Focal Interest
Focal Interest

Indigenous

  1. France and African countries differ in fermented food practices
    Cross-cultural study comparing fermented food production methods in France, Morocco, and Senegal reveals distinct approaches shaped by industrial versus traditional practices.
  2. Three-dimensional psychological control scale was invariant across informants and time
    Study validates a Chinese measure of parental psychological control with three dimensions, establishing its consistency across parent and adolescent informants and over 6-month interval.
  3. Murui-Muina use language differences to mark subgroup identity
    Ethnographic study of how Murui-Muina speakers in the Colombian Amazon use lexical contrasts to sustain four ethnolinguistic subgroups, challenging conventional definitions of language.
  4. Indigenous oral traditions encode ecological knowledge and norms
    Indigenous oral traditions encode ecological governance, environmental ethics, and resource management frameworks that challenge anthropocentric legal paradigms and offer relational approaches to.
  5. Coetzee's novel is read as exposing apartheid racial and colonial conflict
    Explore how Coetzee's Life and Times of Michael K exposes apartheid's racial segregation and colonial oppression through spatial inequality and systemic deprivation in South African society.
  6. Historical movements linked Guianas and Lesser Antilles Caribs
    Excavations in French Guiana reveal material culture linking continental and island Caribbean populations in the 17th century, supporting mythological accounts of Galibi expansion.
  7. Review finds Hall rethinks race in Muslim West African history
    Critical review of Hall's reassessment showing racialized hierarchies developed within precolonial Sahelian Islamic societies, challenging Eurocentric narratives of race as solely colonial invention.
  8. Seasonal and gendered patterns shaped subsistence marine harvesting
    Ethnographic study of gendered and seasonal marine subsistence patterns in Mfumbwi, Zanzibar, with implications for archaeological interpretation of Swahili coast fisheries.
  9. Spiritual legitimacy shapes maternal referral decisions in Akit community
    Ethnographic study exploring how spiritual legitimacy functions as symbolic infrastructure organizing maternal health decisions among the Akit Indigenous community in Indonesia, challenging.
  10. Matatu access conflicts with Nairobi Expressway infrastructure
    Study examines tensions between Nairobi's matatu informal transport and Chinese-backed Expressway, revealing how foreign infrastructure reshapes mobility and excludes indigenous systems.
  11. Timkat (Epiphany) as Living Faith: The Intersection of Religion, Culture, and Tourism in Gondar, World Heritage Site, Ethiopia
    Explore how Timkat (Epiphany) celebration in Gondar, Ethiopia blends ancient religious tradition with indigenous cultural practices and tourism potential at this UNESCO World Heritage site.
  12. Indigenous wolf beliefs are linked to niche construction
    Comparative analysis of Indigenous Plains concepts of wolves as creator figures through Niche Construction theory and Yellowstone ecosystem data.
  13. From Autonomy to Instrument: Dehumanization in The Conscript
    Analysis of dehumanization and thingification in Hailu's anticolonial novel using postcolonial theory to examine colonialism's transformation of subjects into instruments.
  14. Physical activity initiatives may support climate and health goals
    Conceptual framework demonstrating how physical activity initiatives generate co-benefits for climate mitigation, adaptation, and population health through integrated systems-based approaches.
  15. Kahuzi-Biega conservation conflicts with Indigenous land rights
    Explore how indigenous Pygmy land rights and biodiversity conservation can coexist in Kahuzi-Biega National Park through participatory governance and formal co-management frameworks in eastern DR.
  16. Nine recommendations for improving biodiversity measurement
    Nine strategic recommendations for transforming biodiversity measurement infrastructure, integrating new technologies with standardized protocols, Indigenous knowledge, and institutional.
  17. Colonial whaling sharply reduced whale populations in Southern Africa
    Explore colonial whaling's devastating impact on Southern African cetaceans and marine ecosystems from the 1700s-1900s, examining environmental exploitation, indigenous displacement, and.
  18. Poison traces found on 60,000-year-old Southern African microliths
    Microchemical biomolecular analyses detected Amaryllidaceae alkaloids on backed microliths from Umhlatuzana, providing direct evidence of Boophone-derived arrow poisons at ~60 ka.