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The structure of first-cousin marriages in Brazil [PDF]
AbstractThis paper deals with the frequency and structure of first-cousin marriages, by far the most important and frequent type of consanguineous mating in human populations. Based on the analysis of large amounts of data from the world literature and from large Brazilian samples recently collected, we suggest some explanations for the asymmetry of ...
Otto, Paulo A. +9 more
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“I Ought to Be Getting Him His Feed”: Masculinity Regained in Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome
This paper discusses the masculinity of the protagonist Ethan in Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome in relation to the vehicles he uses. Ethan, who attempts to commit suicide by sledding down a hill with his wife’s cousin Mattie so as to flee his unhappy ...
Yoshino Narumi
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Meanings as Species, by Mark Richard. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp.
Unnsteinsson, Elmar
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Baby with neonatal systemic juvenile xanthogranuloma born within a cross-cousin marriage
Juvenile xanthogranuloma is a non-Langerhans cell histiocytosis seen most commonly in childhood and adolescence. Extracutaneous involvement is rare. We report an interesting and extremely rare case of systemic (skin, lung, spleen, and colon) “juvenile ...
Hikmet Tekin Nacaroglu +6 more
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The Montmorencys and the Abbey of Sainte Trinit�, Caen: Politics, Profit and Reform [PDF]
Female religious, especially holders of benefices, made significant contributions to aristocratic family strategy and fortune in early modern France. This study of members of the wider Montmorency family in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries ...
Davies, J
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Consanguineous marriage is a common type of marriage in the Middle East. Arab countries have the highest consanguineous marriage rates in the world. The differences in the prevalence of consanguineous marriage is related to differences in each geographic
Yagoub Y. Al‑Kandari +1 more
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Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa: COL7A1 Mutation Landscape in a Multi-Ethnic Cohort of 152 Extended Families with High Degree of Customary Consanguineous Marriages [PDF]
Dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa is a heritable skin disease manifesting with sub-lamina densa blistering, erosions, and chronic ulcers. COL7A1, encoding type VII collagen, has been identified as the candidate gene for dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa. In
Abiri, Maryam +11 more
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To Ask for the King’s Permission to Marriage: Applications for Marriage between Relatives in Eighteenth Century Sweden. In early modern Western society regulations against incestuous relationships were primarily justified by religion, and kinship by ...
Bonnie Clementsson
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What Are Kinship Terminologies, and Why Do We Care? A Computational Approach to Analyzing Symbolic Domains [PDF]
Kinship is a fundamental feature and basis of human societies. We describe a set of computational tools and services, the Kinship Algebra Modeler, and the logic that underlies these. These were developed to improve how we understand both the fundamental
Fischer, Michael D. +2 more
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Sňatky Přemyslovců aneb Jak si vybírali ženichy a nevěsty [PDF]
Premysliden ruled over the Czech countries (Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia) more than three hundred years (ca. 930–1306). They cooperated with the ruling houses of the neighboring states (Hungary, Poland, Saxony, Bavaria, Austria etc.) as their political ...
Josef Kandert
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