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Modelling the constraints on consanguineous marriage when fertility declines

Demographic Research, 2014
Background: Consanguinity - or marriage between close blood relatives, in particular first cousins - is widely practised and even socially encouraged in many countries.
Bilal Barakat, Stuart Basten
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Intimate Partner Violence, Ambiguous and Non‐Consensual Non‐Monogamy, and Breaking Up During Young Adulthood

Journal of Marriage and Family, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective This study examines how intimate partner violence (IPV) and two types of non‐monogamy—ambiguous‐consent non‐monogamy (ACNM; concurrent sexual partners in relationships without an explicit agreement about monogamy or non‐monogamy) and non‐consensual non‐monogamy (NCNM; cheating in relationships committed to monogamy)—co‐occur and ...
Jennifer S. Barber, Yasamin Kusunoki
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Coresidence With a Family Member With a Health Limitation and Alcohol Use Among Midlife Adults

Journal of Marriage and Family, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective This study examined whether living with a family member with a health limitation is associated with alcohol use among midlife adults. Background Past research on family health limitations typically focused on caregiving, yet living with a family member with a health limitation may shape health behaviors even without direct caregiving
Kyung Won Choi, Robert Crosnoe
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85. Marriage of Cousins in Nyasaland. [PDF]

Man, 1922
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Pathways to Adult Sibling Estrangement: Perspectives of Estranged U.S. Adults

Journal of Marriage and Family, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Determine how estranged adults narrate pathways to adult sibling estrangement. Background A small but meaningful share of adult sibling ties end in no‐contact estrangement, yet existing research has yet to comprehensively determine the pathways to this relationship dynamic.
Rin Reczek, Akanne Torres Beltran, Candice Crutchfield   +2 more
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Beyond the Cut: Generative Refusal and the Reimagining of Jewish Affiliation in Contemporary Israel

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Jewish‐Israeli society, circumcision (brit milah) carries far‐reaching significance, symbolizing both the covenant between god and the Jewish people and serving as a key marker of communal affiliation and cultural continuity. Drawing on in‐depth interviews with Jewish‐Israeli parents who have chosen not to circumcise their sons and using ...
Nina Rageth
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That sinkin’ feeling: Environmentally induced distress on a disappearing island

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Residents of Tangier Island, Virginia, a subsiding island in the Chesapeake Bay, embody psychosocial dimensions of environmental change. Analysis of ethnographic data shows islanders’ experiences and articulations of anxiety, panic, and despair as “that sinkin’ feeling,” resulting from the stress of living with the long‐term threat of imminent
Jonna Yarrington
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“Buprenorphine doesn't hold me”: Neurochemical afterlives of state violence and the struggle for meaning in addiction treatment

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper analyzes two disparate experiences of buprenorphine, a medication for opioid addiction, in California. Within the context of the U.S. War on Drugs and after decades of criminalization, buprenorphine represents a shift toward outpatient medical treatment of opioid addiction, but it has been unequally distributed and experienced ...
Lauren Textor
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CONSANGUINITY AND LACK OF AWARENESS; STILL A WORRISOME DILEMMA AMID THALASSEMIC FAMILIES, A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY

Journal of University College of Medicine and Dentistry
OBJECTIVE: Thalassemia is a genetic condition caused by the mutation or damaging hemoglobin synthesis on the alpha or beta globin chain. The most significant risk factor for rise in the thalassemic rate is consanguinity.The current study was ...
Farhat Ijaz
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All in the family: Kidney donation in aging Japan

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the ethical and cultural logics shaping living donor kidney transplantation in Japan, where donation is restricted to kin and deceased donation remains rare. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a Tokyo‐area hospital, it analyzes how Japan's kin‐based transplantation regime contrasts with the utilitarian model dominant in
Amy Borovoy
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