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Hawaiianische Käfer der Gattung Blackburnia (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Platynini) : ökologische Spezialisierungen und Implikationen für den Artenschutz [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The Hawaiian Islands have arisen in isolation in the middle of the Pacific Ocean due to volcanism unleashed by interaction of mantle-deep thermal plumes with the overlying Pacific Plate (MONTELLI et al. 2004, ABOUCHAMI et al. 2005). This volcano “factory”
Liebherr, James K.
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Neuroanatomy and pneumaticity of the extinct Malagasy “horned” crocodile Voay robustus and its implications for crocodylid phylogeny and palaeoecology

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, Volume 307, Issue 8, Page 2749-2786, August 2024.
Abstract Voay robustus, the extinct Malagasy “horned” crocodile, was originally considered to be the only crocodylian representative in Madagascar during most part of the Holocene. However, Malagasy crocodylian remains have had confused taxonomic attributions and recent studies have underlined that Crocodylus and Voay populations coexisted on the ...
Gwendal Perrichon   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Figuras matrimoniales ticuna: elementos para un analisis del "rnatrimonio oblicuo"

open access: yesAnthropologica, 1999
El artículo no presenta resumen.
Jean-Pierre Goulard, Lawent S. Barry
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Die Stadt als Missionsraum

open access: yesÖsterreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, 2013
The article discusses some aspects of missionary practices in the city between 1850 and 1930, focussing in particular on the period of „classical modernity“. It points out how the discourse of the pro­testant mission intersects with a moral perception of
Jens Wietschorke
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Mastering the Devil: A Sociological Analysis of the Practice of a Catholic Exorcist [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This study takes the documented growth in the ministry of exorcism within the Catholic Church as a significant challenge to some accounts of secularization.
Giordan, Giuseppe, Possamai, Adam
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The archaeology of shellfishing practices on Ua Huka, Marquesas Archipelago (French Polynesia)

open access: yesArchaeology in Oceania, Volume 59, Issue 2, Page 251-274, July 2024.
Abstract Shellfish remains are ubiquitous to coastal archaeological sites in the Marquesas but have seldom been the focus of dedicated investigations into their contribution to past diet and daily life. On the island of Ua Huka, in the northern group of the archipelago, people have consumed a variety of shellfish since their arrival on the island ...
Gabrielle Traversat   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Das Kreisen des Geldes

open access: yesÖsterreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, 2015
This essay is concerned with South Asian ritual gestures of monetary gift-giving, such as showering banknotes over people (paisā uṛānā), circulating money above somebody’s head (sir vārnā) or offering a currency garland (note kī mālā).
Bernhard Fuchs
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Eight arguments why biodiversity is important to safeguard food security

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 6, Issue 3, Page 604-610, May 2024.
In the context of multiple crises, policymakers and practitioners prioritize the solving of certain challenges above others. In this context, supposedly purely environmental challenges like biodiversity loss have often been deprioritized and solutions to tackle them are publicly or quietly postponed (again and again).
Peter Dannenberg   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

In memoriam Ioan Myrddin Lewis (1930–2014)

open access: yesAethiopica, 2017
Obituary
Thomas Zitelmann
doaj   +1 more source

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