Abstract

Applied anthropology, Social Policy
0001. Baldwin, J. (2017). The business of homelessness. Practicing Anthropology, 39(1), 33–35.
I focus on spaces in the city that homeless individuals occupy.
0002. Fuster, D., Cheng, D.M., Wang, N., Bernstein, J.A., …, Saitz, R. (2016). Brief intervention for daily marijuana users identified by screening in primary care: A subgroup analysis of the ASPIRE randomized clinical trial. Substance Abuse, 37, 336–342.
Brief intervention has no apparent impact on marijuana use or drug-related problems among primary care patients with frequent marijuana use.
0003. Hammer, G. (2015). Pedaling in pairs toward a ‘dialogical performance’: Partnerships and the sensory body within a tandem cycling group. Ethnography, 16, 503–522.
I argue for the ways integrated tandem cycling challenges distinct binary categories, bodily hierarchies, and constructs of social otherness.
0004. Harvey, R., Jason, L.A., & Ferrari, J.R. (2016). Substance abuse relapse in Oxford House recovery homes: A survival analysis evaluation. Substance Abuse, 37, 281–285.
Oxford Houses recovery homes may reduce relapse by providing closer monitoring and referring additional services to new residents with more severe prior addiction severity.
0005. Hermon, B., Goswami, O., & Ahuja, N.J. (2016). Semiotics expert system: An integrative approach towards maintenance of community peace. International Journal of Peace and Development Studies, 7(6), 50–61.
Optimum peace maintenance amongst monitored communities is needed for sustainable and social development of the communities and society.
0006. Mason, W.A., Fleming, C.B., Ringle, J.L., Hanson, K., …, Haggerty, K.P. (2016). Prevalence of marijuana and other substance use before and after Washington State's change from legal medical marijuana to legal medical and nonmedical marijuana: Cohort comparisons in a sample of adolescents. Substance Abuse, 37, 330–335.
Some states have new legislation extending prior legalization of medical marijuana to recreational use for adults.
0007. Mercincavage, M., Smyth, J.M., Branstetter, S.A., & Catley, D. (2016). Exploring the Severity of Dependence Scale (SDS) as a possible measure of nicotine dependence. Substance Abuse, 37, 323–329.
The time to first cigarette of the day is an emerging single-item indicator of nicotine dependence.
0008. Pickett, J. (2016). Nadir Shah's peculiar central Asian legacy: Empire, conversion narratives, and the rise of new scholarly dynasties. International Journal of Middle East Studies, 48, 491–510.
The Afsharid Empire profoundly shaped the geopolitical and social landscape of Persianate Asia.
0009. Shahrir, S.,Tindle, H.A., McGinnis, K.A., Fiellin, D.A., …, Crothers, K. (2016). Contemplation of smoking cessation and quit attempts in human immunodeficiency virus–infected and uninfected veterans. Substance Abuse, 37, 315–322.
Patient-level interest and motivation are not major barriers to smoking cessation among HIV-infected veterans.
0010. Spear, S.E., Shedlin, M., Gilberti, B., Fiellin, M., & McNeely, J. (2016). Feasibility and acceptability of an audio computer-assisted self-interview version of the Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST) in primary care patients. Substance Abuse, 37, 299–305.
Social stigma around substance use is a barrier to patient disclosure.
0011. Tucker, R.L. (2017). A walk in the woods: The Seneca Trail garbology study. Practicing Anthropology, 39(1), 5–11.
Collateral activity of hikers included beverage consumption, tobacco use and eating snack foods.
0012. Wright-Myrie, D., Charley, C., Hurst, A., Walker, K., …, Brown, J. (2016). Using social media to warn potential victims, and encourage youths to denounce crime and violence in Jamaica. International Journal of Sociology and Anthropology, 8(9), 76–86.
Social media may be influential in bridging the gap between crime fighters and youth.
Arts (Dance, folklore, graphic arts, music)
0013. Abe, M. (2016). Sounding against nuclear power in post-3.11 Japan: Resonances of silence and chindon-ya. Ethnomusicology, 60, 233–262.
I suggest that chindon-ya sounds are foregrounding new political possibilities.
0014. Appert, C.M. (2016). On hybridity in African popular music: The case of Senegalese hip hop. Ethnomusicology, 60, 279–299.
I explore how practices of musical intertextuality reinscribe global connections as diasporic ones and challenge the conditions for musical hybridity.
0015. Baker, J. (2016). Black like me: Caribbean tourism and the St. Kitts Music Festival. Ethnomusicology, 60, 263–278.
Contemporary artists represent the black faces of Caribbean tourism that have previously been unacknowledged.
0016. Boom, I. & Ojeda, D. (2016). On the name of book wrighting: Irma Boom’s “transformative crossover” production. Journal of Modern Craft, 9, 55–70.
Entrepreneurship relates to a business model whereby the designer operates with a high degree of independence.
0017. Dunkin-Hubby, L. (2016). A brief history of mail art’s engagement with craft (c. 1950–2014). Journal of Modern Craft, 9, 35–54.
The avant-garde aspects of mail art have shifted to reflect a dialog between old and new systems of communication.
0018. Keulemans, G. (2016). The geo-cultural conditions of Kintsugi. Journal of Modern Craft, 9, 15–34.
I explore the analysis of transformative repair in ceramics using concepts of affect.
Repair
0019. Mkallyah, K. (2016). Affects and effects of indigenous Tanzanian traditional music in Christian worship in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Ethnomusicology, 60, 300–328.
I show how the power of indigenous Tanzanian music to arouse deep and demonstrable emotions among church members is attributable to the characteristics of traditional music.
0020. Morris, K. (2016). You are not a lemming: The imagined resistance of craft citizenship. Journal of Modern Craft, 9, 5–14.
Craft is mined for its connotations of citizenship and social responsibility, advocating rebellion yet ensuring its impotence.
0021. Pang, L. (2016). Arendt in Hong Kong: Occupy, participatory art, and place-making. Cultural Politics, 12, 155–172.
I explore the meanings of the arts produced in the 2014 Hong Kong Umbrella Movement, using a reinterpretation of Hannah Arendt’s political philosophy.
0022. Racy, A.J. (2016). Domesticating otherness: The snake charmer in American popular culture. Ethnomusicology, 60, 197–232.
I illustrate how tropes of otherness acquire their forms and meanings as they become localized, or domesticated.
0023. Waldock, J. (2016). Crossing the boundaries: Sonic composition and the anthropological gaze. The Senses and Society, 11, 60–67.
The trinitarian methodology saw those living in the area as taking the roles of: activist, artist, and academic.
0024. Whitmore, A.K. (2016). The art of representing the other: Industry personnel in the world music industry. Ethnomusicology, 60, 329–355.
I analyze how industry personnel manage varied perspectives on world music as they negotiate the dynamics of representational and interpretive distortion across the schizophonic gap.
0025. Wulf, C. (2016). On historical anthropology: An introduction. The Senses and Society, 11, 7–23.
The anthropology of sound is an important field of research in musicology as well as in cultural studies.
Cultural Ecology
0026. Addi, A., Soromessa, T., Kelbessa, E., Dibaba, A., & Kefalew, A. (2016). Floristic composition and plant community types of Agama Forest, an “Afromontane Forest” in Southwest Ethiopia. Journal of Ecology and The Natural Environment, 8(5), 55–69.
Agama forest presents high richness, diversity and endemism, with different plant communities according to altitude.
0027. Amaja, L.G., Feyssa, D.H., & Gutema, T.M. (2016). Assessment of types of damage and causes of human-wildlife conflict in Gera district, south western Ethiopia. Journal of Ecology and The Natural Environment, 8(5), 49–54.
Wildlife authorities and local institutions are encouraged to address the needs of the local communities or to find the source of alternative livelihood to the society.
0028. Arifin, Z., Dahlan, Z., Sabaruddin, Irsan, C., & Hartono, Y. (2016). Impact of the presence of subterranean termites Macrotermes gilvus (Termitidae) to physico-chemical soil modification on the rubber plantation land. Journal of Ecology and The Natural Environment, 8(3), 13–19.
Subterranean termites nesting in the rubber plantation land are a positive effect on the agroecosystem.
0029. Evans, D.J.A. (2016). Landscapes at the periphery of glacierization – Retrospect and prospect. Scottish Geographical Journal, 132, 140–163.
Subtle landform imprints include meltwater channels, thin glacigenic veneers or scattered erratics and modified tors.
0030. Furman, C. & Bartels, W.-L. (2017). Climate histories in black and white: Contextualizing climate services through anthropology. Practicing Anthropology, 39(1), 17–22.
Climate services programs are purposively tailored to community contexts and social histories.
0031. Gagné, K. (2016). Cultivating ice over time: On the idea of timeless knowledge and places in the Himalayas. Anthropologica, 58, 193–210.
Local knowledge is subject to change and must be analyzed in light of changing conceptions and experiences of place.
0032. Gagné, K. & Rasmussen, M.B. (2016). An amphibious anthropology: The production of place at the confluence of land and water. Anthropologica, 58, 135–149.
There is a relational ontology between land and water.
0033. Gemeda, D.O., Minstro, A.A., Feyessa, D.H., Sima, A.D., & Gutema, T.M. (2016). Community knowledge, attitude and practice towards black crowned crane (Balearica pavonina L.) conservation in Chora Boter district of Jimma Zone, Ethiopia. Journal of Ecology and The Natural Environment, 8(4), 40–48.
Action researches should be designed to promote participatory conservation of black crowned cranes and wetland.
0034. Grover, A. & Singh, R.B. (2016). Monitoring spatial patterns of land surface temperature and urban heat island for sustainable megacity: A case study of Mumbai, India, using Landsat TM data. Environment and Urbanization Asia, 7, 38–54.
Land use/cover change has brought major changes on land surface, including urban heat budget, temperature regimes, and urban hydrology, leading to unsustainable environments.
0035. Hude, E.M., Gordon, N.A., Mbarga, A.B., & Tchikangwa, B.N. (2016). Bumpy road to improved mangrove resilience in the Douala Estuary, Cameroon. Journal of Ecology and The Natural Environment, 8(5), 70–89.
Rhizophora racemosa stands in the Cameroon Estuary have been degraded through over-exploitation for fish smoking, pole-wood extraction, and fuel wood harvesting.
0036. Iloh, A.C., & Ogundipe, O.T. (2016). Using ecological niche models to plan conservation in a changing environment: A case for the plant Chasmanthera dependens Hochst (Menispermaceae) in West Africa. Journal of Ecology and The Natural Environment, 8(1), 1–8.
The current suitable range (ecological niche) of the model plant was broad across the tropical rain forest regions.
0037. Khan, N. (2016). Living paradox in riverine Bangladesh: Whiteheadian perspectives on Ganga Devi and Khwaja Khijir. Anthropologica, 58, 179–192.
I explore how women’s expressions portend the changing climate.
0038. McCarroll, D. (2016). Trimline trauma: The wider implications of a paradigm shift in recognising and interpreting glacial limits. Scottish Geographical Journal, 132, 130–139.
Trimlines mark the boundary between glacially eroded landscapes on low ground and landscapes dominated by evidence of periglacial weathering on higher summits.
0039. Murphy, D., Wyborn, C., Yung, L., Williams, D.R., …, Towler, E. (2016). Engaging communities and climate change futures with multi-scale, iterative scenario building (MISB) in the western United States. Human Organization, 75, 33–46.
Current projections of future climate change foretell potentially transformative ecological changes that threaten communities globally.
0040. Nang, B.D. (2016). Soil carbon store and storage potential as affected by human activities in the natural forest-savanna zone of Northern Ghana. Journal of Ecology and The Natural Environment, 8(4), 31–39.
There is a need for employing ecologically and socio-economically sustainable management plans for savanna woodland resources.
0041. Orlove, B. (2016). Two days in the life of a river: Glacier floods in Bhutan. Anthropologica, 58, 227–242.
The traditional temple-fortresses and the new hydroelectric power plants are vulnerable to the floods.
0042. Orr, Y. (2016). Interspecies semiotics and the specter of taboo: The perception and interpretation of dogs and rabies in Bali, Indonesia. American Anthropologist, 118, 67–77.
The Muslim taboo on interaction with dogs constrains both perceptions of dogs and interpretations of their behavior.
0043. Pascucci, E. (2016). Transnational disruptions: Materialities and temporalities of transnational citizenship among Somali refugees in Cairo. Global Networks, 16, 326–343.
Geographers have questioned this emphasis on mobility, connections and simultaneity, regrounding research on migrant transnationalism.
0044. Rasmussen, M.B. (2016). Water futures: Contention in the construction of productive infrastructure in the Peruvian highlands. Anthropologica, 58, 211–226.
Movement of water extends itself beyond the physical properties of the reservoir and irrigation channels.
