title: A Cultural Turn in Contemporary Studies of Historical Dynamics of Well-being
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metadata.value: Verniaev, Igor I.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2024-07-11T20:25:37Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2024-07-11T20:25:37Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2024-06
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Verniaev I. I. A Cultural Turn in Contemporary Studies of Historical Dynamics of Well-being. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2024, vol. 69, issue 2, рp. 503–521. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2024.215 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2024.215
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/45746
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: One of the key interdisciplinary “meeting points” of economic history, anthropology, and human
  biology has become the study of the dynamics and variations of well-being on the basis
  of anthropometric data. The key anthropometric indicator — the mean height — best reflects
  such characteristics of living conditions as the quantity and quality of nutrition, health status,
  morbidity, the severity of work, and the environment. Mean height is especially useful in cases
  where information about incomes, prices, life expectancy, etc. is not available or reliable:
  communities in the past, cultures with a large share of the traditional and informal economy,
  the importance of informal social networks. In order to correctly use data on mean height, it
  is necessary to take into account that it is the result of genetic, environmental, material, social,
  and cultural influences. The article presents an analysis of how the cultural factor is identified,
  taken into account, and interpreted in anthropometric studies of the dynamics of well-being.
  It discusses, in particular: food traditions and related features of the economy; demographic
  models; family structure, including models of care, upbringing, and gender relations; religious
  attitudes and practices; social institutions and stratification. The article concludes that without
  taking culture into account, a comprehensive interpretation of the relationship between
  anthropometric data and the standard of living is impossible, as is the correct use of such an
  indicator as mean height to study the dynamics of well-being. The current research characterizes
  particular attention to cultural models and practices in contemporary historical anthropometric
  studies of the dynamics of well-being as a cultural turn.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: This research was funded by the Russian Science Foundation (RSF) grant no. 23-18-00249, https://rscf.
  ru/en/project/23-18-00249, project “The standard of living of the population of Russia in the 20th — early
  21st centuries according to traditional and alternative indicators: an interdisciplinary study on Big Data”;
  head of project B. N. Mironov.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 69; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: economics
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: economic history
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: anthropology
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: anthropometric data
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: mean height
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: dynamics of well-being
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: cultural factor
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: nutrition
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: household practices
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: family structure
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: gender relations
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: social institutions
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: religious beliefs
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: social stratification
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: A Cultural Turn in Contemporary Studies of Historical Dynamics of Well-being
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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