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Prevalence of congenital pathology in populations with different genetic and demographic structure

open access: yesБіологічні студії, 2018
The article presents the results of studing the dynamics of some genetic and demographic indicators of the regional populations of the Kherson region (the level of interethnic and homolocal mono-ethnic Ukrainian marriages, the endogamy index) during the ...
E. G. Lanovenko
doaj   +1 more source

Cutting freedom down to size Liberté calibrée

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Freedom, as a concept and a value, presents limited prospects for anthropological comparison. The study of enslavement, much neglected in attempts to develop an anthropology of freedom, shows that freedom has been imagined by the enslaved as the opposite of their condition only under particular circumstances.
Harri Englund
wiley   +1 more source

Fertility among descendants of immigrants in Belgium: The role of the partner

open access: yesDemographic Research, 2017
Background: Research on the fertility behavior of descendants of immigrants has focused on female characteristics and has largely neglected those of the male partner.
Lisa Van Landschoot   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Unkept Promises, Unequal Worlds: A Sociological Study of Intimate Abuse in Promise‐to‐Marry Cases in India

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The article presents a sociological study of promise‐to‐marry ‘rape’ cases in India to illuminate the inner lives of intimacies. It argues that promise‐to‐marry cases cannot be understood merely as instances of deceptive sex, wherein the consent of the victim is vitiated by a false promise of marriage as a pretext for sexual intercourse ...
Monika
wiley   +1 more source

Influence of endogamy and mitochondrial DNA on immunological parameters in cattle. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Endogamy increases the risk of manifestation of deleterious recessive genes. Mitochondrial DNA allows the separation of American Zebu (Bos indicus and Bos taurus) and evaluate the effect of mitochondrial DNA on productive traits of cattle.
MACEDO, A. A.   +8 more
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Caste Based Endogamy in a Punjabi Village of Pakistan [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Caste based endogamy is one of the main characteristics of traditional caste system practiced in rural Pakistan. Members of different quoms do not inter-marry or at least do not prefer to marry out of their quom.
Aaisha Amjad; University of the Punjab Lahore.   +1 more
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La communauté arménienne d’Issy-les-Moulineaux de 1922 à 1968 : origine, implantation et intégration

open access: yesCahiers Balkaniques, 2012
This paper tries to bring a quantitative light as regard to the origin, settlement and integration of the armenian community of Issy-les-Moulineaux, study based on the census from 1921 to 1968, as well as the trade registers of the Seine from 1920 to ...
Michel Garin
doaj   +1 more source

The Symbolic Organisation of Political Antagonism: An Integrative Model of Cultural and Social Polarisation

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article develops a cultural and relational model of political polarisation that integrates insights from currently disconnected streams of scholarship to conceive polarisation as a discursive and preformative struggle over sacred meanings.
Werner Binder   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Consanguinity, caste and deaf-mutism in Punjab, 1921 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
The effects of religion, population sub-division and geography on the prevalence of deaf-mutism were investigated using information collected in the 1921 Census of Punjab.
Sullivan, S.G.   +5 more
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90 Day Fiancé: Presentations of Status Exchange on the International Marriage Market

open access: yesFamily Relations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective This study examines power and status, as constructed by producers on the reality television show 90 Day Fiancé, that comes from being a US citizen on the international marriage market. We investigate what show producers present each partner as offering the other and what this suggests about gender and power in cross‐national ...
Andrea Laurent‐Simpson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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