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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"agriculturalists"”.
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A critical content analysis of children's literature featuring Black agriculturalists
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01
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Water as property: the social impact of water reform on agriculturalists in the Murray-Darling Basin New South Wales
This thesis contributes to sociology and social policy discussions on water reform in New South Wales, Australia. While the study draws on political economy theory in examining water as ‘property’ under economic rationalism policies, it makes an ethnographic contribution to rural sociology as it …
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A Comparison Study of Vertebral Degenerative Joint Disease in the Hunter-Gatherer Population at Indian Knoll, Kentucky and Agriculturalists
… studies of osteoarthritis and osteophytosis in agriculturalists and other hunter-gatherer populations in order to compare the level of degeneration at Indian Knoll with other groups.
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A Comparison Study of Vertebral Degenerative Joint Disease in the Hunter-Gatherer Population at Indian Knoll, Kentucky and Agriculturalists
… studies of osteoarthritis and osteophytosis in agriculturalists and other hunter-gatherer populations in order to compare the level of degeneration at Indian Knoll with other groups.
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Lactis : an agriculture and training facility on the Irene dairy farm
… development faces is the means by which agriculturalists gain their knowledge in terms of the practice of sustainable agriculture. There lacks a structure between farmers about improving their practices and situations in terms sustainable agriculture. Agriculture plays a crucial role in …
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An archaeological, anthropological study of the human skeletal remains from the Oakhurst Rockshelter, George, Cape Province, Southern Africa
… stress in human bone. It is argued that agriculturalists and transitional agro/pastoralists are more stressed than the hunter gatherers who preceded t hem. This is evinced by mortality profiles, mean age at death and the number and extent of stressors observed in the skeleton such as …
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Reconstructing the diets of southern African farmers: comparing stable isotopes across body tissues
… dataset for Iron Age (2000-100 years BP) agriculturalists in southern Africa. Four isotopic values are presented for each individual (δ¹³Cbone apatite, δ¹³Ctooth enamel, δ¹³Ccollagen, δ¹⁵Ncollagen). Dietary reconstructions using both typical 'fractionation factor' methods and recent bi- …
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Establishing Monetary Valuation Methods for Forested Riparian Wetlands in the Continental United States
… field, teams of plant physiologists, foresters, agriculturalists, sociologists and economist have in fact successfully performed defensible appraisal analysis of large tracts of land, while acknowledging their methods to be quite meticulous and expensive. Due to this expense and complexity, such …
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A comparative study of activity-related skeletal changes in 3rd-2nd millennium BC coastal fishers and 1st millenium AD inland agriculturists in Chile, South America
… fishers (3rd-2nd millennium BC) with inland agriculturalists (1st millennium AD). One hundred and seventy-five skeletons of adult males and females curated at the Museo Arqueológico San Miguel de Azapa in Arica, Chile were analysed. It was found that early coastal populations were in general …
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“Essentially cyclonic:” Race, gender, and disaster in modern mauritius
… they changed how small Indo-Mauritian agriculturalists planted sugar, where Afro-descendant Mauritians lived, and how the late-colonial state surveilled women’s bodies in response to Malthusian anxieties over population control and ecological stability.
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The Spoon Toe Site (11MG179): Middle Woodland gardening in the lower Illinois River Valley
… the proposed model of residentially mobile agriculturalists.
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The constitution of the colonial labor subject: Labor law in colonial India, 1881 to 1936
… were read as the 'traditionalism' of Indian 'agriculturalists'. In the early decades of factory production this construction justified the existing despotic production regime. However, by the turn of the century, and especially after the First World War when industrial production assumed an …
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Rooted: A new generation of farmers and ranchers in Montana
… to share the stories of the next generation of agriculturalists in Montana, show the places they call home, and convey the essence of their work. At the same time I hope to shed some light on the unique challenges facing new farmers and ranchers, and challenge all of us to think about steps we …
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Rooted: A new generation of farmers and ranchers in Montana
… to share the stories of the next generation of agriculturalists in Montana, show the places they call home, and convey the essence of their work. At the same time I hope to shed some light on the unique challenges facing new farmers and ranchers, and challenge all of us to think about steps we …
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Stable carbon isotopes and prehistoric diets in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
… skeletons of hunter-gatherers, pastoralists and agriculturalists from the Holocene of the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. The aims of the thesis include the testing, through direct quantitative measurements, of the validity of archaeological conclusions about prehistoric human behaviour in …
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Rethinking Landscape Interpretation: Form, Function, and Meaning of the Garfield Farm, 1876-1905
… exclusively for his livelihood, he, like many agriculturalists of this era participated in a process of mediation between these dual values. The function of the landscape of Garfield’s farm between 1876 and 1880 is a reflection of this process of mediation. After President Garfield’s …
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The food-energy-water-land-biodiversity (FEWLB) nexus through the lens of the local level : an agricultural case study
… to the support of the Bergrivier Municipality. Agriculturalists (farmers) have been described as significant custodians of natural resources, as they sit in a key position when it comes to implementing and practising sustainable development. There has been little research into the relationship …
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!Ui-Taa language shift in Gordonia and Postmasburg Districts, South Africa
… the author argues that food producing peoples (agriculturalists / pastoralists / colonialists) typically penetrate the hunter-gatherer territory and break down the ecological setting that sustains the hunter-gatherer mode of subsistence. The changes in ‘language ecology‘ (Haugen 1972) trigger …
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Urban Agriculture for Future Worlds? Just Imagine! A Study of Transformation Looking at Auckland’s Alternative Food
… participation and 20 interviews with urban agriculturalists, I first consider change at the ideological level, outlining detail-rich future visions of Auckland changing through urban-grown food, spanning physical, economic and cultural realms. I then draw on the same interviews to explore …
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Nutritional Stress & Early Development in the Neolithic Near East: A Comparison of Adult and Subadult Tooth Size
… to an increase in nutritional stress among early agriculturalists. Stress could occur at various stages along the life course and could be related to the mother-infant dyad. Stress can be recorded in the dentition that form in utero and throughout infancy, childhood, and adolescence. Therefore, …
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