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David Kaplan • Routledge eBooks
(2017)
Anthropological theory has been much discussed in recent years, yet the crucial questions still remain--how can it be defined, how is it developed, how is it to be applied, and how can one confirm it? The editors of Anthropological Theory a...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315082271
Matei Candea • Cambridge University Press eBooks
(2018)
Why and how do social and cultural anthropologists make comparisons? What problems do they encounter in doing so, and how might these be resolved? What, if anything, makes one comparison better than another? This book answers these question...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108667609
Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Finn Sivert Nielsen • Pluto Press eBooks
(2013)
This is a thoroughly updated and revised edition of a popular classic of modern anthropology. Avoiding geographical bias, the authors provide summaries of ‘Enlightenment’, ‘Romantic’ and ‘Victorian’ anthropology, from the cultural theories ...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt183gzx9
• Choice Reviews Online
(2003)
Preface Introduction: Who Is Alma? Globalizing Anthropology Slouching Toward Globalization The Anthropology of Globalization Development, Devolution, and Discourse Constructing Identity Globalization and Migration Migration: People on the M...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.40-4085
Adam Kuper, Thomas Barfield • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
(1998)
Preface. How to Use the Dictionary. List of Contributors. Dictionary Entries A--Z. Bibliography....
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/3034844
Paul E. Farmer • Current Anthropology
(2004)
Any thorough understanding of the modern epidemics of AIDS and tuberculosis in Haiti or elsewhere in the postcolonial world requires a thorough knowledge of history and political economy. This essay, based on over a decade of research in ru...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/382250
Bill Maurer • Annual Review of Anthropology
(2006)
This review surveys anthropological and other social research on money and finance. It emphasizes money's social roles and meanings as well as its pragmatics in different modalities of exchange and circulation. It reviews scholarly emphasis...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.anthro.35.081705.123127
Charlotte Seymour-Smith (1986)
An authoritative reference work, the Macmillan Dictionary of Anthropology covers the entire range of scholarship in this field, from the early ethnographers to the most recent research. This concise g...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08037-3
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro • Common Knowledge
(2011)
The article assumes that the expression “comparative relativism”—the title of the Common Knowledge symposium in which the essay appears—is neither tautological nor oxymoronic. Rather, the author construes the term as an apt synthetic charac...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754x-2010-045
Edward M. Bruner, Victor W. Turner • University of Illinois Press eBooks
(1986)
Fourteen authors, including many of the best-known scholars in the field, explore how people actually experience their culture and how those experiences are expressed in forms as varied as narrative, literary work, theater, carnival, ritual...
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Victor W. Turner (1986)
Turner is all over the globe as he addresses issues of cultural performance, carnival, film, theatre, and performing ethnography to break new ground in anthropological thinking about event, spectacle, and audience. One of his last writings,...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.56021/9781555540012
Eduardo Restrepo, Arturo Escobar • Critique of Anthropology
(2005)
This article seeks to complicate the picture of a simple anthropological tradition emanating from the West that defines anthropology as a modern form of expert knowledge. It introduces a broader frame - ‘world anthropologies’ - that allows ...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275x05053009
Yousef SHAHWAN, Nor Raihan MOHAMMAD • Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai Negotia
(2016)
The OECD principles of Corporate Governance (CG) are the most important public policy mechanisms that assist regulators to efficiently evaluate and improve the institutional, regulatory and legal framework for sound CG. Consequently, the pr...
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Susy Katikana Sebayang, Desak Made Sintha Kurnia Dewi, Septa Indra Puspikawati, Erni Astutik et al. • Journal of Community Mental Health and Public Policy
(2020)
ABSTRACT
Gadget use among Indonesian adolescents is becoming more prevalent. Most Indonesian families own smartphones for various uses including for accessing the internet. Gadget and internet use has sharply increased during the Covid-19 p...
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DOI: 10.51602/cmhp.v3i1.47
Padma Shrestha, Bijay Bajracharya, Deena Shrestha, Ajit Kumar Karna et al. • BMC Microbiology
(2026)
Abstract Background Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has emerged as a critical global health challenge and is currently addressed through a “One Health” approach that investigates its occurrence in humans, animals, and the environment, as wel...
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DOI: 10.1186/s12866-026-04713-5
Rose M. Pignataro, Charles Daramola • Tobacco Prevention and Cessation
(2020)
Introduction
The effectiveness of tobacco-free campus policies in preventing and mitigating tobacco use relies on students’ perceptions, opinions, and adherence
to clean-air restrictions. The purpose of this study was to gather data regardi...
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DOI: 10.18332/tpc/125915
Taesung Hwang • Journal of International Logistics and Trade
(2017)
This work proposes a methodology to project future freight demand for all commodity types that begin and end in each geographical region and the amount of freight that moves between all origin and destination pairs. Following the traditiona...
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DOI: 10.24006/jilt.2017.15.2.53
Wardah Naim, Trevor Tombe • The School of Public Policy Publications
(2013)
If anything is to blame for a higher dollar having negative effects on the Central Canadian manufacturing sector, you are not likely to find it in any “Dutch Disease” supposedly caused by Alberta’s oil sands. Contrary to popular belief, the...
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Nuoxue Li, Weixi Zeng, Susu Yin, Lixia Zhao • Frontiers in Public Health
(2025)
IntroductionConspiracy narratives are a prevalent narrative framework in risk communication, often provoking public fear and defensive reactions, challenging the healthy interaction between governments and the public in social governance.Me...
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DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1557786
Zara Quigg, Mark A. Bellis, Hannah Grey, Jane Webster et al. • Addictive Behaviors Reports
(2019)
Aim: To explore the nature and magnitude of alcohol's harms to others (AHTOs), and associations with mental well-being. Methods: Cross-sectional survey implemented amongst 891 randomly selected Welsh residents (aged 18+ years), via computer...
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DOI: 10.1016/j.abrep.2019.100162