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Physical Anthropology of Afghanistan

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The article was published on 1970-06-01 and is currently open access. It has received 7 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Biological anthropology.

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The influence of inequality on the standard of living: Worldwide anthropometric evidence from the 19th and 20th centuries

TL;DR: There is a systematic negative and concave relationship between height inequality and average height and the robustness of this relationship is tested by means of several robustness checks, including two instrument variable regressions.
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Defining Place and People in Afghanistan

TL;DR: This article defined place and people in Afghanistan and defined the defining place and persons in Afghanistan as a "post-Soviet geography and economics: Vol. 42, No. 8, pp. 545-560".
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Tall and Shrinking Muslims, Short and Growing Europeans: The Long-Run Welfare Development of the Middle East, 1840-1980

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors estimate for the first time anthropometric trends for ten countries in the Middle East for the period 1840-1910, and follow those countries until the 1980s using Baten's (2006) estimates.
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Concocting a frolicking “pashtun couple” in afghanistan

TL;DR: The validity, truth and truth value of the text and context of Euro-American, especially postmodern Anglo-American ethnographies of Afghanistan, are rarely interrogated as discussed by the authors, revealing how prolonged blind acceptance of faulty, distorted, misinterpreted, and cooked-up information buttressed by the authority of "fieldwork" has been produced and reproduced in widely circulated packages of pseudo-knowledge about the peoples and cultures of Afghanistan.