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Irony and the 'yoga wars'

Description: Article discussing the debated topic of whether yoga is a Hindu or Secular practice and the potential causes and impacts of how and why this subject is being debated.
Date: December 2010
Creator: Jain, Pankaj
Partner: UNT College of Public Affairs and Community Service
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Jainism, Dharma, and Environmental Ethics

Description: Article discussing the absence of a formal category of environmental ethics in Jainism and Jainism's historical relationship to environmental ethics.
Date: 2010
Creator: Jain, Pankaj
Partner: UNT College of Public Affairs and Community Service
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Legislative Ambiguity and Ontological Hierarchy in US Sacred Land Law

Description: This article demonstrates instances in which sacred site law was construed so narrowly as to a priori preclude indigenous ways of knowing, particularly in regards to the nature of land, use of sacred objects, and pollution.
Date: September 1, 2017
Creator: Dunstan, Adam
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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Preface to the Proceedings of the Department of Anthropology’s National Science Foundation (NSF) Summer Research Methods Program in Anthropology at the University of North Texas

Description: Introduction to the special section featuring the proceedings of the Department of Anthropology’s National Science Foundation (NSF) Summer Research Methods Program in Anthropology in the 2009 edition of the Eagle Feather.
Date: 2009
Creator: Dessouky, Shimaa Y. & Yamaki, Satoshi
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Preface to the Proceedings of the University of North Texas Department of Anthropology 2010 National Science Foundation Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates

Description: Introduction to the proceedings of the University of North Texas Department of Anthropology 2010 National Science Foundation Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates, featured in the 2010 edition of The Eagle Feather.
Date: 2010
Creator: Davenport, Beverly Ann & Franco, David Oliveira, Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Renunciation and Non-Renunciation in Indian Films

Description: Article discussing the renunciation and non-renunciation in Indian films. The author reviews several films to analyze the portrayal of ascetics and householders.
Date: 2010
Creator: Jain, Pankaj
Partner: UNT College of Public Affairs and Community Service
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Swadhyaya's Dharmic Ecology

Description: Article discussing an essay by the author titled "Dharmic Ecology: Perspectives from the Swadhyaya Practitioners," discussing the Swadhyayis and their Vrksamandiras, or tree-temples, and dharmic ecology.
Date: 2010
Creator: Jain, Pankaj
Partner: UNT College of Public Affairs and Community Service
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Ten Key Hindu Environmental Teachings

Description: This article discusses diverse theologies in Hinduism and describes ten important Hindu teachings on the environment.
Date: 2010
Creator: Jain, Pankaj
Partner: UNT College of Public Affairs and Community Service
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Undergraduate Student Research in Anthropology

Description: Introduction to the special section for undergraduate research in anthropology in the 2007 edition of The Eagle Feather.
Date: 2007
Creator: Nuñez-Janes, Mariela
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Using a Partial Sum Method and GPS Tracking Data to Identify Area Restricted Search by Artisanal Fishers at Moored Fish Aggregating Devices in the Commonwealth of Dominica

Description: This article explores research to identify area-restricted search foraging behavior at fish aggregating device (FAD) patches. Movement data were collected from GPS devices placed on foraging trips originating in the artisanal fishing village of Desa Ikan (pseudonym), on the east coast of the Caribbean island nation of the Commonwealth Dominica. The goal of the research is to understand how property rights are emerging after the introduction of fish aggregating device (FAD) technology at the sit… more
Date: February 3, 2015
Creator: Alvard, Michael; Carlson, David & McGaffey, Ethan
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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Victims of "adaptation": climate change, sacred mountains, and perverse resilience

Description: This article proposes the concept of "perverse adaptation", where one actor or institution's adaptation to climate change in fact produces aftershocks and secondary impacts upon other groups. Drawing on ethnographic and sociolinguistic research in northern Arizona regarding artificial snowmaking at a ski resort on a sacred mountain, the author elucidates resort supporters' and others' attempts to frame snowmaking as a sustainable adaptation to drought (and, implicitly, climate change) while cou… more
Date: January 3, 2019
Creator: Dunstan, Adam
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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