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Conserving wildlife through demand reduction and supply alternatives: Two experiments in restaurants in Kinshasa

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract High aggregate levels of wildlife consumption in cities in Central Africa highlight the need for solutions that balance wildlife protection, local livelihoods and the relational values between people and nature. This study explores the impacts of demand‐ and supply‐side interventions on wild meat consumption through two randomized control ...
Abdoulaye Cisse   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Visiting a Hindu Temple: A Description of a Subjective Experience and Some Preliminary Interpretations

open access: yesCiencia Ergo Sum, 2006
Académicos de diferentes disciplinas coinciden en que la cultura es un fenómeno complejo y su comprensión requiere de un análisis detallado. La complejidad inherente al estudio de patrones culturales y otras estructuras sociales no se deriva de su ...
J. Ramón Gil-García   +1 more
doaj  

Nutritional properties, traditional uses and potential new applications for the sotol plant (Asparagaceae, Convallarioideae): A review

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Sotol (Dasylirion spp.) is a resilient desert plant that sustains ecosystems, cultures and livelihoods in Chihuahua Desert. Our review highlights its nutritional properties, traditional uses and potential new applications in food, pharmaceuticals, renewable energy and water remediation. By synthesizing evidence across disciplines, we show how sotol can
Dámaris Leopoldina Ojeda Barrios   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Looking backward to move forward: Enhancing metadata in scientific collections through interdisciplinary collaboration

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Early modern herbaria house important and useful data on historic environments. However, their contents are often inhospitable to scientific use. Despite this challenge, once their contents have been deciphered, such specimens present novel research opportunities.
Madeline E. White, Stephen A. Harris
wiley   +1 more source

La religiosidad indígena en el obispado de Oaxaca durante la Colonia y sus proyecciones actuales

open access: yesAnales de Antropología, 2010
El proceso de evangelización suponía la eliminación de las tradiciones religiosas nativas especialmente en el sacrificio humano y la idolatría. Procesos inquisitorios demuestran mucho acerca de las prácticas religiosas en el periodo colonial.
Guido Münch Galindo
doaj   +1 more source

Proyecto Kelsos: Big Data en el análisis del discurso, modelado y predicción de patrones sociales, culturales y demográficos

open access: yes, 2022
Asistimos a una época en la que la globalización ha penetrado en el día a día del ser humano. Las redes y medios de comunicación, elementos característicos surgidos de forma espectacular a final del siglo pasado, han sido los responsables de la rotura violenta de las fronteras sociales, idiomáticas y culturales dentro de la sociedad mundial.
openaire   +2 more sources

Using art history to explore society's changing connections with agriculture

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Food insecurity is a looming challenge that especially affects those least fortunate. Consumer food choices have a substantial impact on the sustainability of current food systems. Here, we use art as a lens through which to consider our contemporary and historical relationship to one of the world's most crucial crops, the potato, in the context of the
Edward F. Hill‐King   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Integrating multimodal data and machine learning for entrepreneurship research

open access: yesStrategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Extant research in neuroscience suggests that human perception is multimodal in nature—we model the world integrating diverse data sources such as sound, images, taste, and smell. Working in a dynamic environment, entrepreneurs are expected to draw on multimodal inputs in their decision making.
Yash Raj Shrestha, Vivianna Fang He
wiley   +1 more source

Situaciones de transculturación a través de expresiones artísticas en concierto barroco de Alejo Carpentier

open access: yesRevista de Antropología y Sociología Virajes, 2007
El contacto directo y continuo de grupos culturales diferentes plantea un diálogo complejo en el que la adopción e integración de elementos de otra cultura se ve condicionada por los patrones culturales del  grupo.
Ernesto Martín Ghioldi
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Patrones de medición (Jaaniapala ayaawata) en prácticas culturales de la Nación Wayúu de la Guajira colombiana

open access: yes, 2021
El artículo tiene como objetivo describir los patrones de medida de longitud que utilizan la Nación Wayúu de la Guajira colombiana en algunas de sus prácticas culturales cotidianas. Este proceso es guiado por el modelo metodológico comparativo en etnomatemática.
Uribe, David, Rojas, Osvaldo
openaire   +1 more source

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