Book review: AIDS doesn’t show its face: inequality, morality, and social change in Nigeria by Daniel Jordan Smith [PDF]
, 2014 Sharon Jackson finds that Daniel Jordan Smith’s AIDS Doesn’t Show Its Face should draw readers from anthropology, sociology, international development, global health, social psychology, cultural studies, human geography and African studies.
Jackson, Sharon
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Culture in Heritage On the Socio-Anthropological Notion of Culture in Current Heritage Discourses [PDF]
, 2017 The intellectual ‘heritage’ of social anthropology - universalism, cultural relativism and comparative method - is today strongly used as a tool-box by institutions and scholars from other fields.
Pfeilstetter, Richard
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The Cultural Construction of Nature and the Natural Destruction of Culture [PDF]
, 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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“Das Unbehagen in der Multi-Kultur“. Phenomenology of Discontent in a Multi-cultural Society, and How to Take Care of It [PDF]
, 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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International 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
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Cultural values and behavior in dictator, ultimatum, trust games: an experimental study [PDF]
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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A history of the convergence of ethnography, cultural studies and digital media [PDF]
, 2018 Book review: A history of the convergence of ethnography, cultural studies and digital ...
Sinanan, Jolynna
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Revisiting the culture–social structure duality debate through the lens of personal networks
ConnectionsIn this article, we address a long-standing debate in social science about whether culture or social structure provides the best lens for understanding human behavior and how that scales to the level of social institutions.
Molina José Luis +3 more
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Review of Atheist Awakening: Secular Activism & Community in America
Secularism and Nonreligion, 2016 Book Review of 'Atheist Awakening: Secular Activism & Community in America'.
Katherine Sissons
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Caste and punishment : the legacy of caste culture in norm enforcement [PDF]
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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