Selections of the Grundrisse were translated into English beginning in 1964; a full translation did not appear until 1973. Anglophone Marxian social science has changed dramatically since then; this article attempts to assess the role of the Grundrisse in these changes, focusing specifically on anthropology and geography. In geography the effects are most apparent in the work of David Harvey, w...

BACKGROUND The geographical and ethnic distributions of the polymorphic methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) mutations (C677T and A1298C) and methionine synthase reductase (MTRR) mutation (A66G) remain heterogeneous in China. The goal of this study was to estimate the pooled frequencies of the alleles and associated genotypes of these gene polymorphisms among healthy populations in Mainl...

T design of public policies that promote interethnic cooperation remains poorly understood nearly twenty years after the appearance of Horowitz's seminal work. Recent research suggests that ethnically diverse societies are prone to corruption, political instability, poor institutional performance, and slow economic growth and that in the United States higher levels of diversity are related to l...

This research examines theoretically and empirically the economic origins of cultural diversity shedding new light on the emergence of ethnolinguistic fractionalization. Constructing detailed data on the distribution of land quality across regions and countries, the empirical analysis, conducted at various levels of aggregation, establishes that variation in regional land quality has contribute...

This article analyses ethnic identity on the example of Croatian ethnic communities in overseas countries, Chile and Australia, in the period from the beginning of the Homeland War and international recognition of Croatia until today. The object of this research is Croatian emigrant community and various social activities organized by Croatian organizations. The aim of this article is to discus...

A conceptual model for structuring features in a geographic information system (GIS) is presented. The model includes spatial, thematic, and temporal dimensions and structures attributes and relationships for each dimension to build a feature-based GIs. The model is grounded in an entity-based view of geographic phenomena and requires representation of geographic entities as feature objects in ...

The science of geography, also literally called in Arabic "faces and slices of earth", involves a kind of land survey which emerged into Islam. There were several factors contributing to geography such as command of Islam to learning, Quran geographical themes, pilgrimage routes and wide-range Muslim conquests. This article attempted to examine two major schools of geography in the Isl...

The continued concentration of immigrants into a select number of port-of-entry states has focused both the benefits and burdens of immigration on their residents and local governments. The fact that immigrants concentrate in these areas at the same time as domestic migrants are relocating elsewhere suggests that conventional labour market forces playa lesser role than ethnic ties in affecting ...