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- noun UK (
anthropology )settling of anomadic population;sedentism
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Nutritionist Stéphane Besançon, director of the non-profit Malian Association to Control Diabetes, told IRIN that urbanisation, sedentarisation, affordable motor transport, food imports and industrialisation have taken their toll on Malians 'health.
IRIN 2009
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Nutritionist Stéphane Bescançon, director of the non-profit Malian Association to Control Diabetes, told IRIN that urbanisation, sedentarisation, affordable motor transport, food imports and industrialisation have taken their toll on Malians†™ health. “With cheaper motorbikes, people simply walk less.
IRIN 2009
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The story of the forced sedentarisation of Cukurova nomads in the 1860s, The Lords of Akchasaz picks up themes from the poetry of Dadaloglu, an early 19th century ashik who was buried near Kemal's birth place.
The Guardian World News Nicholas Birch 2008
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