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“Das Unbehagen in der Multi-Kultur“. Phenomenology of Discontent in a Multi-cultural Society, and How to Take Care of It [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
More and more often are psychotherapists confronted with patients from other cultures. This paper aims at showing how many things psychoanalysis and dynamic psychotherapy can, and must, learn from social sciences such as cultural anthropology, social ...
Caruso, Sergio
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Thinking about relations: Strathern, Sahlins, and Locke on anthropological knowledge [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
John Locke is known within anthropology primarily for his empiricism, his views of natural laws, and his discussion of the state of nature and the social contract.
Wilson, Robert A.
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The Manufacture of Rochia nilotica rings: The chaîne opératoire Identified for Lapita Sites in Vanuatu

open access: yesArchaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rings made on marine shell are a conspicuous artefact form found throughout cultural sequences for much of the Pacific over millennia. Despite their importance in both recent and ancient times, in‐depth consideration of the manufacturing processes involved in shell ring production are limited.
Michelle C. Langley   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Towards an Arid Eden? Boundary making, governance and benefit sharing and the political ecology of the “new commons” of Kunene Region, Northern Namibia

open access: yesInternational Journal of the Commons, 2016
Over the last two decades many sub-Saharan African countries have devolved rights and obligations in rural natural resource management from state to local communities in an effort to foster social-ecological sustainability and economic development at the
Michael Bollig
doaj   +1 more source

Cultural values and behavior in dictator, ultimatum, trust games: an experimental study [PDF]

open access: yes
We explain laboratory behavior in the dictator, ultimatum and trust games based on two cultural dimensions adopted from social and cultural anthropology: grid and group, which translate into reciprocity and altruism, respectively, in such games. Altruism
Dolgosuren Dorj   +2 more
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The Cultural Construction of Nature and the Natural Destruction of Culture [PDF]

open access: yes, 1984
This paper brings together two concepts, relative surprise and cultural bias. Both have deep roots in IIASA's intellectual tradition but they have been developed in widely separated fields.
Thompson, M.
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Medical students' initial experiences of the dissection room and interaction with body donors: A qualitative study of professional identity formation, educational benefits, and the experience of Pasifika students

open access: yesAnatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract The first experience of medical students in the dissecting room (DR) likely influences professional identity formation (PIF). Sparse data exist exploring how exposure to the DR and body donors without undertaking dissection influences PIF, or how culture may influence this experience.
Jacob Madgwick   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The history of anatomical engagement

open access: yesAnatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract The public's fascination with anatomy has evolved over time and progressed from avoidance of the tainted yet saintly corpse, to their fascination with cabinets of curiosities. The current narrative review explores public engagement (PE), from its potential origins as cave paintings, to the rise of the disciplinarity of anatomy.
Quenton Wessels, Adam M. Taylor
wiley   +1 more source

Caste and punishment : the legacy of caste culture in norm enforcement [PDF]

open access: yes
Well-functioning groups enforce social norms that restrain opportunism, but the social structure of a society may encourage or inhibit norm enforcement. This paper studies how the exogenous assignment to different positions in an extreme social hierarchy
Fehr, Ernst   +2 more
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Volume 3: Ethnographies of Islam : Ritual Performances and Everyday Practices [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This comparative approach to the various uses of the ethnographic method in research about Islam in anthropology and other social sciences is particularly relevant in the current climate.
Dupret, Baudouin   +3 more
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