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Cursed sites and cursed practices, treasure hunting at haunted places: A case study from Greece [PDF]
Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2007 The aim of this paper is to explain why such a widespread practice as treasure hunting is related to narratives of cursed and haunted places. The reasons are many: a) the intermingling of official and folk religious elements in Orthodox Christian ...
Koumarianou Maria
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Evidence for adaptive explanations of semelparity in animals
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Semelparity, the reproductive strategy of reproducing once, is widespread but uncommon in animals. Classes of models to explain the evolution of semelparity are based either on age structure and mortality schedules – demographic models in which high post‐reproductive mortality risk favours high reproductive effort and semelparity results from ...
Diana O. Fisher +1 more
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Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic StudiesPlace-lore has been gathered and recorded by Estonian researchers since the end of the 19th century, among which are a host of accounts relating to interactions with human spirits.
Kristo Villem
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Environmental governance in Nigeria's oil and gas sector remains central to global climate justice debates, yet persistent accountability failures continue to undermine meaningful environmental and social outcomes. Despite extensive regulatory frameworks, accountability in resource‐dependent contexts is frequently reduced to formal reporting ...
Hammed Afolabi +2 more
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Folk Beliefs and Practices of Bagong (Amorphophallus sp.) Farmers in San Roque, Northern Samar
Annals of Tropical Research, 2019 This study investigated the folk beliefs and practices of bagong farmers of San Roque, a coastal town 29 kilometers from Catarman, the capital town of Northern Samar.
Rhodora Abalajen-Bande +1 more
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Biodiversity Strategies in Action—Empirical Evidence From the Food Value Chain
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT There is an increasing need for better understanding of firm activities that contribute to biodiversity preservation. Panwar, Ober, and Pinkse offer a valuable typology of corporate biodiversity protection strategies based on temporal and spatial dimensions, namely, the preloss (proactive) strategies of conservation and compensation, and the ...
Joanna Scott‐Kennel +2 more
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Contesting Images of Womanhood: The Narrative Construction of Gender Relations in Ethiopia
African Studies Quarterly, 2019 This article deals with continuities and changes in the conceptualization of womanhood among the Guji-Oromo of Ethiopia. Drawing on adults’ and children’s interpretation of gendered folk narratives, the article discusses the traditional conceptualization
Tadesse Jaleta Jirata
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Artuklu HumanitiesToplumların kültüründe tarihî kaynaklar, inançlar, değerler ve ahlak anlayışlarını bir bütün hâlinde değerlendirmek mümkündür. Bu bütünlük içerisinde sözlü- yazılı kaynaklar, gelenek- görenekler ve inanç sisteminde karşılaşılan birçok husus dikkati çeker.
Necla Gül Ercan
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Decision Theory and Proof Standards for Future Crimes: Possible Uses and Open Questions
Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT What should be the proof standard for applying preventive criminal sanctions based on an establishment of risk of reoffending? This is an open question in legal systems around the world. Various authors suggest that we can answer it by using decision theory. This approach conceptualises the proof standard as a probabilistic threshold. A person
Hylke Jellema, Johannes Bijlsma
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Journal of Consumer Behaviour, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Online fan communities are important peripheral arenas for sports consumption. However, the psychological and social mechanisms that sustain engagement across these digital spaces are not sufficiently understood. This study thus investigates how Orientation Toward Sporting Events (OSE) drives fan page engagement and, subsequently, satisfaction.
Hamid Shaker +3 more
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