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The appearance and significance of Rastafari cultural aspects in South Africa
Contree, 2014 This article explores the presence and importance of Rastafari cultural features in South Africa. These cultural aspects include symbols and language that have become popular in South Africa from 1997 when the movement was formalised.1 The symbols ...
Midas Chawane
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 269-292, March 2026.Hair is an integral part of the skin's interface and has sensory capacity. It actively contributes to processes of bodily materialization and facilitates transactional exchange with other social actors and environments, particularly regarding energies and vibrations that can be perceived as subtle matter.
Sinah Theres Kloß
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(Re)Pairing With Water: Climate Finance and the Prefigurative Positions of an Ocean Counter‐Politics
Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.ABSTRACT This paper takes up recent calls to work ‘for and against climate capitalism’ to foreground the possibility of strategic engagements within capitalist structures that could destabilise its long‐standing exploitative dynamics. In doing so, it locates prefigurative positions of an ocean counter‐politics generated through novel blue financial ...
Carlo Ceglia
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The Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography, 2015 This paper explores the relationship between Rastafari herbalists and tuberculosis in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Marginalized and impoverished communities are the worst affected by the TB epidemic, and government-funded biomedical ...
Gilad Levanon
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Learning not to help in Nanjing and London–Cultural elaboration of empathy in childhood
Ethos, Volume 54, Issue 1, March 2026.Abstract Helping is one of the key features of human sociality. The ethnographic record is pervaded by accounts of people doing things with and for each other from an early age. Developmental psychology has shown that by the time children begin to walk and talk, they already display helpful behavior in many situations.
Anni Kajanus
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Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, Volume 117, Issue 1, Page 44-64, February 2026.Abstract In India and Bangladesh cities, footpaths play a crucial role in enhancing the mobility of older adults. To age in place, the design and maintenance of footpaths become pivotal for older men to access services, opportunities and goods in neighbourhoods and beyond.
Ajay Bailey +2 more
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Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Volume 143, Issue 1, Page 13-23, January 2026.ABSTRACT Missing pedigrees are a common problem in most populations. Animals with unknown ancestors are usually treated as founders; however, this can underestimate inbreeding, not properly account for different base populations, and bias breeding values.
Larissa Temp +7 more
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Molecular Ecology, Volume 35, Issue 1, January 2026.ABSTRACT The heavy reliance on pyrethroid‐based interventions has largely driven insecticide resistance in malaria vectors, accelerating the spread of resistant strains, including resistant Anopheles funestus strains. The efficacy of insecticide‐based interventions, especially insecticide‐treated nets (ITNs), the cornerstone of malaria control and ...
Talal Al‐Yazeedi +6 more
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Food Risk Assess Europe, Volume 4, Issue 1, January 2026.Summary Ochratoxin A (OTA) is a secondary metabolite primarily produced by moulds of the genera Aspergillus and Penicillium. It is most commonly found in foods of plant origin, such as cereals, wine, coffee, spices and various types of fruits and vegetables, green tea, pistachios, figs, raisins, grapes, wine and chestnuts, as well as beer, coffee ...
Sanja Miloš +5 more
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“I CAME TO TAKE MY PLACE”: Contemporary discourses of Rastafari in Jamaican popular culture
Revista Brasileira do Caribe, 2014 Este artigo explora o lugar das representações do rastafarismo na cultura da música popular jamaicana do século 21, como um reflexo de um movimento discursivo para fora dos discursos tradicionais do rastafarismo, em direção a uma convergência com os ...
Donna P. Hope Marquis
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