Browsing by Subject "Social Change"
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Measuring Social Change as Categorical Change
(2013)Sociologists often depict demographic categories as socially constructed, non-essential, and fluid. The language of fluid, contingent categories has not, however, translated very well into the practice of describing social ... -
Protected Areas' Impacts on Brazilian Amazon Deforestation: Examining Conservation-Development Interactions to Inform Planning.
(PLoS One, 2015)Protected areas are the leading forest conservation policy for species and ecoservices goals and they may feature in climate policy if countries with tropical forest rely on familiar tools. For Brazil's Legal Amazon, we ... -
Yopo, ethnicity and social change: a comparative analysis of Piaroa and Cuiva yopo uset.
(Journal of psychoactive drugs, 2011-01)Most Orinocoan ethnic groups, including the Cuiva and the Piaroa, use yopo, a hallucinogenic snuff derived from the seeds of the Anadenanthera peregrina tree. This study contrasts Piaroa and Cuiva attitudes toward and uses ...
