The paper considers the usefulness of the concept of civil society—both as an analytical construct and a policy tool—in non-Western contexts drawing on a selected review of literature on Africa from anthropology and development studies. Rejecting arguments that the concept has little meaning outside its Western origins, and critical of the sometimes crude export of the concept by Western donors...

BACKGROUND Parental fear and misconceptions about fever are widespread in western society. Ethnicity and sociodemographic factors have been suggested as contributing factors. OBJECTIVES To test the hypothesis that undue parental concern about fever is less in traditional than in western cultural-ethnic groups. METHODS Bedouin (traditional society) and Jewish (western society) parents of chi...

in iran, discourse on cultural heritage politically started to burgeon during the 1930s by efforts of enlightened thinkers (roshanfekran) and western orientalists. by the rise of reza shah in 1925 and during the pahlavi epoch (1925-1979), the western archaeologists or architects were closely engaged in cultural heritage affairs, which effectively manipulated the concept of iranian nationalism p...

Information is provided on the work of VI reporting and election conference Western Geodetic Society (WGS), where report Board WFS was heard its activities in 2018-2022 were evaluated. It informed about new composition audit commission adopted resolution conference.