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“Economic man” in cross-cultural perspective: Behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies [PDF]

, 2005
Researchers from across the social sciences have found consistent deviations from the predictions of the canonical model of self-interest in hundreds of experiments from around the world.
Alvard, Michael, Barr, Abigail, Bowles, Samuel, Boyd, Robert, Camerer, Colin, Ensminger, Jean, Fehr, Ernst, Gil-White, Francisco, Gintis, Herbert, Gurven, Michael, Henrich, Joseph, Hill, Kim, Marlowe, Frank W., McElreath, Richard, Patton, John Q., Smith Henrich, Natalie, Tracer, David   +16 more
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What Are Kinship Terminologies, and Why Do We Care? A Computational Approach to Analyzing Symbolic Domains [PDF]

, 2013
Kinship is a fundamental feature and basis of human societies. We describe a set of computational tools and services, the Kinship Algebra Modeler, and the logic that underlies these. These were developed to improve how we understand both the fundamental
Fischer, Michael D., Leaf, Murray J., Read, Dwight   +2 more
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Politics of pension sharing in urban South Africa [PDF]

, 1999
Analysing the practice of pension sharing, this article looks at social and cultural dimensions of ageing in an urban African residential area, Cape Town's Khayelitsha.
Mtati, Raymond Z., Sagner, Andreas
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Population Aging as the Social Body in Representation and Real Life [PDF]

, 2013
This article uses three levels of body analysis as presented by Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Margaret Lock to compare old age as a construct in population aging discourse with research on lived experience of people aging in the United States and Ghana.
Crampton, Alexandra
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"Now he walks and walks, as if he didn't have a home where he could eat": food, healing, and hunger in Quechua narratives of madness [PDF]

, 2013
In the Quechua-speaking peasant communities of southern Peru, mental disorder is understood less as individualized pathology and more as a disturbance in family and social relationships. For many Andeans, food and feeding are ontologically fundamental to
A Topor, Alison Krogel, Anna Meigs, Bianca Brijnath, Carlos Larrea, Carole M Counihan, Catherine J Allen, Catherine J Allen, Christine Greenway, Constance Classen, David M. R. Orr, David MR Orr, Derek Summerfield, Derek Summerfield, Duncan Pedersen, Elizabeth Cartwright, Emily Yates-Doerr, Gaithri A Fernando, Hermilio Valdizán, Irene Silverblatt, Javier Saavedra, Judith K Bass, Katherine Sohrsdahl, Krista E Vleet van, Laurence J Kirmayer, Lesley Jo Weaver, Libbet Crandon-Malamud, Mary Weismantel, Mary Weismantel, María Tapias, Michael Goddard, Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Neely Laurenzo Myers, Parin Dossa, Peter Gose, Sarah Lund Skar, Sharon Alane Abramowitz, Susan Elizabeth Ramirez, Ursula Read, WHO, Xavier Ricard Lanata   +40 more
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A Global Prospective Harmonization Framework for Suicidality, Anhedonia, and Obsessive‐Compulsive Symptoms in Psychiatric Genetic Studies: A Cross‐Continental Study Within the Ancestral Population Network

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study aims to prospectively collect harmonized, quantitative, and dimensional psychiatric phenotypes (suicidality, anhedonia, and obsessive‐compulsive symptoms) and information on discrimination, stigma, and unfair treatment in up to 27,500 individuals across diverse ancestries and clinical populations for genetic analysis within the NIMH
Ana M. Diaz‐Zuluaga, Jacey L. Anderberg, Ana M. Ramirez‐Diaz, Andrea Horvath Marques, Catherine E. Rast, Daniel Bustamante, Deborah Jonker, Johanna Valencia‐Echeverry, Joseph Kyebuzibwa, Josselyn S. Muñoz, Kristien van der Walt, Mauricio Castaño Ramirez, Olivia Wootton, Renee M. Frederick, Rocky E. Stroud II, Ruben Gur, Sang Jin Rhee, Shaili C. Jha, Stella Gichuru, Susan Service, Victor I. Reus, Akena Dickens, Carlos Lopez‐Jaramillo, Carrie E. Bearden, Dan J. Stein, Ezra S. Susser, James J. Crowley, Jonathan Flint, Kenneth S. Kendler, Lukoye Atwoli, Michele T. Pato, Nelson B. Freimer, Roel A. Ophoff, Yong Min Ahn, Loes Olde Loohuis, Eric A. Storch, Bizu Gelaye   +36 more
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The establishment of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI): the first step in the development of an accounting profession in post-independence India [PDF]

, 2006
This paper analyses the influence of culture and politics on the establishment of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) using a theoretical framework, extending the work of Gray (1988) and McKinnon (1986) in which accounting change is ...
Gray, S.J., Verma, S.
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Help One Another, Use One Another: Toward An Anthropology of Family Business [PDF]

, 2003
Anthropological kinship theory is explored for potential contributions to a theory of family business. This paper considers the costs and benefits of a role for kinship in business.
Stewart, Alex
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Descriptive Epidemiology From the Myhre Syndrome Foundation Registry: The Value of Self‐Reported Data

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C: Seminars in Medical Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Myhre syndrome is an ultrarare genetic disease characterized by short stature, distinct craniofacial features, cardiovascular and respiratory fibrosis and stenosis, neurodevelopmental delays, autism, intellectual disability, and hearing loss. The natural history of Myhre syndrome is still not fully understood due to a small patient population ...
Mary K. Young, Armelle Pindon, Maggie R. Brand, Kate Wears, Katherine H. Young, Alyssa Mendel, Michael J. Lyons   +6 more
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Managing the evolution of cooperation [PDF]

, 2008
Management scholars have long stressed the importance of evolutionary processses for inter-firm cooperation but have mostly missed the promising opportunity to incorporate ideas from evolutionary theories into the analysis of collaborative arrangements ...
Dormann, Julian, Ehrmann, Thomas
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