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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Eritrea's Nation and State-building: Re-assessing the impact of 'the struggle' [PDF]
In the April 2003 issue of Atlantic Monthly, Robert Kaplan describes Eritrea as 'newly independent, sleepily calm and remarkably stable'. Electricity is said to fail infrequently, corruption is rare, theft and crime almost unheard of, reflecting, Kaplan ...
Sara Rich Dorman
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Deadly Anchor: Gender Bias under Russian Colonization of Kazakhstan, 1898-1908 [PDF]
We study the impact of a large-scale economic crisis on gender equality, using historical data from Kazakhstan in the late 19th – early 20th century. We focus on sex ratios (number of women per man) in Kazakh nomadic population between 1898 and 1908, in ...
Catherine Guirkinger, Gani Aldashev
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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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PROBLEMS IN THE CONSERVATION OF RAINFORESTS IN CAMEROON [PDF]
, 2006 The economic crisis and structural adjustments from late 1980s to early 1990s accelerated logging operations and agricultural expansion in Cameroon, which resulted in a massive destruction of the tropical forest in the southeastern part of the country ...
ICHIKAWA, Mitsuo
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Confinement and exercise: audiovisual strategies against sedentarism
, 2021 El confinamiento ha dejado al descubierto los riesgos del teletrabajo para la salud: sedentarismo, estrés, depresión, etc. Según numerosos estudios estos problemas pueden mitigarse incorporando actividad física a la rutina diaria. El presente artículo recoge una propuesta creativa de acción basada en el análisis y la experiencia de uso de estrategias ...
Yáñez Martínez, Begoña (1) +1 more
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Tribes, state, and technology adoption in arid land management, Syria: [PDF]
Arid shrub-lands in Syria and elsewhere in West Asia and North Africa are widely thought degraded. Characteristic of these areas is a preponderance of unpalatable shrubs or a lack of overall ground cover with a rise in the associated risks of soil ...
Arab, Georges +4 more
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The effects of lifestyle change on indicators of cardiometabolic health in semi-nomadic pastoralists. [PDF]
Evol Med Public Health, 2023 Swanson ZS +6 more
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STOCHASTIC WEALTH DYNAMICS AND RISK MANAGEMENT AMONG A POOR POPULATION [PDF]
The literature on economic growth and development has focused considerable attention on questions of risk management and the possibility of multiple equilibria associated with poverty traps.
Barrett, Christopher B. +3 more
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Livelihoods and basic service support in the drylands of the Horn of Africa [PDF]
, 2013 This technical brief was commissioned by the Technical Consortium for Building Resilience in the Horn of Africa as one of a series of briefs. The Technical Consortium was established to support the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) and ...
Kerven, C, Morton, John
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