Cultural consensus analysis and environmental anthropology: Yellowfin tuna fishery management in Hawaii

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Cultural consensus analysis can play a very important role in resolving issues related to fishery management, which was observed in the Yellowfin tuna fishery management in Hawaii. A comparison of the knowledge of hand-line fishermen and fishery scientists in Hawaii indicated that the fishermen and the scientists were in agreement regarding the ecological knowledge but they differed in some aspects.

Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities, Hawaii, Anthropology, Fishers (Persons)

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Femme fatale and status fatale: a cross-cultural perspective

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Issues concerning cultural influences on sexual behavior are discussed. A cross-cultural survey of 78 cultures found that emotional involvement, rather than sexual gratification, was the key reason for involvement with a stranger possessing qualities deemed culturally most desirable by the opposite sex.

Sexual behavior, Demographic aspects, Femmes fatales, Sex customs

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Cross-cultural variability of the semantic domain of emotion terms: an examination of English shame and embarrass with Japanese hazukashii

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Correspondence analysis, t test, and quadratic assignment are used to explore the cross-cultural meaning of emotion terms within the semantic structure in English and Japanese languages. The English term embarrass is similar to the Japanese word hazukashii as compared to the English word, shame.

Japan, Cognition, Emotions, Emotions and cognition

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