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Reindeer herding statistics in Russia: issues of reliability, interpretation, and political effect
Official reindeer herding statistics are an invaluable source of data for both social and natural scientists wishing to understand and model ecological systems in the Arctic.
Kirill V. Istomin+2 more
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Rice cultivation in Sub-Saharan Africa produces a negative externality in the form of higher malaria risk. Larval source management, such as the application of bio-larvicides in rice fields, is available to mitigate the problem.
Alexis Rulisa+2 more
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This study assesses the impact of a large, state-sponsored sugar plantation scheme on agro-pastoralists’ livelihoods and local land use change in southern Ethiopia, specifically in the lower Omo Valley.
Adane Kebede Gebeyehu, Jon Abbink
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After International Law: Anthropology Beyond the “Age of Human Rights”
This essay examines the ways in which anthropologists have tracked the rise and fall of international law after the end of the Cold War. It argues that anthropological research has made important contributions to the wider understanding of international ...
Mark Goodale
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Prenatal loss, such as miscarriage and stillbirth, may be understood as the confluence of birth and death. The most significant of life’s transitions, these events are rarely if ever expected to coincide.
Lynne McIntyre+2 more
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“She’s Surrounded by Loved Ones, but Feeling Alone”: A Relational Approach to Loneliness
Loneliness poses one of the significant problems of our modern post‐industrial societies. Current research on loneliness has been developed primarily by psychology, biomedicine, nursing, and other health‐related disciplines, showing a surprising number ...
Hugo Valenzuela-Garcia+2 more
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International human rights organizations are working hard to protect women's cultural, social, and political rights by enforcing laws and amendments to safeguard women's well-being in society.
I. N. Segara
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This article analyzes the experiences of multiracial women of African descent in Catalonia, Spain—looking at their identity processes, social relations, experiences of racialization and discrimination, and strategies of resistance—using a novel ...
Teresa Habimana-Jordana+1 more
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Culture, Nature, and the Valuation of Ecosystem Services in Northern Namibia
Defining culture as shared knowledge, values, and practices, we introduce an anthropological concept of culture to the ecosystem-service debate. In doing so, we shift the focus from an analysis of culture as a residual category including recreational and
Michael Schnegg+2 more
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Post-Saddam Shiism and the end of the holy geography regret syndrome in Shiism [PDF]
Religious systems spread across geographical contexts and thus form their own historical and geographical formations. The existing understanding and analysis of Shiite formulation is mainly concentrated on its time and historical developments.
J. Rahmani
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