‘the science of human biological variation as it is related to health and disease’ ( Epstein 2006: 434 ), and could be defined as a field of clinical medicine, which has been expanding its application of knowledge and technologies of human genetics. Its
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Changes in Attitudes towards Marriage and Reproduction among People with a Genetic Illness
A Study of Patients with Thalassemia in Iran
Sachiko Hosoya
In Anthropology of the Middle East
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- 01 Dec 2017
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- Research Article
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- 28–45
Natural Resources and their Units
Necessary Measures of Resourcefulness in a Norwegian Fruit Landscape
Frida Hastrup
international agenda. Even more than other countries, Norway which has limited and scarce land resources will have to exploit its land resources so that we ensure food supply for our own population to the largest possible extent … We have knowledge, technology
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
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- 01 Mar 2020
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- Research Article
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- 63–79
Sanaz Nasirpour
access to and use of new technology, as Sutton and Pollock (2000) astutely note. This inspiration is clearly expressed in my interview with Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh, one of the prominent leaders of the Iranian women’s movement, and founder of Zanan TV
In Anthropology of the Middle East
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- 01 Dec 2016
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- Research Article
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- 76–90
Calm Vessels
Cultural Expectations of Pregnant Women in Qatar
Susie Kilshaw, Daniel Miller, Halima Al Tamimi, Faten El-Taher, Mona Mohsen, Nadia Omar, Stella Major, and Kristina Sole
Technology and the Shariah in Lebanon ( New York : Berghahn Books ). Cosminksy , S. ( 1982 ), ‘ Childbirth and Change: A Guatemalan Case Study ’, in Ethnography of Fertility and Birth , (ed.) C. MacCormack ( London : Academic Press ), 205 – 230
In Anthropology of the Middle East
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- 01 Dec 2016
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- Research Article
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- 39–59
Replenishing Milk Sons
Changing Kinship Practices among the Sahrāwī, North Africa
Konstantina Isidoros
1991 ) and others focusing on ‘les Maures’ (Mauritania) (e.g. Bonte 1994 ; Cleveland 2000; Fortier 2001 ). Milk kinship has reappeared with reinvigorated interest among ‘new kinship studies’ in relation to new reproductive technologies (NRTs
In Anthropology of the Middle East
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- 01 Dec 2017
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- 8–27
‘My Waka Journey’
Introducing a New Co-Editor
Patrick Laviolette
the relationship between ageing, health care and the home for an EQUAL & EPSRC–funded study of medical assistive technology. This project examined the mainstream implementation of ‘telecare’ in relation to facilitating the independence of older
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
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- 01 Jun 2019
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- Introducing A New Co Editor
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- 1–6
Language and a Continent in Flux
Twenty-First Century Tensions of Inclusion and Exclusion
Philip McDermott and Sarah McMonagle
, Reality was far from redundant. If anything, Hobsbawm's enquiry into the question of nationalism as well as his scholarly illustrations of how ‘politics, technology, and social transformation’ (10) drive this ideology serve to explain how the idea of the
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
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- 01 Sep 2019
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- 66–71
Nikolai S. Goncharov
where one could share information about new publications, seminars, and training. Virtual-technical capabilities thus allow us to prolong the existence of configurations, largely due to the significant malleability of these technologies. In conclusion
Translating the Bottom-Up Frame
Everyday Negotiations of the European Union's Rural Development Programme LEADER in Germany
Oliver Müller, Ove Sutter, and Sina Wohlgemuth
characterised by technologies of individualised responsibility, ‘active citizenship’ and governance ‘at a distance’ ( Rose 2006: 153–160 ). Furthermore, the bottom-up frame of LEADER, with its strong emphasis on the self-governing capacities of responsible
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
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- 01 Sep 2019
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- 45–65
Icelandic Resource Landscapes and the State
Experiments in Energy, Capital, and Aluminium
James Maguire
modern, or progressive ( Easterling 2014 ; Howe et al. 2015 ). Work at the productive intersection of anthropology and science and technology studies has pushed this line of thinking in more explicitly performative directions, conceptualizing
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
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- 01 Mar 2020
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- 20–41