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“No Sir, She Was Not a Fool in the Field”: Gendered Risks and Sexual Violence in Immersed Cross-Cultural Fieldwork

Authors Karen Ross
Year 2014
Journal Name The Professional Geographer
Citations (WoS) 9
15951 Journal Article

The adaptive nature of culture. A cross-cultural analysis of the returns of Local Environmental Knowledge in three indigenous societies

Description
Researchers debate the role of culture in shaping human adaptive strategy. Some researchers suggest that the behavioural adaptations that explain the success of our species are partially cultural, i.e., cumulative and transmitted by social learning. Others find that cultural knowledge has often resulted in maladaptive practices, loss of technologies, and societies collapse. Despite the importance of the debate, we lack empirical, comparative, research on the mechanisms through which culture might shape human adaptation. I will collect real world data to test a pathway through which cultural knowledge might enhance human adaptive strategy: the individual returns to culturally evolved and environment-specific knowledge. I will direct two post-docs and four PhD students who will collect six sets of comparable panel data in three foraging societies: the Tsimane (Amazon), the Baka (Congo Basin), and the Penan (Borneo). I will use a culturally-specific but cross-culturally comparative method to assess individual local knowledge related to 1) wild edibles; 2) medicine; 3) agriculture; and 4) weather forecast. I will analyze data using instrumental variables to get rigorous estimates of the returns to knowledge on a) own and offsprings health and b) nutritional status, and c) farming and d) foraging productivity. Data would allow me to make generalizations on 1) the returns to local environmental knowledge and 2) the conditions under which locally developed knowledge is adaptive or ceases to be so. The ground-breaking nature of this study lies in its explicit attempt to use empirical data and a cross-cultural framework to provide a first test of the adaptive nature of culturally transmitted information, and to do so by linking cultural knowledge to individual outcomes.
Year 2011
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15952 Project

Supplemental Material for School Ethnic–Racial Socialization and Adolescent Ethnic–Racial Identity

Year 2021
Journal Name Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology
15954 Journal Article

Structure and agency in development-induced forced migration: the case of Brazil’s Belo Monte Dam

Authors Heather Randell
Year 2015
Journal Name Population and Environment
Citations (WoS) 6
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15956 Journal Article

A case for Race scholarship: A research note

Authors Harrison P. Pinckney, Aishia Brown, Aby Sene-Harper, ...
Year 2019
Journal Name JOURNAL OF LEISURE RESEARCH
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15957 Journal Article

RACE, ETHNICITY AND CLASS - AN ANALYSIS OF INTERRELATIONS

Authors TK OOMMEN
Year 1994
Journal Name International Social Science Journal
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15958 Journal Article

Fluid kinship: Race, power, and the hydrosocial order of water flow along New Mexico’s acequias

Authors Elise T Jaramillo
Year 2019
Journal Name Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
15960 Journal Article

Social Status, Race, and the Timing of Marriage in Cuba's First Constitutional Era, 1902-1940

Authors Enid Lynette Logan
Year 2011
Journal Name JOURNAL OF FAMILY HISTORY
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15961 Journal Article

La gestion des frontières en Libye

Authors Delphine PERRIN
Description
(EN)Libya is situated at a cultural and geopolitical crossroads with its roots in the Sahara, Mediterranean, Machrek and Maghreb. Its long borders are the result of a rich and eventful history. Here the Libyan borders are specifically examined from Colonel Kadhafi’s rise to power in 1969. The new head of State was to situate borders at the core of his foreign policy, be that policy pan Arabism or pan Africanism. And despite the failure of attempts at union with neighbours and Tripoli’s isolation from the international community, Kadhafi has continued to call for the overturning of borders and states. At present, the migratory issue, subjected to new diplomatic dilemmas, is juggled together with the political idea of the free movement of persons and the need for control over territorial limits. And though still managed chaotically migration policy is, in the stream of rapprochement with the EU, nevertheless going through a rationalization phase, particularly as far as border management is concerned. (FR)Située à un carrefour géopolitique et culturel, plongeant ses racines dans le Sahara, la Méditerranée, le Machrek et le Maghreb, la Libye est dotée de frontières longues issues d’une histoire riche et mouvementée. Les limites libyennes sont abordées de manière spécifique depuis l’arrivée au pouvoir du Colonel Kadhafi en 1969, qui les place au coeur de sa politique extérieure orientée vers le panarabisme puis le panafricanisme. Malgré l’échec des tentatives d’union avec ses voisins puis l’isolement de Tripoli sur la scène internationale, Kadhafi maintient une diatribe valorisant le dépassement des frontières et des Etats. La question migratoire, confrontée aujourd’hui à de nouveaux enjeux diplomatiques, est soumise à une approche acrobatique tiraillée entre la proclamation de la liberté de circulation des personnes et la recherche d’une maîtrise des limites territoriales. Toujours gérée de manière chaotique, elle semble faire actuellement l’objet d’une certaine rationalisation, notamment dans ses aspects liés à la gestion des frontières, dans le cadre d’un rapprochement avec l’Union européenne.
Year 2009
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15964 Report

