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The Tomaraho Conception of the Sky [PDF]
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Issue S278 / January 2011, 2011 The small community of the Tomaraho, an ethnic group culturally derived from the Zamucos, became known in the South American and world anthropological scenario in recent times. This group, far from the banks of the Paraguay river, remained concealed from organized modern societies for many years.
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Kinship Is a Network Tracking Social Technology, Not an Evolutionary Phenomenon [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 On one hand, kinship is a universal human phenomenon that tends to align with biological relatedness, which might suggest evolutionary foundations. On the other hand, kinship has exceptional variation across the human populations, which points to cultural foundations. Furthermore, even if its foundation was biological, kinship is often too imprecise to
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Anthropology and Medicine, 2013 The current paper presents an analysis of the NICE guidelines on depression and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) from the perspective of the philosophy of science, guided particularly by Foucault's notion of the symbiosis of knowledge and ...
J. Moncrieff, S. Timimi
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Unique in what sense? Heterogeneous relationships between multiple types of uniqueness and popularity in music [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 How does our society appreciate the uniqueness of cultural products? This fundamental puzzle has intrigued scholars in many fields, including psychology, sociology, anthropology, and marketing. It has been theorized that cultural products that balance familiarity and novelty are more likely to become popular.
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Measuring transnational social fields through binational link-tracing sampling [PDF]
, 2020 We advance binational link-tracing sampling design, an innovative data collection methodology for sampling from transnational social fields, i.e., transnational networks embedding migrants and non-migrants. This paper shows the practical challenges of such a design, the representativeness of the samples and the qualities of the resulted networks.
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SOCIAL, HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL DIMENSIONS OF TUBERCULOSIS.
Journal of Biosocial Science, 2016 Tuberculosis (TB) researchers and clinicians, by virtue of the social disease they study, are drawn into an engagement with ways of understanding illness that extend beyond the strictly biomedical model.
P. Mason, A. Roy, J. Spillane, P. Singh
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Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology, 2018 This essay is a reflection on the sowing festival taghm which marks the beginning of the agricultural season in Gojal in the Karakorum Mountains of Pakistan. While doing research on the consequences of the Attabad landslide (Sökefeld 2012, 2014), I took
Martin Sökefeld
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Human values and moral exclusion
Ethics & Global Politics, 2016 This article uses empirical data from the anthropology of human rights and the ethics of everyday life to examine the relationship between dominant value frames, moral action, and the rise of ‘counter-humanities’ in the form of cultural identitarianism ...
Mark Goodale
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Łódzkie Studia Etnograficzne, 2020 This paper discusses the EU project TRANSCA – Translating Socio-Cultural Anthropology into Education. The project shares current practices and ideas to help anthropology become more widespread in teacher education and subsequently, in schools.
Christa Markom
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Social InclusionThis article examines the lived experiences of precarity in Bangladesh’s ready‐made garments (RMG) industry, focusing on female migrant workers employed in Dhaka and surrounding industrial areas.
Hosna J. Shewly, Ellen Bal, Runa Laila
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