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Beyond Climate and Grazing: Impact of Herder Mobility on Steppe Vegetation
Applied Vegetation Science, Volume 29, Issue 2, April/June 2026.Our study based on vegetation and herder household surveys revealed that, besides macroclimate, herder household mobility, and human disturbance also strongly control plant species composition. Higher seasonal moving frequency is positively related to higher plant richness, diversity, and the richness of palatable species.
Yun Jäschke +15 more
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EtnoAntropologiaBosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), a key transit country along the Balkan Route, is used as a case study to assess how systematic pushbacks at the European Union’s external borders drive cyclical returns, which force mobile populations to establish a ...
Zaira Tiziana Lofranco
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RiCognizioni, 2014 The Ḥwēṭāt Tribe Dialect from Wādi Ramm - Linguistic and Sociolinguistic Aspects of a Bedouin Dialect in Jordan. The purpose of this paper is to investigate on the effects of sedentarization and language change on the dialect of the Ḥwēṭāt tribe in ...
Federica Gattelli
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Comparative Southeast European Studies, 2023 This article examines the Pamiri Tajik population in China at the southwesternmost corner of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Prefecture and their struggles during numerous local natural and human-made disasters over the past decade.
Phuong Nguyen Tram Thi
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue S1, Page 28-48, March 2026.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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Mobility and Sedentarization among the Philippine Agta [PDF]
, 2017 This article provides an ethnography of Agta mobility, based on fieldwork in the northern Philippines conducted over the past decade. The Agta are a population of about 10,000 people, living in small settlements distributed along the coasts and in the ...
Minter, Tessa, Minter, T., 7051
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 50, Issue 2, Page 449-465, March 2026.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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Secuencias y consecuencias de algunos procesos de neolitización en los Andes
Estudios Atacameños, 2006 Se describen los principales procesos constitutivos de la "neolitización" andina. El Area Central Andina constituye la primera de Sudamérica donde se ha observado una sedentarización de los grupos humanos previamente a la adopción (o invención) de la ...
Daniéle Lavallée
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Bulletin de l’Association de Géographes Français, 2017 After a brief presentation of the main geographical and social characteristics of nomadism in Iran, the article examines the evolution of the treatment of nomadic tribes by the Iranian state, first as partners, under control, in the Qajar dynasty, and ...
Jean-Pierre Digard
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Reproductive trade-offs in extant hunter-gatherers suggest adaptive mechanism for the Neolithic expansion [PDF]
, 2016 The Neolithic demographic transition remains a paradox, because it is associated with both higher rates of population growth and increased morbidity and mortality rates.
Smith, D +20 more
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