similar to other domains of inquiry and knowledge, social sciences are influenced by various philosophical views and different axioms about the creation and humanity. given that in social sciences human being is both the object and subject of inquiry and is the focal point of analysis, anthropological foundations become especially relevant for these sciences. considering that motahhari and kant...

Why does the festival of Christmas appear to be expanding worldwide while other festivals decline? Why do people emphasize their local rituals, given this is a global festival? Is this a religious festival whose values have been destroyed by materialism? What is the relationship between this family celebratory meal and the divine family to which it pays obeisance? These seemed to be questions t...

1027 December 2013, Vol. 103, No. 12 (Suppl 1) SAMJ Women of advanced maternal age (AMA, >34 years old) are at an increased risk of having an infant with a chromosome abnormality, but only a minority of older South African women have access to genetic counselling and testing for such abnormalities during pregnancy. These women face difficult choices relating to their risks and options. AMA in i...

OBJECTIVE To understand the sociocultural meanings of childhood depression, from the medical-scientific concept of the disease. METHODS This was a qualitative study carried out in the metropolitan region of São Paulo, State of São Paulo, Brazil, in 2003. It consisted of ethnographic observation and in-depth interviews with eight psychiatrists from a public health service and nine relatives (p...

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The Open University's repository of research publications and other research outputs Anthropological insights into the use of race/ethnicity to explore genetic determinants of disparities in health Journal Article (1996). Anthropological insights into the use of race/ethnicity to explore genetic determinants of disparities in health.

The adoption of increasingly powerful and flexible machines developed within artificial intelligence, like agencies, envisages a novel anthropological framework of man and his relation to machines. The paper aims to present some innovative ethical observations that are stimulated by this new anthropological framework.

The hegemonic-type empires of ancient Mesoamerica are difficult to study archaeologically because they left fewer material traces than more territorially organized empires such as the Inka or Roman cases. We present a material culture model for the identification of such empires using archaeological data. The model, based upon Michael Doyle’s analytical approach to imperialism, is developed fro...

Tuberculosis is a contagious and destructive disease that has plagued humans and their domesticated animals for at least 6000 years (Morse, Brothwell, and Ucko 1964), and continues to be a serious disease worldwide. Like most infectious diseases, the virulence of tuberculosis constantly fluctuates as changes occur in the host, the pathogen, and the environment. For example, in the United States...