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Kinship Is a Network Tracking Social Technology, Not an Evolutionary Phenomenon [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 On one hand, kinship is a universal human phenomenon that tends to align with biological relatedness, which might suggest evolutionary foundations. On the other hand, kinship has exceptional variation across the human populations, which points to cultural foundations. Furthermore, even if its foundation was biological, kinship is often too imprecise to
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Savage Minds Interview: Sarah Kendzior [PDF]
, 2013 Sarah Kendzior is a writer for Al Jazeera English. She has a PhD in cultural anthropology from Washington University and researches the political effects of digital media in the former USSR.
Anderson, Ryan B.
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Current research directions in nutrional anthropology [PDF]
, 1986 Research directions in social science on food and nuiritionrelated issues can be classified into three broad divisions: nutritional anthropology, food systems research andfoodways studies (the anthropology offood).
Pelto, Gretel H.
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What is cumulative cultural evolution?
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2018 In recent years, the phenomenon of cumulative cultural evolution (CCE) has become the focus of major research interest in biology, psychology and anthropology.
A. Mesoudi, Alex Thornton
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Unique in what sense? Heterogeneous relationships between multiple types of uniqueness and popularity in music [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 How does our society appreciate the uniqueness of cultural products? This fundamental puzzle has intrigued scholars in many fields, including psychology, sociology, anthropology, and marketing. It has been theorized that cultural products that balance familiarity and novelty are more likely to become popular.
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Linguistic anthropology of education: An Introduction [PDF]
, 2002 In Resuscitating the Place of Educational Discourse in Anthropology, Bradley Levinson (1999) argues that cultural anthropology could benefit from research on education and that education could benefit from research on anthropology as well. He describes
Wortham, Stanton
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Chimpanzees engage in competitive altruism in a triadic ultimatum game
Scientific ReportsPartner choice promotes competition among individuals to be selected as a cooperative partner, a phenomenon referred to as competitive altruism. We explored whether chimpanzees engage in competitive altruism in a triadic Ultimatum Game where two ...
Alejandro Sánchez-Amaro +2 more
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Perspectives : An Open Invitation to Cultural Anthropology [PDF]
, 2017 1. The Development of Anthropological Ideas2. The Culture Concept3. Doing Fieldwork: Methods in Cultural Anthropology4. Language5. Subsistence6. Economics7. Political Anthropology: A Cross-Cultural Comparison8. Family and Marriage9. Race and Ethnicity10.
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.Abstract #BlackLivesMatter activism is a contemporaneous manifestation of a centuries‐old resistance against anti‐Black racism. This paper analyses diverse perceptions about the #BlackLivesMatter movement's purpose, significance and potential utility in the Australian context.
Kathomi Gatwiri +1 more
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Geoarchaeology, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 35-56, January/February 2023., 2023 Abstract The effects of the Younger Dryas (YD) fluctuation on Late Pleistocene hunter‐gatherers' settlement and subsistence systems in the southern Alps are poorly known. This is primarily due to the scarcity of archaeological sites dating from the YD, in contrast with the extensive evidence available from the lateglacial interstadial and the early ...
Diego E. Angelucci +2 more
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