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International Journal of the Commons, 2016 In recent decades, water management in Namibia has profoundly changed. Beginning in the 1990s the Namibian state has incrementally turned ownership of and the responsibility for its rural water supply to local user groups.
Michael Schnegg, Theresa Linke
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Prostitution and Deservingness in Times of Pandemic: State (Non) Protection of Sex Workers in Spain
Social Sciences, 2022 During the COVID-19 health crisis, the Spanish Government launched a series of urgent measures to protect the population from its economic effects. At first, it seemed that sex workers would have access to this protection, given that, technically, their ...
Estefanía Acién González +1 more
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Social and Cultural Anthropology [PDF]
, 2020 AbstractThis chapter looks at the interpretation of ritual in the Hebrew Bible from the perspective of anthropology, which has had a close symbiotic relationship with biblical studies since the emergence of the comparative study of human culture in the 19th century.
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Societies, 2016 Plastic beads have recently become of importance in the lives of women with disabilities in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo).
Jori De Coster +2 more
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INTRODUCTION TO ANTHROPOLOGY [PDF]
, 2013 Anthropology is the study of mankind (anthropos). Etymologically, anthropology comes from the word anthropos meaning man and logos meaning knowledge. Anthropology looks at humans as something complex in terms of physical, emotional, social, and cultural ...
Aspari Ismail, Reviewed by: +1 more
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"Ontological Choreography" as an Ethnographic Tool
Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology, 2015 In this article the term "ontological choreography", coined by Charis Thompson, is used as a heuristic analytical device to grasp the different realities of reproductive technologies.
Willemijn de Jong +3 more
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Anatomical Sciences Education, Volume 16, Issue 1, Page 128-147, January/February 2023., 2023 Abstract Uncertainty tolerance, individuals' perceptions/responses to uncertain stimuli, is increasingly recognized as critical to effective healthcare practice. While the Covid‐19 pandemic generated collective uncertainty, healthcare‐related uncertainty is omnipresent.
Michelle D. Lazarus +3 more
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Altruism in death: Attitudes to body and organ donation in Australian students
Anatomical Sciences Education, Volume 16, Issue 1, Page 27-46, January/February 2023., 2023 Abstract Health education, research, and training rely on the altruistic act of body donation for the supply of cadavers. Organ transplantation and research rely on donated organs. Supply of both is limited, with further restrictions in Australia due to requirements for a next‐of‐kin agreement to donation, irrespective of the deceased's pre‐death ...
Rebekah A. Jenkin +2 more
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Review of: "Social-Cultural Anthropology in the Oldest Department of Anthropology in India: Writing History or the Suppression of Records?" [PDF]
, 2023 Soni Wadhwa
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Energy and Economy: Recognizing High-Energy Modernity as a Historical Period [PDF]
, 2016 This introduction to Economic Anthropology’s special issue on “Energy and Economy” argues that we might find inspiration for a much more engaged and public anthropology in an unlikely place—19th century evolutionist thought.
Berman +28 more
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