Kinship Relations Research Articles

Position of Polyclithrum within Gyrodactylidae (Monogenoidea): incongruences between morphological and molecular phylogenies.

This study aimed to enhance our understanding in monogenoid evolution by using morphological and molecular data to determine kinship relationships between species and changes in morphological structures over time. We focused on variations in characteristics among the organisms of the family Gyrodactylidae, concentrating on the phylogenetic position of Polyclithrum with other genera in the family. We collected specimens of Polyclithrum from the striped mullet, Mugil cephalus and Swingleus, and Fundulotrema specimens from mummichog Fundulus heteroclitus in estuarine systems of South Carolina, United States. In addition, we analyzed them and other genera (including e.g., Mormyrogyrodactylus, Gyrodactyloides, and Macrogyrodactylus) using both morphological and molecular (18S rDNA) approaches. We performed phylogenetic trees based on Maximum Parsymony, Maximum Likelihood and Bayesian Inference, and constructed a character morphological matrix by Parsimony Reconstruction of Ancestral Character States method. Our results suggest a homoplastic origin with evolutionary convergences in characters, revealing that there is inconsistency between our data and previously published works based solely on morphological structures of the group. The homoplasy scenario found in Gyrodactylidae can be a result of the limited set of putative homologous morphological features. However, differences between the phylogenies based on morphology and those based on molecular data may arise from both databases. While morphology remains essential in understanding the evolution of this group, molecular data, otherwise, provide a less biased source of information for constructing phylogenetic hypotheses. Combining these data facilitates a better comprehension of the homologous status of morphological features and to understand Gyrodactylidae evolutionary history.

Genealogical tracing of Olea europaea species and pedigree relationships of var. europaea using chloroplast and nuclear markers

BackgroundOlive is one of the most cultivated species in the Mediterranean Basin and beyond. Despite being extensively studied for its commercial relevance, the origin of cultivated olive and the history of its domestication remain open questions. Here, we present a genealogical and kinship relationships analysis by mean of chloroplast and nuclear markers of different genera, subgenus, species, subspecies, ecotypes, cultivated, ancient and wild types, which constitutes one of the most inclusive research to date on the diversity within Olea europaea species. A complete survey of the variability across the nuclear and plastid genomes of different genotypes was studied through single nucleotide polymorphisms, indels (insertions and deletions), and length variation.ResultsFifty-six different chlorotypes were identified among the Oleaceae family including Olea europaea, other species and genera. The chloroplast genome evolution, within Olea europaea subspecies, probably started from subsp. cuspidata, which likely represents the ancestor of all the other subspecies and therefore of wild types and cultivars. Our study allows us to hypothesize that, inside the subspecies europaea containing cultivars and the wild types, the ancestral selection from var. sylvestris occurred both in the eastern side of the Mediterranean and in the central-western part of Basin. Moreover, it was elucidated the origin of several cultivars, which depends on the introduction of eastern cultivars, belonging to the lineage E1, followed by crossing and replacement of the autochthonous olive germplasm of central-western Mediterranean Basin. In fact, our study highlighted that two main ‘founders’ gave the origin to more than 60% of analyzed olive cultivars. Other secondary founders, which strongly contributed to give origin to the actual olive cultivar diversity, were already detected.ConclusionsThe application of comparative genomics not only paves the way for a better understanding of the phylogenetic relationships within the Olea europaea species but also provides original insights into other elusive evolutionary processes, such as chloroplast inheritance and parentage inside olive cultivars, opening new scenarios for further research such as the association studies and breeding programs.

A feminist political ecology of agricultural innovations in smallholder farming systems: Experiences from wheat production in Morocco and Uzbekistan

A clear consensus has emerged that innovations are important for adapting to drought and overcoming other biophysical limitations in smallholder farming systems; however, women are notably marginalized from agricultural innovations. We examine whether and how gendered roles and responsibilities shape the adoption and usage of improved wheat varieties and simultaneously uncover opportunities to address and lessen gender-based differences in agricultural innovations. The field data were collected using snowball sampling from seven communities (three in Morocco and four in Uzbekistan) among 574 farmers (half men and half women) of different generations, genders, social statuses, and social classes. Our findings demonstrate how the complex interactions of biophysical constraints, intra-household (spousal and kinship) relations, and the broader macro-level political economy of agriculture converge to influence different identities of women and men farmers’ wheat production and processing practices. We argue that without focusing on the socio-cultural factors affecting agriculture, new seed varieties alone cannot address the multifaceted problems confronting farmers in all parts of the world.

