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, 2018 The Miskito live along the eastern coasts of Nicaragua and Honduras, in an area traditionally known as the Miskito coast. The Miskito "developed as a result of European-African-Native American contact and admixture" (Helms, 2011), which began in 1700.
Pitek, Emily
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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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Miskito : A Stress Language? [PDF]
Miskito : A Stress Language?This paper is the fifth report on the durational ratio of long vowels against short vowels which are in phonological oppositions in five languages respectively. Although the number of participants reported in the five papers is limited, only six in each languages, not about all participants actually recorded, a complete order of durational rations of ...
SATO, Tsutomu
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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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Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2021, Issue 1, 2021., 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.
Fabien Schultz +4 more
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A Quiet Revolution: Land justice for Miskito Indigenous peoples in Honduras [PDF]
, 2020 This case study tells the story of the Miskito Indigenous people’s struggle in Honduras to regain land taken from them during the colonial period which has benefitted around 90,000 people. The eventual restoration and legal protection of
Cordova Arauz, Diana
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Test of Precipitation, Compensation and Monday Effect Hypotheses on Group Hare Trapping Effort
Wildlife Biology, Volume 21, Issue 6, Page 312-317, December 2015., 2015 Live trapping in combination with translocation of wild animals is an important tool in wildlife management, but drivers of human trapping activity are poorly understood. Here we test three hypotheses that have been proposed to describe and explain temporal variation in group hunting‐trapping effort.
Jan Hušek +2 more
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