0045. Walker, M. (2016). INTIMATE (integration of ice-core, marine and terrestrial records) 20 years on: Retrospect and prospect. Scottish Geographical Journal, 132, 164–170.
Studies include the development of an event stratigraphy; establishment of protocols for ice–land–ocean correlation; important contributions to geochronology, and tephrochronology.
0046. Whitney, C.W., Min, V.S., Giang, L.H., Can, V.V., …, Lanh, T.T. (2016). Learning with elders: Human ecology and ethnobotany explorations in northern and central Vietnam. Human Organization, 75, 71–86.
We utilized a human ecology systems theory approach developed by the indigenous and ethnic minority peoples' networks of the Mekong region.
0047. Williams, J. O. & Hakam, K. (2016). Microorganisms associated with dump sites in Port Harcourt Metropolis, Nigeria. Journal of Ecology and The Natural Environment, 8(2), 9–12.
The bacteria population isolated from the waste dump sites were: Bacillus, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella, Proteus, Pseudomonas, Staphylococcus and Streptococcus species.
0048. Willow, A.J. (2016). Troubling water: Shale energy and waterscape transformation in a North American extraction zone. Anthropologica, 58, 166–178.
Water has come to fill a prominent political and oppositional position in unconventional extraction debates.
Economics (Theory, technology, political economy, colonialism, development)
0049. Arhin, A. (2016). Advancing post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals in a changing development landscape: Challenges of NGOs in Ghana. Development in Practice, 26, 555–568.
Expectations of the roles of NGOs in advancing the cause of SDGs in Ghana are being affected by uncertainty of income generation and funding sources and changing operational capacity.
0050. Babidge, S. (2015). The problem with “transparency”: Moral contests and ethical possibilities in mining impact reporting. Focaal, 73, 70–83.
To comply with global Corporate Social Responsibility standards some mining companies have begun to undertake “transparency” reporting.
0051. Bailey, N. (2016). Exclusionary employment in Britain’s broken labour market. Critical Social Policy, 36, 82–103.
One in three adults here in paid work is in poverty, or in insecure or poor quality employment.
0052. Buit, G. & Jansen, K. (2016). Acceptance of human feces-based fertilizers in fecophobic Ghana. Human Organization, 75, 97–107.
Dried or treated feces no longer visually intimidate the beholder and are therefore more neutral.
0053. Chege, N. (2015). ‘What’s in it for me?’: Negotiations of asymmetries, concerns and interests between the researcher and research subjects. Ethnography, 16, 463–481.
Pre-interview interactions between qualitative researchers and research subjects are characterized by two-way sense-making processes.
0054. Christie, L., Sonnenberg, N.C., & Gous, I.G.P. (2016). The pursuit of subjective well-being and the complexity of conscientious consumer decision making in the South African white goods industry: A literature review and proposed conceptual framework. Journal of Family Ecology and Consumer Sciences, 44, 32–45.
Economic, environmental and social well-being needs must to be considered to ensure the sustainability of natural resources.
0055. Clark, H.-L. (2016). Expressing entitlement in colonial Algeria: Villagers, medical doctors, and the state in the early 20th century. International Journal of Middle East Studies, 48, 445–472.
I analyze administrative records, newspapers, petitions, and complaints to show how sanitary regulations and medical expertise came to shape relationships.
0056. Daniels, K., Beesley, N., Cheyne, A., & Wimalasiri, V. (2016). Safety climate and increased risk: The role of deadlines in design work. Human Relations, 69, 1185–1207.
Positive team safety climate was associated with less design complexity.
0057. de Wet, L.A.J.C. (2016). Both sides of the coin: A teaching strategy to facilitate an alignment of the creative design purpose of a fashion designer and the requirements of the consumer. Journal of Family Ecology and Consumer Sciences, 44, 46–57.
Fashion design education might neglect the consumer in the design process setting up students for failure.
0058. Erőss, A., Michalkó, G., & Galambos, I. (2016). Pathos and the mundane in the symbolic space of 1956 Revolution: The case of Corvin-passage, Budapest. Almatourism, 7(5), 44–60,
The Corvin Passage is one of the most important symbolic spaces of 1956 revolution in Hungary.
0059. Füreder, B. (2016). Food and menu in the frontline and in restaurants in homeland – What did civilians and soldiers consume during the Great War? Almatourism, 7(5), 120–124.
Restaurants in Budapest provided rich and creative menus during wartime and tried to overcome food shortages.
0060. Gajendran, V. (2016). Chennai’s peri-urban: Accumulation of capital and environmental exploitation. Environment and Urbanization Asia, 7, 113–131.
Peri-urban areas of Asian metro cities are sites of accumulation of capital whose exploitation for urban need extends to environmental degradation.
0061. Gyamfi, G.D. (2016). International responses to human trafficking: The Ghanaian experience. International Journal of Peace and Development Studies, 7(7), 62–68.
Human trafficking is characterized as violence, debt bondage, exploitation, deprivation of the freedom of the victims, and confiscation of travel and other documents.
0062. Hailey, J. & Salway, M. (2016). New routes to CSO sustainability: The strategic shift to social enterprise and social investment. Development in Practice, 26, 580–591.
The issue of sustainability is becoming more important for civil society, as non-profits, NGOs, and other civil society organizations face a range challenges.
0063. Havenga, M. & de Beer, H. (2016). Project-based learning in consumer sciences: Enhancing students’ responsibility in learning. Journal of Family Ecology and Consumer Sciences, 44, 58–70.
Students are required to accept responsibility and direct their own learning processes.
0064. Hossain, M. F., Villanueva, C. C., Hasan, F., & Maryam, H. (2016). Understanding and measuring economic empowerment of Sutrapur slum women in Dhaka, Bangladesh. International Journal of Sociology and Anthropology, 8(6), 45–58.
The women of Sutrapur slum need to be trained not only in their respective fields but also on the benefits of long term savings and investments.
0065. Jacka, J.K. (2015). Uneven development in the Papua New Guinea highlands: Mining, corporate social responsibility, and the “life market.” Focaal, 73, 57–69.
I describe tribal warfare in which groups not receiving benefits attack benefit-receiving groups in the attempt to extort monetary payments.
0066. Jansen-Verbeke, M. (2016). An explorative note on tourism development along former war front lines. Almatourism, 7(5), 1–25.
We briefly scan four examples of border areas with a war history, that became landmarks on the tourist’ maps today.
0067. Jiménez Velázquez, M.A., Castillo, M.J.F., & Saldaña, T.M. (2017). Amate paper culture in San Pablito, Pahuatlán, Puebla, Mexico. Practicing Anthropology, 39(1), 12–16.
Amate paper is manufactured from bark fibers from jonote trees.
0068. Kutbay, E.Y. & Aykac, A. (2016). Battlefield tourism at Gallipoli: The revival of collective memory, the construction of national identity and the making of a long-distance tourism network. Almatourism, 7(5), 61–83.
Battlefield tourism plays a significant role in the construction of a long-distance tourism network between Australia, and Turkey.
0069. McGrath, P. (2016). The use of credit cards in response to the crisis of serious illness. Illness, Crisis & Loss, 24, 46–56.
The use of credit cards as a response to the financial crisis of serious illness are discussed.
0070. Millar, K.M. (2015). The tempo of wageless work: E. P. Thompson's time-sense at the edges of Rio de Janeiro. Focaal, 73, 28–40.
Woven time emerges as an important dimension of a life well lived as conceived by catadores.
0071. Mishra, P.P. (2016). How green are our hotels? Evidence from Thailand. Environment and Urbanization Asia, 7, 132–148.
I studied the environmental management practices of hotels in Bangkok.
0072. Muthambi, A., De Klerk, H.M., & Mastamet-Mason, A. (2016). Sizing for ethnicity in multi-culture societies: Validation of the size specifications for young South African women of African descent. Journal of Family Ecology and Consumer Sciences, 44, 1–10.
We propose a guide to size garments for South African women of African descent with a triangular body shape.
0073. Nagy, M.M. (2016). The bright face of dark tourism - Military conflicts and world travel in the modern era. Almatourism, 7(5), 105–119.
Military forces have become agents of developing societies’ geographical culture.
0074. Nickel, P.M. (2016). Thrift shop philanthropy: Charity, value, and ascetic rehabilitation. Cultural Politics, 12, 173–189.
I explore how the charity thrift shop belongs to a circuit of ascetic production involving the degradation and rehabilitation of consumer goods.
0075. Pantazis, C. (2016). Policies and discourses of poverty during a time of recession and austerity. Critical Social Policy, 36, 3–20.
Poverty was problematized by the Conservative–Liberal Democrat Coalition government socially harmful consequences.
0076. Pemberton, S., Fahmy, E., Sutton, E., & Bell, K. (2016). Navigating the stigmatised identities of poverty in austere times: Resisting and responding to narratives of personal failure. Critical Social Policy, 36, 21–37.
Behavioral explanations of poverty and disadvantage have figured heavily in political rhetoric in the era of austerity.
0077. Pursley, S. (2016). Gender as a category of analysis in development and environmental history. International Journal of Middle East Studies, 48, 555–560.
The gender/sex binary persists despite a generation of scholarship aimed at deconstructing that opposition.
0078. Rohrer, S., & Sobek, D. (2016). Name your price: Economic compensation and suicide terrorism. International Journal of Peace and Development Studies, 7(8), 76–88.
High levels of economic compensation and poor economic conditions are correlated with a greater number of suicide terrorist attacks.
0079. Romagnoli, M. (2016). The effects of terrorism on tourism: (Inter)relations, motives & risks. Almatourism, 7(5), 125–133.
Terrorists are capable of using tourists as the means to get the media’s attention and bombard the world with their message.
0080. Scourfield, P. (2016). Squaring the Circle: What lessons can be learned from the Hinchingbrooke franchise fiasco? Critical Social Policy, 36, 142–152.
The failure of the Circle franchise is used to question the ‘logic’ of the neo-liberal approach to public service reform.
0081. Shams, S., Mahruf, M., & Shohel, C. (2016). Food security and livelihood in coastal area under increased salinity and frequent tidal surge. Environment and Urbanization Asia, 7, 22–37.
Reviving livelihoods remain a challenge for the vulnerable households especially in areas where agricultural diversity is very limited.
0082. Smith, T.E., Richards, K.V., Shelton, V.M., & Malespin, T.S. (2015). Sirens’ call: Understanding poor financial decision making and credit card misuse. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 25, 897–906.
Research, practice implications, and a financial therapy model for improving financial decision-making skills are presented.
0083. Starzmann, M.T. (2015). Global privatized power: Heritage politics and private military contractors in Iraq. Focaal, 73, 114–124.
Archaeology and heritage work prop up the coloniality of power by tying cultural to economic forms of control.
0084. Tizzoni, E. (2016). The touristification of war landscapes in the Province of Trento. Almatourism, 7(5), 84–104.
Contemporary social sciences consider war tourism as a complex blend between social memory and tourism exploitation.
0085. Winter, C. (2016). Tourism and making the places after war: The Somme and ground zero. Almatourism, 7(5), 26–43.
A core component in the commemoration and understanding of conflict is in actually visiting the site where events occurred.
Ethnohistory
0086. Ahearn, A. & Bumochir, D. (2016). Contradictions in schooling children among Mongolian pastoralists. Human Organization, 75, 87–96.
The terms of inclusion in Mongolia's current schooling system pose challenges for pastoralist livelihoods.
0087. Grotti, V.E. & Brightman, M. (2016). Narratives of the invisible: Autobiography, kinship, and alterity in native Amazonia. Social Analysis, 60, 92–109.
Shamanic knowledge is based on an ambiguous commensality with invisible others.
0088. Harris, S. (2016). The social practice of harm reduction in Argentina: A “Latin” kind of intervention. Human Organization, 75, 1–9.
“Harm reduction” is a public health model to reduce the negative effects of drug use rather than on eliminating drug use or ensuring abstinence.
0089. Kołodziejska-Degórska, I. (2016). Patients’ webs of relations in the medical landscapes of Central Ukraine. Anthropology & Medicine, 23, 155–171.
Village dwellers in Central Ukraine have access to various types of therapy that comprise diverse medical landscapes.
0090. Main, I. (2016). Biomedical practices from a patient perspective. Experiences of Polish female migrants in Barcelona, Berlin and London. Anthropology & Medicine, 23, 188–204.
I raise sensitivity to different communication strategies and a diversity of curing traditions and expectations.
0091. Moore, F. (2016). City of sojourners versus city of settlers: Transnationalism, location and identity among Taiwanese professionals in London and Toronto. Global Networks, 16, 372–390.
Transnational identities are as a strategic resource for building connections with many different groups.
0092. Pearson, T.W. (2016). Frac sand mining and the disruption of place, landscape, and community in Wisconsin. Human Organization, 75, 47–58.
