Margaret A Gibson

Datos Biográficos

ID88250
NOMBREMargaret A Gibson
NOMBRESMargaret A
APELLIDOGibson
FIRMAGIBSON M A
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Bristol
ORCID0000-0001-7963-4759
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS47
TOTAL DE CITAS342
TOTAL COMO AUTOR47
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1976
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H9

  • Applying Anthropology to Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting

    Open AccessHannelore Van Bavel, Margaret A Gibson et al.ARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist2026Referencias: 78

    In this article, we review how anthropologies from various subdisciplines, from social to evolutionary anthropology, are contributing to our understanding of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C). We focus on four key questions: What are the origins of FGM/C? What functions and meanings are linked to FGM/C? How does FGM/C persist and/or change? And how can anthropology inform policy and practice? We identify how anthropological research has c…

  • Social clustering of preference for female genital mutilation/cutting in south-central Ethiopia

    Open AccessSarah Myers, Eshetu Gurmu et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2025Citada por: 1Referencias: 49

    Recent estimates indicate that half of Ethiopian girls aged 15-19 years have experienced female genital mutilation/cutting (FGMC). Establishing whether and how pro-FGMC norms are maintained through social transmission is a key priority for global eradication efforts. Here we present the first large-scale socio-centric social network study estimating social influence and social selection on preference for cutting female relatives using data from 5…

  • Abandoning female genital mutilation/cutting (FGMC) is an emerging but costly parental investment strategy in rural Ethiopia

    Open AccessMargaret A Gibson, Eshetu Gurmu et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2023Citada por: 5Referencias: 44

    Female genital mutilation or cutting (FGMC) has profound consequences for an estimated 200 million women world-wide, yet affected communities often resist efforts to end the practice. Marriage market dynamics have been proposed as key to this resistance, because where FGMC is normative, parents are motivated to cut their daughters to improve their marriage prospects. Some economists have also argued that financial gain, through bride wealth payme…

  • Testing evolutionary conflict theories for sexual and physical intimate partner violence in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Open AccessJanet Howard, Margaret A GibsonARTICLEEvolutionary Human Sciences2022Referencias: 2

    Intimate partner violence (IPV) refers to physical, sexual and psychological violence. Here an evolutionary approach is used to compare risk factors for male-to-female IPV perpetration, analysing physical and sexual IPV separately. Two hypotheses based on sexual conflict theory have been applied to IPV perpetration, but they remain largely untested using empirical data: (a) men perpetrate IPV in response to a perceived threat to their paternity c…

  • Origins of genital mutilation/cutting

    Open AccessMargaret A GibsonARTICLENature Human Behaviour2022Referencias: 5

  • No relationship found between female genital cutting and intimate partner violence across six sub-Saharan African countries

    Open AccessJanet Howard, Margaret A GibsonARTICLEGlobal Public Health2021

    Female genital cutting (FGC) and intimate partner violence (IPV) are highly prevalent forms of violence against women, and the UN has encouraged strengthening policy linkages between FGC and IPV programme work (UN Women, Female genital mutilation/cutting and violence against women and girls. Strengthening the policy linkages between different forms of violence . UN Women, 2017a). However few studies have examined the relationship between these be…

  • Cross-cultural research must prioritize equitable collaboration

    Open AccessMark Urassa, D W Lawson et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2021Citada por: 8Referencias: 10

    Research centres in low- and middle-income countries are routinely circumvented in the production of cross-cultural research on human behaviour. Where local contributions are made, collaboration is rarely equitable and often uncredited in co-authorship. Efforts to decolonize the social sciences will remain inadequate until these norms are overturned

  • Inequality in the household and rural–urban migration in Ethiopian farmers

    Open AccessLucie Clech, J H Jones et al.ARTICLEEvolutionary Human Sciences2020Citada por: 2Referencias: 4

  • Bear bile use at the intersection of maternal health in Cambodia

    Open AccessElizabeth Oneita Davis, Margaret A Gibson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Ethnobiology and…2020Citada por: 1Referencias: 29

    Background The consumption of bear gallbladders and bear bile in Southeast Asia is a persistent threat to bear populations. As part of a larger effort to understand the characteristics of bear part consumption in Cambodia, we uncovered a consumer base of women seeking treatment for post-partum and uterine ailments. Methods To better understand this aspect of consumption, we interviewed 122 women in seven different provinces in Cambodia, probing i…

  • Is there a link between paternity concern and female genital cutting in West Africa?

