to seize their own freedom. Thinking from Kenya, and drawing on research with migrants, border officials, activists, police and smugglers,
Hanno Brankamp
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Tracking Aspirations: Neoliberal Education and Mobility for Cambodian Youth
ABSTRACT Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in rural Cambodia, this article focuses on secondary students who aspire to social and spatial mobility. It examines how a subject‐based tracking system intersects with other facets of the educational landscape to stratify students along class lines.
Jennifer Estes
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Nabataean Ethnicity: Emic Perspective
Ethnicity is a self-definition more than a definition by others. The relationship between emic and etic perspectives on identity is of crucial importance if ethnicity, as a phenomenon, is to be understood. In social anthropological jargon, ‘etic’ perspective of ethnicity refers to externally-perceived identity (They-ness) whereas ‘emic’ perspective ...
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