The Analysis of Politeness Strategies and Kinship Relationship: A Study Case of Wawonii Educational Background Compared to American

This research aims (1) to analyze the types of politeness strategies used by Wawonii speakers compared to American in daily conversations, and (2) to explore the educational background defined politeness strategies of Wawoniiese compared to American. The research used the quantitative research method. Wawoniiese data were collected from 32 respondents in North East Wawonii through questionnaire, observation, interview, and recorded dialogue form of speech. American data were taken from transcribed conversations of selected movies. The research result found that Wawoniiese and American speakers used four of the Politeness Strategies by Brown and Levinson. They were Bald-on-record, Positive Politeness, Negative Politeness, and Off-record. Furthermore, this research also found that the politeness systems of young and older people are almost similar, for instance, both systems showed 93,75% of speakers used deferent speech variety when talking to Parents-in-law. Meanwhile, when adding the educational background, the result showed more variations in politeness systems. Despite having age differences the older and younger family members can have conversations in mixed and casual varieties due to the influence of the educational background of speakers. For instance, the politeness systems by well-educated showed 37,5% of speakers used mixed speech variety and 56,25% of speakers used casual speech variety when talking to older cousins. Therefore, in Wawonii notably in North East Wawonii the educational background of speakers is the factor that significantly defines the choice of people's utterances compared to the variable of age. Hence, this research concluded that educational background influenced the politeness strategies of Wawonii speakers but not of American.

Boxing family: Theorising competition with boxers in Accra, Ghana

Anthropologists have often conceptualized competition by contrasting it with cooperation, even when collective ends are sought and achieved by competing. This approach tells us little about the qualities of the relationships and subjectivities that competition sustains. I explore the qualities of competitive relationships and subjectivities among Accra boxers, many of whom feel a constant, simmering sense of competition with one another. Boxers describe these competitive relationships using kinship idioms, and distinguish keenly between these kinship metaphors and non-metaphoric kin relations. A sustained comparison between competitive relations and kin relations in Accra reveals how competition intertwines subjectivities and futures, rather than producing hyper-individualistic and self-interested ‘neoliberal subjects’. I thus argue that boxers use kinship as a metaphoric resource to help them navigate the fraught intimacies that competition fosters. Their rendering of competition as kinship suggests how anthropologists might theorize the contradictory nature of competitive relationships with more nuance.

Fractured insurance families: securing care and navigating financialized social protections

ABSTRACT Health insurance products mediate intimate relations of care in the United States where access to insurance is predicated on income, disability, age, immigration status, and family composition. This study of insurance enrolment experiences under the Affordable Care Act health reform law explores how applicants attempted to strategically naturalize their kin arrangements by applying for health insurance together. Applicants navigated ambiguity around who was part of their family and how to protect one another against health and financial risk within a policy landscape that expanded the definition of family to include married same sex couples, offered new protections to middle and high income families, and exposed low income and immigrant families to additional administrative burdens. These life histories demonstrate how caring through finance can both fracture and naturalize kin relations as people try to match their lived families to governmental eligibility categories in order to access health benefits. The ACA broadened inclusion in financialized instruments of social protection for some, even as it reproduced exclusions that make health insurance more difficult to attain for many immigrants, family formations that deviate from the standard of a married household with biological children, and for people with unpredictable and low incomes.

