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A house all mine: a study of the Brazilian translation of The House on Mango Street
This investigation, following a qualitative approach through a bibliographical and exploratory-interpretive research, intends to investigate the Brazilian translation of The House on Mango Street, by Mexican American author Sandra Cisneros, translated by
Confessor, Francisco Wildson
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Beyond Bia Hơi? Distinction and Aspiration in Hanoi's Craft Beer Scene
ABSTRACT In this article we examine the emergence of Hanoi's craft beer scene as a window into shifting class identities, aspirational consumption, and local–global negotiations in contemporary Vietnam. We bring together Bourdieu's theorisation of taste as symbolic capital with Appadurai's concept of aspiration to analyse how consumption practices ...
Sarah Turner, Chính Trọng Nguyễn
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Using Local Expert Knowledge to Measure Prices: Evidence From a Survey Experiment in Vietnam
ABSTRACT Many countries lack spatially disaggregated consumer price data needed to estimate real inequality and spatial patterns of poverty. Such data are especially absent in poor countries where weak infrastructure and high transport costs create large price variation over space.
John Gibson, Trinh Le
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The House On Mango Street is a novel by Mexican-American author Sandra Cisneros published in 1984 about a girl who has experienced all the joy, fear, challenge, and exciting transformation into a teenager in hispanic environment in america.
Aprilla, Nathasya Nur
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Iconografía de la literatura étnica americana: trasvase de la novela chicana The House on Mango Street a la serie de televisión [PDF]
The House on Mango Street, el icónico libro de la literatura chicana, se trasvasa a la televisión en un formato de miniserie, después de que la escritora mexicoamericana Sandra Cisneros dio su consentimiento al ver la elevada audiencia de las plataformas
Merino Arribas, Dory +4 more
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The impacts of biological invasions
ABSTRACT The Anthropocene is characterised by a continuous human‐mediated reshuffling of the distributions of species globally. Both intentional and unintentional introductions have resulted in numerous species being translocated beyond their native ranges, often leading to their establishment and subsequent spread – a process referred to as biological
Phillip J. Haubrock +42 more
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Fruits and vegetables (FVs) are essential for meeting daily dietary requirements for good health and quality of life. Food systems transformation on account of increasing population, urbanization, and improved living standards in emerging economies are driving dietary consumer taste and preference among urban dwellers.
Stephen Opoku‐Mensah +2 more
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Patterns of Tree Species Abundance and Diversity on Urban Sidewalks in Macapá, Amapá, Brazil
This study presents the first systematic inventory of street trees in Macapá, Northeastern Brazilian Amazon. Results reveal a dominance of exotic and fruit‐bearing species, low tree density, and a replacement of large canopy trees by smaller ones, indicating potential losses in ecosystem services and the need for more biodiversity‐focused afforestation
Lorena Antunes Jimenez +8 more
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Cannibal Salvage Expenditure: The Subaltern Style of the Urban Peruvian Amazon
ABSTRACT This paper explores the political ecology of subaltern existence at the urban cutting edge of our apocalyptic present, in the case of Iquitos in the Peruvian Amazon. Through an ethnographically surrealist montage of multiple elements across the themes of accumulation, architecture, and art, cannibal salvage expenditure emerges as a subversive ...
Japhy Wilson
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Abstract Over 870 species of scale insects, also called coccoids (infraorder Coccomorpha), have been recorded from Australia. Here, we systematically review literature, databases and collections to provide a revised assessment of non‐native species to Australia, for which we confirm those species that are introduced and extant in Australia (including ...
Mark K. Schutze +6 more
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