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Population, Space and Place, Volume 32, Issue 2, March 2026.ABSTRACT Russia's Maternal Capital policy initially increased total fertility rates, stimulating much discussion on whether it would result in more births or only earlier births. Effects of that policy upon different ethnic groups within Russia, however, have not received systematic attention.
Konstantin Kazenin +2 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 111-131, March 2026.Classic anthropological accounts of miniature objects have focused on their spatial and aesthetic dimensions, with more recent work addressing their communicative potential, connections with play, and role in protecting threatened cultural knowledge. This article analyses responses to a miniature landscape model of yhyakh, a festival celebrated in the ...
Alison K. Brown
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Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.ABSTRACT This paper proposes Virtual Reality (VR) and 360 film as promising fieldwork tools for addressing problematic temporalities in ethnographic museums and for collaborating with communities of origin. Focusing on the Maria Czaplicka Siberian collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, we examine how previous methods of display marginalized the
Anya Gleizer +2 more
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Reaching for Ancestral Heritage: Sakha Collections in the Museums of the World
Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.ABSTRACT This paper is devoted to the collections of old Sakha objects produced by Indigenous craftsmen in the north of the Russian Empire and now located in many museums around the world. For several centuries, objects representing Sakha material culture were taken away from their place of origin by explorers, scholars, collectors, and missionaries ...
Tatiana Argounova‐Low
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Climate factors drive the local adaptation of Old World cattle
iMeta, Volume 5, Issue 1, February 2026.Climate adaptation genomics of cattle. We comparatively analyzed genomic data from 85 Old World cattle breeds/populations of Eurasia and Africa to identify genetic factors associated with climate factors. Environmental genome‐wide association studies revealed 3165 single‐nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) with strong correlations between climate factors ...
Luyang Sun +32 more
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Women's reproductive health in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) [PDF]
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2014 According to the Russian National Population Census from October 9, 2002, the resident population of Yakutia was 949,300. Of the total population, 365,200 were of Yakut ethnicity. This means that Yakutia failed to retain its status as a region of more than 1 million residents. In the previous census, from 1989, the population was 1,094,100.
Douglas, Natalia I +5 more
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American Journal of Human Biology, Volume 37, Issue 12, December 2025.ABSTRACT Objectives In the Arctic, climate change increases extreme weather events and unpredictability, affects food chains, increases transportational needs, and decreases physical activity (PA) and estimated total energy expenditure (eTEE). Thus, understanding how climate change affects inhabitants of different environments is increasingly important.
Ville Stenbäck +4 more
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A System Reanalysis of the Current Greenhouse Gases Budget of Terrestrial Ecosystems in Russia
Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Volume 39, Issue 10, October 2025.Abstract This study synthesizes the budgets of three greenhouse gases (GHG, namely CO2, CH4, N2O) for Russia over two decades (2000–2009 and 2010–2019) using bottom‐up and top‐down approaches, as part of the Regional Carbon Cycle Assessment and Processes, Phase 2 (RECCAP2).
Anatoly Shvidenko +24 more
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Khomus in the historical memory of Yakutia
Человек и культура, 2023 The formation of a new historical memory with the transformation of commemorative practices in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) is primarily aimed at rethinking old practices and introducing new memory mechanisms. This process began at the end of the twentieth century throughout the entire territory of the Russian Federation.
Anatolii Ignatevich Gogolev +2 more
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Systematic Entomology, Volume 50, Issue 4, Page 794-812, October 2025.Using a large‐scale phylogenomic dataset, we provide the robustly supported phylogeny of the wider Tenebrionoid clade, with Lymexyloidea sister to the mordelloid clade (Mordellidae and Ripiphoridae) + remaining Tenebrionoidea. Lymexyloidea contained two newly circumscribed families, each of them with two subfamilies, and both Mordellidae and ...
Jan Batelka +2 more
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