Mine d’or et développement durable by Mouhamadou Lamine Diallo

“…Similarly to its region (Tambacounda), Sabodala is a remote village where traditional activities such as agriculture and gold digging are mainly practised. …”
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LES SAXONS DE TRANSYLVANIE ET LEURS ÉGLISES FORTIFIÉES: UN RICHE PATRIMOINE CULTUREL DE LA ROUMANIE by DANIEL IOSIF

“…With a huge cultural potential, the villages which are inhabited by Saxons are in a visible economic decline. …”
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« Morale laïque » à l’école : de la tentation conservatrice à l’éducation du citoyen numérique by François Durpaire

“…The announcement that ‘secular morality’ will be taught in schools from the beginning of the 2013 school year places the country’s national education system at a crossroads between a return to the origins of the Third Republic and the opportunity to define a pedagogy adapted to contemporary citizens, living in an increasingly open world (‘village-terre’ from Michel Serres). This new ‘civic and moral education’ could promote a pedagogy of dialogue, taking as its starting point the diversity of the students and by discussing values in terms of a digital culture that is their own. …”
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Witchcraft as metaculture in the Bolivian Chaco by Kathleen Lowrey

“…This paper treats a multi-village assembly that was held to adjudicate an accusation of witchcraft in the Guaraní-speaking indigenous community of Isoso, in the Bolivian Chaco, in 1999. …”
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Protéger les humains et les non-humains by Claudine Friedberg

“…But these reasons are often very different from those brought up by the international scientific organisms aiming to preserve the nature.In this article, I will describe the practices I have had the opportunity to observe in the 1970’s within a central Timor population, based in the Indonesian part of the island.This population lives in Abis, a bunag-speaking village.The practices are twofold:Those concerning the organization of the territory – divided between the farming land and the grazing land – and their associated rules; especially aiming to protect the useful plants in burnt land.Those concerning the vegetation that is forbidden to trimming and whose status is much more ambiguous. …”
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Mettre en œuvre la transition écologique par l’accompagnement des initiatives citoyennes by Émeline Hatt, Séverine Bonnin-Oliveira

“…As part of the Ecodistrict action, the village center revitalization project, generated a swarm of citizen initiatives and gave rise to a transitional socio-ecological process at the junction between institutional territories and citizen engagement.…”
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Baheshi Documentary Rukiga Version by Kabale University Library

“…The good example is the Abaheesi of Bukoora village at the south western end of Kabale Municipality, Kabale District in Kigezi Region. …”
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Intensity of Nematode Infection in Children Aged 3 to 5 Years Living in Mukuru Kwa Njenga Slum Settlement, Nairobi, Kenya by Lynda Allan, Fiona N. Mbai, Dorcas S. Yole, Moses Owino

“…Kwa Reuben and Vietnum villages had the same prevalence values of 32.4% where 34 participants in each village had a mean intensity of 3624 epg and 4512 epg, respectively. …”
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Characteristics of a calcite "limestone"-marble from Macedonia, used as flux material by Hristova E., Jancev S.

“…The phase characteristics of calcite "limestone"-marble from Banjany area village (near Skopje, Macedonia) were examined by means of XRD, SEM microscope in polarizing and reflected lights, chemical, DT/TG-analyses. …”
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Ici, c’est Noël tous les jours : nostalgie de l’âge d’or et recherche du travail vivant dans le pays de Bitche by Arnaud Kaba

“…In the deindustrialized glass-working region of the Vosges du Nord in the Pays de Bitche, Meisenthal, a village nestled in a valley, has recreated its production tool through a process of patrimonialization. …”
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Frontera política, resistencias y solidaridades: el caso de los refugiados de la Guerra Civil Española en Barrancos (1936) by Dulce Simões

“…The Spanish-Portuguese border was an instrument of protection and resistance, which demarcated the lives and deaths of thousands of people during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), despite Salazar having strengthened his control and surveillance. In the Portuguese village of Barrancos (Baixo Alentejo) two of the largest flows of Spanish refugees into Portuguese territory took place, made up of politically distinct groups. …”
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Assessment of Groundwater Pollution and its Impact in and around Punnam Area of Karur District, Tamilnadu, India by G. Raja, P. Venkatesan

“…Various samples of groundwater were collected from different areas in and around the Punnam village of Karur District, India and analyzed for their physicochemical characteristics. …”
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RUSSIAN RURAL SOCIOLOGY: ITS SOCIAL SPACE, SUBJECT SPECIFICITY AND GENESIS by V. Novikov

“…The social space of rural sociology is dichotomous urban, the opposite and at the same time ontologically similar to it by virtue of genetic relations, the social sphere of the village.…”
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Meio ambiente e pobreza entre populações não tradicionais by Marcelo Alario Ennes

“…This article analyzes the village of Rio das Pedras, which is located around the Serra Ita- baiana National Park in the state of Sergipe. …”
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An In-depth Exploration of an Unexamined Reliquary in the Church of Mar Tadros-Blat, Syria by Dana Khouli

“… This article explores an unstudied, though not recent, discovery – a sarcophagus-shaped reliquary discovered in the village of Blat in Homs, Syria. The research aims to shed light on its cultural and historical importance. …”
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Restart Oliena 2018. Temporary strategies for a permanent regeneration by Giuseppe Boi, Barbara Camocini, Laura Daglio, Martina Mazzarello, Roberto Podda

“…The participatory design workshop here presented faced the requalification of the semi-public courtyards, spaces representing the identity of the village of Oliena (NU), in inner Sardinia, with the aim of promoting local culture and production. …”
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Confirmed presence of territorial groups of golden jackals (Canis aureus) in Slovenia by Miha Krofel

“…During the survey at Ljubljansko barje on 20th February 2009, we noted a response by two jackal groups to a broadcasted howling near the village of Bevke (UTM VM82, 288 m a.s.l.). Since we recorded no response at any other location, it seems that the number of territorial golden jackals at Ljubljansko barje is small. …”
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Transmission e representacions de la lenga occitana dins una comuna de la periferia tolosenca (Florenç, Nauta-Garona) by Règis Labedan

“…À partir d'interviews avec des occitanophones de différentes générations d'un village de la périphérie toulousaine, Flourens, cet article cherche à répondre à cette question, en étudiant la transmission et les représentations de l'occitan. …”
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The rescue of a medieval, painted tabernacle from Marianka Pasłęcka, north Poland by Natalia Gruszczyk

“…It has incessantly fulfilled its tasks, but was simultaneously exposed to diverse destructive factors, resulting from its use and quite stormy history of the village. The effects of that are – among others – gunshot holes on the painted Man of Sorrows on the door, his extremely damaged face and almost archaeological condition of the oak wood. …”
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One aspect of the role of ICTs in a mountain community : a case study of Kamiyama, Japan by Kenji Hashimoto

“…On the other hand, a limited supply of old houses suitable for use as satellite offices and the cost of transportation to major cities are both significant barriers to the revitalization of this peripheral mountain village.…”
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