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Technical and Social Perspectives on the Architectural Development of a Bronze Age Settlement System [PDF]
, 2016 In the second half of the second millennium BC, many areas of Western Eurasia witnessed the return to a settled lifestyle after a long epoch of mobile life.
Reinhold, Sabine
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Sedentarity and Colorectal Cancer in Morocco
Journal of Global Oncology, 2018 Background: The colorectal cancer (CRC) ranks third among the most nationally prevalent cancers. Several factors including lifestyle modifications are interacting for the emergency of this disease. Morocco has experienced an epidemiologic transition accompanied by the adoption of an unhealthy lifestyle and the physical activity and the sedentary ...
Z. Hatime +9 more
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Common animals: sedentary pastoralism and the emergence of the commons as an institution
Frontiers in Human DynamicsAnimal husbandry was of fundamental consequence in the planning and development of larger and more permanent communities. Pastoralism is often assumed to be highly mobile when considering social institutions and political formations, despite the ...
Katherine Kanne +2 more
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In-migrants and exclusion in east African rangelands: access, tenure and conflict [PDF]
, 2004 East African rangelands have a long history of population mobility linked to competition over key resources, negotiated access, and outright conflict.
Coast, E., Homewood, K., Thompson, M.
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 789-807, September 2025.This article proposes that stigmas connected to social categories of exclusion prevalent during life extend into dealings with the dead, here referred to as ‘necro‐ostracism’, in the context of death and burial of Muslim nomadic populations in urban Afghanistan. Based on qualitative fieldwork carried out in Kabul, Herat, and Mazar‐e Sharif, it explores
Annika Schmeding
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VertigOAgropastoralism is undergoing profound changes. Land and human pressure on the environment, increasing conflicts between farmers and herders, and terrorist threats have led to numerous agropastoral policy reforms in favour of sedentarization in Benin. Do
Brice Bio Boné +4 more
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On cars, TVs, and other alibis to globalize sedentarism [PDF]
European Heart Journal, 2012 This editorial refers to ‘Physical activity levels, ownership of goods promoting sedentary behaviour and risk of myocardial infarction: results of the INTERHEART study’, by C. Held et al. , doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehr432 ‘Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and ...
van Craenenbroeck, Emeline +1 more
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Can index insurance alter pastoralists' labor allocation decisions? Evidence from East Africa
Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, Volume 4, Issue 2, Page 206-222, June 2025.Abstract Social protection programs designed to reduce the impact of economic, climatic, and social shocks on vulnerable livelihoods are becoming more popular. This study explores the causal effects of index‐based livestock insurance (IBLI) programs that have been implemented among pastoralists in Ethiopia and Kenya.
Tekalign Gutu Sakketa, Lukas Kornher
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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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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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