Women and girls cooperate with each other across many domains and at many scales.
However, much of this information is buried in the ethnographic record and has been …

Anthropologists have long studied how small-scale societies manage climate variation.
Here, we investigate how Yucatec Maya subsistence farmers respond to climate stress, and …

While it is commonly assumed that farmers have higher, and foragers lower, fertility
compared to populations practicing other forms of subsistence, robust supportive evidence …

Human social relationships, often grounded in kinship, are being fundamentally altered by
globalization as integration into geographically distant markets disrupts traditional kin based …

The family defines many aspects of our daily lives, and expresses a wide array of forms
across individuals, cultures, ecologies and time. While the nuclear family is the norm today …

The academic conversation on the relationship of markets and morality is a longstanding
one. While both the critics and defenders of markets acknowledge that markets can and do …

Language is the human universal mode of communication, and is dynamic and constantly in
flux accommodating user needs as individuals interface with a changing world. However, we …

Researchers across the social sciences have long been interested in families. How people
make decisions such as who to marry, when to have a baby, how big or small a family to …

Objectives The extreme condition that we address in this special issue is how people adapt
to rapid change, which in this case study is instigated by globalization and the process of …

This research aims to empirically prove some of the effects of size, tangibility, debt maturity,
foreign ownership toward investment efficiency, and the effect of Moderation from foreign …