Water has become an urgent theme in anthropology as the worldwide need to provide
adequate supplies of clean water to all people becomes more challenging. Anthropologists …

Direct and indirect utilization of coldwater springs produces a wide variety of benefits to
human societies around the world, but this resource use may also be associated with …

This synthesis paper engages with the key messages which emerge from across the eight
papers in this special issue. It situates them in the context of Wittfogel's hydraulic hypothesis …

Berbers, also known as Imazighen, are the ancient inhabitants of North Africa, but rarely
have they formed an actual kingdom or separate nation state. Ranging anywhere between …

The objectives of the study were to determine the phylogeographic structure of brown trout
(Salmo trutta) in Morocco, elucidate their colonization patterns in North-West Africa and …

This ethnography studies how, when, and under what circumstances culture change occurs.
It is author Hsain Ilahiane's conviction that culture change directly affects resource use and …

More than 50% of the world's population already live in cities, and the proportion is rising
extremely rapidly towards developed country levels of more than 90%. Groundwater from …

Groundwater springs are significant landscape features for humans and the biota that
occupies their habitat. Many springs become inactive where groundwater exploitation by …

In this article, I examine the practical relevance of Bourdieu's notion of Habitus in
understanding the relationship between the acquisition of land and the transformation of …

Les élections législatives marocaines de septembre 2002, premier scrutin organisé sous le
règne de Mohammed VI. ont été l'objet de nombreuses espérances et conjectures de la part …