People grappling with a sudden influx of mining activity suffer significant disruptions that erode their sense of place and belonging.
0093. Rajtar, M. (2016). Jehovah's Witness patients within the German medical landscape. Anthropology & Medicine, 23, 172–187.
Jehovah's Witnesses’ position towards blood transfusions can be used as a lens to shed light on the German (bio)medical landscape itself.
0094. Scharbach, J. & Waldram, J.B. (2016). Asking for a disaster: Being “at risk” in the emergency evacuation of a northern Canadian aboriginal community. Human Organization, 75, 59–70.
The backbone of Dene social organization and stability, the extended family, was fragmented when individual family members were sent to different communities.
0095. Sönmez, E. (2016). From kanun-ı kadim (ancient law) to umumun kuvveti (force of people): Historical context of the Ottoman constitutionalism. Middle Eastern Studies, 52, 116–134.
I seek to shed light on the historical context of the Ottoman constitutionalism.
Kinship (Family organization, marriage)
0096. Băluţă, I. (2016). Women and the family in the late nineteenth-century Romanian feminist press: Defining alternative gender roles. Journal of Family History, 41, 65–80.
A content analysis of Femeia română magazine is of particular heuristic value, due to its longevity, and also to the personality of its founder.
0097. Barrio, C., Hernandez, M., & Gaona, L. (2016). The family caregiving context among adults with disabilities: A review of the research on developmental disabilities, serious mental illness, and traumatic brain injury. Journal of Family Social Work, 19, 328–347.
A majority of adults with serious disabilities are cared for in the home by family members.
0098. Behrman, J.A. & Weitzman, A. (2016). Effects of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on women's reproductive health. Studies in Family Planning, 47, 3–17.
Severe earthquake intensity significantly increased women's unmet need for family planning and reduced their access to condoms.
0099. Berend, Z. (2016). “We are all carrying someone else's child!”: Relatedness and relationships in third-party reproduction. American Anthropologist, 118, 24–36.
Surrogates and intended parents contend that surrogate babies belong to the parents who want them.
0100. Blanc, A.K., Glazer, K., Ofomata-Aderemi, U., & Akinfaderin-Agarau, F. (2016). Myths and misinformation: An analysis of text messages sent to a sexual and reproductive health Q&A service in Nigeria. Studies in Family Planning, 47, 39–53.
Almost 50 million young people aged 10–24 in Nigeria face many challenges to their sexual and reproductive health.
0101. Burke, M.M., Patton, K.A., & Taylor, J.L. (2016). Family support: A review of the literature on families of adolescents with disabilities. Journal of Family Social Work, 19, 252–285.
We analyzed the supports that families provide to their adolescent relatives with disabilities.
0102. Coe, C. (2016). Orchestrating care in time: Ghanaian migrant women, family, and reciprocity. American Anthropologist, 118, 37–48.
Women synchronize their life courses with the developmental and aging pathways of others.
0103. de Pina-Cabral, J. (2016). Brazilian serialities: Personhood and radical embodied cognition. Current Anthropology, 57, 247–260.
I studied the modes of operation of personhood by diverging from the established representationist theories of cognition.
0104. Derks, D., Bakker, A.B., Peters, P., & van Wingerden, P. (2016). Work-related smartphone use, work–family conflict and family role performance: The role of segmentation preference. Human Relations, 69, 1045–1068.
For integrators more frequent work-related smartphone use during off-job time is associated with better family role performance.
0105. Dermott, E. & Pomati, M. (2016). The parenting and economising practices of lone parents: Policy and evidence. Critical Social Policy, 36, 62–81.
Lone parents cut back on their own expenditure to a greater extent than other parents to provide for children.
0106. Grossman, B.R. & Webb, C.E. (2016). Family support in late life: A review of the literature on aging, disability, and family caregiving. Journal of Family Social Work, 19, 348–395.
We address the care, services, and supports family caregivers provide for older adults including negative and positive impacts.
0107. Gure, F., Dahir, M.K., Yusuf, M., & Foster, A.M. (2016). Emergency contraception in post-conflict Somalia: An assessment of awareness and perceptions of need. Studies in Family Planning, 47, 69–81.
Somalia is one of the few countries without a registered progestin-only emergency contraception pill.
0108. Jackson, E.F., Bawah, A.A., Williams, J.E., & Phillips, J.F. (2016). Respondents’ exposure to community-based services and reported fertility-regulation behavior: A decade of data from the Navrongo Community Health and Family Planning Project. Studies in Family Planning, 47, 55–68.
We assessed access to contraceptive services, reported fertility-regulation behavior, and their interaction on the risk of a conception that results in a birth.
0109. Main, G. & Bradshaw, J. (2016). Child poverty in the UK: Measures, prevalence and intra-household sharing. Critical Social Policy, 36, 38–61.
Parents in poverty allocate forgo personal necessities to provide for children.
0110. Marteleto, L.J., Cavanagh, S., Prickett, K., & Clark, S. (2016). Instability in parent–child coresidence and adolescent development in urban South Africa. Studies in Family Planning, 47, 19–38.
The implications of coresidential instability vary by race, reflecting racial differences with respect to cultural, social, and economic conditions.
0111. Moroney, S. (2016). Master bedrooms and master suites: Modern marriage and the architecture of American homes. Journal of Family History, 41, 81–94.
Modern marriages require sanctuary from the stresses of family life and must have privacy to achieve happiness and fulfillment.
0112. Morris, M. (2016). Domesticity and self-justification in the writings of Samuel Kevan, journeyman, later master slater (1764–1829). Journal of Family History, 41, 3–18.
Kevan’s writings raise interpretive questions regarding the value of self-writings in determining typical experience and constructing historical models.
0113. O’Sullivan, M.D. (2016). “More Destruction to These Family Ties”: Native American women, child welfare, and the solution of sovereignty. Journal of Family History, 41, 19–38.
Native American women championed a framework that complicates existing narratives of women and activism.
0114. Vanegas, S.B. & Abdelrahim, R. (2016). Characterizing the systems of support for families of children with disabilities: A review of the literature. Journal of Family Social Work, 19, 286–327.
Families often lack the knowledge, resources, and skills that would help them in overcoming challenges that arise while raising a child with disability.
0115. van Sittert, L. (2016). Working children: Rural child labor markets in the postemancipation Great Karoo, South Africa, 1856–1913. Journal of Family History, 41, 39–64.
Period documents provide a rich and illuminating source on ordinary child employment practices.
Medical anthropology
0116. Ahamad, K., Korthuis, P.T., Lum, P.J., Johnson, C., & Wood, E. (2016). A delayed injection-site reaction in a patient receiving extended-release naltrexone. Substance Abuse, 37, 278–280.
Injection-site reactions can occur within days of depot injection.
0117. Ball, K., Di Domenico, M., & Nunan, D. (2016). Big data surveillance and the body-subject. Body & Society, 22(2), 58–81.
We highlight how competing normativities, and normative dilemmas in these proximal spaces, manipulate the surveilled subject’s embodied practices.
0118. Epstein, C. (2016). Surveillance, privacy and the making of the modern subject: Habeas what kind of corpus? Body & Society, 22(2), 28–57.
I use biometric technologies as a lens for tracking the changing relationships between the body and privacy.
0119. Feliciano, C. (2016). Shades of race: How phenotype and observer characteristics shape racial classification. American Behavioral Scientist, 60, 390–419.
Despite the growth in the multiracial population, observers tend to place individuals into monoracial categories, including Latino.
0120. Garcia, D. & Abascal, M. (2016). Colored perceptions: Racially distinctive names and assessments of skin color. American Behavioral Scientist, 60, 420–441.
Ratings of male faces are more sensitive to racially distinctive names.
0121. Gullickson, A. (2016). Essential measures: Ancestry, race, and social difference. American Behavioral Scientist, 60, 498–518.
I analyze race-reporting inconsistency and predict college completion at multiple levels of racial ancestry aggregation using Census data.
0122. Guta, A., Murray, S.J., & Gagnon, M. (2016). HIV, viral suppression and new technologies of surveillance and control. Body & Society, 22(2), 82–107.
We contextualize observations by linking them to systems of governance and discursive subjectivation.
0123. Howard, H.A., Malouin, R., & Callow-Rucker, M. (2016). Care managers and knowledge shift in primary care patient-centered medical home transformation. Human Organization, 75, 10–20.
We demonstrate how the diffusion of clinical power and knowledge production redefine primary care relationships to patients.
0124. Kujawska, M. (2016). Forms of medical pluralism among the Polish Community in Misiones, Argentina. Anthropology & Medicine, 23, 205–219.
Polish settlers tried to reconstruct bits and pieces of their familiar and traditional healing practices in the new environment.
0125. Litten, R.Z., Wilford, B.B., Falk, D.E., Ryan, M.L., & Fertig, J.B. (2016). Potential medications for the treatment of alcohol use disorder: An evaluation of clinical efficacy and safety. Substance Abuse, 37, 286–298.
Disulfiram, naltrexone, and acamprosate are approved to treat alcohol dependence.
0126. Matusitz, J. & Spear, J. (2015). Doctor-patient communication styles: A comparison between the United States and three Asian countries. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 25, 871–884.
The United States has very little in common with the philosophical, cultural, societal, and communicative approaches elsewhere.
0127. Page-Reeves, J. & Cardiel, E. (2016). GED privatization as a social determinant of health. Human Organization, 75, 21–32.
In the context of the recent privatization of the GED, the welfare of individuals intersects with neoliberal politics.
0128. Penkala-Gawęcka, D. (2016). Risky encounters with doctors? Medical diversity and health-related strategies of the inhabitants of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Anthropology & Medicine, 23, 135–154.
I focus on risk, uncertainty and trust, as emotions that are central to an understanding of the health-related strategies and tactics.
0129. Rose, N. (2016). Reading the human brain: How the mind became legible. Body & Society, 22(2), 140–177.
A range of novel technologies of brain imaging have been used to argue that specific mental states, and even specific thoughts, can be identified by characteristic patterns of brain activation.
0130. Scott L.D. Jr., & McCoy, H. (2015). Negative social contextual stressors and somatic symptoms among young black males: An exploratory study. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 25, 885–896.
Stressors made a unique and significant contribution to the experience of somatic symptoms.
0131. Smith, G.J.D. (2016). Surveillance, data and embodiment: On the work of being watched. Body & Society, 22(2), 108–139.
I explore the nature and function of the data-proxy, and its impact on social relations.
Minorities (Ethnicity, class differentials, sex roles)
0132. Benack, S. & Swan, T. (2016). Queer people who enter ‘straight’ marriages: The academic community's struggle to understand an anomalous choice. Journal of Bisexuality, 16, 312–338.
We suggest alternate strategies to facilitate inquiry into sexual phenomena that are ‘anomalous’ from dominant cultural paradigms.
0133. Berg, R.C., Munthe-Kaas, H.M., & Ross, M.W. (2016). Internalized homonegativity: A systematic mapping review of empirical research. Journal of Homosexuality, 63, 541–558.
Internalized homonegativity is an important variable affecting the wellbeing of lesbian, gay, and bisexual persons.
0134. Boucher, M.L. (2016). More than an ally. Urban Education, 51, 82–107.
A successful white teacher builds solidarity with his African American students.
0135. Brandão, A.M. & Machado, T.C. (2016). Organa: The first Portuguese lesbian magazine. Journal of Homosexuality, 63, 575–599.
We argue that Organa fostered the political mobilization of Portuguese lesbians.
0136. Buttram, M.E. (2015). The social environmental elements of resilience among vulnerable African American/black men who have sex with men. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 25, 923–933.
Diversity of experiences and relationships is an important influencing factor on expressions of resilience.
0137. Chitando, A. & Manyonganise M. (2016). Saying the unsaid: Probing homosexuality in The Hairdresser of Harare. Journal of Homosexuality, 63, 559–574.
The novel gives helpful clues into discourses on homosexuality in contemporary Zimbabwe.
0138. Ehlers, T.B. (2017). Women work together: My unforeseen transition from academic to feminist change agent. Practicing Anthropology, 39(1), 40–43.
I trace my journey as I venture out of the classroom to become a social change agent.
0139. Faucheux, A. (2016). Anaïs, Henry, and June: Reading nonmonogamy in literature. Journal of Bisexuality, 16, 294–311.
Reading Nin as a polyamorist rather than an adulteress transforms our understanding of her actions and even her persona as a writer.
0140. Ghabrial, S. (2016). Gender, power, and agency in the historical study of the Middle East and North Africa. International Journal of Middle East Studies, 48, 561–564.
The transdisciplinary lives of agency are an analytic tool, its particular proximity to gender-critical research, and, in turn, seeming synonymization with women.
0141. Hackl, A.M., Becker, A.B., & Todd, M.E. (2016). “I am Chelsea Manning”: Comparison of gendered representation of Private Manning in U.S. and international news media. Journal of Homosexuality, 63, 467–486.
