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Towards an anthropology of acquisition: ‘How did you get that?’ Vers une anthropologie de l'acquisition : « Où as‐tu trouvé ça ? »

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The production‐distribution‐consumption triad has structured how anthropologists understand exchange for roughly a century. This article argues for expanding this triad to include an explicit focus on acquisition – the systems, processes, and practices of acquiring.
Hanna Garth
wiley   +1 more source

Co-designing a just-in-time adaptive mHealth intervention to improve parental support for child physical activity using a no-code app design platform: Development study. [PDF]

Appl Psychol Health Well Being
Willms A, Sui A, Jantzen R, Chester S, Vanderloo LM, Rhodes RE, Liu S.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

On the problem of continuity: a theory of culture beyond invention Le problème de la continuité : une théorie de la culture au‐delà de l'invention

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Anthropologists, in common with social theorists more generally, have often understood social life as an emergent phenomenon grounded in practices of creativity and improvisation. Where stasis and continuity feature, these are often presented as illusory manifestations of underlying processes of ‘invention’, or as external impositions upon otherwise ...
Paolo Heywood, Thomas Yarrow
wiley   +1 more source

Intention Reasoning for User Action Sequences via Fusion of Object Task and Object Action Affordances Based on Dempster-Shafer Theory. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel)
Liu Y, Wang C, Liu Y, Tong W, Zhong M.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Invisible Barriers to Sustainable Surgical Practice

World Journal of Surgery, EarlyView.
Mina Sarofim
wiley   +1 more source

If‐Conditionals as Arguments in Nineteenth‐Century Women's Instructive Writing in English

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This article seeks to analyse the if‐conditionals in a corpus of cookery recipes written by women, namely the Corpus of Women's Instructive Texts in English (1800–1899) (CoWITE19). These texts are original texts written by British and American women between 1800 and 1850.
Margarita‐Esther Sánchez‐Cuervo
wiley   +1 more source

Does Voting History Matter? Analysing Persistence in Turnout [PDF]

Individuals who vote in one election are also more likely to vote in the next. Modelling the causal relationship between past and current voting decisions however is intrinsically difficult, as this positive association can exist due to habit formation ...
Kevin Denny, Orla Doyle
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Shameful or shameless? Anxieties about mothers and women's autonomy on the Central African Copperbelt, 1956–1964

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article deals with anxiety about and the shaming of modern urban mothers and wives on the mines of the late colonial Central African Copperbelt. Women's various labours and public presence lead to ambivalent depictions, such as the ‘careless mother’, that were part of a broader array of anxieties about women's autonomy on the mines ...
Stephanie Lämmert
wiley   +1 more source

Categories and Modes of Being: A Discussion of Robert Pasnau’s Metaphysical Themes [PDF]

, 2014
Symington, Paul
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Mothers against the natural order: Gender representations and desertion of identities in the drama of disinheriting a son in eighteenth‐century Barcelona  

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The disinheritance of a firstborn son accustomed to the privileges of exclusion has for centuries been a dramatic event for families, especially if the decision was taken by a woman, the son's own mother. Very few dared to do so, because it symbolised a break with the notion of virtuous, compassionate motherhood; it represented a failure to be
Mariela Fargas Peñarrocha
wiley   +1 more source