Semantic Change in Javanese Kinship Term of Address

Within the development of the era, the meaning of the words also developed and changed. One of the word-meaning conversions in society is the conversion of the term of address, particularly in kinship relationships. A case study in Gedang Kulut Village revealed that the word of speech Cak (Old Brother) and Mbak (Old Sister) is not only used to call the old brother and sister but also refers to the Man (Uncle) and Bebek (Aunt). The other conversion uses Pak De (Uncle) and Mak De (Aunt) to substitute the term of address for grandmother and grandfather. The paper aims to analyse the representation of speech in the Javanese language used in Gedang Kulut Village, Gresik District. The methodology uses a descriptive qualitative method that also emphasises the semantics approach. The result shows a unique word-meaning conversion in the Javanese term of address used in Gedang Kulut Village. Moreover, the mutation appearing in the word of speech causes the social marks to change either up or down.

Hak Waris Anak Hasil Surogasi Menurut Peraturan Perundang–Undangan di Indonesia

The aim of this research is to find out whether there are women who do not have a uterus or cannot undergo pregnancy due to medical indications and want to have children and what the legal status of inheritance is regarding the surrogate mother. This paper uses a normative method by analyzing and using a legal approach regarding the data sources used, namely secondary data sources consisting of primary legal materials, secondary legal materials and tertiary legal materials (Hadi, 1990). The data collection method uses literature study and review of applicable legal regulations. The data analysis carried out by the author is qualitative analysis. The results of the research show that renting a womb cannot be carried out in Indonesia because it violates Law Number 1 of 1974 concerning marriage, where to obtain legal offspring there must be a marriage bond. This applies if the surrogate woman is a widow or maiden. Womb rental also violates Article 72. Law Number 36 of 2009 concerning Health, the womb rental agreement/agreement from a civil law perspective is considered invalid because it violates the essence of the object of the agreement/agreement. The inheritance status of children resulting from renting a womb in the perspective of Islamic law is that children resulting from renting a womb are classified as illegitimate children who are not recognized or children resulting from adultery, if the surrogate mother has the status of a widow or girl, because in inheritance law which causes inheritance between the heir and the heir, namely there is a kinship and marriage relationship, while a child born to a surrogate mother does not have a marriage relationship.

Amorphophallus muelleri blume diversity based on morphological characteristics in South Sulawesi

Porang is an alternative carbohydrate source plant that contains the highest glucomannan among other Amorphophallus species in Indonesia. Amorphophallus muelleri Blume is an important species of the genus Amorphophallus, which belongs to the same subspecies A. bulbifer and A. yuloensis. A. muelleri Blume has good disease resistance and heat tolerance tendency, and high KGM content. Kinship relationships can be used as a basis for assembling more potential genotypes. To find out the kinship between existing varieties we must exploration and identify. This research was carried out using qualitative methods analysed in the numerical taxonomy and multivariate analysis system version 2.02i (NTSYS) program. The genetic materials used in this study were explored from wild growing habitat in agroforestry areas in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. The results obtained that the MR6 and BL10 genotypes which had a similarity coefficient value of 1.00, between genotypes MR4, MR9, MR10, BT4 and BT10 had a similarity coefficient value of 1.00, between genotypes BT5 and BT7 have a similarity coefficient value of 1.00, and between genotypes BT1, BT2, BT9 have a similarity coefficient value of 1.00. Furthermore, BL1, BL4, and BL6 contribute significantly of the variation as showed by PC1.

Adat Law-Making Process

Abstract This study aims to analyse the emerging need to change customary law (adat law in Indonesia) and identify the role of adat functionaries. The experience of the Mollo adat law community (indigenous people) from the south-eastern part of Indonesia, Timor Island, shows that the sudden and massive collection of haukonof (Usnea barbata), a non-timber forest product, has caused forest destruction. How do the adat functionaries respond to the situation? Is adat law sufficient to respond to the sudden change of their livelihood? If it is not, then what to do? Furthermore, what are the impacts on the functionaries? What are their difficulties, and how do they solve them? This article is based on an in-depth ethnographic study held in July—September 2021. Data are collected through interviews and observation. The adat functionaries want to restrict the people from picking and collecting haukonof, but there is no adat law specifically ruling on it. Only the adat functionaries should protect the environment. The pickers and the collectors of haukonof are the members of the communities. The kinship relation between the functionaries and the members complicates legal enforcement. The adat functionaries’ authority and the sustainability of the livelihoods are in danger. The immediate solution is borrowing state law which obliges a person who utilises non-timber forest products in the Protection Forest to hold a valid permit. It effectively reduces the number of haukonof picking and collection by the community members. Adat’s law-making process does not work in isolation. It is an interactive process that needs continuous foresight observation from the adat functionaries to find the appropriate solution to protect the environment and the people.

