Introduction. Dislocating labour: anthropological reconfigurations

An introduction to Anthropological Demography

Anthropological demography is a specialty within demography which uses anthropological theory and methods to provide a better understanding of demographic phenomena in current and past populations. Its genesis and ongoing growth lie at the intersection between demography and socio-cultural anthropology and with their efforts to understand population processes, mainly fertility, migration, and m...

Interpreting infertility: medical anthropological perspectives. Introduction.

Within the past two decades, medical anthropology has contributed significantly to the exploration of human reproduction. From menarche to menopause, few aspects of the normal, human reproductive life cycle, particularly as it pertains to women, have been left unexamined by medical anthropologists working in a wide variety of cultural settings. This interest in reproduction is evident in a numb...

Introduction: Transferring Anthropological Skills to Applied Health Research

Introduction: toward a historical/anthropological approach in neuropsychology.

Anthropology has striven to adequately understand what human living conditions were like 10000, 20000 or 100 000 years ago. Stone Age (usually divided into the Old Stone or Paleolithic Age, and New Stone or Neolithic Age) extended until some 6000-7000 years ago (Hours, 1982). Agriculture appeared some 10 000 years ago; the first cities some 6000 years ago; the first civilizations about 5000 yea...

Style-Based Architectural Reconfigurations

We introduce Architectural Design Rewriting (ADR), an approach to deal with the design of reconfigurable software architectures. The key features we promote are: (i) rule-based approach (over graphs); (ii) hierarchical design; (iii) algebraic presentation; and (iv) inductivelydefined reconfigurations. Architectures are suitably modeled by graphs whose edges and nodes respectively represent comp...