In countries of sub-Saharan Africa, many children are admitted to hospital with severe forms anaemia. The late admissions anaemic contribute significantly child morbidity and mortality in these countries. This qualitative study explores local health beliefs traditional treatment practices that may hinder timely seeking care for children. January 2019, nine focus group discussions were conducted...

Research in cognitive and developmental psychology scrutinizes causal concepts predominantly from a domainspecific perspective. In particular, natural and supernatural concepts are frequently subordinated to incompatible and mutually exclusive domains. The profound ethnographic knowledge of cultural anthropology and recent psychological work suggest, however, that causal concepts can easily inc...

Let K be an arbitrary field. Let (qn) be a sequence of positive integers, and let there be given a family \f¥nm\n > m} of unital Kmonomorphisms *F„m. Tqm(K) —► Tq„(K) such that *¥np*¥pm = %im whenever m < n , where Tq„ (K) is the if-algebra of all q„ x q„ upper triangular matrices over K. A triangular UHF (TUHF) K-algebra is any Kalgebra that is A'-isomorphic to an algebraic inductive limit of ...

We discuss a figured pin from Shahdad, previously well known but published with a partial and unsatisfactory drawing.  More detailed observations and a new, more realistic recording of this important artifact reconsider its stylistic and iconographic links with the imagery of the Halil Rud civilization and the eastern Iranian Plateau in general, and, at its opposite cultural poles, with Mesopot...

How can we map differing perceptions of the living environment? Mapping Unmappable? explores potential cartography to communicate relations Africa's indigenous peoples with other human and non-human actors within their environments. These transcend Western dichotomies such as culture-nature, human-animal, natural-supernatural. The volume brings two strands research - »relational« anthropology i...

D arwin’s elucidation of natural selection as a creative evolutionary force was one of the monumental intellectual achievements in the history of science, not only revolutionizing thought across the biological sciences but also fundamentally impacting much discourse in the social sciences, philosophy, and religion. No longer were explanations for the origin and marvelous adaptations of organism...