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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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822388159
Arturo Escobar • American Ethnologist
(1991)
Since the end of World War II, relations between industrialized nations and Third World countries have been greatly determined and mediated by the discourses and practices of “development.” Although anthropologists in general have not prob‐...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/ae.1991.18.4.02a00020
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
David Graeber • eVols (University of Hawaii)
(2004)
Everywhere anarchism is on the upswing as a political philosophy—everywhere, that is, except the academy. Anarchists repeatedly appeal to anthropologists for ideas about how society might be reorganized on a more egalitarian, less alienatin...
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Tim Cain • Education Sciences
(2019)
A range of studies has identified barriers to evidence-informed practice in schools, many of which recommend school-university links as a means for removing these barriers. In England, public policy also promotes school-university partnersh...
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DOI: 10.3390/educsci9020097
Niina E Kaartinen, Heli Tapanainen, Mirkka Maukonen, Essi Päivärinta et al. • Public Health Nutrition
(2023)
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The shift towards plant-based diets with less meat and more legumes is a global target and requires an understanding of the consequences of dietary adequacy on the population level. Our aim was to model the impact of pa...
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DOI: 10.1017/S1368980022002440
Wardah Naim, Trevor Tombe • The School of Public Policy Publications
(2013)
If anything is to blame for a higher dollar having negative effects on the Central Canadian manufacturing sector, you are not likely to find it in any “Dutch Disease” supposedly caused by Alberta’s oil sands. Contrary to popular belief, the...
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Marcela Brac • Cuadernos de Antropología Social
(2011)
En los últimos años, la provincia de Santa Fe ha impulsado una política destinada a la creación de nuevos destinos turísticos, con el propósito de contribuir al desarrollo de las economías locales. Villa Guillermina, situada en la Cuña Bosc...
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Alessandro Connor Crocetti, Troy Walker, Fiona Mitchell, Simone Sherriff et al. • Globalization and Health
(2024)
Abstract Background The commercial determinants of health is a rapidly expanding field of research; however Indigenous perspectives remain notably underrepresented. For Indigenous peoples the intersection of globalisation, colonialism and c...
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DOI: 10.1186/s12992-024-01038-8
William N. Dunn (2007)
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...
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John Keown • Cambridge University Press eBooks
(2002)
Whether the law should permit voluntary euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide is one of the most vital questions facing all modern societies. Internationally, the main obstacle to legalisation has proved to be the objection that, even if...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511495335
Christopher Koliba, Jack Wayne Meek, Asim Zia • Routledge eBooks
(2017)
What do public administrators and policy analysts have in common? Their work is undertaken within networks formed when different organizations align to accomplish some kind of policy function. To be effective, they must find ways to navigat...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315093451
Janine R. Wedel, Cris Shore, Gregory Feldman, Stacy Lathrop • The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
(2005)
As the rational choice model of “policy” proliferates in “policy studies, ” the social sciences, modern governments, organizations, and everyday life, a number of anthropologists are beginning to develop a body of work in the anthropology o...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0002716205276734
Bill New • Economics and Philosophy
(1999)
Wherever a government or state is concerned with the welfare of its citizens, there will probably also exist policies which compel the individual citizen to undertake or abstain from activities which affect that citizen alone. The set of th...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s026626710000359x
• Choice Reviews Online
(1998)
Evaluation is a controversial and little-understood strategy of public governance, control, and decision making. As early as classical antiquity, scholars were summoned to court to counsel kings. Public policy and program evaluation is a re...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.35-2785
Andrea Petrone, Paulo Borges, Fernando Pereira, Rui Elias • Biodiversity Data Journal
(2026)
The Azores Archipelago is known for its important natural heritage, yet its ecosystems face a “green tsunami” in the form of numerous exotic and invasive species. This influx has wrought serious biodiversity loss and degradation of ecosyste...
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DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.14.e167704
Amir Hossein Shaddel, Mohammad Saeid Taslimi, Mohammad Ali Lessani Fesharaki • مدیریت دولتی
(2023)
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This study aims to identify the organizational responsibilities of managers in providing employees with “commands” and its related derivatives by examining the verses of the Holy Quran.
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The methodology used in this study t...
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DOI: 10.22059/jipa.2023.356107.3305
Evelyn Angiji, Paul Ebusu • Tobacco Induced Diseases
(2018)
Background and challenges to implementation
Uganda
Cancer Society's (UCS) purpose is to coordinate civil society efforts for a
systematic contribution towards effective cancer control in Uganda. UCS is
moving towards fully integrating tobac...
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DOI: 10.18332/tid/84466
Cláudio Tadeu Daniel-Ribeiro, Marli Maria Lima • Cadernos de Saúde Pública
Abstract: This article examines the story of Louis Pasteur from the point of view of a classic movie presented at the Weekly Seminars of the “Oswaldo Cruz Institute”, at the end of the 2017 activities. Although very old, the movie The Story...
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DOI: 10.1590/0102-311x00068619