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Sahotra Sarkar • Cambridge University Press eBooks
(1998)
With the advent of the Human Genome Project there have been many claims for the genetic origins of complex human behavior including insanity, criminality, and intelligence. But what does it really mean to call something 'genetic'? This is t...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139173216
(1992)
Abstract This collection of essays on anthropological approaches to art and aesthetics is the first in its field to be published for some time. In recent years a number of new galleries of non-Western art have been opened, many exhibitions ...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198277330.001.0001
Sarah Pink • Routledge eBooks
(2006)
From an eminent author in the field, The Future of Visual Anthropology develops a new approach to visual anthropology and presents a groundbreaking examination of developments within the field and the way forward for the subdiscipline in th...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203003596
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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Open Access
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt183gzx9
Tim Ingold • Routledge eBooks
(2017)
There is more to education than teaching and learning, and more to anthropology than making studies of other people’s lives. Here Tim Ingold argues that both anthropology and education are ways of studying, and of leading life, with others....
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315227191
Simon W Hillson • Cambridge University Press eBooks
(1996)
Teeth are one of the best sources of evidence for both identification and studies of demography, biological relationships and health in ancient human communities. This text introduces the complex biology of teeth and provides a practical gu...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139170697
Alessandro Duranti • Cambridge University Press eBooks
(1997)
In this textbook, first published in 1997, Alessandro Duranti introduces linguistic anthropology as an interdisciplinary field which studies language as a cultural resource and speaking as a cultural practice. The theories and methods of li...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511810190
Catherine S. Dolan, Emma Gilberthorpe, Dinah Rajak • Wiley eBooks
(2017)
The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology is the most complete reference resource for the field of anthropology and interrelated areas, providing an authoritative and expert overview of the concepts, research, and techniques that toget...
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public-domain
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118924396
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...
DOAJ
Open Access (DOAJ)
DOI: 10.51602/cmhp.v3i1.47
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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Open Access (DOAJ)
DOI: 10.18332/tpc/125915
• Choice Reviews Online
(1998)
Evaluation is a controversial and little-understood strategy of public governance, control, and decision making. As early as classical antiquity, scholars were summoned to court to counsel kings. Public policy and program evaluation is a re...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.35-2785
David Thacher, Martin Rein • Governance
(2004)
Policy issues are often characterized by conflicting values. Conventionally, students of public policy have conceptualized government's response to value conflicts as a matter of “balancing” competing goals, or striking trade‐offs among val...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0952-1895.2004.00254.x
Göktuğ Morçöl • Routledge eBooks
(2013)
Complexity theory has become popular in the natural and social sciences over the last few decades as a result of the advancements in our understanding of the complexities in natural and social phenomena. Concepts and methods of complexity t...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203112694
Charles L. Cochran, Eloise F. Malone (1994)
Drones. Obamacare. Immigration. The economy. Gun control. Topics in the news on a daily basis, all the subject of heated policy debates. This new edition of Public Policy: Perspectives and Choices-thoroughly revised to reflect a half-decade...
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Robert Geyer, Samir Rihani • Routledge eBooks
(2012)
This book provides a clear, concise and readable introduction to complexity thinking, its application to the social sciences and public policy, and the relevance of some of its various tools to those fields of politics, health, the internat...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203856925
Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano, Frédéric Robert‐Nicoud, Richard Baldwin, Rikard Forslid et al. • Princeton University Press eBooks
(2011)
Research on the spatial aspects of economic activity has flourished over the past decade due to the emergence of new theory, new data, and an intense interest on the part of policymakers, especially in Europe but increasingly in North Ameri...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400841233
Peter C. John • Routledge eBooks
(2013)
The fully revised and updated new edition of this textbook continues to provide the most accessible overview of the main approaches in the study of public policy. It seeks to review the most common and widely used frameworks in the study of...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203136218
Michaël E. Kraft, Scott R. Furlong (2003)
In Public Policy : Politics, Analysis, and Alternatives, students come to understand how and why policy analysis is used to assess policy alternatives. To encourage critical and creative thinking on issues ranging from the federal deficit t...
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Peter Knoepfel, Corinne Larrue, Frédéric Varone, Michael Hill • Policy Press eBooks
(2007)
This book is an English version of a successful text* on public policy analysis originally written for policy practitioners in Switzerland and France. It presents a model for the analysis of public policy and includes examples of its applic...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781861349071.001.0001
William N. Dunn • Routledge eBooks
(2015)
Public Policy Analysis, the most widely cited book on the subject, provides students with a comprehensive methodology of policy analysis. It starts from the premise that policy analysis is an applied social science discipline designed for s...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315181226