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A Congenital Meningocoele In Prehistoric Australia, Steve Webb, Alan Thorne Nov 1985

A Congenital Meningocoele In Prehistoric Australia, Steve Webb, Alan Thorne

Steve Webb

This report concerns a congenital meningocoele in a young adult Aboriginal female from north-western New South Wales, Australia. The fact that this individual reached adulthood throws new light on the attitude of these nomadic people towards such conditions. Evidence of this kind may prompt also a re-evaluation by prehistorians and anthropologists of the popularly held belief that all such malformations were automatically eliminated by infanticide. The discovery of this form of pathology helps provide new information not only on past cultural attitudes towards disease, but its frequency and geographical incidence, and adds to our knowledge concerning the range of pathological …


Rethinking Classical Theory: The Sociological Vision Of Pierre Bourdieu, Rogers Brubaker Oct 1985

Rethinking Classical Theory: The Sociological Vision Of Pierre Bourdieu, Rogers Brubaker

Rogers Brubaker

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