Elites’ Social Networks and Politics in the Han Empire (202 B.C.E.–220 C.E.)

Social networks were heavily intertwined with elites’ social status and political power throughout the Han dynasty. This article introduces the Han Elites’ Social Network Dataset, an open-access dataset that the author collected primarily through manual labor. It contains data on Han elites’ marriage, kinship, patron-client, teacher-disciple, friendship, and recommender-nominee relationships. The article then visualizes and analyzes these social networks in relation to Han politics. It argues that social networks provided individuals with channels for upward social mobility and access to political careers, and that the reliance on different types of networks contributed to the formation of political cliques as well as the growing conflict between the inner court and the outer court.

Interlocked: kinship, intimate precarity, and plantation labour in India

AbstractThis article examines the employment of kinship relations in sustaining the plantation economy and in perpetuating the precariousness of child labourers who later became temporary workers in the tea plantations of Kerala, South India. Kinship ties locked diverse workers into a moral obligation of care that could easily be manipulated by plantation management as a form of labour control. Plantation capitalism, therefore, sustained itself not only through overt forms of violence but also through manipulating the precarity of employment in relation to intimate forms of love, care, and obligation that were bound up with kinship ties. Kinship networks of different kinds need to be understood as integral to the plantation society and as occupying a fundamental place within the capitalist order of plantations. I observe that the entangled relationship between workers’ precarity and plantation capitalism can be understood only if we pay attention to what I call the intimate precarity produced by the employment of kinship networks within plantation capitalism.

Parallel vaccine discourses in Guinea: ‘grounding’ social listening for a non-hegemonic global health

ABSTRACT Misinformation has been identified as a major threat to public confidence in vaccines, particularly during epidemics. As a response, social listening has become a popular and heuristic public health tool for detecting misinformation and adapting vaccine communication. In this article, we take a critical stance on the normalised approach to social listening which solely relies on the analysis of online discourses. We highlight that the current social listening paradigm inherited a reductionist and utilitarian approach from commercial marketing that struggles to grasp – and even misrepresents – the complexity of health-related perceptions and knowledge. This study draws from online COVID-19 vaccines discourses in Guinea and ethnographic fieldwork among Guinean healthcare workers. While the online social listening showcased a predominance of individual and collective safety concerns, distrust towards African elites and Western actors, fieldwork revealed that healthcare workers’ vaccine perceptions were more nuanced and largely shaped by complex kinship relations spanning across online and offline social landscapes. Furthermore, healthcare workers often displayed frontstage and backstage vaccine discourses, their vaccines related representations and claims could evolve depending on the context of enunciation. We advocate for grounding social listening in global health to avoid disconnection from the public. Failure to accomplish this could result in a detached and hegemonic form of ‘social hearing’, rather than authentic social listening. In light of this, the transdisciplinary methodology exemplified in this paper represents one possible solution.

Re‐assessing regional chronologies for island southeast Asian voyaging to Aboriginal Australia

