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Leopard density and the ecological and anthropogenic factors influencing density in a mixed-use landscape in the Western Cape, South Africa (2023)
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Hinde, K., Wilkinson, A., Tokota, S., Amin, R., O’Riain, M. J., & Williams, K. S. (2023). Leopard density and the ecological and anthropogenic factors influencing density in a mixed-use landscape in the Western Cape, South Africa. PLoS ONE, 18(10), Article e0293445. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0293445

Large carnivores face numerous threats, including habitat loss and fragmentation, direct killing, and prey depletion, leading to significant global range and population declines. Despite such threats, leopards (Panthera pardus) persist outside protec... Read More about Leopard density and the ecological and anthropogenic factors influencing density in a mixed-use landscape in the Western Cape, South Africa.

Unpacking the impact of integrating the neglected tropical disease supply chain into the national supply chain system: illustrative evidence from Liberia (2023)
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Kollie, K. K., Jenkins, J., Theobald, S., Nallo, G., Kpadeh, O., Jones, L., …Dean, L. (2023). Unpacking the impact of integrating the neglected tropical disease supply chain into the national supply chain system: illustrative evidence from Liberia. Parasitology, 150(11), 1052-1062. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0031182023000896

Measuring Social Vulnerability to Climate Change at the Coast: Embracing Complexity and Context for More Accurate and Equitable Analysis (2023)
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Johnson, D., Blackett, P., Allison, A. E., & Broadbent, A. M. (2023). Measuring Social Vulnerability to Climate Change at the Coast: Embracing Complexity and Context for More Accurate and Equitable Analysis. Water, 15(19), https://doi.org/10.3390/w15193408

Social vulnerability indices are often used to quantify differential vulnerability to the impacts of climate change within coastal communities. In this review, we examine how “tried and tested” methodologies for analysing social vulnerability to clim... Read More about Measuring Social Vulnerability to Climate Change at the Coast: Embracing Complexity and Context for More Accurate and Equitable Analysis.

Healing Nature: Spiritual Ecology, Self-Cultivation, and Social Transformation in Hong Kong (2023)
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Lou, L. I. T. (2023). Healing Nature: Spiritual Ecology, Self-Cultivation, and Social Transformation in Hong Kong. Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, Ecology, 27, 189–209. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685357-02703004

This paper provides the first ethnographic study of spiritual ecology in contemporary Hong Kong. In exploring the life stories of people who wanted to "heal" nature as well as those who were being "healed" by nature through the practice of green livi... Read More about Healing Nature: Spiritual Ecology, Self-Cultivation, and Social Transformation in Hong Kong.

Driven out: women’s employment, the transport sector and social reproduction in Grand Tunis (2023)
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Murphy, E. C., Han, S., Keskes, H., & Porter, G. (2024). Driven out: women’s employment, the transport sector and social reproduction in Grand Tunis. Journal of Gender Studies, 33(3), 341-356. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2023.2258075

Employment in the transport sector has historically proven to be male-dominated, even in countries like Tunisia which have evidenced public policy narratives and legal employment frameworks promoting gender equality. This paper presented the findings... Read More about Driven out: women’s employment, the transport sector and social reproduction in Grand Tunis.

A cost for signaling: do Hadza hunter-gatherers forgo calories to show-off in an experimental context? (2023)
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Stibbard-Hawkes, D. N., Amir, D., & Apicella, C. L. (2023). A cost for signaling: do Hadza hunter-gatherers forgo calories to show-off in an experimental context?. Evolution and Human Behavior, 44(5), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2022.10.004

Hadza food-sharing is extremely generous and often extends to individuals outside the household. Some anthropologists have proposed that individuals, especially men, share food beyond the household in order to signal foraging skill. While correlation... Read More about A cost for signaling: do Hadza hunter-gatherers forgo calories to show-off in an experimental context?.

Care without heart: kinship, chronic illness, and the emotion of care in Delhi (2023)
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Zabiliūtė, E. (online). Care without heart: kinship, chronic illness, and the emotion of care in Delhi. Anthropology and Medicine, 30(3), 230-245. https://doi.org/10.1080/13648470.2023.2245308

Drawing on ethnography with one family’s life with diabetes in a poor settlement in Delhi’s suburbs, this paper examines the relationship between emotional structures of care and kinship in the face of chronic illness. While anthropologists have argu... Read More about Care without heart: kinship, chronic illness, and the emotion of care in Delhi.

Antimalarial stocking decisions among medicine retailers in Ghana: implications for quality management and control of malaria (2023)
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Osman, A., Amoako Johnson, F., Mariwah, S., Amoako-Sakyi, D., Asiedu Owusu, S., Ekor, M., …Hampshire, K. (2023). Antimalarial stocking decisions among medicine retailers in Ghana: implications for quality management and control of malaria. BMJ Global Health, 6(Suppl 3), e013426. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2023-013426

Global health efforts such as malarial control require efficient pharmaceutical supply chains to ensure effective delivery of quality-assured medicines to those who need them. However, very little is currently known about decision-making processes wi... Read More about Antimalarial stocking decisions among medicine retailers in Ghana: implications for quality management and control of malaria.

Improving power calculations in educational trials (2023)
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Singh, A., Uwimpuhwe, G., Vallis, D., Akhter, N., Coolen-Maturi, T., Einbeck, J., Higgins, S., Culliney, M., & Demack, S. (2023). Improving power calculations in educational trials. Education Endowment Foundation

The aim of this study was to investigate and empirically derive parameters commonly used for statistical power and sample size calculations to better inform future trial design. Towards achieving this aim, the research project leveraged the richness... Read More about Improving power calculations in educational trials.

