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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
Fenella Cannell • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
(2005)
This article critiques the way in which the discipline of anthropology has construed Christianity, arguing that too narrow and ascetic a model of Christianity has become standard and questioning the claims of the ‘secular’ social sciences t...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2005.00239.x
Bryan Pfaffenberger • Annual Review of Anthropology
(1992)
At the onset of the 20th century, anthropologists such as Balfour, Marett, and Haddon could readily identify three spheres of strength in anthropological research: material culture, social organization, and physical anthropology (49). The s...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.an.21.100192.002423
Eduardo O. Kohn • Annual Review of Anthropology
(2015)
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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102214-014127
Ryan Cecil Jobson • American Anthropologist
(2020)
ABSTRACT This essay principally meditates on the scholarship published by sociocultural anthropologists in 2019. In 2019, the field of anthropology confronted anthropogenic climate change and authoritarian governance both as objects of scho...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13398
KAREN BRODKIN SACKS, Henrietta L. Moore • Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews
(1990)
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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2072413
R. Brian Lowry, Tanya Bedard, Xin Grevers, Susan Crawford et al. • Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada
(2023)
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...
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DOI: 10.24095/hpcdp.43.1.04
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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Orao, James • Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus
(2009)
While it is officially recognized that Kenya is a multilingual state, necessary mechanisms for the effective management of this diversity have not been effected. With English and Kiswahili occupying the "official language" positions, the ot...
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DOI: 10.5842/38-0-62
Christopher Pollitt, Geert Bouckaert • Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks
(2009)
© Christopher Pollitt and Geert Bouckaert 2009. All rights reserved. Combining theory development, international comparison and original case study analysis, two of Europe's leading public policy and management scholars apply and develop so...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781849802291
Cláudio Tadeu Daniel-Ribeiro, Marli Maria Lima • Cadernos de Saúde Pública
Abstract: This article examines the story of Louis Pasteur from the point of view of a classic movie presented at the Weekly Seminars of the “Oswaldo Cruz Institute”, at the end of the 2017 activities. Although very old, the movie The Story...
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DOI: 10.1590/0102-311x00068619
Mohsen Abbaszadeh Marzbali • دولتپژوهی
(2022)
As one of the most visible aspects of political life in recent years, the populist rises imply the ‘crisis of representation’ that means the existing institutional mechanism of representative democracy is ineffective in representing the var...
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DOI: 10.22054/tssq.2023.69050.1278
Margaret Padek, Peg Allen, Paul C. Erwin, Melissa Franco et al. • Implementation Science
(2018)
Abstract Background Much of the cancer burden in the USA is preventable, through application of existing knowledge. State-level funders and public health practitioners are in ideal positions to affect programs and policies related to cancer...
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DOI: 10.1186/s13012-018-0742-9
Maurício Corrêa da Silva, José Emerson Firmino, José Dionísio Gomes da Silva, Erivan Ferreira Borges • Perspectivas Contemporâneas
(2016)
Public policy assessment is, by definition, applied social research: it seeks a balance between the methodological and technical rigor of a social investigation and the pragmatism and flexibility needed by a tool supporting the decision-mak...
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David Hesmondhalgh • International Journal of Cultural Policy
(2005)
The British Labour government's media and cultural policies since 1997 are analysed as aspects of public policy. This allows assessment of the media and cultural policies of a supposedly centre‐left government in a conjuncture marked by neo...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286630500067861
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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Piti Pita, Pornphimol Winyuchakrit, Bundit Limmeechokchai • Heliyon
(2020)
The transport sector is one of the important contributors of increasing energy consumption and CO2 emissions in Thailand. Due to rapid development of transport infrastructure and technologies, patterns of energy consumption in this sector, ...
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DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e05112
Yayoi Aizawa, Atsushi Watanabe, Atsushi Watanabe, Kazuto Kato • Frontiers in Genetics
(2021)
In recent years, genetic counseling has started playing a major role in the field of genomic medicine. There are currently about 7,000 genetic counselors in more than 28 countries, with 267 certified genetic counselors in Japan alone (about...
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DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2021.646177
Kristóf Mihály Heil • Journal on European History of Law
(2023)
The codification attempts of Criminal Law in the time of the Enlightenment of the 1790 s and the liberalism of the 1830s and 1840s are the focal points of the study. In order to draft bills to reform the feudal state based on customary law ...
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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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