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15 May 2024: When patients failed to take their medications, healthcare professionals regarded them as non-compliant, and responded by implementing powerful technologies of surveillance: random tests were performed, such as urine testing or ... In Hong Kong, for

15 May 2024: or doesn’t count as such is laden with social, cultural, political, and economic repercussions that did not exist in previous epochs. ... Do the Olympics make economic sense? The Olympic Games aren’t financially rational, but their value can be

15 May 2024: Food sharing among Ache foragers: tests of explanatory hypotheses. Current Anthropology 26, 223-46. ... Current Anthropology, 59(1), 74-97. Sahlins, M. 1988. Stone age economics. London: Routledge.

15 May 2024: The end of history’ (see below) has come and gone. Socialism still persists in various incarnations as a powerful political and economic challenge to late capitalism and liberalism. ... To shoehorn postsocialism into the narrow rubric of area studies

15 May 2024: They systematically fail tasks devised by Western researchers (like Jean Piaget and Alexander Luria) to test whether a child has cognitively advanced from early childhood to middle childhood. ... Middle-class Americans, for example, often believe that

15 May 2024: realms of global governance, economics, and health shape our lived experience and institutions. ... Under the guise of ‘good governance’, they are often aimed at increasing economic efficiency.

15 May 2024: have deficits in intellectual functions that can be measured by psychometric tests; 2) have deficits in adaptive functioning that result in a failure to meet developmental and sociocultural standards for personal ... The concept also focuses our

15 May 2024: This entry has foregrounded global environmental, colonial, and economic crises as examples, and it forecasts that anthropology will never cease to find new monsters.

15 May 2024: political and economic anthropology, material culture studies, science and technology studies, and the anthropology of the state to interrogate, in a huge range of places and contexts, what infrastructures are, how ... 2017). Whilst the method of

15 May 2024: economic responsibility – is a ‘privilege of the rich’ in this context (1998: 393). ... children from upper-middle-class backgrounds and devaluing the cultural capital of lower-class children.