A comparison of international and U.S. newspapers suggests that the U.S. press lagged behind international coverage using a female depiction.
0142. Hertlein, K.M., Hartwell, E.E., & Munns, M.E. (2016). Attitudes toward bisexuality according to sexual orientation and gender. Journal of Bisexuality, 16, 339–360.
Attitudes toward bisexuality differ by sexual orientation but not by gender.
0143. Jackson, T.O., Bryan, M.L., & Larkin, M.L. (2016). An analysis of a white preservice teacher’s reflections on race and young children within an urban school context. Urban Education, 51, 60–81.
We explore the impact of resegregation on how children of color see and experience race in schools.
0144. Klibert, J., Barefoot, K.N., Langhinrichsen-Rohling, J., Warren, J.A., & Smalley, K.B. (2015).Cross-cultural and cognitive-affective models of suicide risk. Journal of Black Psychology, 41, 272–295.
For African Americans, lower levels of cultural congruity were more strongly related to greater interpersonal factors associated with a desire to die.
0145. Kvalem, I.L., Træen, B., & Iantaffi, A. (2016). Internet pornography use, body ideals, and sexual self-esteem in Norwegian gay and bisexual men. Journal of Homosexuality, 63, 522–540.
We explore the relationship among one's own appearance, Internet pornography consumption, preferences for pornographic actors’ appearance, and sexual self-esteem.
0146. Lee, D.B., Neblett, E.W., Jr., & Jackson, V. (2015).The role of optimism and religious involvement in the association between race-related stress and anxiety symptomatology. Journal of Black Psychology, 41, 221–246.
Religious involvement and optimism may produce the most advantageous outcomes with respect to the association between race-related stress and anxiety.
0147. McLeod, D.A., Natale, A.P., & Johnson, Z.R. (2015). Comparing theoretical perspectives on female sexual offending behaviors: Applying a trauma-informed lens. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 25, 934–947.
I provide context on incidence, prevalence, and mediating factors in female sex offender behavior.
0148. Morrison, K.E., Gruenhage, J.M., & Pedersen, C.L. (2016). Challenging binaries by saying good bi: Perceptions of bisexual men's identity legitimacy. Journal of Bisexuality, 16, 361–377.
Biphobia scores remained relatively stable among bisexual participants regardless of gender, whereas scores were revealed to be more variable among straight participants.
0149. Padovani, C. & Pavan, E. (2016). Global governance and ICTs: Exploring online governance networks around gender and media. Global Networks, 16, 350–371.
We address transformations in global governance brought about by information and communication technologies.
0150. Ranharter, K. & Stansfield, G. (2016). Acknowledging the suffering caused by state-mandated sexual violence and crimes: An assessment of the Iraqi High Tribunal. Middle Eastern Studies, 52, 27–45.
We extend academic writings on Iraq, the Iraqi High Tribunal and gender, by providing insights into how the tribunal dealt with the issues of rape and sexual violence.
0151. Senior, K., Chenhall, R., & Daniels, D. (2017). “No more secrets—Ngukurr news”: Looking back at the contribution of a community newspaper in a remote aboriginal setting. Practicing Anthropology, 39(1), 44–48.
I examine the contribution that a newspaper made to a remote aboriginal community in northern Australia.
0152. Taylor, L. (2016). Sex, ‘race,’ and betrayal: Kalinda Sharma and bisexual feminist politics. Journal of Bisexuality, 16, 277–293.
The bisexual woman is a key site of contestation in theorizing a feminist sexual politics.
0153. Thienkrua, W., Todd, C.S., Chaikummao, S., Sukwicha, W., …, Holtz, T.H. (2016). Lubricant use among men who have sex with men reporting anal intercourse in Bangkok, Thailand: Impact of HIV status and implications for prevention. Journal of Homosexuality, 63, 507–521.
We measure prevalence and correlates of consistent lubricant use among a cohort of Thai men who have sex with men.
0154. Utsey, S.O., Abrams, J.A., Hess, D.W., & McKinley, W. (2015). Heart rate variability as a correlate of trauma symptom expression, psychological well-being, and emotion regulation in African Americans with traumatic spinal cord injury. Journal of Black Psychology August 2015 41: 299–310.
There was a statistically significant relationship among heart rate variability, trauma symptoms, and psychological distress.
0155. Vincent, S. (2016). Bourdieu and the gendered social structure of working time: A study of self-employed human resources professionals. Human Relations, 69, 1163–1184.
My study facilitates a more fine-grained and relational appreciation of gendered advantages within self-employed careers.
Political structure and process, Law
0156. Aktürk, A.S. (2016). Female cousins and wounded masculinity: Kurdish nationalist discourse in the Post-Ottoman Middle East. Middle Eastern Studies, 52, 46–59.
Kurdish nationalists expressed a crisis of masculinity emanating from their perceived inability to do anything for their own country.
0157. Bernstein, A. (2016). Love and resurrection: Remaking life and death in contemporary Russia. American Anthropologist, 118, 12–23.
I discuss politics of life that defies the power of the state over death and its monopoly position as the purveyor of death and immortality.
0158. Claessen, A. & de Lange, P. (2016). Lessons for supporting policy influencing in restrictive environments. Development in Practice, 26, 544–554.
I describe trends in diminishing space for civil society organizations and present findings and lessons based on an evaluation of Dutch support.
0159. Easley, J. (2016). The audacity to teach. Urban Education, 51, 108–137.
I examine a reform policy, school leadership, and their relationships mediated by instructional capacity.
0160. Elcioglu, E.F.F. (2015). Popular sovereignty on the border: Nativist activism among two border watch groups in southern Arizona. Ethnography, 16, 438–462.
We might expect popular sovereignty in other contexts where the state is perceived to be weak.
0161. Fisher, N. (2016). The fundamentalist dilemma: Lessons from the Israeli Haredi case. International Journal of Middle East Studies, 48, 531–549.
I explore how fundamentalist movements participate in secular political systems, when they gain positions allowing them to impose extreme ideology on the entire society.
0162. Fowler, A. (2016). Non-governmental development organisations’ sustainability, partnership, and resourcing: Futuristic reflections on a problematic trialogue. Development in Practice, 26, 569–579.
Signs of aid uncertainty in the last decades of the millennium were not heeded, nor strategies developed for life beyond aid.
0163. Häkli, J. & Kallio, K.P. (2016). Children's rights advocacy as transnational citizenship. Global Networks, 16, 307–325.
We show that transnational citizenship in the field of children's rights is practiced not merely ‘out there’ but also ‘right here’.
0164. Holzer, E. & Warren, K. (2015). Humanitarian spectacles from below: A study of social connections in unsettled contexts. Ethnography, 16, 482–502.
Disenfranchisement and bureaucratic intransigence deeply constrained life at the Buduburam Refugee Camp.
0165. Keene, S. (2015). Up in smoke? The making and unmaking of a rural moral economy. Focaal, 73, 12–27.
The making of a rural moral economy was in part enabled by the presence of a nascent marijuana industry.
0166. Kidron, A. (2016). Separatism, coexistence and the landscape: Jews and Palestinian-Arabs in Mandatory Haifa. Middle Eastern Studies, 52, 79–101
Haifa was named a ‘mixed city’ by the British, who ruled Palestine from 1917 to 1948, in reference to the two national communities that inhabited the town.
0167. Kim, J.J. (2017). Applied anthropology in transitional justice. Practicing Anthropology, 39(1), 24–28.
I utilize a participatory action approach in transitional justice development.
0168. Loperena, C.A. (2016). A divided community: The ethics and politics of activist research. Current Anthropology, 57, 332–346.
I explore the ethical and political contradictions bound up with activist-oriented ethnographic research.
0169. Mendel, Y. (2016). From German philology to local usability: The emergence of ‘practical’ Arabic in the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa' 1913–48. Middle Eastern Studies, 52, 1–26.
The shift towards practicality was motivated by political developments and ideological shifts as much as by pedagogical considerations.
0170. Mitchell, K. (2016). Celebrity humanitarianism, transnational emotion and the rise of neoliberal citizenship. Global Networks, 16, 288–306.
I analyze the mechanisms of emotion in the constitution of these deterritorialized networks.
0171. Moisio, S. & Kangas, A. (2016). Reterritorializing the global knowledge economy: An analysis of geopolitical assemblages of higher education. Global Networks, 16, 268–287.
We study the subjectification of individuals as specific kinds of professional citizens.
0172. Nguyen, J. (2016). iMagazine and the social reproduction of DIY science and technology. Cultural Politics, 12, 233–252.
Make magazine highlights how DIY science and making intersects the politics of social reproduction tying citizenship and political legitimacy to domestic labor.
0173. Opafola, S. O. (2016). Implications of ethnic nationalism: The Niger delta region of Nigeria as a case study. International Journal of Peace and Development Studies, 7(7), 69–75.
I found out that the main cause of ethnic nationalism is injustice.
0174. Oualdi, M. (2016). Mamluks In Ottoman Tunisia: A category connecting state and social forces. International Journal of Middle East Studies, 48, 473–490.
Mamluks connected the state to various imperial and provincial social forces.
0175. Peake, B. (2016). Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, and the broadcast boundaries of racialized heteronationalism, according to the FBI. Cultural Politics, 12, 202–216.
US enforcement agencies have a history of reliance upon race and sexuality as categories for defining domestic security and surveillance protocols.
0176. Schulze, H. (2016). Resistance and resonance: A political anthropology of sound. The Senses and Society, 11, 68–81.
I present a first and tentative inquiry into the field a political anthropology of sound and the senses.
0177. Suwaed, M. (2016). The Wadi al-Hawarith affair (Emek Hefer): Disputed land and the struggle for ownership: 1929–33. Middle Eastern Studies, 52, 135–152.
The Jewish National Fund tried to reach an arrangement by means of compensation for the Bedouin tenants who dwelled on the lands of the valley.
0178. Teso, A.B., Hamado, L.K., & Chalenka, G.T. (2016). An investigation of participatory governance embedded in Gadaa system: Manbadha general assembly of the Arsii Oromo in focus. Journal of Languages and Culture, 7, 93–104.
Gadaa system is participatory when analyzed from the perspective of roles of age grades, decentralization approach, gender issues and openness for the masses.
0179. Weiss, E. (2016). Incentivized obedience: How a gentler Israeli military prevents organized resistance. American Anthropologist, 118, 91–103.
The Israeli military is the state institution most associated with discipline, indoctrination, and direct coercion.
0180. Wood, J. (2016). Unintended consequences: DAC governments and shrinking civil society space in Kenya. Development in Practice, 26, 532–543.
In the post-Cold War era, rights and democracy promotion became a significant component of Western governments’ developing country engagement.
Psychological anthropology
0181. Aldrich, H. & Kallivayalil, D. (2016). Traumatic grief after homicide: Intersections of individual and community loss. Illness, Crisis & Loss, 24, 15–33.
We examine the impact of community response on the devastating experience of losing a loved one to homicide.
0182. Banerjee, M., Rowley, S.J., & Johnson, D.J. (2015). Community violence and racial socialization: Their influence on the psychosocial well-being of African American college students. Journal of Black Psychology August 2015 41: 358–383.
We show that racial socialization buffers the effects of community violence exposure on mental health outcomes.
0183. Ben-Zeev, D., Schueller, S.M., Begale, M., Duffecy, J.,…, Mohr, D.C. (2015). Strategies for mHealth research: Lessons from 3 mobile intervention studies. Administration and Policy in Mental Health, 42, 157–167.
We discuss Mobile Health research challenges: evolving technology, mobile phone selection, and user characteristics.
0184. Casaletto, K.B., Kwan, S., Montoya, JL., Obermeit, L.C., …, Moore, D.J. (2016). Predictors of psychotropic medication adherence among HIV+ individuals living with bipolar disorder. The International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, 51, 69–83.
Both psychiatric and neurocognitive factors contribute to poorer psychotropic adherence among HIV+ individuals with serious mental illness.
0185. Chopra, N. & de Leon, J. (2016). Clozapine-induced myocarditis may be associated with rapid titration: A case report verified with autopsy. The International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, 51, 104–115.
Clozapine-induced myocarditis is a poorly understood, rare, potentially fatal adverse drug reaction.
0186. Cole, N.N., Nonterah, C.W., Utsey, S.O., Hook, J.N., …, Fischer, N.L. (2015). Predictor and moderator effects of ego resilience and mindfulness on the relationship between academic stress and psychological well-being in a sample of Ghanaian college students. Journal of Black Psychology August 2015 41: 340–357.
Ego resilience buffered the positive relationship between academic stress and anxiety but not depression.
0187. Cook, J.M., Dinnen, S., Coyne, J.C., Thompson, R.,…, Schnurr, P.P. (2015). Evaluation of an implementation model: A national investigation of VA residential programs. Administration and Policy in Mental Health, 42, 147–156.
