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Activity Budget and Behavioral Patterns of Himalayan Musk Deer in Gaurishankar Conservation Area, Nepal [PDF]
The Himalayan Musk Deer (HMD, Moschus leucogaster) is an endangered species that faces threats from habitat loss, illegal hunting, and human activities. Using 25 months of camera trap data (October 2018–March 2023), this study investigated the activity patterns and behavior of HMD in the Lapchi Valley of Nepal's Gaurishankar Conservation Area ...
Bijay Bashyal +4 more
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A Cultural Politics of Mobilities and Post-Colonial Heritage: A Critical Analysis of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (DHR) [PDF]
The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (DHR) had been introduced in 1881 in the hills of Darjeeling as a vehicle for economic and social development in Colonial India.
Roy, Sujama
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Reconstructing the exhumation history of the Lesser Himalaya, Northern, India, from a multi-technique provenance study of the foreland basin Siwalik Group. [PDF]
This research presents the first multitechnique provenance study of the Siwalik Group in the Himalayan foreland basin in India, using the Jawalamukhi section, magnetostratigraphically dated at 13–5 Ma.
Pringle, Malcolm +7 more
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The liberal treatment of difference : an untimely meditation on culture and civilization [PDF]
John Stuart Mill’s liberal vision included a notion of “civil advancement” whereby the free expression of a diversity of opinion would result not only in an initial collision of difference but also in an eventual consolidation as truth.
Rapport, Nigel Julian
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Anthropology Has One Job (On Genocide in the United States)
In an introductory anthropology course, the instructor might provide a definition of anthropology similar to this: “Anthropology is the most scientific of the humanities, and it is the most humanistic of the sciences.” If something like that is said, it ...
Lowry, David Shane
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Introduction to special section 1 : Anthropology and character [PDF]
This introductory essay seeks to reintroduce character to anthropological inquiry. Although it has long been out of favour due to its historical associations with accounts that attempt to describe national or ethnic character, we argue that a return of ...
Reed, Adam, Bialecki, Jon
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How can we rethink anthropology beyond itself? In this book, twenty-one artists, anthropologists, and curators grapple with how anthropology has been formulated, thought, and practised ‘elsewhere’ and ‘otherwise’.
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TRISTAN LOLOUM, SIMONE ABRAM, and NATHALIE ORTAR, eds. 2021. Ethnographies of Power: A Political Anthropology of Energy. EASA Series 42. New York, N.Y: Berghahn Books, pp.
Groupp, Emilia
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Over the past decades, infectious disease epidemics have come to increasingly pose major global health challenges to humanity. The Anthropology of Epidemics approaches epidemics as total social phenomena: processes and events which encompass and exercise
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Space, territory, and a stupa in Eastern Nepal: exploring Himalayan themes and traces of Bon [PDF]
Recent research has adduced growing evidence for a distinct stratum of cultural practices that underlies various "tribal" traditions in the Himalayan region and that also seems to be characteristic of various local versions of the Bon tradition.
Bickel, Balthasar
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