Abstract This article reassesses the social significance of Early Neolithic chambered tombs. It critically evaluates inferences about organization drawn from tomb architecture and interpretations kinship based on aDNA analyses human remains Adopting perspective that is a multifaceted ongoing field practice, it argues arrangement chambers was related to negotiation kinship. Drawing together biol...

It has been a challenge to understand the formation and roles of social groups or natural communities in the evolution of species, societies and real world networks. Here, we propose the hypothesis that homophyly/kinship is the intrinsic mechanism of natural communities, introduce the notion of the affinity exponent and propose the homophyly/kinship model of networks. We demonstrate that the ne...

Kinship is an important dimension of politics throughout the Middle East and, specifically, in Jordan. At level face-to-face negotiations, three kinds kinship (common descent, affinity, ritual kinship) are invoked Jordan to garner support from actor’s kin and create political ties. large-scale organizations – such as tribes appeals made norms mobilize members each organization enhance group sol...

A study on psychosocial care among Karo (patrilineal kinship) and Minangkabau (matrilineal kinship) households who lived in Jakarta, Indonesia was aimed at investigating psychosocial care practices of mothers and the relation of psychosocial care to the nutritional status of children aged 6-36 months as indicated by Weight-for-Age (WFA), Weight-for-Height (WFH), and Height-for-Age (HFA) Z-score...

The human ability to form large, coordinated groups is among our most impressive social adaptations. Larger groups facilitate synergistic economies of scale for cooperative breeding, such economic tasks as group hunting, and success in conflict with other groups. In many organisms, genetic relationships provide the structure for sociality to evolve via the process of kin selection, and this is ...

This paper examines how relationships are ‘built’ among khwajasaras [non-normative non-binary persons] and female jouno karmis [sex workers] in two sites Pakistan India respectively. We focus on the non-normative nature of these relationships, first, to disassemble gender normativity itself; second, argue that colonial legacy bureaucratic norming kinship South Asia, anchored legal consanguinity...