ABSTRACT This article examines why the Kurdish Freedom Movement has adopted ecological struggle as a foundational pillar in its politics of decolonisation and the reclamation of autonomy. Framed within the context of colonial and ecocidal developmentalism, the research analyses how policies initiated during the Ottoman Empire and perpetuated by Turkish
Necmettin Türk
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Kin selection favors religious traditions: ancestor worship as a cultural descendant-leaving strategy. [PDF]
Stucky K, Gardner A.
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The Scholar Imprisoned: Young‐Bok Shin's Decolonial Thought Against (Sub) Imperialisms in East Asia
ABSTRACT This article reads Young‐Bok Shin (1941–2016) as a decolonial thinker who theorized transformative worldmaking from the standpoint of the oppressed, rooted in the historical experiences of East Asia. Against the (sub)imperial “logic of sameness” that structures colonial modernity in his social world, Shin advances gongbu (studying) as a ...
Veda Hyunjin Kim
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Worked human bones and the rise of urban society in the neolithic Liangzhu culture, East Asia. [PDF]
Sawada J +18 more
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Veneration of relics through the eyes of Thomas Aquinas
Part 1 of 2, lecture on Aquinas' theology of relic veneration, and the journey of his own ...
ten Klooster, Anton; id_orcid
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The Rurikids: The First Experience of Reconstructing the Genetic Portrait of the Ruling Family of Medieval Rus' Based on Paleogenomic Data. [PDF]
Zhur KV +8 more
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Abstract This manuscript documents a systematic ethnomycological analysis of ethnographic archives. Focusing on texts describing human–fungi interactions, I conduct a global, cross‐cultural review of mushroom use, covering 193 societies worldwide. The study reveals diverse mushroom‐related cultural practices, emphasizing the significance of fungi ...
Roope O. Kaaronen
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Preserving cultural heritage: A community-centric approach to safeguarding the Khulubvi Traditional Temple Malawi. [PDF]
Banda LOL +3 more
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The orphaned orchard in Crimea, the dead poets, and the persistence of Ukrainian cultural legacy
Abstract This essay draws from the author's personal experiences to examine how forgetting and remembering operate in Ukrainian society following the totalitarian era, particularly under the ongoing full‐scale Russian invasion. It draws on ideas from Paul Connerton, Alexander Etkind, and Tamara Hundorova regarding memory and the effects of violence on ...
Julia Buyskykh
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The Divine in the Clinic: Assisted Reproduction and Religious Practice in Ghana and South Africa. [PDF]
Whittaker A, Gerrits T, Manderson L.
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