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Understanding rivers and their social relations: A critical step to advance environmental water management. [PDF]
WIREs Water, 2019 For many human populations around the world, river flows are linked to livelihood, identity, sense of place, religious beliefs and ceremonies, language systems, or educational practices. These embedded, reciprocal, and constitutive relationships between humans and rivers remain poorly understood, but can be critically important to assessment and ...
Anderson EP +21 more
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A Bibliographic Assessment Using the Degrees of Publication Method: Medicinal Plants from the Rural Greater Mpigi Region (Uganda). [PDF]
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med, 2021 In ethnopharmacological research, many field assessment tools exist. Yet, these miss that critical point of how to really determine which species merit the costly lab studies, e.g., evaluation of traditional use via pharmacological assays and isolation of bioactive secondary metabolites.
Schultz F, Anywar G, Quave CL, Garbe LA.
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Navigating power in conservation
Conservation Science and Practice, Volume 5, Issue 3, March 2023., 2023 This paper offers an overview of core power theories that are relevant to conservation research and practice and provides examples of how power operates in conservation drawing on literature and three supporting case studies. Finally, the paper then provides six guiding principles for better power analysis and uptake in conservation research and ...
Ross T. Shackleton +10 more
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Posthumanism and the role of orality and literacy in language ideologies in Belize
World Englishes, Volume 42, Issue 1, Page 150-168, March 2023., 2023 Abstract This article discusses language ideological data from interviews and group discussions conducted in a village in Belize. Speakers here perceive English as a formal prestige language and link this to the fact that it appears in written form and tangible materiality – that is, in the form of visual symbols in text, and in objects like grammar ...
Britta Schneider
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Are fathers a good substitute for mothers? Paternal care and growth rates in Shodagor children
Developmental Psychobiology, Volume 63, Issue 6, September 2021., 2021 Abstract Biparental care is a hallmark of human social organization, though paternal investment varies between and within societies. The facultative nature of paternal care in humans suggests males should invest when their care improves child survival and/or quality, though testing this prediction can be challenging because of the difficulties of ...
K. E. Starkweather +5 more
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The Depositional Record, Volume 7, Issue 2, Page 176-199, June 2021., 2021 A geomorphometric analysis of Holocene Halimeda bioherms in the northern Great Barrier Reef was undertaken by combining high‐resolution 3D LiDAR bathymetry and 2D sub‐bottom profile datasets. The three bioherm morphotypes (termed annulate, reticulate and undulate) vary significantly in their surface topography, internal structure, volume, slope ...
Mardi A. McNeil +4 more
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Journal of Political Ecology, 1998 A political ecological research orientation elucidates the effects of Miskito wage work in the Honduran lobster export industry. Miskito wage labor conserves local rain forest by displacing agricultural deforestation pressure into wages.
David J. Dodds
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Cartography, territory, property: postcolonial reflections on indigenous counter-mapping in Nicaragua and Belize [PDF]
, 2009 The attention given to indigenous peoples' use of maps to make claims to land and rights of self-government raises the question: what exactly it is that these maps do?
Bryan, Joe, Wainwright, Joel
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"El tigre y la paloma": Una entrevista con Brooklyn Rivera
Wani, 2013 En Managua, el 23 de agosto del 2009, la antropóloga Laura Herlihy entrevistó al líder de Yatama y diputado en la asamblea nacional de Nicaragua, Brooklyn Rivera.
Laura Hobson de Herlihy
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Food sharing networks in lowland Nicaragua:An application of the social relations model to count data [PDF]
, 2014 Previous research on food sharing in small-scale societies provides support for multiple evolutionary hypotheses, but evolutionary anthropologists have devoted relatively little attention to the broader relational context of inter-household transfers of ...
Koster, Jeremy M., Leckie, George
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