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Consumption and Preferences for Wild and Domestic Meat in Indigenous Communities in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Wild animals have traditionally been the main sources of protein available, if not the only, to numerous indigenous populations worldwide. However, greater access to markets, reduced availability or access to wildlife, and policies in support of ...
Claudileide Pereira dos Santos   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Fantastic beasts and why to conserve them: animals, magic and biodiversity conservation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
There is a broad set of human beliefs, attitudes and behaviours around the issue of magical animals, referring to both mythical animals not recognized by science and extant animals that are recognized by science but have magical properties.
Abrahams   +27 more
core   +4 more sources

Wildlife Trade for Belief-Based Use: Insights From Traditional Healers in South Africa

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
The use of animals and plants as traditional remedies for medical and magico-religious purposes has a long history of socio-cultural and economic importance in South Africa.
Jennah Green   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Perception and use of fauna resources in communities surrounding a conservation unit in northeast Brazil - doi: 10.4025/actascibiolsci.v32i4.5668

open access: yesActa Scientiarum: Biological Sciences, 2010
Biodiversity is threatened by many human activities, and the creation of new Conservation Units (CUs) attempts to reduce this threat. However, this alone has not achieved the expected results.
Thaise Sousa da Silva   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessing Value and Questioning Self‐Worth in Educational Migration: Indonesian University Students in Singapore

open access: yesAnthropology &Education Quarterly, Volume 57, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines the education trajectories of Indonesian students attending university in Singapore. These students and their parents consider a project of educational migration to Singapore as a proven pathway toward their varied aspirations.
Erica M. Larson
wiley   +1 more source

Tracking Aspirations: Neoliberal Education and Mobility for Cambodian Youth

open access: yesAnthropology &Education Quarterly, Volume 57, Issue 2, June 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Pengetahuan Masyarakat Lokal Terkait Keberadaan Kepiting Tapal Kuda dan Distribusinya di Sepanjang Pesisir Pulau Bintan

open access: yesJurnal Kelautan Tropis, 2023
There are many reports of a decline in the population of horseshoe crabs in Asia, but knowledge about the distribution of horseshoe crabs on the coast of Bintan Island is still limited.
Rika Anggraini, Ita Karlina
doaj   +1 more source

Religio‐Governmental Infrastructures: Islam, Infrastructure, and Populist Mobilization in Turkey

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 2, Page 272-283, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Turkish mosques are staffed by state‐appointed imams and callers to prayer whose practices are regulated through a complex bureaucratic network operating on an internet‐based data‐management and communication infrastructure. A centralized mosque loudspeaker network enables the broadcast of calls to prayer and other Islamic recitations across ...
Hikmet Kocamaner
wiley   +1 more source

Indigenous Futurities: Theorizing Futurity in the Past and Present

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 2, Page 330-338, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Over the past 20 years, a growing number of activists, scholars, writers, and visual artists have engaged with futurism as a framework for representing the lives of Indigenous peoples. Inspired by this hopeful reframing of the past‐present‐future, contributions to this special section of American Anthropologist address the question: How can ...
Lindsay Martel Montgomery   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The year 1964 in the history of Estonian anthropology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The year 1964 in the history of Estonian ...
Kasmel, Jaan, Kasmel, Tiiu
core   +2 more sources

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