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Attitudes Towards Cousin Marriages: Findings Among Young People from Mexico [PDF]

open access: yesEvolutionary Psychological Science, 2020
AbstractThe present research examined how life history and resistance against interethnic mating were related to positive and negative attitudes towards cousin marriages among young people aged between 15 and 25 from a rural area in the Mexican state of Oaxaca.
Buunk, A.P., Massar, K.
openaire   +3 more sources

‘Sometimes, I would look at my books and cry because I felt like I was left behind’: Understanding the learning of Indigenous girls during the COVID‐19 pandemic in the districts of Chongwe and Solwezi in Zambia

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Grounded in principles of epistemic justice, this article examines the educational impacts of Zambia's COVID‐19 school closures on Indigenous girls in two districts and highlights community‐led pathways for resilience. National responses prioritised broadcast and digital delivery but presupposed access to electricity, digital devices and ...
Marcellus Forh Mbah   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Delayed diagnosis of 3β‐HSD7 deficiency in adolescence: Two case reports and review of the literature

open access: yesJPGN Reports, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Congenital bile acid synthesis defects (BASD), the most common of which is 3β‐hydroxy‐Δ5‐C27‐steroid dehydrogenase oxidoreductase (3β‐HSD7) deficiency, are a rare cause of fat‐soluble vitamin malabsorption. We describe a 14‐year‐old girl who presented at 14 months with a left distal femur fracture and failure to thrive.
Samantha Pendleton   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Members Only—The Emergence of the Business Family as a Professionalized and Differentiated Organizational System

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The importance of business families is increasingly gaining attention. However, to truly understand business families and their dynamics, they must be viewed as distinct systems. Since this area has received limited scholarly focus, we argue that forming a new system is more than just an extension.
Heiko Kleve   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

South Asian Bodies at British Borders in the 1970s: From the Ugandan Asian ‘Stateless Husbands’ to ‘Virginity Testing’

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article looks at two critical moments in British immigration – the case of the ‘stateless’ Ugandan Asian husbands, whose wives successfully argued for their entry in Britain in 1973 and the ‘virginity test’ performed on Mrs K at Heathrow Airport in 1979.
Antara Datta, Jinal Parekh
wiley   +1 more source

A qualitative study exploring child marriage practices among Syrian conflict-affected populations in Lebanon

open access: yesConflict and Health, 2017
Background Recent reports have suggested that child marriage among Syrians may be increasing as a result of displacement and conflict. This study sought to gather qualitative data about the factors that promote child marriage practices among Syrian ...
Rima Mourtada   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

SUBALTERN CONDITIONS OF RENTAL ‘UNFREEDOMS’: Northeastern Migrant Women's Experiences of Gendered and Racialized Housing Violence in Bengaluru, India

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how socio‐political constructions of rental markets create housing vulnerabilities for subaltern renters. Going beyond the typical focus on occupancy claims in slums, I study rent and racialization in Indian cities through the experiences of Northeastern migrant women living in Bengaluru.
Meghna Mohandas
wiley   +1 more source

Relations familiales et sociales dans une inscription d’Oliva (HEp, 5, 809)

open access: yesMélanges de la Casa de Velázquez, 2009
The reexamination of an inscription at Oliva (HEp, 5, 809) in the light of historical and anthropological research on kinship has made it possible to identify the exact genealogical position of the four members of a family of emancipated slaves.
Sabine Armani
doaj   +1 more source

Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various ties to inequality, remain murky. In this paper, I examine all known inheritance disputes in Dallas from 1895–1945 within their social context to ...
Shay O'Brien
wiley   +1 more source

Consanguineous marriage in Oman: understanding the community awareness about congenital effects of and attitude towards consanguineous marriage

open access: yesAnnals of Human Biology, 2017
Background: Although consanguinity is widely practiced in Oman, the attitude of community towards consanguinity and the awareness of its health consequences to offspring remain largely unexplored.
M. Mazharul Islam
doaj   +1 more source

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