Reflective thinking meets artificial intelligence: Synthesizing sustainability transition knowledge in left-behind mountain regions by Andrej Ficko, Simo Sarkki, Yasar Selman Gultekin, Antonia Egli, Juha Hiedanpää

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On the state of nature and social life: thinking about humans and chimpanzees by Eliane Sebeika Rapchan

“…However, only in the 20th century did Social and Cultural Anthropology demonstrate through ethnography that the Enlightenment project of defining an universal and unique humankind has a consistent and real face as a result of research and reformulation of ideas. …”
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Effects of Workplace Supervised Exercise on Psychological Capital: An Intervention Study by Carmen M. Salvador-Ferrer, Pedro A. Diaz-Fúnez, Álvaro Carrera-Ruiz, Montserrat Monserrat-Hernández, Enrique G. Artero, Miguel A. Mañas-Rodríguez

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Astrology as Sacred Ecological Knowledge in the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition by Yulia Yu. Erendzhenova

“…To facilitate this, the work employs a systematic approach of cultural anthropology according to which sacred astrological knowledge is viewed as an integral element to the specified religious tradition. …”
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Applying the language acquisition model to the solution small language processing tasks by Dz. I. Kachkou

“…A detailed substantiation of the relevance of modeling small languages is given: the social significance of the problem is noted, the benefits for linguistics, ethnography, ethnology and cultural anthropology are shown. The ineffectiveness of approaches applied to large languages in conditions of a lack of resources is noted. …”
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Extinction studies in focus: Reflections on photography at a time of ecological decline by Kate Simpson, Sarah Oakes, Aureja Stirbyte, Katie Prosser, Timothy M. Brown, Jonathan David Roberts, Amy J. Bartlett

“…We offer seven perspectives on contemporary image-making, from disciplines including philosophy, conservation biology, literature, sociology, geology, cultural anthropology, and palaeontology. Researchers gathered experiential, ethical, even biological meanings from considering what to include or exclude in images: from the micro to the macro, the visible to the invisible, the aesthetic to the ecological. …”
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Immanuel Wallerstein's Theory of the Capitalist World-System by Darius Žiemelis

“…On the other hand, the influence of the CWS's theory is confirmed by the further development of international political economy and radical renewal of cultural anthropology (not mentioning historical sociology). …”
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Socioecological dynamics of diverse global permafrost-agroecosystems under environmental change by Melissa Ward Jones, Joachim Otto Habeck, Mathias Ulrich, Susan Crate, Glenna Gannon, Tobias Schwoerer, Benjamin Jones, Mikhail Kanevskiy, Prashant Baral, Amina Maharjan, Jakob Steiner, Andrew Spring, Mindy Jewell Price, David Bysouth, Bruce C. Forbes, Mariana Verdonen, Timo Kumpula, Jens Strauss, Torben Windirsch, Christopher Poeplau, Yuri Shur, Benjamin Gaglioti, Nicholas Parlato, Fulu Tao, Merritt Turetsky, Stephanie Grand, Adrian Unc, Nils Borchard

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A HUMAN IN SPACE OF MATERIAL CULTURE by Nadezhda V. Mihailova

“…The research is based on a principle of system analysis, culturological and cultural anthropological approaches, as well as on typologization and analysis of written sources methods. …”
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Discernment - the compass on the high sea of spirituality by Kees Waaijman

“…It first describes the complexity of spirituality as a phenomenon that has, on a cultural, anthropological and mystical level, lost its boundaries and expanded beyond all existing horizons. …”
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ABOUT HUMANISTIC NATURE OF CULTURAL HERITAGE AND CHALLENGES OF CONTEMPORARY TIME by Vladimir I. Ionesov

“…Acknowledging that the diverse interpretations of concept ‘heritage’ are insufficient and too common, the author presents his interrogation of phenomenon of cultural heritage in discourse of cultural-anthropological knowledge. The article seeks to foreground the ontological parameters of world heritage, which it is considered in context of philosophy of “trace”, “sign” and “memory”. …”
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BECOMING OF SUBJECT FIELD OF CONTEMPORARY VISUAL STUDIES by A. M. Tormakhova

“…The methodology involves an appeal to the philosophical, cultural, cultural-anthropological concepts that define the specificity of contemporary visual studies. …”
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VOICES-POSITIONS IN DISCOURSES: HOW IS IDENTITY POSSIBLE? by T. V. Podolska

“…Interdisciplinary research perspective allowed using a comprehensive methodology where, complementing each other, there are phenomenological, cultural, anthropological, hermeneutic, systematic, historical and genetic methods and method historical-philosophical and socio-cultural comparative studies. …”
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