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Taking culture seriously: Making the Social survey Ethnographic
(University of Chicago Press, 2005)
Tamang Conversions: Culture, Politics, and the Christian Conversion Narrative in Nepal
(Center for Nepal and Asian Studies, Tribhuvan University, 2008-01)
In 1990 the Buddhist people of Timling, on Nepal's northern borderland, converted en masse to evangelical Christianity and later to Roman Catholicism. While the process implies a profound cultural rupture, this essay takes ...
Toshisada Nishida’s contributions to primatology
(Springer-Verlag; Japan Monkey Centre and Springer-Verlag, 2006-01)
Mortality and magnitude of the "wild effect" in chimpanzee tooth emergence
(Elsevier, 2010)
Age of tooth emergence is a useful measure of the pace of life for primate species, both living and extinct. A recent study combining wild chimpanzees of the Taï Forest, Gombe, and Bossou by Zihlman et al.
(2004) suggested ...
A Comment on: The Recognition and Evaluation of Homoplasy in Primate and Human Evolution. (Lockwood, C.A., and J.G. Fleagle, 1999, Yrbk Phys Anthropol 42:189–232.)
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2000-10)
No abstract.
Hunting Behavior of Chimpanzees at Ngogo, Kibale National Park, Uganda
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2002-02)
Chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes ) prey on a variety of vertebrates, mostly on red colobus ( Procolobus spp. ) where the two species are sympatric. Variation across population occurs in hunting frequency and success, in whether ...
Stress and female reproductive function: A study of daily variations in cortisol, gonadotrophins, and gonadal steroids in a rural Mayan population
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2004-09)
We report here on a longitudinal study of stress and women's reproduction in a small Kaqchikel Mayan community in rural Guatemala. Current understanding of the effects of stress on the reproductive axis in women is mostly ...