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Applying Anthropology to Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this article, we review how anthropologies from various subdisciplines, from social to evolutionary anthropology, are contributing to our understanding of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C). We focus on four key questions: What are the origins of FGM/C? What functions and meanings are linked to FGM/C?
Hannelore Van Bavel, Mhairi A. Gibson
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Redhead and Outlaw: A Study in Criminal Anthropology
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (1931-1951), 1947 Dr. Hans von Hentig, University of Kansas City, was Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology at the University of Bonn, before he came to the United States eleven years ago. He became Expert Assistant to the Attorney General in Washington, Director of the Colorado Crime Survey, Research Professor at the University of Puerto Rico, and taught at Yale ...
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American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT According to anthropological theories of brokerage, brokers build bridges, close gaps, make connections, and construct shared norms. In this article, I argue that such structural‐functionalist approaches to brokerage do not prove adequate in addressing unsettled and unsettling scale‐making practices of refugee‐led support initiatives in ...
Lieke van der Veer
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A criminologia no Brasil ou como tratar desigualmente os desiguais
Dados: Revista de Ciências Sociais, 2002 In this article we discuss how the ideas of Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909) and his followers were incorporated into the intellectual debate in Brazil in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Alvarez Marcos César
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RESEARCH METHODOLOGY OF CRIMINAL OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC MORALITY: ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACH
, 2022 Eugene Polyansky, V. P. Boychenko
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How to Be Hopeful About Climate Change
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Why do people in climate‐vulnerable regions of Kenya and Namibia express more hope for the future than many in Germany, despite facing greater environmental threats? Drawing on ethnographic research and the philosophy of Gabriel Marcel, we make two arguments.
Julian Sommerschuh, Michael Schnegg
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Racial Bias in Forensic Decision Making. Comment on Yim, A.-D.; Passalacqua, N.V. A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Race in the Criminal Justice System with Respect to Forensic Science Decision Making: Implications for Forensic Anthropology. Humans 2023, 3, 203–218 [PDF]
, 2023 Itiel E. Dror
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American Ethnologist, EarlyView.Abstract For millions of working‐class Mexicans, property has turned into rent. This transformation has fundamentally dislocated social reproduction in Mexico by eroding households’ ability to envision themselves as holders of patrimony and as lasting social formations. To understand how and to what effect property turned into rent, we must look to the
Inés Escobar González
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