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Past, present and future of local crop evolution
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Promoting agrobiodiversity is a promising strategy for mitigating the negative effects of climate change on global food security. We highlight the central role evolutionary processes play in harnessing the potential of local crops by integrating genomics, archaeology, ethnobotany and traditional ecological knowledge (TEK).
Nataly Allasi Canales +6 more
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Differential effects of agricultural expansion on wild bee taxonomic and functional diversity
Functional Ecology, EarlyView.Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Pollinators, especially bees, are in global decline, threatening biodiversity and food security. While intensive agriculture is a primary driver, its impact on bee functional diversity—particularly in the diverse Mediterranean region—remains understudied.
Manuel López‐Aliste +9 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
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Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng‐nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo‐Siberian Language
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract The Xiōng‐nú were a tribal confederation who dominated Inner Asia from the third century BC to the second century AD. Xiōng‐nú descendants later constituted the ethnic core of the European Huns. It has been argued that the Xiōng‐nú spoke an Iranian, Turkic, Mongolic or Yeniseian language, but the linguistic affiliation of the Xiōng‐nú and the ...
Svenja Bonmann, Simon Fries
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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract Past studies of prostitution have mislabelled Mexican women as prostitutes when it is not clear that they had engaged in transactional sex. Here, we examine the history of prostitution between 1750 and 1865, detailing both legal frameworks and judicial evidence to address the reasons for the inflation of prostitution's presence in Mexico ...
Nora E. Jaffary, Luis Londoño
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Origen y situación de la pequeña posesión campesina en el Valle del Cauca, siglo XIX
Historia y Espacio, 1984 Ensayo relacionando a la historia económica colonial: La historia económica del sector rural ha sido monopolizada por la gran hacienda; el interés por estudiar y centrar los es tudios rurales en torno a esta unidad económica se deben sin duda a la ...
Luis Valdivia Rojas
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Where's the beef? The feminisation of weight‐loss dieting in Britain and Scandinavia c.1890–1925
Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract Representations of the slim body have traditionally been at the centre of scholarly interest in dieting culture, whereas food often remains a shadowy presence compared with more persistent themes of body discipline, slenderness and anti‐fat messages.
Emma Hilborn
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Sentencia y penitencia: caminos hacia la reconciliación en la sociedad colonial
Fronteras de la Historia, 1997 En el siglo XVI Felipe II creó el Tribunal de la Inquisición de Lima cuya jurisdicción era continental. Tal amplitud jurisdiccional hizo que fuera incapaz de atender debidamente todos los casos de su competencia.
Luis Enrique Rodríguez Baquero
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