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Abstract When developing products and services for base of the economic pyramid (BoP) consumers, it has been widely assumed that organizations must set extremely low prices that are dependent on substantial product acceptance and economies of scale. However, such pricing is often not feasible.
Christopher P. Blocker +2 more
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The intimacy of the gift in the economy of sex work
Abstract This article explores the intersection that exists between the economy and intimacy through an exploration of gift exchanges between Latin American sex workers and regular clients in London. It engages with scholarship on sex work and intimacy to explore the social dimension of gifts embedded in affective commodified relationships. It explores
Ana P. Gutiérrez Garza
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Sweet Femininities: Women and the Confectionery Trade in Eighteenth‐Century Barcelona
Abstract This article examines the intersections between sweetness, femininity and the confectionery trade in eighteenth‐century Barcelona, at a time of growing consumption of sugar and slavery. Drawing on a range of underexplored archival material, this study traces the stories of women of different social groups, namely, elite housewives, nuns and ...
Marta Manzanares Mileo
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When discomfort enters our skin: Five feminists in conversation
Abstract Created around, through and within discomfort, this piece weaves together the voices of five feminist scholars in an exploration of troubling affective and emotional experiences, offering material for critical theorizing and engaged scholarship. This inquiry started at a conference panel in July 2019.
Andrea García‐González +4 more
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Evaluation of Electromyographic Activity of Masticatory Muscles in Adults with Posterior Crossbite
Introduction. There is evidence that patients with posterior crossbite (PXB) have neuromuscular changes in the masticatory muscles. However, up to the present time, the relationship among these changes on the electromyographic activity of the masticatory muscles is still unclear. Objective.
Luiz Makito Osawa Gutierrez +5 more
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(Implicit) Knowledge, reasons, and semantic understanding
This paper exploits recent work on the normative and constitutive roles of knowledge in practical rationality, to put pressure on the idea that speakers could communicate without exploiting linguistic knowledge. I defend cognitivism about meaning, the view that speakers have rationally accessible (i.e., implicit rather than tacit) knowledge of semantic
Natalia Waights Hickman
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Beyond the Book project: quantitative data and collateral documents for One Book, One Chicago [PDF]
Quantitative data and collateral documents Chicago portion of the AHRC-funded project ‘Beyond the Book: Mass Reading Events and Contemporary Cultures of Reading in the UK, USA and Canada’, (2005-2008, grant number: 112166), a three-year interdisciplinary
Engel, Lindsay +3 more
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Prostitution et échanges sexuels: de l ́optique occidentale à la réalité maghrébine
La prostitución ha tenido en Marruecos las mismas características que en cualquier otra parte del mundo, aunque el colonialismo ha ayudado a su desarrollo.
Juan José Perales
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La influencia económica y política de las acllacuna en el Incanato
Se analiza la institución de las "acllacuna", tras hacer una tipología de los vestidos y tejidos incaicos y establecer las funciones desempeñadas por el tejido en los contextos políticos y religiosos del Estado inca.
Pilar Alberti Manzanares
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Cáceres versus Abinum. Wedding presents in the Jewish nation of Pisa [PDF]
Este trabajo estudia un aspecto destacado del matrimonio hebreo, los regalos de boda entre los contrayentes, a partir de documentación inédita procedente de la comunidad sefardí establecida en la ciudad italiana de Pisa desde finales del siglo XVI ...
Rodríguez Toro, José Javier
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