Academic Articles & Research Papers

IWORMLF: Improved Invasive Weed Optimization With Random Mutation and Lévy Flight for Beam Pattern Optimizations of Linear and Circular Antenna Arrays

The beam pattern synthesis of antenna arrays is one of the most significant optimization problems in the electromagnetics community, and it affects the performance of wireless communication systems. In this article, we formulate the beam pa...

Mnemonic Topographies in Green Border Film: Migration, Memory, Trauma and Cultural Identity

Agnieszka Holland’s Green Border (2023) theorizes contemporary migration as a cultural formation inscribed within regimes of memory, identity, and border aesthetics, articulating displacement as a constitutive condition of Europe’s collecti...

The development of creative imagination and symbolic thinking through thematic social role-play activity.

Decoding inequalities in the journalistic field: A theoretical approach to how symbolic violence shapes journalistic career trajectories.

Asymmetric dual-process mechanisms under symbolic exposure: music-induced destination perception.

The Anthropology of Food and Eating

▪ 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...

The anthropology of experience

Fourteen authors, including many of the best-known scholars in the field, explore how people actually experience their culture and how those experiences are expressed in forms as varied as narrative, literary work, theater, carnival, ritual...

Public Policy Analysis: An Introduction

Preface to the Third Edition CHAPTER 1: The Process of Policy Analysis * The Process of Policy Inquiry * Multidisciplinary Policy Analysis* Policy-Relevant Information* Policy-Informational Transformations* Policy-Analytic Methods* Three Ca...

Urban Fear, Criminality and the Erosion of Intangible Cultural Access in Machala: A Critical Qualitative Content Analysis of Ecuadorian National Digital Press

This article examines how the Ecuadorian national digital press has represented the relationship between criminal violence, declining mobility, tourism contraction, and the erosion of intangible cultural access in Machala, Puerto Bolívar, a...

From the Statistics of Data to the Statistics of Knowledge

Increasingly, datasets are so large they must be summarized in some fashion so that the resulting summary dataset is of a more manageable size, while still retaining as much knowledge inherent to the entire dataset as possible. One conseque...

Cultural Turns/Geographical Turns: Perspectives on Cultural Geography

List of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgements Foreword Introduction: Dead or Alive? PART I - CULTURAL TURNS, GEOGRAPHICAL TURNS Introduction The Twistings and Turnings of Geography and Anthropology in winds of Millennium Transition ...

Conceptualizing Culture: Possibilities for Political Science

This essay makes a case for an anthropological conceptualization of culture as “semiotic practices” and demonstrates how it adds value to political analyses. “Semiotic practices” refers to the processes of meaning-making in which agents' pr...

La nuit à Maboneng (Johannesburg, Afrique du Sud) : un front urbain entre sécurisation, marchandisation et contestation

Simultaneously feared and desired, night is a polemic field in Johannesburg in general and in Maboneng in particular. In this space which is undergoing a process of gentrification in the lower-class neighbourhood of Jeppestown, the nocturna...

Conspicuous Consumption in Emerging Markets: The Case of Starbucks in Colombia as a Global and Sustainable Brand

Conspicuous consumption symbolizes ostentatious and material consumption through the purchase of products and services with a higher economic value and that allows their consumers to excel socially. However, conspicuous consumption often do...

Strategic decoupling through legitimacy: the sustainability-innovation gap in the food processing sector and its health implications

Abstract Background Environmental and public health impacts are critical in the food processing industry. To demonstrate responsiveness to stakeholder expectations, firms foreground sustainability reporting through frameworks such as Enviro...

Identifying and prioritizing strategies for creating and impacting brand identity using the FCM method

AbstractThe aim of the present study is to identify and analyze the strategies for creating and consequences of brand identification using the FCM method. The present study is applicable in terms of its purpose, and exploratory in terms of ...

Environmental Disclosure Versus Environmental Performance: Implications for Corporate Financial Performance and Risk

Environmental considerations shape corporate strategy, risk management, and firm valuation. Yet, empirical evidence on the links between environmental performance, environmental disclosures and corporate financial performance is mixed and o...

CERAMIKA QUICHUA I JEJ ROLA NAD RZEKĄ NAPO W EKWADORZE

Quichua Indians living in Amazon part of Ecuador are the biggest group of indigenous people in this country. This article is based on the research conducted in the Napo Quichua group, that lives along the Napo River in the Oriente province....

Symbolic and Structural Archaeology

This volume presents a searching critique of the more traditional archaeological methodologies and interpretation strategies and lays down a firm philosophical and theoretical basis for symbolist and structuralist studies in archaeology. A ...

El género de la deuda. Circulación de la deuda social entre mujeres de Ciudad Juárez, México

The intention of this paper is to analyze the social debt contracted by women in southeastern Ciudad Juarez (Mexico), within the theoretical framework of feminist economic anthropology based on ethnographic data collected there during 2012 ...