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The Challenges of Senescence for Adult Male Chimpanzees
(2024)
All animals eventually die. For many, death comes early from external sources of mortality, such as predation, whereas for others, there is a chance to grow old. These aging organisms experience senescence, the declines ...
Bosnian refugees in Chicago: Gender, performance, and post-war economiesAna Croegaert. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020. Pp. xiv + 183.
(Lexington BooksWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2023-05)
Orthodoxy as a Way of Living: Religion, Sect, and Crisis in Lebanon
(2024)
Since 2019, Lebanon has grappled with a series of systemic breakdowns that ushered in multidimensional regimes of precarity. Drawing on ethnographic and archival research conducted from 2018 to 2021 in Beirut, this ...
Primate Distribution Dynamics and the Effects of Contemporary Climate Change Along an Elevational Gradient in Indonesian Borneo
(2024)
Climate is a major driver of global change and can force both gradual and abrupt environmental transitions that profoundly influence traits of organisms, the quality of their habitats, and the persistence of populations. ...
Blindness and Water Divination in the Saharan West
(2024)
This dissertation examines the nexus between blindness, water divination, and perception through ethnography. It listens into the world of Dali Gimba, a hinterland village in Mauritania that is inhabited by the Awlād Ummār—a ...
The borders of AIDS: Race, quarantine, and resistance By Karma R. Ch�vez. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021. 264 pp.
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.University of Washington Press, 2023-05)