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Housing the homeless: How revisiting the 1940s assists the struggle
Abstract A major obstacle in the political work of housing the homeless is convincing voters and lawmakers that housing is a right and should be available to all without conditions. This paper seeks to assist that project by showing that the tension between rights and conditions has a history. It focusses on the pivotal 1940s, which saw the first major
Anne O'Brien
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Morphologies in‐between: The impact of the first steps on the human talus
Abstract Objective The development of bipedalism is a very complex activity that contributes to shaping the anatomy of the foot. The talus, which starts ossifying in utero, may account for the developing stages from the late gestational phase onwards.
Carla Figus+21 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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Faith in African Lived Christianity [PDF]
Faith in African Lived Christianity brings together anthropology and theology in the study of how faith shapes the understanding of social life in Africa.
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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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In this article we focus on individuals’ structural embeddedness in transnational social fields (TSFs) and examine how this is related to patterns of international mobility.
Renáta Hosnedlová+3 more
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Background Evidence suggests a vicious cycle between rice cultivation and malaria control in Rwanda. Rice fields offer an attractive breeding ground for malaria vectors, which increases the disease burden in rice farming communities, and, consequently ...
Alexis Rulisa+3 more
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Although research with Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) has become an established practice, the process and politics of gaining access to such organizations often remains implicit in methodological literature on qualitative research.
Tara Saharan+2 more
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The Sustainability Framework in Anthropology:Applications to Accounting Ethics [PDF]
The anthropology literature has examined sustainability within the broader context of ecological environment, and business and society. Anthropology has addressed how cultural and social forces have evolved in ecological and land ethics in accounting ...
Sisaye, Seleshi
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Current research directions in nutrional anthropology [PDF]
Research directions in social science on food and nuiritionrelated issues can be classified into three broad divisions: nutritional anthropology, food systems research andfoodways studies (the anthropology offood).
Pelto, Gretel H.
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