In the early 1990s, foreign foods were reintroduced into everyday life of ordinary people in Beijing. As city ascends to top on global hierarchy urban places, its transnational food practices have evolved drastically. Proposing “co-bricolage” as a useful framework rethink culture, this article examines changing modality trans-local foodways Beijing from 1990s 2010s, and identifies transition cu...

Indigenous youth suicide incidence is high globally, and mostly involves young males. However, the Inuit of Arctic Canada have a suicide rate that is among the highest in the world (and ten times that for the rest of Canada). The author suggests that suicide increase has emerged because of changes stemming in part from the Canadian government era in the Arctic in the 1950s and 1960s. The effect...

Hospital births were introduced to India during the colonial period but became a popular option during the 1960s. Today they have replaced "traditional" home birth among the urban middle classes, and a significant proportion of hospital births are elective Caesarean sections. In this article I examine this mode of birth in the context of specific marital and residential patterns and cross-gener...

Chagnon’s analysis of a well-known axe fight in the Yanomamö village of Mishimishiböwei-teri (Chagnon and Bugos 1979) is among the earliest empirical tests of kin selection theory for explaining cooperation in humans. Kin selection theory describes how cooperation can be organized around genetic kinship and is a fundamental tool for understanding cooperation within family groups. Previous analy...

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...

Most people do not marry people who are too close, household members for example. However, nor do they marry people who are too far, such as total strangers for themselves or their family. In other words, they typically marry people with whom they have some sort of previous connection. In certain post-industrial settings, and perhaps elsewhere as well, prior linkages relating to employment, sch...

While mixed marriage can act as a ‘facilitator of integration’ for migrants, feminist scholars have argued that in Asia, pathways to citizenship migrants are precariously ridden with negotiations around gender, ethnicity, nationality and class. In this context, the family sphere lies between individual migrant state, features strategic site where categories take effect on lives one hand, claims...

Structural open adoption has been beneficial to adoptees in integrating their birth heritage and identity. Adoptive parents also may sometimes seek out others who are neither related biologically nor through partnership support child developing an integrated sense of To what extent do these intentional kinship relationships become incorporated within the adoptive family network how view role ch...