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Ethnography, Cultural and Social Anthropology [PDF]

American Anthropologist, 1953
ETHNOGRAPHY, CULTURAL AND SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY By ROBERT H. LOWIE HE discussion Murdock and Firth, Professor Fortes's T contribution to by Professors Professor Radcliffe-Brown's illuminating the debate, letter in a recent issue of this journal, and a number of other statements by American and British colleagues (Murdock 1951; Firth 1951; Radcliffe-Brown
Robert H. Lowie
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Anthropology: The Study of Social and Cultural Originality

African Sociological Review, 1999
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Jane I. Guyer
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Review of: "Social-Cultural Anthropology in the Oldest Department of Anthropology in India: Writing History or the Suppression of Records?" [PDF]

, 2023
Ricardo Andrés Manrique Granados
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Reindeer herding statistics in Russia: issues of reliability, interpretation, and political effect

Pastoralism, 2022
Official reindeer herding statistics are an invaluable source of data for both social and natural scientists wishing to understand and model ecological systems in the Arctic.
Kirill V. Istomin, Roza I. Laptander, Joachim Otto Habeck   +2 more
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Exploring willingness-to-pay for ‘malaria-free’ rice among rural consumers in Rwanda: examining the potential for a local voluntary standard

Agricultural and Food Economics, 2023
Rice cultivation in Sub-Saharan Africa produces a negative externality in the form of higher malaria risk. Larval source management, such as the application of bio-larvicides in rice fields, is available to mitigate the problem.
Alexis Rulisa, Luuk van Kempen, Dirk-Jan Koch   +2 more
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After International Law: Anthropology Beyond the “Age of Human Rights”

AJIL Unbound, 2021
This essay examines the ways in which anthropologists have tracked the rise and fall of international law after the end of the Cold War. It argues that anthropological research has made important contributions to the wider understanding of international ...
Mark Goodale
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Land, sugar and pastoralism in Ethiopia: Comparing the impact of the Omo-Kuraz sugar projects on local livelihoods and food (in) security in the lower Omo Valley

Pastoralism, 2022
This study assesses the impact of a large, state-sponsored sugar plantation scheme on agro-pastoralists’ livelihoods and local land use change in southern Ethiopia, specifically in the lower Omo Valley.
Adane Kebede Gebeyehu, Jon Abbink
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“I Want to Bury It, Will You Join Me?”: The Use of Ritual in Prenatal Loss among Women in Catalonia, Spain in the Early 21st Century

Religions, 2022
Prenatal loss, such as miscarriage and stillbirth, may be understood as the confluence of birth and death. The most significant of life’s transitions, these events are rarely if ever expected to coincide.
Lynne McIntyre, Bruna Alvarez, Diana Marre   +2 more
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“She’s Surrounded by Loved Ones, but Feeling Alone”: A Relational Approach to Loneliness

Social Inclusion, 2021
Loneliness poses one of the significant problems of our modern post‐industrial societies. Current research on loneliness has been developed primarily by psychology, biomedicine, nursing, and other health‐related disciplines, showing a surprising number ...
Hugo Valenzuela-Garcia, Miranda J. Lubbers, Jose Luis Molina   +2 more
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Social and Cultural Anthropology [PDF]

, 2000
AbstractThis chapter looks at the interpretation of ritual in the Hebrew Bible from the perspective of anthropology, which has had a close symbiotic relationship with biblical studies since the emergence of the comparative study of human culture in the 19th century.
John Monaghan, Peter Just
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