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Religious Engagements with Tropical Cyclone Idai and Implications for Building Back Better
In March 2019, Tropical Cyclone Idai hit Malawi, Mozambique, Madagascar and Zimbabwe. For most indigenous African people, there is a very thin line...
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Spaces of Screenscapes in India
The spatiality of Television is unlike a metamorphic space. Television works as lived spatiality wherein nature and pattern of contents vary in...
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The Tatar Diaspora in North America: Experience of Integration
The article examines the study of integration of Tatars in American and Canadian societies. Migration of Tatars was a continuous process depending on...
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Place: A Carrier of Social Construction and Cultural Memory
Central to the geography of media is the concept of place, which functions as a conduit for social construction and cultural memory. In the context...
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Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Resource Management: A Conceptual Framework
The concept of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) in common parlance is referred to as local knowledge, traditional knowledge, native knowledge,...
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Multisensory Landscapes—Smellscapes
This paper deals with the perception and interpretation of odors. First, there is a detailed discussion of the change in the meaning of odors in...
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The Misings of Assam in the Midst of Tradition and Modernity: A Comparative Study of Selected Rural and Urban Areas
The Misings, belonging to Tibeto-Burman ethnic group, which constitute the second largest scheduled tribe (Plains) group with a population of around...
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Ethnicity and Ritual in the Atacameños Andes: Water, Mountains, and Irrigation Channels in Socaire (Atacama, Chile)
The water in the indigenous community of Socaire (Antofagasta Region, Chile), as well as in other communities in the Atacama Desert, is a very...
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Indigenous Knowledge and Traditional Practices for Water Resource Management in Rajasthan, India
The native people of any place have been the first responders to the area's environment, precisely and carefully building the ways to sustain,...
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Tourism Geography
The diversity of natural conditions in China has created numerous types of natural landscapes in a wide variety of forms, and the history of...
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Geographies of Knowledge Synthesis and Interdisciplinarity
Over the last three decades, “new ecology” has been driving the quest for integrating the social and natural sciences in pursuit of understanding...
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Geographical Tools of Sacred Navigation in the Historical Development of Siberia
The long-term experience of interdisciplinary research of the prehistoric cultural heritage allowed the authors to consider the navigation functions...
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Geography of Hindu Pilgrimage Places (Tīrthas) in India
Hindu pilgrimage, Tīrtha-yātrā, is a liminal process that establishes participation in the spiritual realm, associated with the sacred land. It...
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Historical Geography
This part of the book covers such issues as interrelationships between the human and physical environments and political systems, and the...
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Social Changes and Conflicts in Vora Municipality After the 1990s
Social developments in Albania have been closely linked to natural, economic, political, and historical factors due to the impact they have on the...
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Introduction: Essays in Honour of Rana P. B. Singh
Culture is central to human beings to the extent that the history of their evolution is incomplete without the consideration of cultural attainments...
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Factors Leading to Disposal of Toxic and Hazardous Sacred Waste and Its Effect on Urban River Contamination: Case of Adi Ganga, Kolkata, India
Urban rivers are very crucial for any city and often have to bear the burden of pollution and various other discharges from its catchment area. There...
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Re-connecting Communities with Public Spaces: A Proposal for Rejuvenation of Sacred Kunds in the Historic City of Varanasi
Public spaces are one of the most defining elements of a vibrant community and matured urban landscapes. Cities of the past and present have laid...
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Human Geography
This chapter discusses spatial perspectives on demographic, social, cultural, economic, and political changes in Uzbekistan. It includes information...