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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
wiley   +1 more source

Women's Right to Surgical Self-Consent: A Legal and Moral Imperative for Somalia. [PDF]

Int J Womens Health
Ali RM.
europepmc   +1 more source

Feelings Without Emotion: Rethinking Male Friendship and the Value of Personal Reticence

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In various Euro‐American contexts, commentators have highlighted how emotional reticence inhibits men's ability to understand themselves and connect with others. More generally, public discourses of affective expressivity often present curtailed emotion as a form of “repression.” Through an ethnographic account of male railway enthusiasts ...
Thomas Yarrow
wiley   +1 more source

Religious Legal Pluralism in the Shadow of the Centralistic State. [PDF]

Oxf J Leg Stud
Schlesinger C.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Unbecoming Ghost: Spectropolitics in the Making and Unmaking of BHU's Bhoot Vidya Ayurveda Certificate Program

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
wiley   +1 more source

Palestinian students' attitudes toward honor killing crimes: a quantitative, cross-sectional study. [PDF]

BMC Psychol
Jabali O, Hamamra B, Ayyoub AA.
europepmc   +1 more source

Sociological study of religiosity in post-atheist Kazakhstan. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Zabirova A, Seitakhmetova N, Zhandossova S, Nurov M.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

A netnographic analysis of online active commentaries on Malaysia's tobacco generation end game. [PDF]

BMC Public Health
Abdul Raob NA, Mohd Radzi NA, Nik Mohamed MH, Md Sabri BA.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

What Sustains Wars: Will to Fight Versus Military Might. [PDF]

Ann N Y Acad Sci
Atran S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Same-sex love and marriage: understanding the Special Marriage Act, 1954. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Gomes TC, Kanungo S, Sengupta S.
europepmc   +1 more source