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  Other significant social changes consist...

  "Other significant social changes consist of the total substitution of bows and arrows by the blowpipe, and finally, we must also mention the almost universal awareness, by nearly all of the groups, of the desirability of modern medical treatment. Most Negritos were extremely reluctant to seek a physician's advice up to about fifteen years ago, let alone be admitted into a hospital, but today very few signs of his reluctance still remain."
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  Blood and nerves revisited: Menopause and the privatization of the body in a Newfoundland postindustrial fishery

  Ethnographic data from a longitudinal, interpretive study of women's changing social and cultural constructions of menopause in a postindustrial, Newfoundland fishing village indicate that three major changes have taken place in the way women conceptualize female, reproductive life-cycle events and processes.