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Reindeer herding statistics in Russia: issues of reliability, interpretation, and political effect

open access: yesPastoralism, 2022
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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Exploring willingness-to-pay for ‘malaria-free’ rice among rural consumers in Rwanda: examining the potential for a local voluntary standard

open access: yesAgricultural and Food Economics, 2023
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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Land, sugar and pastoralism in Ethiopia: Comparing the impact of the Omo-Kuraz sugar projects on local livelihoods and food (in) security in the lower Omo Valley

open access: yesPastoralism, 2022
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”

open access: yesAJIL Unbound, 2021
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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“I Want to Bury It, Will You Join Me?”: The Use of Ritual in Prenatal Loss among Women in Catalonia, Spain in the Early 21st Century

open access: yesReligions, 2022
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

open access: yesSocial Inclusion, 2021
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
doaj   +1 more source

Positive Religious Coping, Cultural Anthropology of Women Rights and Well-Being of Hindu Women in Bali Indonesia: Mediation of Socio-Economic Women Rights

open access: yesJournal of ethnic and cultural studies, 2021
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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Mixedness and Intersectionality: The Use of Relief Maps to Understand the Experiences of Multiracial Women of African Descent in Spain

open access: yesGenealogy, 2023
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

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2014
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]

open access: yesTaḥqīqāt-i Farhangī-i Īrān, 2020
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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