Schooling and Ethnocultural Communities in Canada: Alternatives for Planning A Post-Modern Century [PDF]
This essay examines trends in education that affect Canadian ...
Churchill, Stacy +1 more
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Applying Anthropology to Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
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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Intermarriage and Immigrant Employment: The Role of Networks [PDF]
Social networks are commonly understood to play a large role in the labor market success of immigrants. Using 2000 U.S. Census data, this paper examines whether access to native networks, as measured by marriage to a native, increases the probability of ...
Delia Furtado, Nikolaos Theodoropoulos
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Endogamy and exogamy among post-war Calabria-born women in South Australia. [abstract]. [PDF]
This paper analyses the results of Giulia Ciccone's study of single Calabria-born women who married after their arrival in South Australia. In order to look at their marriage patterns Ciccone sifted through the marriage registers of four Catholic ...
Ciccone, Giulia
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Cross‐Cultural Marital Satisfaction: Individualistic and Collectivist Influences
ABSTRACT As intercultural marriages become increasingly common in the United States, it is crucial to examine the factors that affect their stability and satisfaction. This study explores how demographic factors, cultural orientation, and social support influence marital satisfaction in Eastern men‐Western women couples.
Laleh Aflatooni, Manijeh Daneshpour
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The paper looks at personal pronoun systems in languages of the convergence zone on both sides of the borderline between Benue-Congo and Chadic. Focus is on inventories and systems, meaning the overall interrelationship of pronoun shapes across the ...
H. Ekkehard Wolff
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The Fettered and the Flea: A New Poem by Edmund Waller☆
Abstract This contribution explores for the first time a 22‐line poem in a British Library manuscript, ‘To a young lady that kept a flea chay’nd in a box’, which can be convincingly ascribed to Edmund Waller. Its most famous relative is Donne’s ‘The Flea’, but its ancestry differs.
Stuart Gillespie
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Sňatky Přemyslovců aneb Jak si vybírali ženichy a nevěsty [PDF]
Premysliden ruled over the Czech countries (Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia) more than three hundred years (ca. 930–1306). They cooperated with the ruling houses of the neighboring states (Hungary, Poland, Saxony, Bavaria, Austria etc.) as their political ...
Josef Kandert
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The present study addresses the issue of the relationship between «the wicked mother-in-law» and her daughter-in-law, based on two examples, from Greek folk songs and Spanish romancero respectively. In these cases, the mother-in-law either instigates the
Ioannis Kioridis
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Review of Islam and New Kinship: Reproductive Technology and the Shariah in Lebanon, Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality. (Book Review) Review of When God Comes to Town: Religious Traditions in Urban Contexts Editors: Rik Pinxten and Lisa Dikomitis (Book Review) [PDF]
Reviews of: Islam and New Kinship: Reproductive Technology and the Shariah in Lebanon, Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality series vol. 16, New York & Oxford: Berghahn Books.
Bigger, Stephen
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