around which salient local divisions can coalesce, resulting in broad-based, diverse opposition movements; it was not just the material qualities of water or corn, but how those material qualities took on meaning in the Cochabamban and Mexican contexts that contributed to causing widespread ...
other adults, and, importantly, other children. Vertical or parent-to-child transmission (Cavalli-Sforza et al.1982; Hewlett et al.2011) seems to be less conducive to innovation, meaning it is more common in stable environments where information need not change rapidly. Various studies have also...
whereSstands for NTAXA in the assemblage. This yields a value between 0 and 1, where 1 signifies an assemblage where each taxon accounts for the same proportion of the assemblage and values closer to 0 signify assemblages where a limited number of taxa are much better represented than the res...
. The existential centrality of a cereal like millet makes it a privileged conduct for "storing", troves of knowledge that ritualistically become meaning. The metaphors and symbolic operations through which the life cycle of millet accounts for the cycles governing human life in its personal and ...
Climate change has an increasing impact on food security and child nutrition, particularly among rural smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa. Their limited resources and rainfall dependent farming practices make them sensitive to climate change-related effects. Data and research linking yield, human ...