Implications for the design and improvement of training and implementation efforts to treat posttraumatic stress disorder are discussed.
0188. Doherty, A.M., Gayle, C., Morgan-Jones, R., Archer, N.,…, Werner, A. (2016). Improving quality of diabetes care by integrating psychological and social care for poorly controlled diabetes: 3 Dimensions of Care for Diabetes. The International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, 51, 3–15.
This model of care demonstrates that integrated care can improve diabetes outcomes in people with psychological and social comorbidities.
0189. Dreher, D.E. (2016). “To tell my story”: Grief and self-disclosure in Hamlet. Illness, Crisis & Loss, 24, 3–14.
Self-disclosure, telling the story of their loss to an empathic listener, helps bereaved men and women work through the pain of their grief.
0190. Eaves, E.R., Nichter, M., & Ritenbaugh, C. (2016). Ways of hoping: Navigating the paradox of hope and despair in chronic pain. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, 40, 35–58.
We found hope to be a dynamic and multifaceted mindset as distinct from being a single entity to be measured.
0191. Fontanella, C.A., Hiance-Steelesmith, D.L., Gilchrist, R., Bridge, J.A.,…, Campo, J.V. (2015). Quality of care for Medicaid-enrolled youth with bipolar disorders. Administration and Policy in Mental Health, 42, 126–138.
Current treatment practices for youth diagnosed with bipolar disorder typically fall short of recommended practice guidelines.
0192. Gee, D., Mildred, H., Brann, P., & Taylor, M. (2015). Brief Intervention: A promising framework for child and youth mental health? Administration and Policy in Mental Health, 42, 121–125.
We introduce a model of how brief intervention fits within a broader system of care.
0193. Gordon, T.L., Steiner, A.R.W., & Teachman, B.A. (2015). Physical triggers of anxiety in African Americans. Journal of Black Psychology, 41, 311–339.
Physical stressors in general (as opposed to cardiovascular arousal specifically) may be a prominent trigger of anxiety for African Americans.
0194. Hoy-Ellis, C.P. (2016). Concealing concealment: The mediating role of internalized heterosexism in psychological distress among lesbian, gay, and bisexual older adults. Journal of Homosexuality, 63, 487–506.
Sexual minorities aged 50 and older experience significantly higher rates of psychological distress than their heterosexual age-peers.
0195. Ishikawa, M., Yamanaka, G., Yamamoto, N., Nakaoka, T., …, Sakura, H. (2016). Depression and altitude: Cross-sectional community-based study among elderly high-altitude residents in the Himalayan regions. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, 40, 1–11.
Suicide rates are higher at high altitudes, and some hypothesize that hypoxia is the cause.
0196. Johnson, H.J. (2016). Bisexuality, mental health, and media representation. Journal of Bisexuality, 16, 378–396.
I draw connections between media representation and mental health by examining bisexual issues such as biphobia, bisexual erasure, and media representation.
0197. King, D.M., Hatcher, S.S., & Bride, B. (2015). An exploration of risk factors associated with dating violence: Examining the predictability of adolescent female dating violence perpetration. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 25, 907–922.
Teen dating violence perpetration includes race, exposure to violence, alcohol use, engaging in risk behaviors, mental health, and delinquency.
0198. Li, H., Jin, D., Qiao, F., Chen, J., & Gong, J. (2016). Relationship between the Self-Rating Anxiety Scale score and the success rate of 64-slice computed tomography coronary angiography. The International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, 51, 47–55.
We used a pre-computed tomography scan Self-Rating Anxiety Scale assessment to analyze the effects of tension and anxiety on computed tomography coronary angiography success.
0199. Neville, H.A., Viard, B., & Turner, L. (2015). Race and recognition: Pathways to an affirmative black identity. Journal of Black Psychology, 41, 247–271.
We describe four types of behaviors designed to achieve global recognition: challenging oppression, competition, self-affirmation, and racial performance.
0200. Park, J.I., Yang, J.-C., Park, T.W., & Chung, S.-K. (2016). Is serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D associated with depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation in Korean adults? The International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, 51, 31–46.
We studied the role of vitamin D deficiency in depression and suicidal ideation.
0201. Sehlo, M.G., Alzahrani, O.H., & Alzahrani, H.A. (2016). Illness invalidation from spouse and family is associated with depression in diabetic patients with first superficial diabetic foot ulcers. The International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, 51, 16–30.
We assessed the prevalence of depressive disorders in a sample of diabetic patients with their first superficial diabetic foot ulcer.
0202. Shapiro, M., Reid, A., Olsen, B., Taasan, M., …, Nguyen, M. (2016). Topiramate, zonisamide and weight loss in children and adolescents prescribed psychiatric medications: A medical record review. The International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, 51, 56–68.
Topiramate and zonisamide may be utilized for weight loss in a pediatric psychopharmacological treatment seeking sample, even if antipsychotics are also prescribed.
0203. Slade, E.P. & Goldman, H.H. (2015). The dynamics of psychiatric bed use in general hospitals. Administration and Policy in Mental Health, 42, 139–146.
An implication of the dynamic adjustment model is that bed shortages are likely to be local, transitory events.
0204. Spiegel, D.R., Shaukat, A.M., Mccroskey, M.L., Chatterjee, A., …, Raulli, O. (2016). Conceptualizing a subtype of patients with chronic pain: The necessity of obtaining a history of sexual abuse. The International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, 51, 84–103.
We discuss the association between survivors of sexual assault and chronic pain/functional somatic syndromes.
0205. Thin, N. (2016). Home and away: Place appreciation and purposeful relocation in later life. Anthropology in Action, 23(3), 6–16.
I highlight three kinds of place-related wellbeing strategies: place-making, local mobility and relocation.
0206. Tomlinson, M. (2016). Risking peace in the ‘war against the poor’? Social exclusion and the legacies of the Northern Ireland conflict. Critical Social Policy, 36, 104–123.
The impact of violent conflict is imprinted on the population in terms of high rates of deprivation and poor physical and mental health.
0207. Wright, P.M. (2016). Adult sibling bereavement: Influences, consequences, and interventions. Illness, Crisis & Loss, 24, 34–45.
I review current literature related to adult sibling loss and then explicate the factors that influence reactions to sibling loss.
Social organization (General)
0208. Biag, M. (2016). A descriptive analysis of school connectedness. Urban Education, 51, 32–59.
School personnel cared for students’ needs, sometimes at the expense of holding them accountable to rigorous standards.
0209. BurnSilver, S., Magdanz, J., Stotts, R., Berman, M., & Kofinas, G. (2016). Are mixed economies persistent or transitional? Evidence using social networks from Arctic Alaska. American Anthropologist, 118, 121–129.
Households highly engaged in market activities are also disproportionately involved in subsistence activities, sharing, and cooperation.
0210. Dunn, A.M., Scott, C., Allen, J.A., & Bonilla, D. (2016). Quantity and quality: Increasing safety norms through after action reviews. Human Relations, 69, 1209–1232.
Safety norms were lowest when perceived after action review frequency, ambiguity reduction, and psychological safety were simultaneously low.
0211. Garapich, M.P. (2016). Breaking borders, changing structures – transnationalism of migrants from Poland as anti-state resistance. Social Identities, 22, 95–111.
Culturally and structurally mutually reinforcing features of anti-state culture make migrants from Poland particular types of agents in the European web of transnational social fields.
0212. Hillewaert, S. (2016). Tactics and tactility: A sensory semiotics of handshakes in coastal Kenya. American Anthropologist, 118, 49–66.
A handshake is more than a simple social performance subject to strategic manipulation.
0213. Holman, D. (2016). How does customer affiliative behaviour shape the outcomes of employee emotion regulation? A daily diary study of supermarket checkout operators. Human Relations, 69, 1139–1162.
The relationship between surface acting and task performance is mediated by customer affiliative behavior and emotional exhaustion.
0214. Li, Y., Fu, F., Sun, J.-M., & Yang, B. (2016). Leader–member exchange differentiation and team creativity: An investigation of nonlinearity. Human Relations, 69, 1121–1138.
Leader–member exchange (LMX) differentiation has an inverted U-shaped relationship with team creativity, and LMX median moderates the inverted U-shaped relationship.
0215. Mavin, S. & Grandy, G. (2016). A theory of abject appearance: Women elite leaders’ intra-gender ‘management’ of bodies and appearance. Human Relations, 69, 1095–1120.
We illustrate how the theme Fascination with bodies and appearance depicts a dialectical process of simultaneous disgust and attraction with women’s bodies and appearance.
0216. Mendonça, P., Alves, M.A., & Nogueira, F. (2016). Civil society organisations and the fight for rights in Brazil: analysis of an evolving context and future challenges. Development in Practice, 26, 592–605.
The operational environment of civil society organizations in Brazil has undergone several changes since the 1990s that deepened in the last decade.
0217. Pustuɫka, P. (2016). Ethnic, gender and class identities of Polish migrant mothers: Intersecting maternal narratives with transnationalism and integration. Social Identities, 22, 44–61.
I focus on the implications of certain maternal and migrant identities among Polish women.
Sociocultural change (Culture contact, migration, modernization)
0218. Bell, J. (2016). Migrants: Keeping a foot in both worlds or losing the ground beneath them? Transnationalism and integration as experienced in the everyday lives of Polish migrants in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Social Identities, 22, 80–94.
Migrants consider their attitude to, their place of origin, the specificities of destination setting and interpersonal relations between the two milieu.
0219. Elmersjö, H.Å. (2016). Negotiating the nation in history: The Swedish State approval scheme for textbooks and teaching aids from 1945 to 1983. Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society, 8(2), 16–35.
Nationalistic sentiment associated with the historical discipline was challenged by intercultural and materialist discourses.
0220. Erdal, M.B. & Lewicki, A. (2016). Moving citizens: Citizenship practices among Polish migrants in Norway and the United Kingdom. Social Identities, 22, 112–128.
We find that transnational exchanges, local provisions, and inter-personal relationships shape Polish migrants’ practices of citizenship.
0221. Goździak, E. (2016). Biała emigracja: Variegated mobility of Polish care workers. Social Identities, 22, 26–43.
Different migration patterns are related to the place of migrant origin and the geographic distance or proximity of the destination countries.
0222. Hierro, M. (2016). Latin American migration to Spain: Main reasons and future perspectives. International Migration, 54(1), 64–83.
Spain's strategic location, permissive immigration policy, and economic opportunities have positioned it as a major destination for immigrants.
0223. Islam, M.R. & Cojocaru, S. (2016). Migrant domestic workers in Asia: Transnational variations and policy concerns. International Migration, 54(1), 48–63.
Migrant domestic workers vary in terms of their age and nature of work, legal identity, working hours, and remuneration across Asian countries.
0224. Klymenko, L. (2016). Narrating the Second World War: History textbooks and nation building in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine. Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society, 8(2), 36–57.
I explore the relation between school history textbooks and the state-led construction of national identity.
0225. Luciano, P.A. & Al-Otaibi, D. (2017). Kuwaiti women with deportable families: Marginality, intimacy and labor. Practicing Anthropology, 39(1), 29–32.
We analyze the gendered definitions of citizenship via an intimacy transformation.
0226. Ludwig, B. (2016). “Wiping the refugee dust from my feet”: Advantages and burdens of refugee status and the refugee label. International Migration, 54(1), 5–18.
There are advantages associated with the legal refugee status and burdens with the informal label “refugee”.
0227. Main, I. (2016). Motivations for mobility and settlement of Polish female migrants in Barcelona and Berlin. Social Identities, 22, 62–79.
Complex perceptions of life abroad juxtaposed with experiences and present ideas about life influence decisions to move or settle.
0228. Mberu, B.U. & Pongou, R. (2016). Crossing boundaries: Internal, regional and international migration in Cameroon. International Migration, 54(1), 100–118.
Internal and international migration increasingly continues to be of global importance for development policies and programs.
0229. Mechlinski, T. (2016). Making movements possible: Transportation workers and mobility in West Africa. International Migration, 54(1), 119–136.
I see movement through interaction, implicit social norms among transportation workers, their clients, and security agents, which constitute a key mechanism for migration.
0230. Paddock, T. (2016). Spatial relations and the struggle for space: Friedrich Ratzel’s impact on German education from the Wilhelmine Empire to the Third Reich. Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society, 8(2), 1–15.
Ratzel’s concept of bio-geography conceived the state as a living organism that is the product of humanity’s interaction with the land.
0231. Porter, S.R., Liebler, C.A., & Noon, J.M. (2016). An outside view: What observers say about others’ races and Hispanic origins. American Behavioral Scientist, 60, 465–497.
Mismatched identification gives insight into social assumptions.
