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Emotional Engagement in Strategic Partnerships: grassroots organising in a tobacco control partnership in the North East of England (2008)
Journal Article
Heckler, S., & Russell, A. (2008). Emotional Engagement in Strategic Partnerships: grassroots organising in a tobacco control partnership in the North East of England. Evidence and Policy, 4(4), 331-354. https://doi.org/10.1332/174426408x366658

Multi-agency partnerships are often regarded as crucial for the planning and delivery of public health initiatives. A number of evaluative frameworks stress governance, structure and management as the fundamental factors contributing to partnership s... Read More about Emotional Engagement in Strategic Partnerships: grassroots organising in a tobacco control partnership in the North East of England.

Negotiating Difference: Discourses of Indigenous Knowledge and Development in Ghana (2008)
Journal Article
Yarrow, T. (2008). Negotiating Difference: Discourses of Indigenous Knowledge and Development in Ghana. Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 31(2), 224-242. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1555-2934.2008.00023

This article examines the contested ways in which the international development concept of “indigenous knowledge” has been used and understood by a variety of actors within Ghana including both Ghanaian and non-Ghanaian development workers, chiefs, a... Read More about Negotiating Difference: Discourses of Indigenous Knowledge and Development in Ghana.

Factors affecting fecal glucocorticoid levels in semi-free-ranging female mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx) (2008)
Journal Article
Setchell, J., Smith, T., Wickings, E., & Knapp, L. (2008). Factors affecting fecal glucocorticoid levels in semi-free-ranging female mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx). American Journal of Primatology, 70(11), 1023-1032. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.20594

Subordinate female cercopithecine primates often experience decreased reproductive success in comparison with high-ranking females, with a later age at sexual maturity and first reproduction and/or longer interbirth intervals. One explanation that ha... Read More about Factors affecting fecal glucocorticoid levels in semi-free-ranging female mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx).

Social stressors, mental health, and physiological stress in an urban elite of young Afghans in Kabul (2008)
Journal Article
Panter-Brick, C., Eggerman, M., Mojadidi, A., & McDade, T. (2008). Social stressors, mental health, and physiological stress in an urban elite of young Afghans in Kabul. American Journal of Human Biology, 20(6), 627-641. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.20797

Afghanistan provides a unique setting in which to appraise psychosocial stress, given the context of persistent insecurity and widening economic inequality. In Kabul, people experience widespread frustrations, hinging on restricted opportunities for... Read More about Social stressors, mental health, and physiological stress in an urban elite of young Afghans in Kabul.

Modelling social learning in monkeys. (2008)
Journal Article
Kendal, J. (2008). Modelling social learning in monkeys. The behavior analyst today, 9(1), 50-56

The application of modelling to social learning in monkey populations has been a neglected topic. Recently, however, a number of statistical, simulation and analytical approaches have been developed to help examine social learning processes, putative... Read More about Modelling social learning in monkeys..

Aboriginal versus western creationism. (2008)
Book Chapter
Layton, R. (2008). Aboriginal versus western creationism. In R. Bentley (Ed.), The edge of reason? Science and religion in modern society (31-38). Continuum Press

Compares traditional Australian religious beliefs with those of Christian creationists in the U.S. Outlines the social functions of Aboriginal belief and asks whether Christian creationism has similar functions that account for its persistence.

Life after death: An investigation into how mortality perceptions influence fertility preferences using evidence from an internet-based experiment (2008)
Journal Article
Mathews, P., & Sear, R. (2008). Life after death: An investigation into how mortality perceptions influence fertility preferences using evidence from an internet-based experiment. Journal of cultural and evolutionary psychology, 6(3), 155-172. https://doi.org/10.1556/jep.6.2008.3.1

Both life history theory and demographic transition theory predict that fertility responds to changes in mortality, but there have been relatively few tests which identify links between mortality perceptions and fertility preferences at the individua... Read More about Life after death: An investigation into how mortality perceptions influence fertility preferences using evidence from an internet-based experiment.

