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Paul E. Griffiths, Karola C. Stotz • Cambridge University Press eBooks
(2013)
In the past century, nearly all of the biological sciences have been directly affected by discoveries and developments in genetics, a fast-evolving subject with important theoretical dimensions. In this rich and accessible book, Paul Griffi...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511744082
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...
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DOI: 10.4136/ambi-agua.1329
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...
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DOI: 10.14198/INTURI.22122
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...
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DOI: 10.1186/s13021-025-00312-5
(1992)
Abstract This collection of essays on anthropological approaches to art and aesthetics is the first in its field to be published for some time. In recent years a number of new galleries of non-Western art have been opened, many exhibitions ...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198277330.001.0001
Gustavo Lins Ribeiro • Annual Review of Anthropology
(2014)
To present the world anthropologies project (WA), this article explores the existence of three kinds of anthropological cosmopolitanisms and cosmopolitics: imperial, liberal, and radical. Imperial cosmopolitics reproduces the hegemony of th...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102313-030139
Alice E. Schlegel, Herbert Barry • Choice Reviews Online
(1991)
The anthropological study of adolescence -- An ethological approach to human social organization -- Looking at adolescent socialization across cultures -- Adolescents and their families -- Peer groups and community participation -- Marriage...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.29-2185
Paul Hockings, Marcus Banks, Howard Morphy • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
(1998)
For many years the field of visual anthropology has been dominated by a focus on the production and study of ethnographic film, leading many anthropologists to dismiss it as of little importance to their work. This book shows that the scope...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/3034522
Sarah Pink • Routledge eBooks
(2006)
From an eminent author in the field, The Future of Visual Anthropology develops a new approach to visual anthropology and presents a groundbreaking examination of developments within the field and the way forward for the subdiscipline in th...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203003596
• Choice Reviews Online
(2003)
Preface Introduction: Who Is Alma? Globalizing Anthropology Slouching Toward Globalization The Anthropology of Globalization Development, Devolution, and Discourse Constructing Identity Globalization and Migration Migration: People on the M...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.40-4085
(1995)
Abstract Landscape has long had a submerged presence within anthropology, both as a framing device which informs the way the anthropologist brings his or her study into “view”, and as the meaning imputed by local people to their cultural an...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198278801.001.0001
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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102214-014127
Edmundo R. Leach • Routledge eBooks
(2021)
The essential core of social anthropology is fieldwork–the understanding of the way of life of a single particular people. This fieldwork is an extremely personal traumatic kind of experience and the personal involvement of the anthropologi...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003136460-1
• Culture and language use
(2024)
This collection presents new research on key topics in anthropological linguistics, with a focus on African languages. While Africanist linguists have long been concerned with sociocultural aspects of language structure and use, no comprehe...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/clu.23
Sarah Pink • Social Anthropology
(2010)
A focus on the senses has become a key theme in contemporary anthropology. In this short piece I suggest that this focus can be understood in terms of two strands, the original anthropology of the senses on the one hand, and the newer senso...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8676.2010.00119_1.x
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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754x-2010-045
Arthur Kleinman • The British Journal of Psychiatry
(1987)
To illustrate the contribution anthropology can make to cross-cultural and international research in psychiatry, four questions have been put to the cross-cultural research literature and discussed from an anthropological point of view: 'To...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.151.4.447
Simon W Hillson • Cambridge University Press eBooks
(1996)
Teeth are one of the best sources of evidence for both identification and studies of demography, biological relationships and health in ancient human communities. This text introduces the complex biology of teeth and provides a practical gu...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139170697
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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203036327
Henrika Kuklick • Choice Reviews Online
(2008)
List of Illustrations. Notes on Contributors. Introduction: Henrika Kuklick (University of Pennsylvania). 1. Anthropology before Anthropology: Harry Liebersohn (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign). Major Traditions . 2. North American...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.46-0387