0232. Reichenberg, M. (2016). Explaining teachers’ use of textbooks. Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society, 8(2), 145–159.
Teachers’ experience had a positive impact on reading practices but no effect on strategic textbook use.
0233. Roh, K. & Lee, R. (2016). A needs-centred educational support model for the career transitions of North Korean defectors: Implications for South Korea's support policy. International Migration, 54(1), 32–47.
Defectors' employment needs differ from those of other groups of job seekers in Korea.
0234. Saperstein, A., Kizer, J.M., & Penner, A.M. (2016). Making the most of multiple measures: Disentangling the effects of different dimensions of race in survey research. American Behavioral Scientist, 60, 519–537.
The majority of social science research uses a single measure of race when investigating racial inequality.
0235. Sladkova, J. (2016). Stratification of undocumented migrant journeys: Honduran case. International Migration, 54(1), 84–99.
Migrants are often subject to abuse, robbery, rape, and death on their journeys depending partly on their access to mobility.
0236. Vargas, N. & Stainback, K. (2016). Documenting contested racial identities among self-identified Latina/os, Asians, Blacks, and Whites. American Behavioral Scientist, 60, 442–464.
Experiences of racial contestation are often associated with immigrant generation, ancestry, and phenotypical characteristics.
0237. Vecchio, F. (2016). The economy of seeking asylum in the global city. International Migration, 54(1), 19–31.
This article explores asylum seeker survival strategies and agency in relation to the structural, post-industrial conditions in Hong Kong.
0238. Zamkanei, S. (2016). Justice For Jews from Arab countries and the rebranding of the Jewish refugee. International Journal of Middle East Studies, 48, 511–530.
Justice for Jews from Arab Countries has appealed to recognize post-1948 Jewish emigrants from Arab countries as refugees.
Symbol systems (Religion, ritual, world view)
0239. Bangura, J.B. (2016). Hope in the midst of death: Charismatic spirituality, healing evangelists and the Ebola crises in Sierra Leone. Missionalia, 44, 2–18.
I review the responses proffered by healing evangelists and discuss how the overall charismatic spirituality inspired hope in the midst of the Ebola crises.
0240. Beyers, J. (2016). Insights from Hans Achterhuis applied to the violence on LGBT communities in Uganda. Journal for the Study of Religion, 29, 150–166.
I look at religiously inspired violence against the lesbian, gay, bisexuals and transgender communities.
0241. Bhattacharya, K.R., & Ali, S.Z. (2016). On rice and the region of rice civilisation. International Journal of Sociology and Anthropology, 8(8), 65–75.
Rice is considered sacred despite the differences in popular religious faith among the people of Asia.
0242. Boucher, G. (2016). A Jamesonian theory of theological practice: A critical response to the work of Roland Boer. Critical Research on Religion, 4, 179–189.
I criticize Boer’s valorization of theology as a practical discourse that is postideological but non-theoretical.
0243. Conradie, M.S. (2016). Critical race theory and the question of safety in dialogues on race. Acta Theologica, 36, 5–26.
I combine research from critical race theory, as applied to post-1994 South Africa, with insights from practical theology.
0244. Counted, V. (2016). Missionising youth identity crisis: Towards a missional hermeneutic of coping in youth ministry practice. Missionalia, 44, 85–102.
Missional methodology can be a very useful strategy for producing therapeutic change in young people.
0245. Court, A. (2016). The Christian churches, the state, and genocide in Rwanda. Missionalia, 44, 50–67.
The Church became embroiled in the mass violence and genocide in the twentieth century Rwandan polity.
0246. Duncan, G.A. (2016). “One in Christ”: Fedsem spiritualities of solidarity. Acta Theologica, 36, 27–51.
I try to understand and formulate policies relating to the practice of spirituality in an ecumenical context.
0247. Goh, J.N. (2016). Imaginative assemblages of transcendent/desire: Non-heteronormative Malaysian men speak up and talk back. Critical Research on Religion, 4, 125–140.
I analyze and theologize the complex processes of transcendent/desire, or negotiations of the “Profoundly More” and sexuality in the narratives of these men.
0248. Jeffs, R. (2016). Taking detours toward the Aufhebung of religion: Roland Boer on the attachment between Marxism and political myth. Critical Research on Religion, 4, 190–198.
I argue that the key to Boer’s critical project is a two-pronged approach: “materializing” theology and “theologizing” historical materialism.
0249. Kaoma, K.J. (2016). African religion and colonial rebellion: The contestation of power in Colonial Zimbabwe’s Chimurenga of 1896–1897. Journal for the Study of Religion, 29, 57 – 84.
I challenge Christianity to follow the prophetic example of spirit mediums in the Chimurenga.
0250. Kaunda, C.J. (2016). The wilderness wanderings: A theo-liminal pedagogy for mind decolonisation in African Christianity. Acta Theologica, 36, 52–69.
The process of decolonization did not end with geopolitical liberation, but continues as liberation of the African mind and subjectivity.
0251. Kotzé, M. (2016). Human genetic engineering and social justice in South Africa: Moltmann and human dignity. Acta Theologica, 36, 70–84.
The notion of justice as fairness and the focus on human dignity in Moltmann’s theology can help address the bioethical challenges of genetic engineering.
0252. Louw, D.J. (2016). “Anatheism” within the framework of theodicy: From theistic thinking to theopaschitic thinking in a pastoral hermeneutics. Acta Theologica, 36, 85–109.
I focus on the problem of theodicy and its link to God images.
0253. Mahon-Daly, P. (2016). Donated blood, the body and the self: Towards a hierarchy of the self? International Journal of Sociology and Anthropology, 8(7), 59–64.
This paper examines the changes in relationship among the body, society and donated blood.
0254. Mashau, D. & Ngcobo, T.E. (2016). Christian mission in creative tension with African worldview(s): A post-colonial engagement regarding life after death and ancestry. Missionalia, 44, 34–49.
A creative tension exists between Christian mission and African worldview(s) in the area of life after death.
0255. Mbennah, E.D. (2016). The goal of maturity in Ephesians 4:13–16. Acta Theologica, 36, 110–132.
I argue that, in Ephesians 4:1–16, the author underscores spiritual maturity as the bridge between the new identity of the Christian (Eph. 1–3) and the moral code of the Christian life.
0256. Naidu, M. (2016). Displaced sense: Displacement, religion and sense-making. Journal for the Study of Religion, 29, 104 – 126.
I probe how internally displaced persons cope with the materialities of their disrupted lives through their personal scaffold of religious beliefs.
0257. Nilsson, P.-E. & Enkvist, V. (2016). Techniques of religion-making in Sweden: The case of the Missionary Church of Kopimism. Critical Research on Religion, 4, 141–155.
The recognition reveals fundamental aspects of the Swedish state’s performative role in the recognition of faith communities.
0258. Ntho-Ntho, M.A. & Nieuwenhuis, J.F. (2016). Religious intolerance: The case of principals in multi-faith schools. Journal for the Study of Religion, 29, 167–186.
School principals were unable to reconcile the requirements of the constitution with their own traditions and school rules.
0259. Olojede, F. (2016). The “First Deborah” – Genesis 35:8 in the literary and theological context. Acta Theologica, 36, 133–151.
Exegetes consider Genesis 35:8 an intrusive verse in the narrative of Genesis 35:1–15 because of its isolated mention of the death and burial of Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse.
0260. Prozesky, M. (2016). Honest to God and the South African churches in 2016. Acta Theologica, 36, 152–169.
Five hundred years on, Robinson’s project of developing a Christian response to contemporary secular challenges remains valid in South Africa.
0261. Richardson, K. (2016). Technological animism: The uncanny personhood of humanoid machines. Social Analysis, 60, 110–128.
I explore the robot as an ‘uncanny’ doppelgänger that is liminally situated between the human and non-human.
0262. Santo, D.E. (2016). Recursivity and the self-reflexive cosmos: Tricksters in Cuban and Brazilian spirit mediumship practices. Social Analysis, 60, 37–55.
In Espiritismo and Umbanda, spirits intervene in human affairs unpredictably, throwing new light on anthropological and native conceptualizations of reflexivity.
0263. Santo, D.E. (2016). The algebra of souls: Ontological multiplicity and the transformation of animism in southwest China. Social Analysis, 60, 18–36.
In Nusu animism, the number and nature of a person’s ‘soul attributes’ change during his or her lifetime and after death.
0264. Sharpe, M. (2016). On Roland Boer’s Marxism and Theology. Critical Research on Religion, 4, 171–178.
I am aiming at a synoptic view of a truly compendious contribution to scholarship to encourage readers to test their own intuitions and thoughts against the original texts.
0265. Smit, J.A. (2016). J.T. van der Kemp and his critique of the settler farmers on the South African Colonial Frontier (1799–1811). Journal for the Study of Religion, 29, 6–56.
Settler farmers were slave holders, participated in the slave trade, and manifested ‘cruelty’ towards the Khoi and Xhosa on the frontier.
0266. Suderman, A.G. (2016). Who'll be a witness for my Lord? Witnessing as an ecclesiological and missiological paradigm. Missionalia, 44, 68–84.
Christian churches expansive zeal has often walked hand-in-hand with the colonial pursuits of empires and nation-states.
0267. Sulaiman, K.-d.O. (2016). Religious violence in contemporary Nigeria: Implications and options for peace and stability order. Journal for the Study of Religion, 29, 85–103.
Education, tolerance, dialogue and reconciliation should serve to douse the social violence that emerges from the practice of religion in Nigeria.
0268. Swancutt, K. (2016). The art of capture: Hidden jokes and the reinvention of animistic ontologies in southwest China. Social Analysis, 60, 74–91.
`Hidden’ knowledge and jokes underpin the expositions of native scholars, who interlace their academic work with local rituals.
0269. Swancutt, K. & Mazard, M. (2016). Anthropological knowledge making, the reflexive feedback loop, and conceptualizations of the soul. Social Analysis, 60, 1–17.
Anthropological ideas infiltrate themselves into the discourse of native thinkers.
0270. Swanepoel, E. (2016). The startling phenomenon of the western Tibetan Buddhist nun: The challenges faced by Western nuns in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition living outside the traditional Tibetan Buddhist regions. Journal for the Study of Religion, 29, 127–149.
I studied the challenges of transplanting a Buddhist monastic community to the West.
Theoretical, Methodological, and General
0271. Andersson, C. & Read, D. (2016). The evolution of cultural complexity: Not by the treadmill alone. Current Anthropology, 57, 261–286.
The treadmill model connects cultural complexity to group size via a need to constantly “outrun a treadmill of cultural loss,” whose backward motion is caused by errors in culture transmission.
0272. Brooks, A. & Wee, L. (2016). The cultural production of consumption as achievement. Cultural Politics, 12, 217–232.
The spread of neoliberal ideology has led to the cultivation of the enterprising consumer.
0273. Clemence, A.J., Balkoski, V.I., Lee, M., Poston, J., …, Glick, S.D. (2016). Residents' experience of screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) as a clinical tool following practical application: A mixed-methods study. Substance Abuse, 37, 306–314.
Time constraints, externally imposed values, and clinical norms are barriers to implementation.
0274. Maier, C.J. (2016). The sound of skateboarding: Aspects of a transcultural anthropology of sound. The Senses and Society, 11, 24–35.
I propose theoretical and methodological perspectives of studying the particular relationship of sound, knowledge and space.
0275. Morgan, T.J.H. (2016). Testing the cognitive and cultural niche theories of human evolution. Current Anthropology, 57, 370–377.
The cultural niche provides a more comprehensive explanation for human evolution than does the cognitive niche.
0276. Reich, J.A. (2015). Old methods and new technologies: Social media and shifts in power in qualitative research. Ethnography, 16, 394–415.
I explore how social media affect efforts to recruit participants, gain informed consent, collect data, leave the field, and disseminate results.
0277. Sohrabi, M., & Houshyar, T. (2016). Heidegger's death in Symphony of the Dead. Journal of Languages and Culture, 7, 105–113.
Dying as a way of life not only overshadows death as an event, but is also the ultimate ground for the possibility of such thinking of death.
0278. Sowodniok, U. (2016). Voce in Libertà – freed voice: An applied anthropology of the voice. The Senses and Society, 11, 50–59.
To consider the human voice in the field of sound anthropology means to open a passage between the outer and inner world of human perception.
0279. Spurlock, L., Whitman, L., & York, H. (2017). The pig dig: A mock crime scene exercise for a forensic archaeology field school. Practicing Anthropology, 39(1), 36–39.
An archaeological field school based on excavation of pig burials provides many advantages to both students and instructors.
0280. Ulturgasheva, O. (2016). Spirit of the future: Movement, kinetic distribution, and personhood among Siberian Eveny. Social Analysis, 60, 56–73.
Kinetic distribution and illocutionary acts uncovers the principle of detachability and the partibility of personhood in nomadic ontology.
