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Benjamin A. Pierce (2002)
Introduction to Genetics Genetics Is Important to Us Individually, to Society, and to the Study of Biology Humans Have Been Using Genetics for Thousands of Years A Few Fundamental Concepts Are Important for the Start of Our Journey into Gen...
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William S. Klug, Michael R. Cummings • Own your potential (DEAKIN)
(1983)
Part 1 Heredity and the phenotype: cell division - mitosis and meosis Mendalian genetics modification of Mendelian ratios linkage and chromosome mapping in eukaryotes recombination and mapping in bacteria and bacteriophages extensions of ge...
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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
Veena Das • Annual Review of Anthropology
(1998)
▪ Abstract This essay explores the theme of Wittgenstein as a philosopher of culture. The primary text on which the essay is based is Philosophical Investigations; it treats Stanley Cavell's work as a major guide for the understanding and r...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.anthro.27.1.171
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
Robert Desjarlais, C. Jason Throop • Annual Review of Anthropology
(2010)
This review explores the most significant dimensions and findings of phenomenological approaches in anthropology. We spell out the motives and implications inherent in such approaches, chronicle their historical dimensions and precursors, a...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-092010-153345
Jon Harald Sande Lie • Millennium Journal of International Studies
(2012)
Ethnography and anthropology are intrinsically linked, but recently other disciplines have started to draw inspiration from anthropological methods. The ongoing ethnographic turn in International Relations has spurred debate on what ethnogr...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829812463835
(1995)
Abstract Landscape has long had a submerged presence within anthropology, both as a framing device which informs the way the anthropologist brings his or her study into “view”, and as the meaning imputed by local people to their cultural an...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198278801.001.0001
Maurice E. F. Bloch • Routledge eBooks
(2013)
This book examines the uses made of anthropology by Marx and Engels, and the uses made of Marxism by anthropologists. Looking at the writings of Marx and Engels on primitive societies, the book evaluates their views in the light of present ...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315017952
Pertti J. Pelto, Gretel H. Pelto • Cambridge University Press eBooks
(1978)
This text is a comprehensive introduction to research methods in social and cultural anthropology. The Peltos focus their discussion on the essential elements of preparing and analyzing the supporting evidence from which generalizations abo...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511607776
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
James Acheson • Annual Review of Anthropology
(1981)
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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.an.10.100181.001423
Edmundo R. Leach • Routledge eBooks
(2021)
The essential core of social anthropology is fieldwork–the understanding of the way of life of a single particular people. This fieldwork is an extremely personal traumatic kind of experience and the personal involvement of the anthropologi...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003136460-1
Sarah Pink • Social Anthropology
(2010)
A focus on the senses has become a key theme in contemporary anthropology. In this short piece I suggest that this focus can be understood in terms of two strands, the original anthropology of the senses on the one hand, and the newer senso...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8676.2010.00119_1.x
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
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
Henrika Kuklick • Choice Reviews Online
(2008)
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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.46-0387
David Graeber • eVols (University of Hawaii)
(2004)
Everywhere anarchism is on the upswing as a political philosophy—everywhere, that is, except the academy. Anarchists repeatedly appeal to anthropologists for ideas about how society might be reorganized on a more egalitarian, less alienatin...
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Davide Risso, Fanny Perraudeau, Svetlana Gribkova, Sandrine Dudoit et al. • Nature Communications
(2019)
The original PDF version of this Article contained errors in two equations. In Eq. (1), all Γ symbols were inadvertently omitted. In the second equation in the subsection entitled ‘1. Dispersion optimization’ within the Methods section ‘ZIN...
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DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-08614-2
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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