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interpersonal comparisons

Comparing the welfare of one individual with that of another. The welfare level of an individual is measured by a utility function. Utility can be ordinal so that it is no more than a ...

Race

Race   Reference library

Encyclopedia of Evolution

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2005

...perspectives Social psychologists working in Western societies have noted that race is one of a handful of personal characteristics, along with sex, age, and physical attractiveness, that people normally register automatically and involuntarily at the beginning of any interpersonal encounter. Racial categorization has consequences; it influences expectations that people have of one another, and how they interact. Experiments show that this is true even for individuals who claim that they are free of prejudice and do not to judge others on the basis of...

Northeastern African Stone Age

Northeastern African Stone Age   Reference library

Alice Leplongeon

The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Archaeology

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Current Version:
2024
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Archaeology, Social sciences, Anthropology
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...Nubia Salvage Campaign. These two cemeteries include tens of burials with the specificity that many of the individuals buried bear evidence for interpersonal violence in the form of parry fractures and lithic artifact fragments still embedded in their bones ( Wendorf 1968a ; Greene and Armelagos 1972 ). Evidence from Jebel Sahaba in particular, dated to min. 13.4 cal ka bp , indicates that episodes of interpersonal violence were likely recurrent at that time ( Crevecoeur et al. 2021 ). The rich archaeological record available for the LP therefore provides...

Bioarchaeology in The Nile Valley

Bioarchaeology in The Nile Valley   Reference library

Jenail H. Marshall and Michele R. Buzon

The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Archaeology

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2024
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Archaeology, Social sciences, Anthropology
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...by his Colleagues , edited by Warren R. Dawson 139–148. London: Jonathan Cape. Judd, Margaret . 2004. “Trauma in the City of Kerma: Ancient versus Modern Injury Patterns.” International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 14 (1): 34–51. Judd, Margaret . 2006. “Continuity of Interpersonal Violence between Nubian Communities.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 131 (3): 324–333. Junker, Thomas . 2018. “Blumenbach’s Theory of Human Races and the Natural Unity of Humankind.” In Johann Friedrich Blumenbach , edited by Nicolaas Rupke and Gerhard Lauer...

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