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How Does Cultural and Colonial Heritage Affect Optimal Branding Strategies? Evidence From the Rice Sector in Senegal

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Africa's cultural and colonial heritage has profoundly segmented rice markets. Whereas in ancient centers of rice domestication, consumers maintained preferences for local rice consistent with their cultural heritage, preferences have shifted toward imported Asian rice in coastal areas around seaports, due to prior exposure to colonial import ...
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
wiley   +1 more source

Interrupting the conversation: Donald MacKinnon, wartime tutor of Anscombe, Midgley, Murdoch and Foot

Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 56, Issue 6, Page 838-850, December 2022., 2022
Abstract Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley, Iris Murdoch and Philippa Foot all studied at Oxford University during the Second World War. One of their wartime tutors was Donald MacKinnon. This paper gives a broad overview of MacKinnon's philosophical outlook as it was developing at this time. Four talks from between 1938 and 1941—‘And the Son of Man That
Clare Mac Cumhaill, Rachael Wiseman
wiley   +1 more source

Researching Pre-1808 Polish-Jewish Ancestral Roots: The KUMEC and KRELL Case Studies

Genealogy
Tracing the ancestral roots of Polish Jews before the introduction of metrical data in 1808 represents a unique and complex challenge for genealogists and historians alike.
Hanoch Daniel Wagner
doaj   +1 more source

Mediation, Genealogy, and (the) Enlightenment/s [PDF]

, 2011
This is a preprint (author's original) version of the article published in Eighteenth Century Studies 45(1):127-39. The final version of the article can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2011.0042 (login required to access content).
Schmidt, James
core   +2 more sources

Fun with genealogy [PDF]

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1997
This commentary is about the article by Feng, Cho, and Doolittle (1), a paper that addresses genealogical relationships between the three domains of organisms. First, however, I would like to be as forthcoming as possible on issues of nepotism and reveal another genealogy—that relating this paper’s senior author and me. Russell F.
openaire   +3 more sources

Staging an Experience of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Heirloom Rice in the Philippines

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
wiley   +1 more source

Scenes of Domestic Citizenship in Negro Home Demonstration Work 1921–1938

Gender &History, Volume 34, Issue 3, Page 664-672, October 2022., 2022
Abstract Reading two United States Department of Agriculture propaganda films, Helping the Negro Farmer (1921) and The Negro Farmer (1939) along with Maryland narrative reports, this article considers the evolution of state‐sanctioned discourse around domestic science, race and diet. The films rely on themes that construct the Negro home as a foil to a
Jessica Kenyatta Walker
wiley   +1 more source

On the number of genealogical ancestors tracing to the source groups of an admixed population [PDF]

arXiv, 2022
In genetically admixed populations, admixed individuals possess ancestry from multiple source groups. Studies of human genetic admixture frequently estimate ancestry components corresponding to fractions of individual genomes that trace to specific ancestral populations.
arxiv  

Four genealogies of postsecularity [PDF]

, 2018
This publication is part of Beaumont, Justin (ed.) (2018). The Routledge Handbook of Postsecularity, New York: Routledge. Fundings For this publication, Kristina Stoeckl acknowledges funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (POSEC, grant agreement no.
Stoeckl, Kristina, Uzlaner, Dmitry
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Considering the animating ethos of designing digital first unemployment services: On the motivation of others

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the animating ethos of digital unemployment services. Unlike human‐to‐human services, where the intention of policy is normally mediated by professionals, digital services are fully designed in the policy imagination. As a result, it is a pressing issue to understand the ethos that animates their development.
Ray Griffin, Antoinette Jordan, Aisling Tuite   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source