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Making donors put their money where their hearts are: How a payment app’s donation marketplace shapes redistributive imaginaries

Finance and Society
Based on a study of the Swiss mobile payment app Twint and its use as a tool for charitable giving, this article introduces a framework for studying redistributive imaginaries and examines donation ‘marketplaces’ and their implications.
Moritz Ege, Kathrin Ottovay
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Missing in Mexico: Denied victims, neglected stories

Culture & History Digital Journal, 2014
In this article, I will describe the mostly invisibilized “fight for rehumanization” of the families of the dehumanized disappeared of the Mexican Dirty War of the 1960s and 1970s. The conflictive memory politics in Mexico and the ambivalent transitional
Sylvia Karl
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Evolution in Archaeology [PDF]

, 2008
This review begins with a brief outline of the key concepts of Darwinian archaeology. Its history is then summarized, beginning with its emergence as a significant theoretical focus within the discipline in the early 1980s; its main present-day currents ...
Shennan, SJ
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Inter‐microscope comparability of dental microwear texture data obtained from different optical profilometers: Part II Deriving instrument‐specific correction equations for meta‐analyses using published data

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA) has emerged as a valuable method for investigating the feeding ecology of vertebrates. Over the past decade, three‐dimensional topographic data from microscopic regions of tooth surfaces have been collected, and surface texture parameters have been published for both extant and fossil species.
Mugino O. Kubo, T. Kubo, Ellen Schulz‐Kornas, T. M. Kaiser, Daniela E. Winkler   +4 more
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Valer y valor. Una exhumación de la teoría del valor para reflexionar sobre la desigualdad y la diferencia en relación con la escuela [PDF]

, 2007
This essay examines the anthropological concept of value in the light of a set of classic texts. In comparing the treatment of this concept within the tradition of studies in social and cultural anthropology with the frequent usage it has had in the ...
Díaz de Rada, Ángel
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Inter‐microscope comparability of dental microwear texture data obtained from different optical profilometers: Part I Reproducibility of diet inference using different instruments

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA) has become a well‐established method for dietary inference and reconstruction in both extant and extinct mammals and other tetrapods. As the volume of available data continues to grow, researchers could benefit from combining published data from various studies to perform meta‐analyses.
Daniela E. Winkler, Mugino O. Kubo
wiley   +1 more source

Reproductive choices: a qualitative study of Dutch Moroccan and Turkish consanguineously married women’s perspectives on preconception carrier screening

BMC Women's Health, 2018
Background Cousin marriages, in the Netherlands most frequently between Turkish or Moroccan couples, are at higher risk of having offspring with recessive disorders.
Petra Verdonk, Suzanne Metselaar, Oka Storms, Edien Bartels   +3 more
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Concise Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology

, 2011
Practical and accessible, this dictionary is designed to enlighten those newly engaged in anthropological study or seeking a quick guide to the field. Fills a need for a beginner's pocket guide to the far-reaching and complex field of anthropology, including over 800 detailed entries and the intellectual background of terms Written in plain, jargon ...
openaire   +1 more source

Anthropology: The Study of Social and Cultural Originality

African Sociological Review, 1999
Abstract
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In the chaos of today's society: The dynamics of collapse as another shift in the quantum anthropology of Heidi Ann Russell [PDF]

, 2015
The presented study introduces a new theoretical model of collapse for social, cultural, or political systems. Based on the current form of quantum anthropology conceptualized by Heidi Ann Russell, further development of this field is provided.
Trnka, Radek
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