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The NAGPRA Decision‐Making Process and Praxis: A Case Study of the New Mexico State University Museum

open access: yesMuseum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examined the decision‐making process and practice of a small academic museum as it strived to comply with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). Using the New Mexico State University Museum as a case study, it explores key questions related to NAGPRA compliance: How did the NMSU Museum determine that ...
Fumi Arakawa, Stanley Berryman
wiley   +1 more source

Sharper eyes see shyer lizards: Collaboration with indigenous peoples can alter the outcomes of conservation research

open access: yesConservation Letters, 2019
Our ecological studies on large varanid lizards in a remote region of tropical Australia reveal a direct benefit to collaboration with local indigenous people.
Georgia Ward‐Fear   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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

Reading Through Traces: Xaverian Strategies of Including Chinese Folk Deities’ Statues in Museum Displays and Fictions in Parma, Italy

open access: yesMuseum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT This work reflects on the presence of a desacralized Buddha statue in the Museum of Chinese Art and Ethnography, established in Parma, Italy, in 1901 by Xaverian missionaries. The Buddha's hollowed back is a potent trace of the transnational interactions between these Roman Catholic missionaries and folk believers from the Henan region ...
Valentina Gamberi
wiley   +1 more source

Theoretical reflections on ethnobiology in the third millennium [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Com en d'altres camps de l'activitat científica, l'etnobiologia s'ha diversificat considerablement al tombant del nou mil·lenni. A pesar dels esforços fets durant els últims anys, la disciplina encara dóna la impressió de trobar-se en la necessitat d ...
D'Ambrosio, Ugo
core   +1 more source

Conception of the artisanal fisherfolk who use Furnas Reservoir, Minas Gerais State, about fishing stocks: an ethnoichthyological study [PDF]

open access: yesBiotemas, 2010
Ethnoichthyology, based on ecological parameters, can be a very useful tool to study man-made environmental changes. These changes are perceived by individuals who fish for a living and/or recreational activities in the impacted environs.
Valter Monteiro de Azevedo-Santos   +2 more
doaj  

Human-wildlife conflict in the Southwestern Amazon: poaching and its motivations

open access: yesNature Conservation Research: Заповедная наука, 2020
The conflict between humans and wildlife in Brazil has both diversified and increased rapidly since 2005. These increases have been driven by the expansion of human economic activity and its associated infrastructure. The present article aims to describe
Natani da Silva de Lima   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Leptodactylus savagei [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Number of Pages: 19Integrative BiologyGeological ...
de Sá, Rafael O.   +2 more
core   +1 more source

A Modest Proposal for University Reform: It's Time We Stop Half‐Assing Neoliberalism and Start Whole‐Assing It

open access: yesEconomic Anthropology, Volume 13, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT For decades, anthropologists have fought against the intrusion of neoliberal policies and norms into the university. We have lost. Today, neoliberal policies are ubiquitous within the university, forming the contours of our professional practice and informing our relationships with colleagues, administrators, and students.
Michael Scroggins
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

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