The earliest Cape Muslims were brought to the Cape (Cape Town - South Africa) from Africa and Asia from 1652 to 1834. They were part of an involuntary migration of slaves, political prisoners and convicts, and they contributed to the ethnic diversity of the present Cape Muslim population of South Africa. The history of the Cape Muslims has been well documented and researched however no in-depth...

studies of human growth throughout iran since 1966 have been surveyed critically. only 32 papers and 15 research reports on this very crucial issue have been published or compiled so far, most of them on tehran and shiraz, which is negligible in comparison with american or european and even some african and asian studies. though measurements of height and weight naturally predominate, arm circu...

This essay explores transnational STS as an analytic capable of recognizing the heterogeneities, pluralities, and relationalities drugs—legal illegal, products agriculture or laboratory—as emblematic material-semiotic actors that move between global North, West, South, East into out bodies. Critical drug studies flourishes a transdisciplinary knowledge project at nexus anthropology, history, so...

This paper studies a little known example of how religion and social change were connected in the process of “national modernization” in a land that was, as home of the caliph, the center of the Muslim world. Turkification and Islamization are the major demographic changes in Asia Minor during the 20th century. They resulted from politics that impacted first on the Anatolian Christians but thre...

Seven single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) sites located in ASAP1 gene have been found associated with tuberculosis (TB) susceptibility by genome-wide association studies in Russia. The case-control study was carried out to test whether these seven SNPs were associated with susceptibility to TB in a Chinese Xinjiang Muslim population. The seven SNPs were genotyped in a case-control design that ...

In this ethnographic sketch, I analyze the complex processes of Sino-Islamic identity formation by examining the variety and diversity of locally produced “authenticity,” situated within a global understanding of Islam. Even within a single province, among a single official minzu (nationality) that People’s Republic of China propaganda, media, and scholarship often construct as a unified, stati...