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Strategy or Necessity? The Determinants of Marriage Between Relatives in the Barcelona Area, Sixteenth-Nineteenth Centuries. [PDF]

open access: yesAm J Hum Biol
ABSTRACT Consanguineous marriages illustrate the complex interplay between environmental and social factors in family formation. However, there remains a significant lack of quantitative studies exploring this phenomenon in preindustrial contexts.
Ruíz García J   +2 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Universities and the Contested Creation of the Elite

open access: yesThe Manchester School, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT For centuries universities have been a locus of elite creation. In the Middle Ages, university‐trained elites were leaders of the Church, served in secular lords' administrations and staffed the judiciary. Over time, their scope has expanded to include leadership in governments, corporations, and civil society more broadly.
Noam Yuchtman
wiley   +1 more source

A possible case of cherubism in a 17th-century Korean mummy. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS One, 2014
Hershkovitz I   +14 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Anxious Projections: Mass Hysteria and the Problem of Interpretation

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Stories of “mass hysteria” among teenage girls have often graced the headlines of Nepal's local and national newspapers, creating a public spectacle of a strange and mysterious form of affliction. Treatments include both shamanic rituals and psychosocial interventions, a new therapeutic modality that has gained prominence over the past two ...
Aidan Seale‐Feldman
wiley   +1 more source

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