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Anthropology and Open Access [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
While still largely ignored by many anthropologists, open access (OA) has been a confusing and volatile center around which a wide range of contentious debates and vexing leadership dilemmas orbit.
Anderson, Ryan B., Jackson, Jason B.
core   +1 more source

EU Integration and Judicial Reform: Cross-Country Lessons drawn from the Romanian and Albanian Perspectives [PDF]

open access: yesRomanian Journal of European Affairs
Romania and Albania, both former communist countries, have pursued European integration as a strategic goal to enhance democratic reforms and boost economic development. Romania joined the EU in 2007, while Albania became an EU candidate country in 2014,
Gelanda Shkurtaj
doaj  

Impact of Geography on Institutions in Agricultural and Nomadic Societies

open access: yesInternational Studies of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How geography affects the choice of institutions is studied in a theoretical model. In this model, nations are located around a circle. Rulers compete through choosing tax rates, the level of military spending, and the degree of formality of institutions. Geographic condition is captured by population density.
Haiwen Zhou
wiley   +1 more source

Constructive Memory in Truth‐Telling for Reconciliation

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Truth‐telling has, in diverse contexts, been conceptualised as a vehicle for achieving reconciliation following injustice. As a social and political phenomenon, it involves the communication of narratives grounded in episodic memory. Such narratives may fail to reproduce the details of past events and may even include details that were not ...
Alberto Guerrero‐Velázquez   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

What determines protection of property rights ? An analysis of direct and indirect effects [PDF]

open access: yes
Using cross-country data, the authors evaluate historical determinants of protection of property rights. They examine four historical theories that focus on conceptually distinct causal variables believed to shape institutions: legal origin, endowments ...
Ayyagari, Meghana   +2 more
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Theoretical Approaches and Key Concepts in Medical Anthropology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The theoretical views and ideas offered in the following pages – which are quite long in order to offer a through explanation of the vast and diverse medical and anthropological literature we have available – regard specific concepts and paradigms that ...
IORIO, SILVIA
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Degrees of permeability: confinement, power and resistance in Freetown's Central Prison

open access: yes, 2020
This article deconstructs a binary that has arisen between prisons as, on the one hand, ‘total institutions’ of exclusion and, on the other, ‘carceral continuums’ that incorporate marginalized urban livelihoods. The experiences of four inmates at Pademba
Schneider, L.
core   +2 more sources

Acting authentically: Using play to cultivate authentic interrelating in role performance

open access: yesJournal of Organizational Behavior, EarlyView.
Summary Research is increasingly demonstrating that authenticity and human connection are fundamental and interrelated human needs. However, organizational roles often constrain authenticity and connection in workplace interactions, especially roles that are highly scripted.
Lyndon E. Garrett
wiley   +1 more source

How Politically Diverse Are the Social Sciences and Humanities? Survey Evidence from Six Fields [PDF]

open access: yes
In Spring 2003, a large-scale survey of American academics was conducted using academic association membership lists from six fields: Anthropology, Economics, History, Philosophy (political and legal), Political Science, and Sociology. This paper focuses
Klein, Daniel B., Stern, Charlotta
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Enacting Trust [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Small and removed from the Spanish mainland, the Enclave of Ceuta has always depended on flows of goods and labour out of the Moroccan hinterland, with individuals from different ethnic and religious groups forming informal, flexible and personal ...
Campbell, Brian
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