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Networks and Knowledge at the Interface Governing the Coast of East Kalimantan [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The thesis explores the actual processes of interaction between global and local actors regarding marine conservation and aquaculture development. The objective of the thesis is to analyse the collaboration, friction, and the cultural-historical, social,
Kusumawati, R. (Rini)
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Farmers' social identity and crop genetic diversity. The G x E x S model [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
A better knowledge of factors organizing crop genetic diversity in situ increases the efficiency of diversity analyses and conservation strategies, and requires collaboration between social and biological disciplines.
Coppens D'Eeckenbrugge, Géo   +1 more
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Structures, actors, and interactions in the analysis of natural resource conflicts

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2018
We propose a research approach to natural resource conflicts that includes different tempos of the developments that lead to a conflict becoming manifest. This approach can help to distinguish dimensions of the conflict and to understand the logic behind
Ton Salman   +2 more
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Anthropology and Open Access [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
While still largely ignored by many anthropologists, open access (OA) has been a confusing and volatile center around which a wide range of contentious debates and vexing leadership dilemmas orbit.
Anderson, Ryan B., Jackson, Jason B.
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Exploring pastoralists’ perceptions of desertification tipping points in Namibia’s communal drylands: An ethnographic case study from Okakarara constituency

open access: yesPastoralism, 2022
Most studies and conceptualizations of tipping points in environmental and climatic systems have been conducted using natural science perspectives and approaches. Socio-scientific contributions—including Anthropology—are scarce.
Diego Augusto Menestrey Schwieger
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Troubling futures: can participatory design research provide a generative anthropology for the 21st century? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This essay argues there is value in considering participatory design as a form of generative anthropology at a time when we recognise that we need not only to understand cultures but to change them towards sustainable living.
Light, Ann
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Culture and IS: National cultural dimensions within IS discipline [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The study of culture is rooted in sociology, social psychology, and anthropology. In particular, cultural anthropology seeks to understand the similarities and differences among groups of people in the contemporary world.
Ali, M, Brooks, L
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Where did anthropology go?: or the need for 'human nature' [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
I was recently asked the question: “Where did anthropology go? ” by a psycholinguist from a famous American university. She was commenting on the fact that she had tried to establish contact with the anthropology department of her institution, hoping ...
Bloch, Maurice
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Anthropology is an odd subject: studying from the outside and from the inside [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This essay considers the contribution that social and cultural anthropology can make to other disciplines. This contribution is of two sorts. First, anthropology offers a glimpse of what society may have been like for most of human history when the state
Bloch, Maurice
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Taghm

open access: yesSwiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology, 2018
This essay is a reflection on the sowing festival taghm which marks the beginning of the agricultural season in Gojal in the Karakorum Mountains of Pakistan. While doing research on the consequences of the Attabad landslide (Sökefeld 2012, 2014), I took
Martin Sökefeld
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