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Cultivating Dragon Fruit’s Political Power in Ecuador

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In the Ecuadorian Amazon, an anthropologist explores how the Shuar people are betting on dragon fruit cultivation to reclaim economic autonomy and political sovereignty. This article was originally published at YES! In Ecuador, this has created a boom that is changing the economic fortunes of many Indigenous Amazonians.

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Peasant and Peasantry in Anthropology

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iii] According to anthropologist George Dalton, “Peasants were legal, political, social, and economic inferiors in medieval Europe. These scholarly traditions produced a wealth of theory and data that has been discovered by contemporary anthropology, but they do not constitute the historical back ground of the anthropology of peasantry.

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Confronting Social Dogma with Anthropological Op-Eds: An Interview with Mark Mansperger, Darby Stapp, and Victoria Boozer

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Over the past 20 years, Mark Mansperger (professor, Washington State University-Tri-Cities) has published more than 45 op-eds in the Tri-City Herald , on topics ranging from politics to economics to the environment. Did you learn anything about yourself, anthropology, or newspaper writing? Was it an enlightening experience?

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Revisiting the Spiritual Violence of BS Jobs

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This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. ✽ The late David Graeber was an American professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. In 2013, Graeber wrote an article for the obscure left-wing magazine STRIKE!

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Jehovah’s Witness Are Learning Chinese to Evangelize in Zambia

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Even with increased interactions through evangelizing, there have been growing anti-Chinese sentiments in Zambia in recent years, often based in economic inequalities between the countries. In this dimension, the interactions are not as straightforward as mere economic or political engagements.

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“Amarrados”: Physical Restraint in Long-Term Care Facilities for Older Adults in Lima, Peru

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Furthermore, Article 28 of the law states that violence against older adults is considered to be any single or repeated conduct, whether by action or omission, that causes harm of any nature or that violates the enjoyment or exercise of their human rights and fundamental freedoms, precisely as physical restraint does.

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Cultural Dimensions of health - Introduction

Anthropology for Beginners

A specialised branch of anthropology, i.e, medical anthropology has engage in both basic research into health and healing systems and applied research aimed at the improvement of therapeutic care in clinical settings or community public health programs in prevention and disease control. that predispose people to certain diseases.

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