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Systems 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
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.The autonomy of the United Wa State Army of Myanmar today is said to be based on the egalitarianism of Wa communities in the past. The analysis of commensuration in kinship, sacrifice, and war challenges these portrayals of autonomy and egalitarianism.
Hans Steinmüller
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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract In contrast to the wealth of literature on the gendered and sexual politics of Indian nationalism, studies on the internationalisation of Indian anti‐colonial nationalism are rarely informed by the twin themes of gender and sexuality. As Indian activists traversed international political spaces in the early twentieth century, they frequently ...
Joanna Simonow
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Conflict 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
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Gender &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
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Relations familiales et sociales dans une inscription d’Oliva (HEp, 5, 809)
Mélanges 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
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Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality
The 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
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Annals 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
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Polygamy in Islam: Cultural Pressures and Religious Justifications in Pakistan
Journal of Islamic Thought and Civilization, 2021 Polygamy is socially accepted and religiously allowed in most parts of the world. Polygamy is practiced by males, particularly for various justifiable reasons.
Farooq-e-Azam +3 more
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Prevalence and Pattern of Consanguineous Marriages Among Different Communities in Mangalore [PDF]
, 2013 Introduction: Consanguineous marriages are a common practice in the Middle East, Asian and African populations. Many studies have stated an association between first cousin marriages and the incidence of autosomal recessive diseases and congenital ...
Avadhani, R, Bhagya, B, Sucharitha, S
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