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THE RHETORICAL STYLE OF CLIMATE CHANGE EDUCATION IN GREG MBAJIORGU’S WAKE UP EVERYONE Greg mbajiorgu的气候变化教育的修辞风格唤醒了所有人

African study monographs Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.34548/ASM.03

A. Adegoju, Charity I. Edeh

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DEVELOPMENT OF FISHING PRACTICES WITHIN COMMERCIAL FISHERIES IN LAKE KARIBA, SOUTHERN AFRICA 非洲南部卡里巴湖商业渔场内捕鱼方法的发展

African study monographs Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.34548/ASM.01

C. Ito

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Assessment of Feed Resources, Management Practices and Mitigating Strategies to Feed Scarcity in Grasscutter (Thryonomys swinderianus) Production in North-Western Ghana 加纳西北部割草机(Thryonomys swinderianus)生产中饲料资源评估、管理实践和缓解饲料短缺战略

African study monographs Pub Date : 2020-03-01 DOI: 10.14989/250113

T. Dery, C. Adenyo, B. Kayang, M. Inoue‐Murayama

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Royal Patriarchy and Intra-Gender Conspiracy in Africa's Age of Globalization: The Dramatist's Reflections in Ahmed Yerima's Jakadiya 非洲全球化时代的王室父权制与性别内部阴谋——剧作家在艾哈迈德·耶里玛的《雅卡迪亚》中的反思

African study monographs Pub Date : 2020-03-01 DOI: 10.14989/250112

Abidemi Olufemi Adebayo

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Naturalography of Co-Existence among East African Pastoral Societies: An Introductory Overview of Japanese Scholarship 东非牧师会共生博物学——日本学术概论

African study monographs Pub Date : 2019-10-01 DOI: 10.14989/244850

Toru Sagawa, I. Hazama

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Rules and Negotiations: Livestock Ownership among the Turkana in Northwestern Kenya 规则与谈判：肯尼亚西北部图尔卡纳人的牲畜所有权

African study monographs Pub Date : 2019-10-01 DOI: 10.14989/244853

I. Ohta

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The Unchanged and Unrepresented Culture of Respect in Maasai Society 马赛社会中不变和未被代表的尊重文化

African study monographs Pub Date : 2019-10-01 DOI: 10.14989/244852

Toshio Meguro

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The Role of Social Norms and Interactions in the Process of Learning-by-Doing: From the Ethnography of Daily Work, Play, and School Participation of Children in Contemporary Pastoralist Maasai Society in Southern Kenya 社会规范和互动在实践学习过程中的作用:来自肯尼亚南部当代游牧马赛社会儿童日常工作、游戏和学校参与的民族志

African study monographs Pub Date : 2019-10-01 DOI: 10.14989/244851

Xiaojie Tian

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Body Size Perceptions of Women and Obesity in Urban Uganda 乌干达城市妇女的体型认知与肥胖

African study monographs Pub Date : 2019-07-01 DOI: 10.14989/243207

Seera Georgina

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Glutamine Repeat Polymorphism in the Exon 1 of Androgen Receptor Gene in Grasscutter (Thryonomys swinderianus) 猪三线菌雄激素受体基因外显子1谷氨酰胺重复序列多态性

African study monographs Pub Date : 2018-12-01 DOI: 10.14989/236669

C. Adenyo, B. Kayang, M. Inoue‐Murayama

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