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

Journal 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

Unravelling sources of fecal pollution in oligotrophic mountain waters: Integrating Escherichia coli enumeration, microbial source tracking, and eDNA analysis. [PDF]

Environ Monit Assess
Maes S, Andersson-Li M, Sjöstedt J, Hildahl J, Yu D, Neumann N, Odlare M, Jonsson A.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Against interpretive exclusivism* Contre l'exclusivisme interprétatif

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Interpretive exclusivism is the dogma that we can only understand cultural systems by interpreting them, thereby ruling out causal explanations of cultural phenomena using scientific methods, for example based on measurement, comparison, and experiment.
Harvey Whitehouse
wiley   +1 more source

The effect of macroscopic herd inputs on individual investment behaviour. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Nielsen KR, Kaiser M, Glückstad FK.
europepmc   +1 more source

Agropastoral possibilism and the trajectorial affordances of Danish inland heaths: a study of deep‐time entrapment Possibilisme agropastoral et affordances des trajectoires dans les landes de l'arrière‐pays danois : une étude des entraves dans le passé lointain

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
History does not unfold along a single trajectory, and yet the socioecological configuration of landscapes may narrow the directions history can take. This article develops a framework for assessing the directionality of history in a (pre)historic heath landscape in Denmark.
Zachary Caple, Mette Løvschal
wiley   +1 more source

GPS-Based Hidden Markov Models to Document Pastoral Mobility in the Sahel. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel)
Scriban A, Nabeneza S, Cornelis D, Delay E, Vayssières J, Cesaro JD, Salgado P.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The value of transformation: Agricultural labour and shifting bodies in the Bolivian highlands La valeur de la transformation : main‐d’œuvre agricole et corps changeants dans les hautes terres de Bolivie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article explores transformation as a way of being in the rural Andes. It traces how transformation connects, and produces value within, multiple different spheres of life, specifically agricultural labour, personhood, identity, and space and movement.
Miranda Sheild Johansson
wiley   +1 more source

Deadly Injuries Sustained From a Hyena Attack: The Importance of Timely Diagnosis and Treatment - A Case Report. [PDF]

Open Access Emerg Med
Ahmed AA, Ibrahim IG, Abdullahi IM, Abdi AA, Omar MD, Mohamed AA.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Change the world farm by farm: The moral care of audit and the paradox of animal welfare inspection in Europe Changer le monde, ferme par ferme : le soin moral de l'audit et le paradoxe des contrôles du bien‐être animal en Europe

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In European animal welfare inspection on farms and at slaughter, inspectors encounter moral challenges that reveal the paradox at the heart of animal welfare. Against the harsh realities of industrial agriculture, not only are their idealized notions of animal wellbeing unrealizable, but inspectors are instrumental in perpetuating standards of welfare ...
Eimear Mc Loughlin
wiley   +1 more source

Mesoscale effects of trader learning behaviors in financial markets: A multi-agent reinforcement learning study. [PDF]

PLoS One
Lussange J, Vrizzi S, Palminteri S, Gutkin B.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source