ABSTRACTAccording to written histories, trepang fishers from Island Southeast Asia (“Makassans”) frequented coastal northern Australia from c.1750 to 1907 CE. Yolŋu oral traditions and old Austronesian borrow words in coastal Aboriginal languages suggest a long and complex history of foreign voyaging to northern Australia. Yet archaeological radiocarbon chronologies for the Southeast Asian trepang industry and earlier voyaging encounters are few and the dates have never been comprehensively reviewed. Only one Arnhem Land trepang fishery site has been dated extensively, and others have produced unusually old dates of c.1200–1500 CE. The Groote Eylandt rockshelter of Dadirrigka yielded an enigmatic sherd of friable earthenware above a radiocarbon date of c.1100 CE. Here we have compiled, reviewed and recalibrated all 49 radiocarbon dates directly associated with Southeast Asian contact sites, stratigraphy and rock art in northern Australia. We discuss the dates and their archaeological contexts region by region to assess their reliability. We also report for the first time Yanyuwa (southwest Gulf of Carpentaria) oral traditions which shed light on their past kinship and exchange relationships with Makassan visitors. The radiocarbon dates provide tentative support for four phases of interaction in northwest Arnhem Land and Groote Eylandt, including pre‐Makassan encounters and the organised trepang industry of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. There is a paucity of archaeological excavations and radiocarbon data from northeast Arnhem Land, the Kimberley and the southwest Gulf of Carpentaria, where historical writings, linguistics and oral traditions are still the most reliable indicators of the timing and nature of cross‐cultural interaction.

Genetic Variability and Kinship Analyses of Seized Red-Browed Amazon, Amazona rhodocorytha (Aves, Psittacidae)

Analyzing genetic variability and kinship relations is essential to guide conservation management plans for threatened species. The Red-browed Amazon (Amazona rhodocorytha) is one of the four Amazona parrots that are endemic to remnants of the Atlantic Forest, classified as Vulnerable (IUCN) owing to habitat loss and fragmentation and trapping for the illegal pet trade. At the end of 2021, 19 Red-browed Amazons were rescued from illegal trade in the Espírito Santo state, Brazil, including 14 nestlings reportedly captured in the Sooretama Biological Reserve, which provided the first opportunity to address the genetic parameters of a wild population of this threatened parrot. We used Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) data to assess the genetic diversity and kinship relations between the rescued birds. We observed high heterozygosity levels and low inbreeding coefficients. Principal Component Analysis revealed the presence of at least two distinct genetic groups, suggesting past isolation followed by secondary contact. Our results suggest that the population from Sooretama is an important genetic and demographic repository of the Red-browed Amazon, and the presence of individuals from the two genetic lineages in the same area reduces concerns about potential inbreeding depression in rehabilitation and reintroduction plans and also inspires further investigations on historical and contemporary population structuring.

The Role Of New Zealand Social Culture In Conflict Resolution

New Zealand is a country with cultural diversity and multiculturalism principles. New Zealand's social culture also plays an important role in resolving conflict by creating spaces for open and inclusive dialogue. The principles of "manaakitanga" (hospitality), "whanaungatanga" (kinship relations), and "tikanga" (Maori cultural principles) play a role in shaping patterns of social interaction that are mutually respectful and help create an environment that supports conflict resolution processes. This journal aims to analyze cultural diversity as it shapes the country's unique approach to conflict resolution as well as patterns of multicultural education in New Zealand in fostering understanding and tolerance between cultures. By understanding how New Zealand's social culture plays a role in conflict resolution, we can draw valuable lessons to apply them in a wider global context. The role of New Zealand's social culture in overcoming conflict is by Fostering Understanding and Empathy, Encouraging Social Cohesion, Facilitating Intercultural Dialogue, Implementing Inclusive Policies and Laws, Improving Education and Cultural Awareness. Overall, multicultural education in New Zealand plays an important role in promoting intercultural understanding and tolerance.

Care, Violence, and More-Than-Human Reproductive Ecologies in North India

ABSTRACT This paper explores therapeutic interventions for subfertility as a domain where meanings and boundaries of care and violence are constituted. It centres around a fragment of one Rajasthani woman’s reproductive journey contextualised within marriage migration, upward social mobility, and affinal/natal kin relations. Grounded in 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Rajasthan, India, and ongoing conversations with the family, this paper investigates therapeutic interventions undertaken by affinal and natal families—biomedical interventions alongside engagements with a Hindu goddess Kali—and examines how ambivalent care practices are situated within relations between people, technologies, and spirits who ‘meddle’ with human affairs. It argues that the meanings of care are constituted relationally within more-than-human reproductive ecologies.

