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Using art history to explore society's changing connections with agriculture

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Food insecurity is a looming challenge that especially affects those least fortunate. Consumer food choices have a substantial impact on the sustainability of current food systems. Here, we use art as a lens through which to consider our contemporary and historical relationship to one of the world's most crucial crops, the potato, in the context of the
Edward F. Hill‐King   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Identification of phytoplasma strains associated with witches’ broom and yellowing in Ziziphus jujube nurseries in Iran

open access: yesPhytopathologia Mediterranea, 2020
Phytoplasma symptoms, including proliferation, witches’ broom, leaf rolling and yellowing, were observed in jujube (Ziziphus jujube) nurseries in the East of Iran.
Ghobad BABAEI   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sorciérologie et (de la) hantise : de Cathy à PJ

open access: yesMiranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone, 2023
I have always considered Kate Bush my Hecate and PJ Harvey my Circea..., fantasized, that is. From one to the other, it is magicians and witches that I would like to focus on here, or rather their becoming, in a "research experiment" that takes these ...
Emma Viguier
doaj   +1 more source

Gender, Social Reproduction and the Construction of Capabilities for Social Sustainability of Agriculture: A Relational Approach

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Farmers' capabilities, a core component of social sustainability, have been largely neglected in sustainable agriculture discourse. Using a relational approach to capabilities and autonomy, this study explores how women farmers translate the opportunity of agricultural innovation into their valued outcomes, and which factors shape their ...
Dawn D. Cheong, Bettina Bock
wiley   +1 more source

From talking tools to metahumans: social interaction, semiotic skill, and the authority of AI chatbots Des outils parlants aux métahumains : interactions sociales, compétences sémiotiques et autorité des robots conversationnels

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
What does it take to turn a tool into a talking tool and that into an ultimate authority? Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in its diverse forms, such as large language models (LLMs), is celebrated as a useful tool. But LLM‐based conversational agents, or chatbots, the software applications through which ordinary users are likely to engage ...
Webb Keane
wiley   +1 more source

Parallelle verdener. Magisk og rituel praksis blandt moderne hekse i Danmark.

open access: yesKulturstudier, 2012
Parallel Worlds - Magical Practice Among Modern Witches in Denmark The purpose of the present article is to make a contribution to an understanding of what it means to be a witch in Denmark today.
Anne Mia Steno
doaj   +3 more sources

“Are Ye Fantastical?”: Shakespeare’s Weird W[omen] in the 21st-Century Indian Adaptations Maqbool, Mandaar and Joji

open access: yesHumanities
Shakespeare’s Macbeth has traveled a long way from its original milieu. This paper takes three major 21st-century Indian adaptions of Macbeth as its primary texts. The city of Mumbai in the west in Maqbool, an imaginary coastal Bengal village in the east
Subarna Mondal, Anindya Sen
doaj   +1 more source

From Nouns and Adjectives to Verbs: Base Effects on the Grammatical Behaviour of Denominal Verbs in Ancient Greek1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper investigates the role of semantic features of noun and adjective bases in determining the grammatical behaviour of Ancient Greek denominal and deadjectival verbs in *‐ye/o‐. The paper adopts a lexicalist framework (Rappaport Hovav & Levin 1998) and examines how the event schema, actionality, telicity and voice of derived verbs are ...
Carolina Marescotti
wiley   +1 more source

Anomalies conjonctives : une réflexion sur les loups garous

open access: yesMethodos, 2019
In a trial which took place in Livonia (today Latvia) at the end of XVIIth century, a man known as “old Thiess” confessed to be a werewolf. His anomalous confessions have been interpreted in different ways, raising the problem of the ambitions, and ...
Carlo Ginzburg
doaj   +1 more source

A 16SrII-D Phytoplasma strain associated with Tomato Witches\'- Broom in Bushehr province, Iran

open access: yesJournal of Crop Protection, 2014
In 2010- 2012 surveys, witches'- boom disease of tomato was observed in Borazjan area (Bushehr province, Iran). Agent of the disease was transmitted from tomato to tomato and eggplant by grafting and to Madagascar periwinkle via dodder inoculation ...
Elham Salehi   +3 more
doaj  

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