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A PROBLEM IN KINSHIP TERMINOLOGY [PDF]

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, 1940
A PROBLEM IN KINSHIP TERMINOLOGY By E. W. GIFFORD· LESLIE A. WHITE, in his on A Problem D R minology,! settles the problem to paper own satisfaction in Kinship Ter­ his with the follow­ ing formulation concerning certain types of kinship systems (p. 569): The type which violates the generation principle is an outgrou:th of the type which does not, and ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Reflections on a native title anthropology field school [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Anthropologists play a significant role in the native title system in Australia, especially in undertaking connection research to demonstrate the evidentiary basis of claims. In 2010, recognising the lack of sufficiently qualified anthropologists working
Andrew McWilliam, Jodi Neale
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The Biased Interaction Game: A System Theoretic Approach to the Emergence of Inequality, Hierarchy, and the Implications for the Likelihood of Cooperation

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The emergence of cooperation in natural selection has been successfully studied using game theory and, despite the underlying selfish nature of the evolutionary process, a spectrum of plausible mechanisms have been proposed to determine the conditions under which cooperative behaviour is likely to occur.
Phil Mercy, Martin Neil
wiley   +1 more source

Respect for Grizzly Bears: An Aboriginal Approach for Co-existence and Resilience [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Aboriginal peoples’ respect for grizzly bear (Ursus arctos) is widely acknowledged, but rarely explored, in wildlife management discourse in northern Canada.
Clarke, Douglas A., Slocombe, D. Scott
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Pitardia resurrected: A new member of subtribe Menthinae (Lamiaceae)

open access: yesTAXON, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite tremendous progress towards clarifying phylogenetic relationships within the mint family (Lamiaceae), uncertainty remains regarding relationships among some major clades as well as the proper placement of some genera. While researching the genus Nepeta, a species from northeastern Morocco, N.
Abdelmonaim Homrani Bakali   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Bloodlines: A Review of Succession Planning and Generational Continuity in African Family Businesses

open access: yesThunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents a systematic review of 107 peer‐reviewed articles on succession planning in African family businesses, offering a conceptual reframing of succession as an institutionally embedded process rather than a discrete managerial task. Moving beyond proceduralist and Eurocentric paradigms, the review integrates institutional theory,
Augustine Okeke
wiley   +1 more source

‘The uses of ethnography in the science of cultural evolution’. Commentary on Mesoudi, A., Whiten, A. and K. Laland ‘Toward a unified science of cultural evolution’ [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
There is considerable scope for developing a more explicit role for ethnography within the research program proposed in the article. Ethnographic studies of cultural micro-evolution would complement experimental approaches by providing insights into the “
Tehrani, J.
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From structure to substance and back: materialities in Australian Aboriginal kinship [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
International audienceAustralian Aboriginal kinship studies were formerly interested in the structural properties of systems. This paper shows however that there are several co-existing systems among one and the same language group and that the ...
Dousset, Laurent
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Dynamic Adaptive Label Assignment for Tiny Object Detection in Remote Sensing Images

open access: yesCAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT With the development of unmanned aerial vehicle and satellite technology, the application of tiny object detection in remote sensing images is becoming increasingly widespread. Although significant progress has been made in the accuracy and speed of object detection in recent years, performance declines sharply when general object detectors ...
Shuohao Shi, Qiang Fang, Xin Xu
wiley   +1 more source

Xará: Namesakes in Southern Mozambique and Bahia (Brazil) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
In Maputo (Southern Mozambique) and Bahia (Brazil), the most commonly used word to refer to namesakes is xara´ – a word of Amerindian origin. Although the institutions in question diverge considerably in each of these contexts, the two usages come ...
Pina-Cabral, Joao
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