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Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie
Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
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Epidemiology of cleft lip and cleft palate in Gorgan, 1998-2003
Background and Objective: Cleft lip and palate is one of the most common human congenital craniofacial abnormalities with the side effects of middle-ear infections, hard of hearing, nutritional problems, speaking, and other societal burdens.
MJ Golali Pour +4 more
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Based on ethnographic research at Rūm Orthodox Christian monasteries in Lebanon, the article studies scenes of Islam at the monastery as they intersect with anxious public debates on, and anthropological theorizations of, sectarianism and ‘Muslim–Christian’ relations in the Mashriq.
Aaron F. Eldridge
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Blood Ties and Mental Health: The Effect of Consanguineous Marriageson Depression and Anxiety
Objective: To determine the prevalence of consanguineous and non-consanguineous marriages in two significant cognitive health conditions, severe depression and anxiety.
Meer Arsalan Khan Khan +5 more
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This article analyses the ways characteristics associated with the ‘Schedule Tribe’ (‘ST’) category in India shape situated acts of relating to others with either deference or assumed superiority. Ethnography shows how within an indigenous Adivasi community the traits that determine identification within the group generate feelings of entitlement and ...
Thomas Herzmark
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Multidisciplinary management of Papillon-Lefevre syndrome as a result of consanguineous marriage. [PDF]
Ramkumar N, Sankar H.
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For over a century, anthropologists have documented the many institutions that exist to respond to witchcraft and the uncanny that it names: oracles that attempt to produce certainty by naming the witch; moots in which grievances are aired; trials in magistrates’ courts that attempt to satisfy the community while preserving the life of the accused ...
Chloe Nahum‐Claudel
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Harlequin fetus: A mayhem in a consanguineous marriage? [PDF]
Sereke SG, Berhe SE, Bongomin F.
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Anthropologists have long shown that asking for food in times of need is morally valued in rural Namibia. Yet among the Damara pastoralists with whom I work, people now increasingly describe feeling shame (taob) when they ask for food. In this article, I trace this shift to the affective dynamics of social class formation.
Michael Schnegg
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