Still the Linchpin: Segregation and Stratification in the USA

Authors Douglas S. Massey
Year 2020
Journal Name Race and Social Problems
Citations (WoS) 62
15966 Journal Article

Learning to care: work experiences and identity formation among African immigrant care workers in the US

Authors Fumilayo Showers
Year 2018
Journal Name International Journal of Care and Caring
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15968 Journal Article

International Migration: Demographic and Socioeconomic Consequences in the United Kingdom and Europe

Authors D. A. Coleman
Year 1995
Journal Name International Migration Review
15969 Journal Article

Constructing a Scale of Female Contributions to Agriculture: Methods for Imputing Missing Data

Authors Michael L. Burton
Year 1996
Journal Name Cross-Cultural Research
15971 Journal Article

The Party's Primary Preferences: Race, Gender, and Party Support of Congressional Primary Candidates

Authors Hans J.G. Hassell, Neil Visalvanich
Year 2019
Journal Name American Journal of Political Science
15972 Journal Article

Banal race-thinking: Ties of blood, Canadian history textbooks and ethnic nationalism

Authors K Montgomery
Year 2005
Journal Name PAEDAGOGICA HISTORICA
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15973 Journal Article

In search of community: A quest for well-being among Tamil refugees in northern Norway

Authors AS Gronseth
Year 2001
Journal Name MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY QUARTERLY
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15978 Journal Article

DON COSSACKS IN THE CAUCASIAN WAR: PECULIARITIES OF MILITARY SERVICE AND CONTEMPORARY ASSESSMENT

Authors Amiran Urushadze
Year 2020
Journal Name QUAESTIO ROSSICA
Citations (WoS) 2
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15983 Journal Article

Strategies of Invisibilization: How Ethiopia's Resettlement Programme Hides the Poorest of the Poor

Authors L. Hammond
Year 2008
Journal Name JOURNAL OF REFUGEE STUDIES
15984 Journal Article

Disentangling longitudinal trajectories of racial discrimination and critical action among Black and Latinx college students: What role do peers play?

Authors Andres Pinedo, Matthew A. Diemer, Elan C. Hope, ...
Year 2021
Journal Name Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology
Citations (WoS) 22
15985 Journal Article

The resettlement of British Columbia: Essays on colonialism and geographical change

Authors TA Rumney
Year 2001
Journal Name Journal of Historical Geography
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15988 Journal Article

The resettlement of ex‐Indian army personnel in Canada, 1919–39

Authors Kent Fedorowich
Year 1996
Journal Name Immigrants & Minorities
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15989 Journal Article

From neustadt to Alaska, 1939: A failed attempt of community resettlement

Authors Gerald S. Berman
Year 1987
Journal Name Immigrants & Minorities
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15990 Journal Article

New beginnings …

Authors Lourdes Torres
Year 2012
Journal Name LATINO STUDIES
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15991 Journal Article

Fertility of the jews

Authors Calvin Goldscheider
Year 1967
Journal Name Demography
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15994 Journal Article

Enslaving History: Narratives on Local Whiteness in a Black Atlantic Port

Authors Jacqueline Nassy Brown
Year 2000
Journal Name American Ethnologist
Citations (WoS) 8
15998 Journal Article

CRIME AND THE MULTIETHNIC SOCIETY - A VIEW FROM EUROPE

Authors F BOVENKERK
Year 1993
Journal Name Crime, Law and Social Change
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15999 Journal Article
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