Academic Articles & Research Papers

Anthropology of Ontologies

The turn to ontology, often associated with the recent works of Philippe Descola, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, and Bruno Latour, but evident in many other places as well, is, in Elizabeth Povinelli's formulation, “symptomatic” and “diagnosti...

Anthropology of Fishing

Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anth...

Annual Review of Anthropology

The Annual Review of Anthropology, in publication since 1972, covers significant developments in the subfields of anthropology, including archaeology, biological anthropology, linguistics and communicative practices, regional studies and in...

The Anthropology of Christianity

This article surveys the literature that constitutes the newly emergent anthropology of Christianity. Arguing that the development of this sub-discipline was impeded until recently by anthropology's theoretical framing and empirical interes...

The Anthropology of Money

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...

Feminism and Anthropology.

Feminism and anthropology - the story of a relationship gender and status - explaining the position of women understanding women's work - kinship, labour and household I the changing nature of women's lives - kinship, labour and household I...

Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology

* Provides a comprehensive survey of contemporary thinking in biological, social and cultural anthropology and establishes the interconnections between these three fields.* Useful cross-references within the text, with full biographical ref...

A New history of anthropology

List of Illustrations. Notes on Contributors. Introduction: Henrika Kuklick (University of Pennsylvania). 1. Anthropology before Anthropology: Harry Liebersohn (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign). Major Traditions . 2. North American...

The anthropology of experience

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...

The Alberta Congenital Anomalies Surveillance System: a 40-year review with prevalence and trends for selected congenital anomalies, 1997–2019

IntroductionCurrent published long-term provincial or territorial congenital anomaly data are lacking for Canada. We report on prevalence (per 1000 total births) and trends in 1997–2019, in Alberta, Canada, for selected congenital anomalies...

Longitudinal outcomes of gender identity in children (LOGIC): a study protocol for a prospective longitudinal qualitative study of the experiences and well-being of families referred to the UK Gender Identity Development Service

Introduction Gender Identity Development Services (GIDS) worldwide have experienced a significant increase in referrals in recent years. However, little is currently known about the experiences of the children and young people (CYP) and the...

Policy advisory committees in Kenya: interest group participation and effectiveness

Governments create advisory committees and arm’s-length agencies and then delegate responsibilities and powers, sometimes merely to provide policy advice but sometimes to implement regulation. Interest groups, and especially groups represen...

The importance and challenge of comparing stroke care, utilization and outcomes in Medicare Advantage and Fee-for-Service Medicare: a narrative review and vision for the future

Stroke prevalence is highest in adults ≥65 years, the majority of whom are Medicare beneficiaries. Feefor- Service Medicare (FFS) incentivizes utilization by paying for each service. Medicare Advantage (MA) uses capitated payments to redu...

Sistemi ortofrutticoli sostenibili

The sustainability of agricultural production systems is a recurrent topic in the public debate, tightly linked to resource use efficiency and energy saving principles. "Higher yield with lower input" is the paradigm that will guide us in t...

Mass media and public policy

Public Policy Analysis: An Introduction

Preface to the Third Edition CHAPTER 1: The Process of Policy Analysis * The Process of Policy Inquiry * Multidisciplinary Policy Analysis* Policy-Relevant Information* Policy-Informational Transformations* Policy-Analytic Methods* Three Ca...

The Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy

Abstract What are the methodologies that we should employ for designing and evaluating governmental policy, in light of the profound effects that policies have on the level and distribution of individuals' well-being? The Oxford Handbook of...

Behavioral Economics and Public Policy: A Pragmatic Perspective

The debate about behavioral economics–the incorporation of insights from psychology into economics–is often framed as a question about the foundational assumptions of economic models. This paper presents a more pragmatic perspective on beha...

Euthanasia, Ethics and Public Policy

Whether the law should permit voluntary euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide is one of the most vital questions facing all modern societies. Internationally, the main obstacle to legalisation has proved to be the objection that, even if...

Managing public policy issues