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Consanguineous Marriages in Iranian Folktales
<i>Background:</i> Using folktales we can find some aspects of social customs. Here, I show the situation of consanguineous marriages in folktales from different Iranian populations and try to compare it with the present situation of consanguineous marriages.
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present
ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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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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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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Consanguinity marriage and fertility outcome health in the middle Euphrates of Iraq
The inbreeding coefficient refers to the degree of advancing of any society. In 2006 an experiment was conducted to find the inbreeding coefficient in the middle Euphrates area of Iraq (Al-Qadisiyia and Babylon) and to study the relationship between ...
ojs_admin, H. R. Mubarek AL-Rekaby
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Prevalence of Consanguineous Marriage among Saudi Citizens of Albaha, a Cross-Sectional Study. [PDF]
Albanghali MA.
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KINSHIP AND HISTORY: TRIBES, GENEALOGIES, AND SOCIAL CHANGE AMONG THE BEDOUIN OF THE EASTERN ARAB WORLD [PDF]
Most scholars of tribal organization among the Bedouin of the eastern Arab world utilize a two-dimensional, hierarchical model of Bedouin kinship that represents only relations of descent and affinity. This model resembles a genealogy and shows how small
Young, William C
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