The evolution of enclosed nesting in passerines is shaped by competition, energetic costs, and predation threat (2023)
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Vanadzina, K., Street, S., & Sheard, C. (2024). The evolution of enclosed nesting in passerines is shaped by competition, energetic costs, and predation threat. Ornithology, 141(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/ornithology/ukad048

Many avian species breed in enclosed nests that may provide better protection against predation and climatic conditions compared to open nests and are generally associated with larger clutch sizes and slower offspring growth. Here we show that differ... Read More about The evolution of enclosed nesting in passerines is shaped by competition, energetic costs, and predation threat.

Boxing family: Theorising competition with boxers in Accra, Ghana (2023)
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Hopkinson, L. (2024). Boxing family: Theorising competition with boxers in Accra, Ghana. Critique of Anthropology, 44(1), 21-41. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275x231202083

Anthropologists have often conceptualized competition by contrasting it with cooperation, even when collective ends are sought and achieved by competing. This approach tells us little about the qualities of the relationships and subjectivities that c... Read More about Boxing family: Theorising competition with boxers in Accra, Ghana.

Antimalarial procurement in private-sector pharmaceutical outlets: decision-making complexities and implications for medicine quality in Tanzania (2023)
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Mshana, G., Mayebe, T., Balira, R., Hamill, H., & Hampshire, K. (2023). Antimalarial procurement in private-sector pharmaceutical outlets: decision-making complexities and implications for medicine quality in Tanzania. BMJ Global Health, 6(Suppl 3), e010821. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2022-010821

Poor-quality medicines are a major threat to healthcare provision in low-income countries. The problem exacerbates disease vulnerabilities of already disadvantaged populations including children, women, and the elderly. However, while the higher-leve... Read More about Antimalarial procurement in private-sector pharmaceutical outlets: decision-making complexities and implications for medicine quality in Tanzania.

The lived experiences of women workers in Africa's transport sector: Reflections from Abuja, Cape Town and Tunis (2023)
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Porter, G., Murphy, E., Adamu, F., Dayil, P. B., Han, S., Dungey, C., …Ambrosini, S. (2023). The lived experiences of women workers in Africa's transport sector: Reflections from Abuja, Cape Town and Tunis. Journal of Transport Geography, 112, Article 103695. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2023.103695

This paper draws on ethnographic research conducted 2019–2022 in three quite diverse city regions - Abuja, Cape Town and Tunis - to understand women's lived experiences of work in the road transport sector. The strength of connection between male ide... Read More about The lived experiences of women workers in Africa's transport sector: Reflections from Abuja, Cape Town and Tunis.

The Early Independent Problem Solving Survey (EIPSS): Its psychometric properties in children aged 12–47 months (2023)
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Hoicka, E., Powell, S., Rose, S. E., Reindl, E., & Tennie, C. (2023). The Early Independent Problem Solving Survey (EIPSS): Its psychometric properties in children aged 12–47 months. Cognitive Development, 68, Article 101366. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2023.101366

Independent problem solving (IPS) involves solving problems alone; with motivation and persistence; without watching others; or requesting or receiving help. The Early Independent Problem Solving Survey (EIPSS) was developed for 12- to 47-month-olds.... Read More about The Early Independent Problem Solving Survey (EIPSS): Its psychometric properties in children aged 12–47 months.

Off the Rails: Thin Moral Thinking and Stylized Ethical Dilemmas (2023)
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Heywood, P., & Reed, A. (2023). Off the Rails: Thin Moral Thinking and Stylized Ethical Dilemmas. Social Analysis: The International Journal of Anthropology, 67(3), 45-57. https://doi.org/10.3167/sa.2023.670303

This introduction situates the trolley problem and other such dilemmas in anthropological debates about contextualisation and abstraction both within and beyond the realm of the moral. We highlight some of the criticisms anthropologists have made of... Read More about Off the Rails: Thin Moral Thinking and Stylized Ethical Dilemmas.

Kinning and De-kinning: Houses, Heirlooms and the Reproduction of Family (2023)
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Abram, S., & Lien, M. E. (2023). Kinning and De-kinning: Houses, Heirlooms and the Reproduction of Family. Social Anthropology, 31(3), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.3167/saas.2023.310302

‘Kinning and De-kinning’ introduces a special issue that considers how houses, heirlooms and other owned items reproduce kinship and family in diverse societies. It revisits death and inheritance in kinship studies, with a focus on processes of ‘pass... Read More about Kinning and De-kinning: Houses, Heirlooms and the Reproduction of Family.

Passing It On: Kinship, Temporality and Moral Personhood in Norwegian ‘Hytte’ Succession (2023)
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Lien, M. E., & Abram, S. (2023). Passing It On: Kinship, Temporality and Moral Personhood in Norwegian ‘Hytte’ Succession. Social Anthropology, 31(3), 33-50. https://doi.org/10.3167/saas.2023.310304

In this article we explore the inheritance of hytte, or secondary homes, in Norway. Inspired by the notion of ‘kinning’, we extend the notion of kinning to include various materialities and temporalities. In particular, we trace the passing on of the... Read More about Passing It On: Kinship, Temporality and Moral Personhood in Norwegian ‘Hytte’ Succession.