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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Overexploitation of wildlife is pervasive in many tropical regions, and in addition to being a significant conservation and sustainability concern, it has received global attention given discussions over the origins of zoonotic disease outbreaks.
Franklin T. Simo +8 more
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What's in a name? The use of birds in Aotearoa New Zealand business names
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract The use of animal symbolism or names is a common practice in advertising and branding. Businesses use animals to project attributes of their brand and thus contribute to public familiarity with the species. In New Zealand, birds are arguably the most prominent animals in national conservation priorities and citizen science activities.
Jan‐Hendrik Dudenhöffer +10 more
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Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Neoliberal market‐oriented approaches to solving social and economic problems defined as “poverty” have received much attention in anthropology and allied disciplines such as sociology and geography and among development studies scholars and practitioners.
Olubukola Olayiwola
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WITCHCRAFT IN COURTROOMS. SOME REFLECTION ON POST-COLONIAL AFRICA
Гуманитарные и юридические исследования, 2021 Today witchcraft and occult practices are significant part of social interactions, economic and political processes in Africa. The theoretical basis of the given article are the ideas of modern ethnologists and anthropologists, which consider magic and ...
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Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.Infectious diseases are commonly cited as significant contributors to wildlife population declines. It is, therefore, important to investigate the extent to which tools designed to mitigate the effects of infectious diseases explain wildlife responses to habitat management.
Jacob Goldman +8 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Abstract Peer influence in adolescence and early adulthood is critical to the formation of beliefs about appropriate behaviour for each gender. Complicating matters, recent studies suggest that men overestimate peer support for inequitable gender norms. Combined with social conformity, this susceptibility to ‘norm misperception’ may represent a barrier
Alexander M. Ishungisa +5 more
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Witchery as Tribal Primary Ethos: Negotiations and Resistance in Select Literary Representations
IAFOR Journal of Arts & HumanitiesThe belief in the existence of both benevolent and malevolent spirits among tribal communities in India has led to the emergence of numerous narratives surrounding witchcraft.
Saru Sachdeva, Rekha Rani
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The Deconversion of Harriet Martineau: An Emotional History of Unbelief
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Conceptualising the ‘Victorian crisis of faith’ as a phenomenon fuelled by wider intellectual forces can only take us so far in our understanding of it. The loss of faith of many contemporaries did not merely entail an intellectual volte‐face, but also an affective impact. Scholarly accounts have been primarily written by privileging the role of ideas,
PETROS SPANOU
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Čarovništvo – diskurz ali praksa?
Studia Mythologica Slavica, 2020 This paper challenges a generally accepted view that witchcraft is always a matter of discourse, and the witch a fictitious person who is ascribed bewitchment but, in fact, performed none. It discusses the hints that point to bewitchments being, at least
Mirjam Mencej
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, 2018 Faith-based abuse relating to the practice of witchcraft and spirit possession is a controversial and not well-understood form of child abuse. From its ‘discovery’ in the UK as a cause of abuse, serious injury and death for children, in 2000 to the ...
S. Briggs, A. Whittaker
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