Du détroit de Malacca jusqu’à sa périphérie by Eric Frécon

“…Indeed, even if pirates living in villages are now worried by patrols set up by the States and even if they don’t want to take anymore risks to rob seamen, the situation is different in the cities. …”
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Relaciones de poder y apropiación del « otro » en relatos sobre iniciaciones shamánicas en el Chaco argentino by Florencia Tola

“…In shamanic initiation the powers of spirits from the imaginary of neighbouring villages are entwined with those of the auxiliary spirits present in the Toba cosmology. …”
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Le tourisme dans les paysages culturels des hauts plateaux du sud de la Chine by Zhe Wang, Nelson Graburn

“…Il attire les gens des villes tandis que la commercialisation a également engendré de nombreux bouleversements dans les aménagements de ces villages. Les paysages culturels persistants sont le fruit du travail et de la collaboration entre les hommes et la nature. …”
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Gaan Mawina, le Marouini (haut Maroni) au cœur de l’histoire des Noirs marrons Boni/Aluku et des Amérindiens Wayana by Marie Fleury

“…The ancient maps stemming from this work allow us to describe the successive migrations of the former villages, and better know this poorly documented part of their history.…”
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La culture de la patate douce et du maïs chez les Krahô by Ana Gabriela Morim de Lima

“…Throughout the article, it will be explored the connections between the life cycles of gardens, villages, people and plants, highlighting the homology and interdependence between ecological, social and cosmological space-time. …”
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Entre patrimoine et développement durable, quel avenir pour les églises paroissiales ? by Mélanie Meynier-Philip

“…Here, this research addresses the environmental issues through the renewal of the buildings that are at the origin of the development and of the memory of the urban cores and the villages.…”
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Devenir reine kakataibo. Performance, séduction et genre en Amazonie péruvienne by Magda Helena Dziubinska

“…This performance can be understood through the transformations that are taking place in Amerindian villages, and related closely to education, modes of gender construction and more generally to the new politics of the body. …”
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Sorcellerie capitaliste et touristes pishtaco : les tensions occultes autour du tourisme d’ayahuasca chez les Shipibo de San Francisco (Amazonie péruvienne) by Doriane Slaghenauffi

“…The emergence of “shamanic tourism” in some Shipibo-Konibo villages and urban areas has led to a recrudescence of vernacular witchcraft practices, now integrated into the new sociological context of the commercialization of local vegetalist shamanism. …”
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A Route Well Travelled. The archaeology of the A14 Huntingdon to Cambridge Road Improvement Scheme by Emma West, Claire Christie, Debora Moretti, Owain Scholma-Mason, Alex Smith

“…They involved a huge collaborative team led by MOLA-Headland Infrastructure and revealed groundbreaking archaeology of all periods, from mammoths to medieval villages. This monograph is intended to act as gateway to the project's findings, synthesizing the results in a series of period-based chapters and linking back to the detailed site and specialist reports and the entire digital archive of the project hosted by the Archaeology Data Service.…”
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A Hybrid MCDM Model for Improving GIS-Based Solar Farms Site Selection by Chao-Rong Chen, Chi-Chen Huang, Hung-Jia Tsuei

“…In the ten criteria, solar radiation is the most important criterion impacting solar farms site selection, followed by average temperature and distance to villages.…”
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Retornando sua coleção de material audiovisual: os dilemas de uma antropóloga by Clarice Cohn

“…To comply with young adults’ request to see what they looked like as children and how life was then, the documents were scanned and copies exhibited in the villages. The text offers a reflection on this experience, insisting on the discoveries it allowed but also on the discomfort it sometimes triggered, for both the author and her Xikrin friends. …”
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Limosilactobacillus reuteri - a probiotic gut commensal with contextual impact on immunity by Amanda H. Lee, Daphne Michelle Rodriguez Jimenez, Marlies Meisel

“…The historical roots of probiotics are traced back to Nobel Laureate Élie Metchnikoff, who linked the longevity of Bulgarian villagers to their consumption of sour milk fermented by Lactobacilli. …”
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Aliança, chefia e regionalismo no Alto Xingu by Antonio Roberto Guerreiro Júnior

“…We will see that it is a structure in which chiefs’ alliance regime is doubly linked to hierarchy within the local group and to affinity relations between chiefs from different villages, which makes it possible to think about roles played by alliance and chieftaincy in the regional system of the Upper Xingu.…”
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Le tourisme et l’imaginaire érotique à Paris durant la guerre : Français et Allemands pendant l’Occupation, 1940-1944 by Bertram M. Gordon

“…Beaucoup de ces accusées furent exhibées le crâne rasé (pire parfois) dans les villes et les villages de France, reflétant dans la France d’après-guerre une forme de sentiment d’émasculation. …”
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Un corps en mouvement : parenté, « diffusion de l’influence » et transformations corporelles dans les fêtes de bière tirio, Amazonie du Nord-Est by Vanessa Elisa Grotti

“…This article is an analysis of the social relations established and nurtured between bodies during Trio communal feasts in southern Suriname. The villages in which they live are characterised by growing sedentary and increased population concentration, which, from a Trio point of view, means an increased physical and social interaction with unrelated affines and potential enemies. …”
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Socio-cultural development of Omsk region districts as one of indicators of social sphere of modern Russia by I. A. Kostyuk

“…The article deals with specific activities carried out in the municipalities of the Omsk region, implemented within the framework of the five directions of the state and regional policy in the socio-cultural sphere, as well as the traditions of individual municipalities that have incorporated the initiative and implemented the aspirations and talents of the villagers themselves…”
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E-Banking: Opportunities and Challenges from Customer’s Perspective by Aazib Afraz T N, Geetha R

“…The presence of E-Banking can be seen till the tail end of small vicinities. Villagers also use it as it stops them from visiting bank branches. …”
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Migration des femmes et fécondité dans la ville de Marrakech (Maroc) by Samia R’Kha, Abdellatif Baali

“…Since 1970, an increasing population  flow from the surrounging villages to the city of Marrakech, as well as to the other cities of Morocco, has been observed. …”
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The eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79 and the death of Gaius Plinius Secundus by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“…Pliny, the admiral of the Roman imperial fleet, wished as scientist to witness the event from close by and set sail in the direction of Vesuvius, but got trapped in Stabiae, a few kilometers from Pompeii, where he died together with thousands of inhabitants of nearby villages. Various reasons have been advanced to account for his death (asphyxiation caused by respiratory problems, carbon dioxide poisoning, heart failure, advanced coronary sclerosis). …”
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Paese che vai usanza che trovi, tra cosmo e campanile by Pietro Clemente

“…The first is the depopulation of many little villages, above all in the inner zone of the country, due to the massive migration of young people to bigger urban centers. …”
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