the present study aims at exploring kinship terms and the different ways in which they are used to refer to and address relatives and non-relatives in hawrami, an iranian language spoken in paveh, a border city in kermanshah province. the relevant linguistic and cultural data are obtained primarily by one of the researchers as a native speaker of the dialect and through field works and intervie...

In this exhaustive exploration of several genres of fiction, Ruth Perry argues that a seismic change in the basis of kinship occurred in eighteenth-century England, from a primary kin group rooted in “consanguineal” ties to one rooted in “conjugal” ties. In other words: “the biologically given family into which one was born was gradually becoming secondary to the chosen family constructed by ma...

The fertility decline associated with economic development has been attributed to a host of interrelated causes including the rising costs children industrialization, and shifts in family structure. One hypothesis is that kin may impart more pro-natal information within their networks than non-kin, this effect be exacerbated high kin-density where greater social conformity would expected. In st...

Evidence suggests that humans might have neurological specializations for music processing, but a compelling adaptationist account of music and dance is lacking. The sexual selection hypothesis cannot easily account for the widespread performance of music and dance in groups (especially synchronized performances), and the social bonding hypothesis has severe theoretical difficulties. Humans are...

OBJECTIVES Abortion is a sensitive issue; many cultures disapprove of it, which leads to under-reporting. This study sought to estimate the rate of abortion visibility in the city of Kerman, Iran-that is, the percentage of acquaintances who knew about a particular abortion. For estimating the visibility rate, it is crucial to use the network scale-up method, which is a new, indirect method of e...

Evidence suggests that humans have neurological specializations for music processing, but a compelling adaptationist account of music and dance is lacking. The sexual selection hypothesis cannot easily account for the widespread performance of music and dance in groups (especially synchronized performances), and the social bonding hypothesis has severe theoretical difficulties. Humans are uniqu...