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VertigO, 2013 This article treats the processes of the sedentarization of the Fulani livestock in zone of savannah of the Chad as the means of adaptation to the rainfall more and more unpredictable regimes. From interviews with 60 domestic units of the cattle breeders
Pabamé Sougnabé
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THE IMPACT OF CASH AND COMMODITIZATION ON THE BAKA HUNTER-GATHERER SOCIETY IN SOUTHEASTERN CAMEROON [PDF]
, 2006 The Baka in southeastern Cameroon are one of the "Pygmy" hunter-gatherer groups living in the tropical rainforest of central Africa. Since the 1950s, they have gradually adopted cultivation and sedentarization, as well as the use of money and ...
KITANISHI, Koichi
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Chronic Stress and Severe Water Insecurity During the Historic 2022 Drought in Northern Kenya Were Associated With Inflammation Among Daasanach Seminomadic Pastoralists. [PDF]
Am J Hum BiolABSTRACT Objective Extreme climatic events, like droughts, are increasing in frequency and severity. Droughts disrupt community livelihoods and resources with serious implications for human biology. This study investigated how chronic stress, measured by fingernail cortisol concentration (FCC), and water insecurity status were predictive of C‐reactive ...
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SEDENTARISM, AGGREGATION, AND AGRICULTURE IN ANATOLIA, ÇATALHÖYÜK
Pro Edu. International Journal of Educational Sciences, 2023 The first question is about the language or languages spoken in Anatolia before the arrival of the Indo-Europeans who will only come and mostly go through two or three millennia later when Çatalhöyük will no longer be an active center. Agriculture and herding are very important if not dominant in this period when the population stops roaming around and
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redistribution of pains and gains [PDF]
, 2010 Nigeria’s peasant cattle production is based in its semi-arid north. The area’s aridity becomes a major problem to cattle in the dry season. Herds are protected by bringing them down to the southern parts that are usually wetter at such times ...
Azuwike, Okechi Dominic, Enwerem, Evan
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.The Shuar of Ecuadorian Amazonia once pursued eminence through warfare and vision quests. While vision quests have been retained, today – settled in villages – they seek eminence through economic success and political leadership. This article examines an apparent paradox: whilst envy suspicions pervade public life, they legitimize rather than level ...
Natalia Buitron, Grégory Deshoullière
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Tibetan Plateau Grassland Protection: Tibetan Herders\u27 Ecological Conception Versus State Policies [PDF]
, 2011 The establishment of the “Three Rivers’ Sources Nature Reserve” in 2002 - one of China’s largest ecological protection projects - has had a major impact on the lives of Tibetan nomadic herders.
Cencetti, Elisa
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
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Contested waterscapes in the Greater Amboseli Ecosystem, Kenya: socio-hydrology for the benefit of conservationists, peasants, and pastoralists [PDF]
, 2020 We focus on the appropriation, conflicting uses and meanings of water in a semi-arid environment marked by resource spatiotemporal variability. The Amboseli ecosystem, inhabited by semi-nomadic Maasai pastoralists and many wildlife species of the East ...
Bostvironnois, Arthur +9 more
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article we apply Wacquant's conceptualization of the ghetto to an analysis of interviews conducted with Roma people living in the state‐enforced camps of Turin, Italy. We illustrate how the elements characterizing a ghetto according to Wacquant (i.e.
Vincenzo Romania, Tommaso Bertazzo
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