Academic Articles & Research Papers

Why bisexuality is queer

The essay starts with the author’s Positioning, a feminist practice of disclosing her own intellectual and political perspectives – since knowledge is situated, never neutral. In section 1. Coming to terms with bisexuality naming practices,...

Les émeutes urbaines à l’épreuve des situations locales

This article relies on a ground investigation lead in the town and many working class districts of Saint-Denis in France. Recalling the possible different sociological interpretations of the urban riots of November 2005, it proposes first t...

Tending Immanence, Transcending Sectarianism: Plane of Mixed Castes and Religions

The attempt in this article is to extrapolate the notion of hybridity latent in B. R. Ambedkar’s reflections on mixed castes, and outcastes, which subsequently leads to the causal link that he then derives gesticulating to social evils, nam...

Social media connectivity and its effect on job stress among office employees in oil and gas sector Malaysia

The modern era with technological advancement removed physical activities. Most of the people seem busy in their androids. Especially, office workers perform duties online throughout the working hours, along with online work activities empl...

Women’s Water Access Is Associated With Measures of Empowerment and Social Support: A Cross-sectional Study in Sub-Saharan Africa

Water access is an important global issue that impacts health and wellbeing and has been recognized by the United Nations as a significant area for improvement. Despite some global improvements from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) t...

Preface to Special Collection: Reformation, Transformation and Change Agency

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Miscellanea

[Summary generated by ChatGPT] Overview: Babylonia 4/2005 is a miscellanea issue offering a wide range of reflections, research, and classroom practices rather than focusing on a single theme. Key concerns include language policy in Swis...

Deployment-related mental health support: comparative analysis of NATO and allied ISAF partners

Background: For years there has been a tremendous gap in our understanding of the mental health effects of deployment and the efforts by military forces at trying to minimize or mitigate these. Many military forces have recently systematize...

The works of А. N. Radishchev: A study of economic and anthropological interpretation

Introduction. A. N. Radishchev in his writings lays the foundations of a humanistic study of Russian society and an anthropological understanding of economic orders. Most of the works were not published during his lifetime; the scientific ...

Resenha de PINA-CABRAL, João de. 2017. World: an anthropological examination. Chicago: Hau Books. 232pp.

TATA RUANG IBUKOTA TERAKHIR KERAJAAN GALUH (1371 - 1475 M)

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menguak tata ruang Galuh Pakwan sebagai ibukota terakhir Kerajaan Galuh, sejauhmana pola ruang kota tersebut berkaitan dengan nilai-nilai kelokalan sebagaimana tergambar dalam historiografi tradisional. Dalam ...

“Ahogy gondozza, úgy veszi hasznát.” Hagyományos ökológiai tudás és gazdálkodás Gyimesben. Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Land Use in Gyimes (Eastern Carpathians), by Dániel Babai, Ábel Molnár and Zsolt Molnár. Vácrátót, Budapest, 2014, 174 p.

The reviewed book meets the increase expectation of studying traditional ecological knowledge of the Hungarian-speaking Csángó [Tsango] ethnics, comparing it to Western science, and thus bringing further substantial proof of how traditional...

Problemáticas en torno de las ciberculturas. Una reflexión sobre las posibilidades y los límites de la etnografía virtual

Resumen: Este artículo se propone presentar un acercamiento a los debates sobre la aplicación de técnicas propias del método etnográfico al estudio de comunidades que conforman y/o refuerzan lazos sociales en el ciberespacio. La necesidad d...

Un espace public oppositionnel contrarié ? L’institutionnalisation partisane de la rébellion cynégétique en France

The emergence of a movement centred on hunting had something atypical about it on the French political scene in the late 1980’s, although similar phenomena developed at the same moment in Italy, the United Kingdom and Portugal. Initially, t...

Toward a pluralistic conservation science

Abstract This editorial reflects on the history of the conservation movement, the strong continuing influence of its colonial past, and the counter‐emergence of a more pluralistic and respectful worldview. Conservation Letters seeks to supp...

Reconstructing lost memories: Social memory as a foundation for disaster mitigation in Pandai Sikek

This study examines the 2024 flash flood in Pandai Sikek, West Sumatra, through the lens of disaster anthropology and social memory. Based on preliminary research and one week of ethnographic fieldwork, the research reveals that while extre...

A Comprehensive Dataset of Residential Air Conditioning Prevalence in the Continental United States

Abstract This dataset presents the most comprehensive estimate of residential air conditioning (AC) prevalence across the continental United States. Using property-level data for over 103 million housing units from the Dewey database, we im...

Focusing Conservation Efforts on Ecosystem Service Supply May Increase Vulnerability of Socio-Ecological Systems.

Growing concern about the loss of ecosystem services (ES) promotes their spatial representation as a key tool for the internalization of the ES framework into land use policies. Paradoxically, mapping approaches meant to inform policy decis...

Michal Miloslav Hodža: his national-emancipation and political initiatives

The professional ambition of the study is to present the ethnic-emancipatory and national-political initiatives of Michal Miloslav Hodža, one of the representatives of the Slovak national movement in the revolutionary years of 1848-1849, co...

Identifying research particiaption effects through qualitative methods: Feedback from Research Engagement Consultants involved in a pediatric mental health comparative effectiveness trial

Research participation effects (RPEs)—effects due to study design rather than study intervention—have long been acknowledged as a research phenomenon. Identifying RPEs is crucial to understanding the true effects of an intervention and outc...