Kin and child survival in rural Malawi -Are matrilineal kin always beneficial in a matrilineal society? (2008)
Journal Article
Sear, R. (2008). Kin and child survival in rural Malawi -Are matrilineal kin always beneficial in a matrilineal society?. Human Nature, 19(3), 277-293. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-008-9042-4

This paper investigates the impact of kin on child survival in a matrilineal society in Malawi. Women usually live in close proximity to their matrilineal kin in this agricultural community, allowing opportunities for helping behavior between matrili... Read More about Kin and child survival in rural Malawi -Are matrilineal kin always beneficial in a matrilineal society?.

From Traditional to Formal Education in the Lower Arabian Gulf, 1820-1971 (2008)
Journal Article
Davidson, C. M. (2008). From Traditional to Formal Education in the Lower Arabian Gulf, 1820-1971. History of Education, 37(5), 633-643. https://doi.org/10.1080/00467600701430020

This article charts the development of education in the lower Arabian Gulf from its traditional beginnings in the nineteenth century to the provision of more formal schooling and eventually a ministry of education following Britain's withdrawal from... Read More about From Traditional to Formal Education in the Lower Arabian Gulf, 1820-1971.

Confronting collaboration: dilemmas in an ethnographic study of health policy-makers (2008)
Journal Article
Heckler, S., & Russell, A. (2008). Confronting collaboration: dilemmas in an ethnographic study of health policy-makers. Anthropology in Action: Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice, 15(1), 14-21. https://doi.org/10.3167/aia.2008.150104

In this article we report on collaborative, ethnographic research investigating the first regional tobacco control office in the U.K. and some of the dilemmas it poses. The ideal of collaboration is fully realisable in this setting, where the partici... Read More about Confronting collaboration: dilemmas in an ethnographic study of health policy-makers.

Fission-fusion dynamics : new research frameworks. (2008)
Journal Article
Aureli, F., Schaffner, C., Boesch, C., Bearder, S., Call, J., Chapman, C., …van Schaik, C. (2008). Fission-fusion dynamics : new research frameworks. Current Anthropology, 49(4), 627-654. https://doi.org/10.1086/586708

Renewed interest in fission‐fusion dynamics is due to the recognition that such dynamics may create unique challenges for social interaction and distinctive selective pressures acting on underlying communicative and cognitive abilities. New framework... Read More about Fission-fusion dynamics : new research frameworks..

Nonhuman primate approaches to landscapes (2008)
Book Chapter
Hill, R. (2008). Nonhuman primate approaches to landscapes. In B. David, & J. Thomas (Eds.), Handbook of Landscape Archaeology (95-101). Left Coast Press

Random drift versus selection in academic vocabulary: an evolutionary analysis of published keywords (2008)
Journal Article
Bentley, R. (2008). Random drift versus selection in academic vocabulary: an evolutionary analysis of published keywords. PLoS ONE, 3(8), Article e3057. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0003057

The evolution of vocabulary in academic publishing is characterized via keyword frequencies recorded in the ISI Web of Science citations database. In four distinct case-studies, evolutionary analysis of keyword frequency change through time is compar... Read More about Random drift versus selection in academic vocabulary: an evolutionary analysis of published keywords.

Towards an archaeology of pedagogy: learning, teaching and the generation of material culture traditions (2008)
Journal Article
Tehrani, J., & Riede, F. (2008). Towards an archaeology of pedagogy: learning, teaching and the generation of material culture traditions. World Archaeology, 40(3), 316-331. https://doi.org/10.1080/00438240802261267

In this article we seek to build on efforts to apply the insights of social learning theory to interpret patterns of continuity and change in the archaeological record. This literature suggests that stable and often highly arbitrary material culture... Read More about Towards an archaeology of pedagogy: learning, teaching and the generation of material culture traditions.

Life/History: personal narratives of development amongst NGO workers and activists in Ghana (2008)
Journal Article
Yarrow, T. (2008). Life/History: personal narratives of development amongst NGO workers and activists in Ghana. Africa, 78(3), 334-358. https://doi.org/10.3366/e0001972008000211

Widespread assumptions about the extractive and self-serving nature of African elites have resulted in the relative neglect of questions concerning their personal ethics and morality. Using life-history interviews undertaken with a range of Ghanaian... Read More about Life/History: personal narratives of development amongst NGO workers and activists in Ghana.