Pdf: Close Kin

When, where, and how to catch bass consistently, in all seasons and all types of water, with all types of tackle, on all types of artifician and naturaal b ...

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The gestation period of this collection has been lengthy even by academic stan dards. Some of our long-suffering contributors prepared their original draft ...

Cooperation among humans is one of the keys to our great evolutionary success. Natalie and Joseph Henrich examine this phenomena with a unique fusion of th ...

An analysis of gender and property throughout South Asia which argues that the most important economic factor affecting women is the gender gap in command ...

This collection touches on a wide range of anthropological issues, including family and marriage, myths, and rites, the environment and its representation, ...

"...a magnificent achievement, and a landmark in at least three distinct fields: anthropological demography, human evolutionary ecology, and hunter-gathere ...

Why do people behave in moral ways in some circumstances, but not in others? In order to account fully for morality, Dennis Krebs departs from traditional ...

As increased access to employment and educational opportunities brought dramatic changes to women's lives, sociologists began to look at the effect of wome ...

Social Behavior of Female Vertebrates focuses on the evolution of reproductive behavior in female vertebrates ranging from fish to birds and humans, includ ...

Crate presents the first cultural ecological study of a Siberian people: the Viliui Sakha, describing the local and global forces of modernization that con ...

Old-age survival has considerably improved in the second half of the twentieth century. Why has such a substantial extension of human lifespan occurred? Ho ...

Mock tells readers what scientists have discovered about the disturbing side of family conflice in the natural world. He offers a rare perspective on the f ...

It is widely recognized that Roman law is an important source of information about women in the Roman world, and can present a more rounded and accurate pi ...

Since restrictions on commonwealth labour immigration to Britain in the 1960s, marriage has been the dominant form of migration between Pakistan and the UK ...

In The Black-Tailed Prairie Dog, John L. Hoogland draws on sixteen years of research at Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota, in the United States to prov ...

CONTENIDO: Laws prohibiting the marriage of relatives -- The reasons for U.S. laws against first cousin marriage -- European laws prohibiting the marriage ...

James, Goetze, and their contributors provide a scholarly attempt to evaluate the role that evolved dispositions and psychological mechanisms may play in t ...

Modern scholars have followed Aristotle in noting the importance of philia (kinship or friendship) in Greek tragedy, especially the large number of plots i ...

The Reason for this Volume If we were to judge the seriousness of a psychosocial problem by the attention that the popular media give to it, we would have ...

"In FELICIE, the focus is on the health of the elderly, and on the resources at their disposal to cope with the severe impairments liable to affect their q ...

"In FELICIE, the focus is on the health of the elderly, and on the resources at their disposal to cope with the severe impairments liable to affect their q ...

In the second edition of this fascinating book an international team of experts have been brought together to explore all major areas of fish learning, inc ...

David Mcknight assesses the effects that alcohol has had on a small aboriginal community. He explores why drinking has become the main social activity, lea ...

Designated a Doody's Core Title! "The authors have created a book that comfortably combines substantial research findings with readable, practical guidelin ...

Selected by Choice as a 2012 Outstanding Academic Title Awarded a 2012 PROSE Honorable Mention as a Single Volume Reference/Humanities & Social Sciences A ...

Behavioral Neuroscientists study the behavior of animals and humans and the neurobiological and physiological processes that control it. Behavior is the ul ...

An essential guide to the sensitive topic of cousin marriage, examining its social, medical, political and legal connotations. ...

In June 1975, the distinguished Harvard entomologist Edward O. Wilson published a truly huge book entitled, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis. In this book, ...

Inside the Great House explores the nature of family life and kinship in planter households of the Chesapeake during the eighteenth century--a pivotal era ...

Using the profiles of women living in a retirement community, the author explores the information and social worlds of aging women. The focus of the study ...

Study with special reference to the village of Batagarawa. ...

Throughout Herbert Simon's wide-ranging career—in public administration, business administration, economics, cognitive psychology, philosophy, artificial ...

Craig Packer takes us into Africa for a journey of fifty-two days in the fall of 1991. But this is more than a tour of magnificent animals in an exotic, fa ...

Patricia Crone's latest book is about the Iranian response to the Muslim penetration of the Iranian countryside, the revolts subsequently triggered there, ...

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This book examines a wide range of migration patterns which have arisen, and exposes the tensions and difficulties including: * legal and empowerment issue ...

The Right Spouse is an engaging investigation into Tamil (South Indian) preferential close kin marriages, so-called Dravidian Kinship. This book offers a d ...