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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 7, Issue 3, Page 828-837, May 2025.The phenomenon of “Plant Awareness Disparity”—often defined as people's inability to notice, recognize, and appreciate plants and their significance—has been described as one of the greatest challenges that botanists face in our joint mission to address the social‐ecological crisis of our time.
Joaquim Querol i Mercadé +5 more
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Treating Pox, Pests and Worms: Saints, Sympathy and Materiality in Late‐Medieval English Charms
Journal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 3-20, March 2025.Charms were a commonplace form of medical intervention in late‐medieval England, as they allowed afflicted and ailing devotees to seek the aid of saints and biblical figures. Those holy dead who had suffered something on earth were considered particularly adept at posthumously treating the same in their devotees, with the words used to recount their ...
Elizabeth Burrell
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Actually existing Chinese matriarchy [PDF]
, 2008 The essays in this volume present contemporary anthropological perspectives on Chinese kinship, its historical complexity and its modern metamorphoses. The collection draws particular attention to the reverberations of larger socio-cultural and politico ...
Stafford, Charles
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Mainstreaming Disability Theology: A Review Essay
Journal of Religious Ethics, Volume 53, Issue 1, Page 135-157, March 2025.ABSTRACT This essay offers both a review of recent texts in disability studies and religious ethics as well as appreciation in the guild's growing interest in disability ethics. When the Journal of Religious Ethics (JRE) solicited this essay, I felt a sense that recognition of the important work that disability ethics offers to our guild had arrived ...
Mary Jo Iozzio
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, 2013 Time in written form pervades our social existence. From the daily news, whether on the web or in print, to wall calendars in our homes or offices, which tell us what day it is; from personal watches or cellphones to public clocks, which tell us what ...
Hannah, Robert
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The calculation of the lunar series on classic Maya monuments [PDF]
, 2007 Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence
Fuls, Andreas
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Toward a Cultural Sustenance View of Reading
Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 1, January/February/March 2025.Abstract This article highlights a Cultural Sustenance View of Reading (CSVR), a complex reader model illuminated by vivid findings from an eight‐year collaborative classroom‐based study and extensive reviews of cognitive and sociocultural research. Within the CSVR, reading is conceptualized as being shaped by a readers' culturally and linguistically ...
Kindel Turner Nash +5 more
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Calibrating care: Family caregiving and the social weight of sympathy (tình cảm) in Vietnam
American Anthropologist, Volume 126, Issue 4, Page 596-607, December 2024.Abstract This article explores family caregiving in Vietnamese households affected by type 2 diabetes. Drawing on existential phenomenology and on fieldwork conducted in northern Vietnam, I develop the concept of care calibrations as a tool to understand how family members respond socially and morally to the needs for care that diabetes confronts them ...
Tine M. Gammeltoft
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Commemoration of body donors in a religiously diverse society: A tale of two Korean medical schools
Anatomical Sciences Education, Volume 17, Issue 8, Page 1618-1627, November 2024.Abstract Although a diversity of religions exists in South Korea, with Buddhism and Christianity (Protestantism and Catholicism) being the two main faiths, Korean beliefs are deeply rooted in Confucianism. Despite the notion that the Confucian norm of filial piety discourages body donation to medical science, there has been a mindset shift in favor of ...
Sae‐Ock Oh +4 more
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American Ethnologist, Volume 51, Issue 4, Page 527-539, November 2024.Abstract Contemporary technoscience is rife with hype—inflated claims that rapidly propagate in favor of the next “new thing.” While scholars often strive to debunk and dispel hype, Tanzanian technologists working in health care face a different challenge: navigating hype.
Tom Neumark
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