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The role of game mammals as bushmeat In the Caatinga, northeast Brazil

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2016
Although the use of wild mammals as a source of food has been better studied in tropical forest environments, their importance as a source of protein for human communities in semiarid environments is little known.
Raynner Rilke D. Barboza   +4 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

Constitution of ethnozoological semantic domains: meaning and inclusiveness of the lexeme "insect" for the inhabitants of the county of Pedra Branca, Bahia State, Brazil

open access: yesAnais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2011
This article deals with the sociocultural construction of the 'insect' and 'animal' domains by the inhabitants of the county of Pedra Branca (municipality of Santa Terezinha, Bahia State, Brazil).
Dídac Santos-Fita   +2 more
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

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

Racialized Labor Intermediation: Managing the “Threat” of Kurdish Workers on Turkish Farms

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 2, Page 381-392, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Farm labor intermediaries in Turkey have been at the heart of maintaining a precarious and low‐wage migrant labor force for capitalist agriculture since the 19th century. This labor force has been predominantly comprised of Kurds, a people racialized as “savage,” “racially impure,” and “traitors of the Turkish nation” since the beginning of ...
Deniz Duruiz
wiley   +1 more source

Guardians of giants: a bibliometric analysis of mahout-elephant relationships and management takeaways for the Nilgiris

open access: yesFrontiers in Animal Science
The study presents a systematic bibliometric review of mahout-elephant relations and management with specific applications for the Nilgiris region. Asian elephants face significant survival threats including habitat loss and captivity-based exploitation,
Jaisridhar Palanivelan   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Minor epic: Notes toward a different “Anthropoetry”

open access: yesAnthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 1, June 2026.
Abstract Anthropologists have often turned to poetry as a means of accessing emotional registers of which conventional academic prose is unable to avail. In doing so, they have tacitly conflated poetry with lyric poetry, today probably the most widely practiced poetic genre, associated in particular with the expression of inner feelings and subjectival
Stuart McLean
wiley   +1 more source

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