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What It Was Like, What Happened, What It Is Like Now: Liminal Spaces and the Pedagogy of Recovery
Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 2, Fall 2026.ABSTRACT Addiction recovery is frequently interpreted through biomedical or punitive frameworks that overlook its cultural, ritual, and pedagogical dimensions. This article offers a theoretical and interpretive analysis of peer‐led, meeting‐based recovery communities in North America, particularly those organized around mutual‐aid traditions such as ...
Patrick L. Pellett
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Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 2, Fall 2026.ABSTRACT The article examines the history of phonographic recordings from the Jesup North Pacific Expedition (1897–1902), a venture that shaped the methods of Siberian and Arctic anthropology for decades. The authors—a historical anthropologist, a curator, and an Indigenous Sakha scholar—trace how audio recordings made during the expedition have moved ...
Dmitry Arzyutov +2 more
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Nature on the Move III: (Re)countenancing an Animate Nature
New Proposals, 2013 Current market-based approaches to environmental governance for conservation and sustainability tend to disaggregate non-human natures into discrete units to which ‘value’ can attach, and release these new units into markets of circulating commodities so
Sian Sullivan
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Indigenous Metaphysics and Freudian Metapsychology
Critical HermeneuticsThis article resorts to some concepts formulated by the anthropologist Viveiros de Castro on indigenous metaphysics: perspectivism, multinaturalism, animism, cannibal otherness, and the analysis of the xapiri and shamanic work, implied by the Yanomami ...
Fernanda Silveira Corrêa
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New Advances in Cognitive Science of Religion
Religion Compass, Volume 20, Issue 5, September/October 2026.ABSTRACT The paper highlights a number of new developments in Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR): It discusses how recent approaches are more mindful of the influence of culture on religious cognition, put more focus on the social role of ritual behavior, and offer explanations for atheism.
Hans Van Eyghen
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ReligionsIn this paper, we reflect on difficulties connected with transitioning from one spiritual tradition to another. We consider Western New Animism, sometimes proposed as a remedy to the exploitative and anthropocentric values typical of Western Modernity ...
Ondřej Beran, Olli Lagerspetz
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The Soul of the Frog for a Postmodern Age
ZygonThe history of modern science bears abundant witness to the fact that the humble frog has yielded myriad insights into the intricacies of anatomy and physiology far beyond frogs, producing several Nobel laureates in the process.
Gordon Lynn Miller
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The Melancholic Animal — On Depression and Animality
Humanimalia, 2019 The phenomenon of depression fundamentally challenges common western ideas about what it means to be human, such as Cartesian distinctions between body and mind, and existing notions of rationality, autonomy and agency. Like madness more generally, melancholy and depression are historically shaped constructions, which interconnect at several points ...
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ZygonGlobal heating, brazen breakages of the Geneva convention, and what cognitive scientist and cultural philosopher John Vervaeke refers to as a “meaning crisis” haunt our global village.
Mark Juhan Schunemann
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Developing World Bioethics, Volume 26, Issue 3, Page 243-246, September 2026.
Henri‐Corto Stoeklé, Christian Hervé
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