    Open AccessJanet Howard, Margaret A Gibson et al.ARTICLEEvolution and Human Behavior2019

  • Does Kin-Selection Theory Help to Explain Support Networks among Farmers in South-Central Ethiopia

    Open AccessLucie Clech, Ashley Hazel et al.ARTICLEHuman Nature2019Referencias: 49

  • Are wives and daughters disadvantaged in polygynous households? A case study of the Arsi Oromo of Ethiopia

    Open AccessC Uggla, Eshetu Gurmu et al.ARTICLEEvolution and Human Behavior2018

    Whether polygyny is harmful for women and their children is a long-standing question in anthropology. Few studies, however, have explored whether the effect of polygyny varies for women of different wife order, and whether there are different outcomes for their sons and daughters. Because males have higher reproductive variance, especially when they are allowed to take multiple wives, parents may have higher fitness returns from investing in sons…

  • Population Issues in Development

    Open AccessMargaret A Gibson, Mhairi A Gibson et al.OTHERThe International Encyclopedia of…2018

    Population issues have an impact on many features of society, from where we live and work to the partnerships we form and how many children we raise. Understanding why population characteristics vary and how population change influences human behavior and wellbeing is central to development planning and policy making. Major areas of interest include population dynamics, such as fertility trends, aging, and migration, and interactions between popu…

  • Polygynous marriage and child health in sub-Saharan Africa

    Open AccessD W Lawson, David Lawson et al.ARTICLEDemographic Research2018

    Researchers from a variety of disciplines have presented data indicating that polygynous marriage is damaging to child health. This work has been used to support the classification of polygyny as a â harmful cultural practiceâ and to advocate for marital re

  • "Understanding "Harmful Cultural Practices

    Open AccessD W Lawson, Margaret A Gibson et al.ARTICLEAnthropology News2018

  • Applying evolutionary anthropology

    Open AccessMargaret A Gibson, Mhairi A Gibson et al.ARTICLEEvolutionary Anthropology Issues…2015

    Evolutionary anthropology provides a powerful theoretical framework for understanding how both current environments and legacies of past selection shape human behavioral diversity. This integrative and pluralistic field, combining ethnographic, demographic, and sociological methods, has provided new insights into the ultimate forces and proximate pathways that guide human adaptation and variation. Here, we present the argument that evolutionary a…

  • Applied Evolutionary Anthropology

    Open AccessMargaret A Gibson, Mhairi A Gibson et al.BOOKApplied evolutionary anthropology2014

  • Beyond Bushmeat

    Open AccessSarah B Paige, Simon D W Frost et al.ARTICLEEcoHealth2014

  • Human behavioral ecology

    D Nettle, Margaret A Gibson et al.ARTICLEBehavioral Ecology2013

    Human behavioral ecology (HBE) is the study of human behavior from an adaptive perspective. It focuses in particular on how human behavior varies with ecological context. Although HBE is a thriving research area, there has not been a major review published in a journal for over a decade, and much has changed in that time. Here, we describe the main features of HBE as a paradigm and review HBE research published since the millennium. We find that …

  • “Modernization” increases parental investment and sibling resource competition

    Open AccessMargaret A Gibson, Mhairi A Gibson et al.ARTICLEEvolution and Human Behavior2011

  • Does Wealth Increase Parental Investment Biases in Child Education

    Margaret A Gibson, Mhairi A Gibson et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology2010Citada por: 13Referencias: 47

    Why fertility declines is still a matter of intense debate. One theory proposes that fertility decline may be partly driven by shifts in parental investment strategies: couples reduce family size as demographic and economic changes cause investment in the quality of children to become more important than investment in the quantity of children. A key driver for this change is a shift from a subsistence-based to a skills-based economy, in which edu…

  • Introduction to special issue on “Trade‐Offs in Female Life Histories

    Open AccessR Sear, Margaret A Gibson et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Human Biology2009

  • The Education of Immigrant Youth

    Margaret A Gibson, Silvia Carrasco Pon et al.ARTICLETheory Into Practice2009Citada por: 27Referencias: 1

    The United States and Spain have had radically different immigration histories, and they also have very different education systems and policies, yet there are similarities. Despite official efforts to welcome immigrant youth, both education systems operate, paradoxically, in ways that are unwelcoming, relegating immigrant youth to the margins of school life. The authors draw on their ongoing comparative ethnographic research in high schools in C…

  • Does Investment in the Sexes Differ When Fathers Are Absent

    Open AccessMargaret A Gibson, Mhairi A GibsonARTICLEHuman Nature2008Citada por: 6Referencias: 49

  • Polygyny, Reproductive Success and Child Health in Rural Ethiopia

    Open AccessMargaret A Gibson, Mhairi A Gibson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Biosocial Science2007

    This study examines the reproductive success of men and women in rural Ethiopia as a function of their marital status, specifically by comparing polygamously and monogamously married individuals. In line with predictions from evolutionary theory, polygamy is beneficial to male reproductive success (i.e. producing larger numbers of surviving offspring). The success of polygamously married females depends on wife rank: the first wives of polygamous…