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Methodological Challenges in Studying Wealthy Families
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Studying the wealthy is not easy. This piece provides suggestions for recruitment, interview strategies, and design to gain high‐quality data on wealthy people. It is based on an interview study of 81 US racially‐diverse families with a median net worth of $25 million. First, to gain access to the wealthy, it is key for the researcher to use a
Annette Lareau
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Open-set learning context recognizing in mobile learning: Problem and methodology
ICT ExpressMobile learning allows for an interactive way of learning through devices like smartphones. However, current methods usually rely on pre-set situations and struggle to recognize new contexts when they come up during testing. To solve this, we suggest the
Jin Li +4 more
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Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay addresses the ongoing scholarly tension between the monotheistic interpretations of late pre‐Islamic Arabian religion, pioneered by G. Hawting and P. Crone, and the traditional accounts of rampant Arabian polytheism found in later Islamic literary sources.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
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Rise of the south: How Arab‐led maritime trade transformed China, 671–1371 CE
Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 3-38, March 2025.Abstract China's center of socioeconomic activities was in the North prior to the Tang dynasty but is in the South today. We demonstrate that Arab and Persian Muslim traders triggered that transition when they came to China in the late seventh century, by lifting maritime trade along the South Coast and re‐creating the South.
Zhiwu Chen, Zhan Lin, Kaixiang Peng
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Water Beings and Capitalist Relations in India's Sundarbans Delta
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores entanglements between water cosmologies and capitalist transformation in the Sundarbans delta of West Bengal, India. It traces how “awakened” tidal creeks have been iteratively enclosed as private fisheries from the colonial period to the present, with particular focus on the expansion of commercial aquaculture over the ...
Calynn Dowler
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SCORES OF A FOLKSONG: FROM COLLECTION TO MUSIC TEXTBOOKS
Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. MusicaIn my study, I follow the notational journey of the folk song Ablakomba, ablakomba besütött a holdvilág, collected by Béla Bartók. While attending music lessons I experienced that several versions of this folksong were being taught in the lessons.
Ildikó PINTÉR-KERESZTES
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On 3‐MMC: A Cathinone I Have Come to Know and Love
Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article attempts to complicate the mythology of a compound in a state of becoming. I will trace lightly its origins as a cultural disruptor and how I am implicated in this imperative. Introducing you to 3‐MMC will require multiple modes of storytelling and taking of liberties, drawing on literature reviews, practice‐based research, prose,
Carmen Ostrander
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Birth, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction In recent years, US hospitals have implemented novel interventions to reduce racism, bias, and their effects in perinatal healthcare (e.g., implicit bias training, anti‐racism seminars). Healthcare workers may also encounter informal interventions in support of these goals (e.g., peer feedback on microaggressions). There is little
Sarah B. Garrett +7 more
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Issue of the preservation of Zakhchin folk songs
Nomadic Civilization: Historical ResearchIn this article, the authors analyze folk songs. The authors have recorded more than 80 songs in the Altay soum of the Kobdo aimag from 79-year-old Parz Tsagaana Myadag. The Zakhchin people live in this soum.
V. Yanjindulam, B. Altantuya, S. Ayanur
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