Pluriversal Terrain: Rethinking More‐Than‐Human Borders in the Himalaya
Area, Volume 58, Issue 4, December 2026.ABSTRACT In the Himalaya, border‐making, as a key territorial practice, is entangled with terrain, necessitating a more‐than‐human understanding of borders. The Himalayan terrain actively shapes geopolitical borderlands, while also being understood within certain Indigenous ontologies as the abode of deities whose power is revered and invoked through ...
Yanzheng Li
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Return to Nature: Sacred Plants in the Azerin Funerary Rite of Candomblé Nação Angola. [PDF]
Plants (Basel)Azevedo TS, Ramos YJ, Silva NCBD.
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European Journal of Education, Volume 61, Issue 4, December 2026.ABSTRACT Although the proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) and digital tools has facilitated AI‐enhanced and informal digital learning of English, traditional classroom ecology remains a central context for adolescent English‐as‐a‐foreign‐language (EFL) learners' language learning and development.
Gongwei Guo, Zhaoqi Tang, Honggang Liu
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Residents Face Severe Environmental Health Risks amid the Spiritual Happiness during the Spring Festival: An Evidence from Rural Northern China. [PDF]
Environ Health (Wash)Gao Z +11 more
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European Journal of Education, Volume 61, Issue 4, December 2026.ABSTRACT This article explores the evolving construction of good citizenship in Hong Kong, particularly in the context of significant socio‐political changes following the implementation of the National Security Law in 2020. By analysing government documents and endorsed curricula, the study identifies a shift from previously diverse interpretations of
Jason Cong Lin
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Does believing in different types of religion affect subjective wellbeing? Analysis of the public data of the Taiwan Social Change Survey. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2022 Ding Y, Huo W, Jin Y.
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, 2017 本文以中國傳統家祭為中心，探討祭祖活動中必不可少的受祭象徵物。就樣式類型而言，既有先秦貴族宗廟奠定的「立主」傳統，亦有中古代「尸」而興的「像設」之道。「神主」源自先秦古禮，最具正宗主流的代表性，甚至廣為東亞文化圈共同採用；「像設」則包括立體雕塑與平面繪畫，一般而言畫多於塑，故本文標舉「懸影」加以突顯。「主」、「影」二者長期並行於世，形成晚近民間「神主牌」與「祖先畫」兩存的現象。其次就歷史流變而言，繼先秦喪、祭置「重」、立「主」、設「尸」，秦漢之際「尸廢像興」，東來像教(佛教）進一步促成「影祭」、「影堂 ...
彭美玲, Peng, M.L.
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Bridging Geomythology and Geospatial Analysis for Flood Risk Assessment in Tamil Nadu
Journal of Flood Risk Management, Volume 19, Issue 4, December 2026.ABSTRACT The need for more holistic and context‐aware approaches to flood‐risk assessment has become increasingly urgent with extreme climate change events faced globally. Modern models overlook the long‐term environmental knowledge incorporated in ancient literature, myths, and cultural memory as they rely primarily on hydrological and geospatial ...
Shrishti Kushwah +3 more
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The role of Chinese folk ritual music in biodiversity conservation: an ethnobiological perspective from the Lingnan region. [PDF]
J Ethnobiol EthnomedLiu Y, Song Y.
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Sensitivity and specificity of conventional and new face validation in determining the incomprehensible items by older people: Empirical evidence of testing 106 quality-of-life items. [PDF]
Aging Med (Milton), 2023 Lam SC +5 more
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