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Threats to cycad biocultural heritage in the Amami Islands, Japan

open access: yesPlant Species Biology, EarlyView.
The central point we seek to frame in this article is that the increasing infestations of cycad aulacaspis scale in the Amami guntō existentially threaten not only the islands' sotetsu but rather entire cultural systems and natural ecologies that have developed around these plants.
Joshua D. Englehardt   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Where do nomads bury their dead? Necro‐ostracism, statelessness, and the pastoral/ peripatetic divide in Afghanistan

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article proposes that stigmas connected to social categories of exclusion prevalent during life extend into dealings with the dead, here referred to as ‘necro‐ostracism’, in the context of death and burial of Muslim nomadic populations in urban Afghanistan. Based on qualitative fieldwork carried out in Kabul, Herat, and Mazar‐e Sharif, it explores
Annika Schmeding
wiley   +1 more source

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