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Calidad de las aguas meteóricas en la ciudad de Itajubá, Minas Gerais, Brasil

Herlane Costa Calheiros, Mônica Regina Gomes, Percy Máximo Anco Estrella • Revista Ambiente & Água (2014)

El objetivo de este estudio fue evaluar la calidad del agua meteórica en la ciudad de Itajubá, ubicado en la parte sur de Minas Gerais, Brasil. Para ello, se realizaron la colecta y análisis de la calidad de las muestras de agua de lluvia d...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.4136/ambi-agua.1329

Hegemonía hotelera. El rol del Estado en la reactivación de la tasa de beneficio hotelera tras la crisis de 2008

Macià Blázquez Salom, Ivan Murray Mas, Antonio Alberto Artigues • Investigaciones Turísticas (2023)

Se analiza el ejercicio de la hegemonía empresarial hotelera para reactivar su tasa de beneficios tras la crisis de 2008. El Estado –la administración autonómica- apoyó normativamente obras y reformas hoteleras antes prohibidas, abandonando...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.14198/INTURI.22122

Long-term farmland abandonments remarkably increased the phytolith carbon sequestration in soil

Linjiao Wang, Xiang Gao, Maoyin Sheng • Carbon Balance and Management (2025)

Abstract Background Phytolith-occluded organic carbon (PhytOC) is an important mechanism of long-term stable carbon sinks in terrestrial ecosystems. Farmland abandonment is a widespread land use change in the process of urbanization and ind...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s13021-025-00312-5

Hobbes and Kant: Materialism and Rhetoric

Gonzalo Bustamante Kuschel • Problemos (2024)

This article examines the subtle nuances of Hobbes’s and Kant’s perspectives on rhetoric and materialism, contextualising them within the broader framework of political philosophy. Despite both philosophers being critics of rhetoric, their ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.15388/Problemos.2024.106.4

The Rise of Anthropological Theory

Peter Loïzos, Marvin Harris • British Journal of Sociology (1970)

With the agreement of author and publisher, pre-publication copies of The Rise of Anthropological Theory (New York: Crowell, 1968) were sent for review to 25 scholars. Of these, the followingf responded in time for their reviews to be inclu...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/588281

The Anthropology of Christianity

Jon Bialecki, Naomi Haynes, Joel Robbins • Religion Compass (2008)

Abstract This article surveys the literature that constitutes the newly emergent anthropology of Christianity. Arguing that the development of this sub‐discipline was impeded until recently by anthropology's theoretical framing and empirica...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-8171.2008.00116.x

The Anthropology of Online Communities

Samuel M. Wilson, Leighton C. Peterson • Annual Review of Anthropology (2002)

▪ Abstract Information and communication technologies based on the Internet have enabled the emergence of new sorts of communities and communicative practices—phenomena worthy of the attention of anthropological researchers. Despite early a...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.anthro.31.040402.085436

Phenomenological Approaches in Anthropology

Robert Desjarlais, C. Jason Throop • Annual Review of Anthropology (2010)

This review explores the most significant dimensions and findings of phenomenological approaches in anthropology. We spell out the motives and implications inherent in such approaches, chronicle their historical dimensions and precursors, a...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-092010-153345

THE CHRISTIANITY OF ANTHROPOLOGY*

Fenella Cannell • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (2005)

This article critiques the way in which the discipline of anthropology has construed Christianity, arguing that too narrow and ascetic a model of Christianity has become standard and questioning the claims of the ‘secular’ social sciences t...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2005.00239.x

The Anthropology of Food and Eating

Sidney W. Mintz, Christine M. Du Bois • Annual Review of Anthropology (2002)

▪ Abstract The study of food and eating has a long history in anthropology, beginning in the nineteenth century with Garrick Mallery and William Robertson Smith. This review notes landmark studies prior to the 1980s, sketching the history o...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.anthro.32.032702.131011

Animals and Anthropology

Molly H. Mullin • Society and Animals (2002)

Anthropology encompasses four distinct subdisciplines: biological anthropology, social anthropology (known as “cultural anthropology” in North America), archaeology, and linguistics. Beyond these basic four Želds, one could further divide a...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/156853002320936854

The Anthropology of Emotions

Catherine A. Lutz, Geoffrey M. White • Annual Review of Anthropology (1986)

Interest in has burgeoned in the last decade, not only in anthropology, but in psychology (e.g. 5, 77,113, 141), sociology (e.g. 72, 81), philosophy (e.g. 153, 177), history (e.g. 180), and feminist studies (e.g. 176). A concern to understa...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.an.15.100186.002201

Anthropology of Ontologies

Eduardo O. Kohn • Annual Review of Anthropology (2015)

The turn to ontology, often associated with the recent works of Philippe Descola, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, and Bruno Latour, but evident in many other places as well, is, in Elizabeth Povinelli's formulation, “symptomatic” and “diagnosti...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102214-014127

Anthropology, by Comparison

• Routledge eBooks (2002)

Comparison has long been the backbone of the discipline of anthropology. But recent developments in anthropology, including critical self-reflection and new case studies sited in a globalized world, have pushed comparative work aside. For t...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203463901

The Anthropology of Christianity

Bialecki, Jon, Naomi Haynes, Robins, Joel • Duke University Press eBooks (2006)

This article surveys the literature that constitutes the newly emergent anthropology of Christianity. Arguing that the development of this sub-discipline was impeded until recently by anthropology's theoretical framing and empirical interes...

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822388159

ZENO AND THE ART OF ANTHROPOLOGY

Eduardo Viveiros de Castro • Common Knowledge (2011)

The article assumes that the expression “comparative relativism”—the title of the Common Knowledge symposium in which the essay appears—is neither tautological nor oxymoronic. Rather, the author construes the term as an apt synthetic charac...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754x-2010-045

Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology

Tim Ingold • Routledge eBooks (2002)

* Provides a comprehensive survey of contemporary thinking in biological, social and cultural anthropology and establishes the interconnections between these three fields.* Useful cross-references within the text, with full biographical ref...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203036327