Urban Studies
0281. Addo, I.A. (2016). Assessing residential satisfaction among low income households in multi-habited dwellings in selected low income communities in Accra. Urban Studies, 53, 631–650.
I examined multi-habited households’ residential satisfaction with the characteristics of the dwelling unit, the social networks and neighborhood facilities.
0282. Barnett, C. & Parnell, S. (2016). Ideas, implementation and indicators: Epistemologies of the post-2015 urban agenda. Environment and Urbanization, 28, 87–98.
Divergent views of the city and urban processes are likely to become more explicit as attention shifts to implementation.
0283. Buckley, R.M. & Simet, L. (2016). An agenda for Habitat III: Urban perestroika. Environment and Urbanization, 28, 64–76.
A new urban agenda, the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III), must move beyond sterile proclamations.
0284. Buckley, R.M., Kallergis, A., & Wainer, L. (2016). Addressing the housing challenge: Avoiding the Ozymandias syndrome. Environment and Urbanization, 28, 119–138.
I address some of the most important elements of decision-making that should be taken into account when planning affordable housing.
0285. Choudhury, M.R. & Das, S. (2016). Potential role of Landsat satellite data for the evaluation of land surface temperature and assessment of urban environment. Environment and Urbanization Asia, 7, 55–75.
Remote sensing and GIS were applied to examine the impact of urban growth on surface temperatures.
0286. Clayton, J., Donovan, C., & Merchant, J. (2016). Distancing and limited resourcefulness: Third sector service provision under austerity localism in the north east of England. Urban Studies, 53, 723–740.
Understanding the challenges faced by marginalized communities requires recognition of the existing capacities within places.
0287. Cohen, M.A. (2016). From Habitat II to Pachamama: A growing agenda and diminishing expectations for Habitat III. Environment and Urbanization, 28, 35–48.
I examine the results of the Habitat I and Habitat II conferences, the weakness of the associated monitoring and evaluation, and the changing dynamics of human settlements since 1996.
0288. Earle, L. (2016). Urban crises and the new urban agenda. Environment and Urbanization, 28, 77–86.
Refugee camps can create dependency where populations are discouraged from working. They are expensive, generate stigma, and can be the site of violence and exploitation.
0289. Firmino, R. & Duarte, F. (2016). Private video monitoring of public spaces: The construction of new invisible territories. Urban Studies, 53, 741–754.
There is a scattering of micro and macro informational territorial elements that overlap to undermine the meaningfulness of urban public spaces.
0290. Kiliç, M. & Kaya, İ. (2016). The prioritisation of provinces for public grants allocation by a decision-making methodology based on type-2 fuzzy sets. Urban Studies, 53, 755–774.
A new city-ranking model has been proposed for development agencies operating in Turkey.
0291. McGranahan, G., Schensul, D., & Singh, G. (2016). Inclusive urbanization: Can the 2030 Agenda be delivered without it? Environment and Urbanization, 28, 13–34.
We redefine inclusion to move beyond a focus on identity-based disadvantage, to frame inclusion as a counter to both overt discrimination and structurally created disadvantage.
0292. Montgomery, A.F. (2015). Different futures for different neighborhoods: The sustainability fix in Detroit. Ethnography, 16, 523–555.
There is a conflict between economic and cultural capital to control the spirit of capitalism and its relations with society and nature.
0293. Patel, S., Sliuzas, R., & Georgiadou, Y. (2016). Participatory local governance in Asian cities: Invited, closed or claimed spaces for urban poor? Environment and Urbanization Asia, 7, 1–21.
Claimed spaces of the poor are one-off mechanisms that close upon the end of the judicial process rather than culminate into permanent invited spaces for participation.
0294. Satterthwaite. D. (2016). Missing the Millennium Development Goal targets for water and sanitation in urban areas. Environment and Urbanization, 28, 99–118.
I review progress towards the Millennium Development Goals for water and sanitation in urban areas.
0295. Sen, S. (2016). Gendered exclusions in the work spaces of peri-urban areas in a neoliberal environment: Learning from the experiences of large metropolitan cities in India. Environment and Urbanization Asia, 7, 76–92.
Does the urban-centric growth process in the peri-urban areas offer women better opportunities emerging from urbanization?
0296. Sigler, T. & Wachsmuth, D. (2016). Transnational gentrification: Globalisation and neighbourhood change in Panama’s Casco Antiguo. Urban Studies, 53, 705–722.
Capital is freed from national constraints and able to roam globally while people largely remain place-bound.
0297. Simone, A. (2016). The uninhabitable?: In between collapsed yet still rigid distinctions. Cultural Politics, 12, 135–154.
Urbanization itself seems to posit increased dangers to the viability of many lives.
0298. Sridhar, K.S. & Narayanan, P. (2016). Suburbanization of Indian cities: What is the evidence from Gulbarga? Environment and Urbanization Asia, 7, 93–112.
The effects of suburbanization were seen from the spatial distribution of working population.
0299. Wang, Z., Zhang, F., & Wu, F. (2016). Intergroup neighbouring in urban China: Implications for the social integration of migrants. Urban Studies, 53, 651–668.
Migrants might not only interact with each other but also are willing to interact and help with local neighbors.
0300. Wong, S.W. (2016). Reconsolidation of state power into urbanising villages: Shareholding reforms as a strategy for governance in the Pearl River Delta region. Urban Studies, 53, 689–704.
Shareholding reforms are not simply a process of market building or property rights reforms driven by local initiatives.
0301. Zavattaro, S.M. & Adams, F.G. (2016). Bridging the gap: An exploration of how DMO managers use education to overcome challenges. Urban Studies, 53, 669–688.
Destination marketing organization managers are insufficiently researched through a lens of managerial theory.
LINGUISTICS Historical linguistics
0302. Bech, K. & Walkden, G. (2016). English is (still) a West Germanic language. Nordic Journal of Linguistics, 39, 65–100.
Is English a North Germanic language, descended from the Norse varieties spoken in Medieval England?
0303. Ritt, N. & Kazmierski, K. (2016). How rarities like gold came to exist: On co-evolutionary interactions between morphology and lexical phonotactics. English Language and Linguistics, 20, 1–29.
The emergence of morphotactic models is likely to have played a role in establishing VVCC rhymes in the English lexicon.
0304. Rooryck, J. & Schoorlemmer, E. (2017). Consanguinity and possession in varieties of Dutch. Journal of Germanic Linguistics, 29, 1–25.
Dutch use the first person plural form of the possessive pronoun ons as a marker of consanguinity with proper names.
0305. Simms, D.P.A. (2017). The Old English name of the s-rune and “sun” in Germanic. Journal of Germanic Linguistics, 29, 26–49.
The Old English s-rune, sigil, is the only Anglo-Saxon rune name that is etymologically a loan word.
0306. Suzuki, H. & Wangmo, S. (2016). Lhagang Tibetan of Minyag Rabgang Khams: Vocabulary of two sociolinguistic varieties. Asian and African Languages and Linguistics, 10, 245–286.
The Lhagang dialect is one of the dialects belonging to the Minyag Rabgang dialectal group of Khams Tibetan.
0307. Suzuki, S. (2017). Three-position verses in Beowulf and Genesis A: Syntagmatically-induced exceptions to the four-position principle. Journal of Germanic Linguistics, 29, 50–84.
Three-position (catalectic) verses in fornyrðislag are fully integrated with their regular, four-position counterparts.
Psycholinguistics
0308. Arosio, F., Pagliarini, E., Perugini, M., Barbieri, L., & Guasti, M.T. (2016). Morphosyntax and logical abilities in Italian poor readers: The problem of SLI under-identification. First Language, 36, 295–315.
The production of clitics is particularly challenging because of their syntactic and morphosyntactic complexity.
0309. Bruno, D., Balottin, U., Berlincioni, V., & Moro, M.R. (2016). Bilingualism, language disorders and intercultural families in contemporary Italy. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, 40, 12–34.
I show how language disorders in children affect language transmission and the mixed experience in intercultural families.
0310. Bruno, D., Balottin, U., Berlincioni, V., & Moro, M.R. (2016). Understanding the contributions of prosodic phonology to morphological development: Implications for children with specific language impairment. First Language, 36, 265–278.
A prosodic licensing approach provides a framework for understanding why children’s early use of grammatical morphemes is so variable.
0311. Hurschler, M.A., Liem, F., Oechslin, M., Stämpfli, P., & Meyer, M. (2015). fMRI reveals lateralized pattern of brain activity modulated by the metrics of stimuli during auditory rhyme processing. Brain and Language, 147, 41–50.
We provide neuroimaging evidence for the influence of metrics on auditory rhyme processing.
0312. Ihori, N., Kashiwagi, A., & Kashiwagi, T. (2015). Right unilateral spatial neglect in aphasic patients. Brain and Language, 147, 21–29.
The severe aphasics exhibited a prominent leftward deviation that may have been the result of deficits in rightward attention controlled by the left hemisphere.
0313. Lalioti, M., Stavrakaki, S., Manouilidou, C., & Talli, I. (2016). Subject–verb agreement and verbal short-term memory: A perspective from Greek children with specific language impairment. First Language, 36, 279–294.
The children with specific language impairment showed increased grammatical sensitivity in subject–verb agreement.
0314. Proverbio, A.M., Gabaro, V., Orlandi, A., & Zani, A. (2015). Semantic brain areas are involved in gesture comprehension: An electrical neuroimaging study. Brain and Language, 147, 30–40.
Processing of congruent gestures activated face- and body-related visual areas, the left angular gyrus, mirror fronto/parietal areas.
0315. Szenkovits, G., Darcy, Q.D.I., & Ramus, F. (2016). Exploring dyslexics’ phonological deficit II: Phonological grammar. First Language, 36, 316–337.
Individuals with dyslexia have acquired the phonological rules of their native language normally.
Sociolinguistics
0316. Aberra, D. (2016). Grammaticalization of the Amharic word fit “face” from a body part to grammatical meanings. Journal of Languages and Culture, 7, 86–92.
Amharic spatial reference is also identified as having a single-file or object-deictic oriented model.
0317. Albasheer, N.A.A. & Alfaki, I.M. (2016). The effect of text messaging on the English language aspects and communication. International Journal of Language & Linguistics, 3(2), 12–29.
Text messaging causes thumb pain, sleep problems, and radiation harmful to text message users.
0318. Andayani, M. (2016). Improving the language skills and local cultural understanding with integrative learning in teaching Indonesian to speakers of other languages (TISOL). International Journal of Language & Linguistics, 3(2), 44–53.
Integrative learning can improve the Indonesian language skills and understanding of cultural treasures for foreign students.
0319. Bohmann, A. (2016).‘Nobody canna cross it’: Language-ideological dimensions of hypercorrect speech in Jamaica. English Language and Linguistics, 20, 129–152.
I interpret speaky-spoky as a dynamic and relational ‘construct resource’ that speakers draw upon to highlight social meaning in interaction.
0320. De Polo, J. (2016). The writing portfolio as exit evaluation: A brief argument against anti-pluralistic approaches to teaching and learning. International Journal of Language & Linguistics, 3(2), 1–3.
I position the writing portfolio as a more pluralistic approach to assessing student writing.
0321. Gemechu, C.D. (2016). Census through riddle: The Case of Waliso Liban Oromo, Ethiopia. International Journal of Sociology and Anthropology, 8(5), 36–44.
As part of oral literature in general and riddle in particular hibbantee has aesthetic, educational and entrainment values. It enhances competence, observation, memory, and entertainment.
0322. Giorgos, S., Kostas, M., & Thanassis, K. (2016). The languages of others: Exploring the assumptions of teachers of Greek as a second language on multilingualism. International Journal of Language & Linguistics, 3(2), 54–63.
Teachers adopt the strategy of assimilating culturally different groups or support their adjustment to prevailing assumptions.
0323. Herlin, I. & Visapää, L. (2016). Dimensions of empathy in relation to language. Nordic Journal of Linguistics, 39, 135–157.
When empathy is analyzed in natural conversation, we can do sequential and linguistic analysis of the ways in which affect is shown.
0324. Islam, C. & Park, M.-H. (2016). Strategies to enhance kindergarten children’s reading comprehension. International Journal of Language & Linguistics, 3(2), 39–43.
Engaging kindergarten children incomprehension can increase their ability to be good readers as well as encourage them to enjoy reading books.
0325. Jobo, M.M. (2016). Indigenous language shift in Siltie: Causes, effects and directions for revitalization. Journal of Languages and Culture, 7, 69–78.
We suggest awareness training on the use of Siltie language, development of a (creative) writing culture, establishment of school-based language revitalization project.
0326. Kennard, H.J. & Lahiri, A. (2017). Mutation in Breton verbs: Pertinacity across generations. Journal of Linguistics, 53, 113–145.