On the questioning of the lawyer as a witness

The article discusses such concepts as witness immunity and the prohibition of questioning a person as a witness. This issue is being investigated in the context of the fact that these are two independent concepts and the allocation of each of them has its own basis: persons with witness immunity are exempt from the obligation to testify due to the presence of kinship and family relations, and the prohibition of questioning a person as a witness is associated with the implementation of certain activities by this person. The main focus is on the prohibition of interrogation as a witness by a lawyer. Based on the study of judicial practice, including the legal positions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, the author notes a gradual transition from an absolute ban on questioning a lawyer to giving courts the opportunity to interrogate a lawyer as a witness without his consent and the consent of the client. The article gives a critical assessment of the approach to solving this issue, which has developed in practice, which changes the position of a lawyer in criminal proceedings: from the position of a representative, a defender to the position of an eyewitness to certain events. It is noted that this approach is obviously incorrect, and this position is justified. The author comes to the conclusion that lawyers are involved in criminal proceedings in order to combat procedural violations of the rights of their principals as lawyers (persons with the necessary professional knowledge and skills), and not in order to subsequently testify about the violations seen as a witness. It is unacceptable to constantly consider a lawyer as an eyewitness of illegal actions, and not as a defender of his clients from these illegal actions, otherwise lawyers will not be able to provide qualified legal assistance. The authors of the article consider the position of the courts to be correct, in which the courts recognize the interrogation of a lawyer as a witness as illegal with the recognition of the testimony received from the lawyer as inadmissible evidence.

Eeyou Istchee Bodies of Water

In the Eastern James Bay Cree Nation, a region known as Eeyou Istchee, water (neebee/Nîpîy) is a multiplicity of things and qualities: it is quantified as potentials in the reservoirs of HydroQuébec’s hydroelectric power generating system; it is also a mobile element in the hydrological cycle, the platform for colonial mobilities and the past trapping economy; as well as an Eenouch (Cree) symbolic force and a liquid that saturates the James Bay landscape. This paper proposes a somatechnics of waterbodies. It considers a regional situation in which nature is both technological and biophysical. Waters appear as a hydrocommons that saturates the biophysics, culture, and economies of the Eenouch. Both humans and non-humans are amenable to a somatechnical lens: both are bodies of water. Our paper explores the potential for extending somatechnics beyond organic bodies and what this reveals about all bodies as a category in cross-cultural perspective – their abilities to enter into spatiotemporal relations of kinship, agency, recalcitrance, affect, virtuality, and materiality.

STUDI BIOGEOGRAFIS IKAN PUYAU (osteochilus SP) BERBASIS PROFIL PROTEIN DARI DANAU ROWO IJO, SITUS BUKIT BANGKAI

This Bukit Bangkai would like be became a candidate for place evolution rock art heritage unit (PERAHU). In this site, the Rowo Ijo lake as a habitat, where it was found biogeographically, a Puyau fish (Osteochilus sp). Furthermore, the method of precipitation fraction of ammonium sulfate ((NH4)2SO4) with Lowry and SDS-PAGE elaboration was used, as the main method to obtain the protein profile of fish protein. Analysis of kinship relations was carried out using the UPGMA method based on the profile.. Based on the results of the fraction (NH4)2SO4 and Lowry methods, the optimum protein content was obtained, namely 68.93; 116.08; 6.72; 7.96 (mg/ml) in the 70-80% fraction and 4 samples from Banjar Regency 19.17; 16.93; 20.04; and 20.04 mg/mL in the 40-70% fraction, respectively. Based on the results of SDS-PAGE at the optimum level of protein; Puyau Rowo Ijo fish have 64 bands, with a profile of 11 bands on P.1R code, 9 bands on P.2R code, 10 bands on P.3R code and 9 bands on P.4R. For Puyau Banjar fish there are 25 bands with the following profile; each code P.1B and P.2B has 6 bands, while P.3B has 10 bands and P.4B has 3 bands. The types of proteins found were thought to include Actin Protein, Carbonic Anhydrase, Trypsin Inhibitor, -lactalbumin, and Lysozyme. The results of the UPGMA analysis based on the distribution of protein species and weights were that there was related closely to two groups form (clusters) between puyau from the Lake Rowo Ijo and Banjar Regency.