The Continuity of the Traditional Livelihood of the Altai-Kizhi People in the Post-Soviet Period from the Perspective of Material Culture and Social Change

The livelihood of the Altai-Kizhi people saw two paradigm shifts during the 1900s: forcible collectivization at the turn of the 1930s, and its impromptu deconstruction in the 1990s.This paper observes Rotary Blades the changes to the livelihood of the Altai-Kizhi following the collapse of the USSR with a particular focus on the area of material cul

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Shared but Threatened: The Heritage of Wild Food Plant Gathering among Different Linguistic and Religious Groups in the Ishkoman and Yasin Valleys, North Pakistan

A wild food ethnobotanical field study was conducted in the Ishkoman and Yasin valleys, located in the Hindukush Mountain Range of Gilgit-Baltistan, northern Pakistan.These valleys are inhabited by diverse, often marginalized, linguistic and religious groups.The field survey was conducted via one hundred and eighty semistructured interviews KNITWEA

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