The difference between the two generations is in the use of the progressive particle itself, omitted by the older generation, but retained by younger speakers.
0327. Leonard, S.P. (2016). A “high-intimacy” language in the Atlantic: Radio and purism in the Faroe Islands. Journal of Anthropological Research, 72, 58–76.
I discuss the importance of the Faroese language and the ways in which it is spoken to a Faroese identity.
0328. Mabule, D.R. (2016). Issues involved in translating technical texts from English into Northern Sotho. South African Journal of African Languages, 36, 217–224.
I assess the adequacy of a technical translation which needs to be both accurate as well as accessible to the target reader.
0329. Mangena, T. & Ndlovu, S. (2016). Figurative and symbolic function of animal imagery in packaging human behaviour in Ndebele and Shona cultures. South African Journal of African Languages, 36, 251–256.
Animal imagery is prevalent in Muchohwe/Izichothozo (insult games) and totemic references.
0330. Mapara, J. & Makaudze, G. (2016). The interface between toponyms, hydronyms and geography: The case of selected Shona names from three provinces in Zimbabwe. South African Journal of African Languages, 36, 243–249.
The use place names or toponyms to explain cultural activities and describe the natural and physical environment surrounding them.
0331. Mavunga, G. & Kaguda, D. (2016). Combatting the pandemic: An analysis of selected adverts on HIV/AIDS on Zimbabwean Broadcasting Corporation Television (September 2008 to May 2011). South African Journal of African Languages, 36, 173–188.
The themes which the advertisements focus could also be widened to include healthy living strategies for the infected.
0332. Qin, Z. & Jongman, A. (2016).Does second language experience modulate perception of tones in a third language? Language and Speech, 59, 318–338.
Second language learners patterned differently from both control groups by using fundamental frequency (F0) direction as well as F0 height under the influence of native language and second language experience.
0333. Schlehofer, D.A. & Tyler, I.J. (2016). Errors in second language learners’ production of phonological contrasts in American Sign Language. International Journal of Language & Linguistics, 3(2), 30–38.
The phonological complexity of American Sign Language influences perception and production in second language acquisition.
0334. Toliver, H. (2016). Towers of babble. International Journal of Language & Linguistics, 3(2), 4–11.
How answerable discourse is to reality varies by kind and occasion as well as by individual user.
0335. van Heugten, M. & Johnson, E.K. (2016). Toddlers’ word recognition in an unfamiliar regional accent: The role of local sentence context and prior accent exposure. Language and Speech, 59, 353–363.
Understanding unfamiliar accents is not an isolated skill but is susceptible to contextual circumstances.
0336. Zlatev, J. & Blomberg, J. (2016). Embodied intersubjectivity, sedimentation and non-actual motion expressions. Nordic Journal of Linguistics, 39, 185–208.
Our analysis is more adequate than cognitive linguistic explanations in terms of ‘mental simulation’ and ‘conceptual metaphor.’
Theoretical linguistics
0337. Abe, Y. (2016). Event integration patterns in Bende (Bantu, F12). Asian and African Languages and Linguistics, 10, 157–178.
I also discuss locative use of the Bantu applicative and Bantu internal typology.
0338. Ackerman, F., Malouf, R., & Moore, J. (2017). Symmetrical objects in Moro: Challenges and solutions. Journal of Linguistics, 53, 3–50.
Languages differ with respect to the organization of their arg-st lists and their consequences for grammatical function realization.
0339. Chebanne, A., Kadenge, M., & Phili, C. (2016). Making the form fit: Repair strategies in iKalanga loanword phonology. South African Journal of African Languages, 36, 231–241.
The constraint interaction determines the phonological structure of loanwords in iKalanga.
0340. De Wit, A. (2016). The relation between aspect and inversion in English. English Language and Linguistics, 20, 107–128.
A canonical relationship exists between the preposed ground and the postposed figure in full-verb inversion.
0341. Esher, L. (2017). Morphome death and transfiguration in the history of French. Journal of Linguistics, 53, 51–84.
The French data point to segmental sound change as the central factor in change to metamorphomes.
0342. Franco, L. (2016). Axial parts, phi-features and degrammaticalization: The case of Italian presso/pressi in diachrony. Transactions of the Philological Society, 114, 149–170.
I will support Svenonius's idea of Axial Part as an independent category in the lexicon (and not a mere spatial subset of relational nouns).
0343. Goering, N. (2016). Early Old English foot structure. Transactions of the Philological Society, 114, 171–197.
The variable operation of high vowel deletion in Old English is a point of difficulty, both descriptively – a prehistoric form like *hēafudu is attested variably as hēafudu, hēafdu, and hēafod – and theoretically.
0344. Grigonytė, G., Kvist, M., Wirén, M., Velupillai, S., & Henriksson, A. (2016). Swedification patterns of Latin and Greek affixes in clinical text. Nordic Journal of Linguistics, 39, 5–37.
We extract word pairs belonging to types that display both the original and Swedified spellings.
0345. Hamann, S. & Downing, L.J. (2017). *NT revisited again: An approach to postnasal laryngeal alternations with perceptual Cue constraints. Journal of Linguistics, 53, 85–112.
In some languages with a two-way laryngeal contrast, voiceless stops are aspirated postnasally.
0346. Hartman, J. (2016). A meaning potential perspective on lexical meaning: The case of bit. English Language and Linguistics, 20, 85–106.
The lexical semantics for bit are described in terms of potential for cueing conceptual structures of varying schematicity.
0347. Hieda, O. (2016). Complex motion events and clause combining in Saamia. Asian and African Languages and Linguistics, 10, 93–111.
Saamia is not a verb-framed language, nor is it a satellite-framed language.
0348. Jääskeläinen, A. (2016). Mimetic schemas and shared perception through imitatives. Nordic Journal of Linguistics, 39, 159–183.
The more abstract uses of naps and humps reflect metaphorical mappings that map the mimetic schemas of these basic, bodily experiences.
0349. Kawachi, K. (2016). An overview of event integration patterns in African languages. Asian and African Languages and Linguistics, 10, 1–36.
I examine how African languages fit and do not fit into Talmy’s typology by investigating ten languages.
0350. Kawachi, K. (2016). Event integration patterns in Kupsapiny. Asian and African Languages and Linguistics, 10, 37–91.
Kupsapiny exhibits a satellite-framed language pattern only to a limited degree.
0351. Kazanas, S.A. & Altarriba, J. (2016). Emotion word type and affective valence priming at a long stimulus onset asynchrony. Language and Speech, 59, 339–352.
We determined that negative words were processed slowly with a long stimulus onset asynchrony.
0352. Kenett, Y.N., Gold, R., & Faust, M. (2016). The hyper-modular associative mind: A computational analysis of associative responses of persons with Asperger syndrome. Language and Speech, 59, 297–317.
Persons with Asperger syndrome exhibit a hyper-modular semantic organization: their mental lexicon is more compartmentalized compared to matched controls.
0353. Kim, J.-B. & Davies, M.A. (2016). The into-causative construction in English: A construction-based perspective. English Language and Linguistics, 20, 55–83.
I sketch a construction-based analysis to account for the grammatical properties of the into-causative construction.
0354. Koga, K. (2016). Event integration in Akan. Asian and African Languages and Linguistics, 10, 179–195.
Not all sentences exhibiting the equipollently-framed pattern express complex events in a clearly integrated way.
0355. Komori, J. (2016). Event integration patterns in Yoruba. Asian and African Languages and Linguistics, 10, 197–218.
I examine how Yoruba expresses the components of complex events in the five event domains of motion, state change, realization, temporal contouring and action correlation.
0356. Linell, P. & Lindström, J. (2016). Partial intersubjectivity and sufficient understandings for current practical purposes: On a specialized practice in Swedish conversation. Nordic Journal of Linguistics, 39, 113–133.
We explore issues of intersubjectivity and shared understanding as they arise in dyadic spoken interaction.
0357. Maiden, M. (2016). Italo-romance metaphony and the Tuscan diphthongs. Transactions of the Philological Society, 114, 198–232.
The historical causes of general so-called ‘opening’ diphthongization of proto-Romance low mid vowels in stressed open syllables are an enduring matter of dispute in historical Romance phonology.
0358. Mayr, W.B. (2016). Politeness strategy: Modal particles acquisition of German modal particles through self-learning. International Journal of Language & Linguistics, 3(2), 64–81.
Learners of German are able to detect and understand those modal particles in the samples and find equivalents in their own languages.
0359. Melnik, N. (2017). Raising, inversion and agreement in modern Hebrew. Journal of Linguistics, 53, 147–179.
My analysis builds on research on raising, selectional locality, agreement, subjecthood and information structure, and verb-initial constructions in Modern Hebrew.
0360. Möttönen, T. (2016). Dependence of construal on linguistic and pre-linguistic intersubjectivity. Nordic Journal of Linguistics, 39, 209–229.
The conventionalization of intentionality suggests a complex manner in which non-objective meaning motivates the selection of a linguistic expression within an intersubjective context.
0361. Musehane, M. & Maṱhabi, M. (2016). Orthographic errors in written Tshivenḓa on funeral programmes of Vhembe District Municipality funeral undertakers. South African Journal of African Languages, 36, 225–230.
We used textual analysis to establish whether undertakers adhered to the correct TshivenḔa orthography or not.
0362. Nummila, K.-M. (2016). Finnish-Ari derivatives: A diachronic study of a new word-formation pattern. Nordic Journal of Linguistics, 39, 39–63.
Do the -Ari-derived agent nouns actually represent an independent derived semantic category in Finnish?
0363. Nurmio, S. & Willis, D. (2016). The rise and fall of a minor category. Journal of Historical Linguistics, 6, 297–339.
Some languages use a special form of the noun, a “numerative”, after some or all numerals.
0364. Odingowei, K.M. (2016). A comparative syntactic review of null-subject parameter in English and Ịzọn languages. Journal of Languages and Culture, 7, 79–85.
Null-subject constituent is not a characteristic feature of English syntax but a feature of Ịzọn syntax.
0365. Petré, P. (2016). Grammaticalization by changing co-text frequencies, or why [BE Ving] became the ‘progressive’. English Language and Linguistics, 20, 31–54.
Co-textual changes paved the way for the acquisition of progressive semantics in [BE Ving].
0366. Piispanen, P.S. (2016). A prosody-controlled semi-vowel alternation in Yukaghir. Journal of Historical Linguistics, 6, 247–296.
Yukaghir underwent a regular sound change whereby all word-internal and word-final w phonemes became j.
0367. Plag, I., Homann, J., & Kunter, G. (2017). Homophony and morphology: The acoustics of word-final S in English. Journal of Linguistics, 53, 181–216.
There are significant differences in acoustic duration between some morphemic /s/’s and /z/’s and non-morphemic /s/ and /z/.
0368. Rathcke, T.V. & Stuart-Smith, J.H. (2016). On the tail of the Scottish vowel length rule in Glasgow. Language and Speech, 59, 404–430.
A famous sound feature of Scottish English is the short/long timing alternation of /i u ai/ vowels.
0369. Recasens, D. (2016). Stressed vowel assimilation to palatal consonants in early Romance. Journal of Historical Linguistics, 6, 201–246.
I studied the phonetic causes of stressed mid and low vowel raising and diphthongization before single palatal consonants and [jC] sequences in the Early Romance languages.
0370. Reid, L.A. (2016). Accounting for variability in Malayo-Polynesian pronouns. Journal of Historical Linguistics, 6, 130–164.
I suggest that multiple variants of the forms of some Malayo-Polynesian pronouns have been characterized as the result of drift.
0371. Smith, C.A. (2016). Tracking semantic change in fl- monomorphemes in the Oxford English Dictionary. Journal of Historical Linguistics, 6, 165–200.
I studied the semantic behavior of fl- monomorphemes by identifying OED key words, which are then classified into eleven conceptual categories of semantic features.
0372. van Rijn, M. (2016). The grammaticalization of possessive person marking: A typological approach. Transactions of the Philological Society, 114, 233–276.
I focus on the grammaticalization of agreement markers from possessive pronouns, which has two different dimensions: loss of referentiality (function) and loss of morpho-phonological independence (form).
0373. Wakasa, M. (2016). An analysis of complex event representation in Amharic texts. Asian and African Languages and Linguistics, 10, 139–155.
Simple sentences that do not seem to encode complex events may also serve to express complex events.
0374. Yoneda, N. (2016). Event integration patterns in Herero: The case of motion event components. Asian and African Languages and Linguistics, 10, 219–244.
Herero, one of the Bantu languages, has not only verb-framed language patterns, but also other patterns.
0375. Yoshino, H. (2016). Event integration and the consecutive construction in ‘Ale. Asian and African Languages and Linguistics, 10, 113–137.
I discuss how to treat the consecutive verb that seems to indicate the cosubordination type of the clause linkage to the main verb.
