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Integrative Conservation, EarlyView.This study examines the Mawphlang Sacred Forest in Meghalaya as a culturally embedded model of community‐led conservation. Drawing on qualitative fieldwork, it highlights how spiritual reverence, sacred taboos, and ancestral authority shape ecological stewardship, complementing formal governance systems.
Mrinal Saikia
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Negative Externalities of Modern Development: The Continuing Relevance of Gopinath Mohanty’s Paraja
Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry, 2019 The land for an indigenous community is a significant part of their collective consciousness. However, the economic model of growth that India adopted post-independence did not accommodate the idea of tribal territorial sovereignty.
Sarbani Mohapatra
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Mens belief in sexual myths and factors effecting these myths [PDF]
Düşünen Adam Psikiyatri ve Nörolojik Bilimler Dergisi, 2011 Objective: Sexual myths are often exaggerated, incorrect and unscientific ideas on sexuality that people believe to be true. The aim of this study is to determine the acceptance rate of common sexual myths and related factors among men.
A. Nilüfer Özaydın +2 more
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Journal of International Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Field visits are common phenomena with non‐governmental organisations in Uganda. During these visits, Ugandan national staff guide visitors on series of meetings and interactions in the field. Following an actor‐oriented approach and drawing on ethnographic data on 14 field visits, this paper understands the field visit as a microcosm for the ...
Caspar Edward Swinkels
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Polycythemia vera: myths, mechanisms, and management.
Blood, 2002 J. Spivak
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American Myths, Legends, and Tall Tales: An Encyclopedia of American Folklore
, 2016 Folklore has been a part of American culture for as long as humans have inhabited North America, and increasingly formed an intrinsic part of American culture as diverse peoples from Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania arrived.
Dattolo, Danielle R. +6 more
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Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The lack of a common variable for comparison has been a major obstacle to the development of Comparative Public Administration (CPA). State autonomy enables an integrative contextualization approach, allowing both the analysis of contextual individual country experiences and the generation of generalized comparable knowledge.
Wilson Wong
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Managing wildfire risk requires consideration of complex and uncertain scientific evidence as well as trade‐offs between different values and goals. Conflicting perspectives on what values and goals are most important, what ought to be done and what trade‐offs are acceptable complicate those decisions.
Pele J. Cannon, Sarah Clement
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The Myth of Palestine and Exile in Darwish's Poem "Tadihiqu Bina Al-Ardh": Barthes' Semiotic Studies
UktubThis article discusses the poem Tadhīqu Binā al-Arḍ by Mahmoud Darwish This poem describes Palestinian myths and life in dreams. Its meaning consists of three layers: direct meaning (denotative), figurative meaning (connotative), and mythological meaning.
Ahmad Rezikusumah +3 more
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