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Geopower, Geos and the Colonisation of Palestine

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While the majority of geographical work on colonialism in Palestine centres on territory and land, this article foregrounds geopower and geos in the making of spatial relations. Three arguments are made over three corresponding sections. The first draws on recent writing on geopower and geos (primarily that by Elizabeth Grosz, Elizabeth ...
Mark Griffiths
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How the Body Gets Healthy: An Empirical Case of Animism and Naturalism Working Together in the Treatment of Disease Among the Nuosu People of Southwest China

open access: yesReligions
This paper examines perceptions of illness and related therapeutic practices observed among the Nuosu, an ethnic minority group of Southwest China. The paper will discuss the interplay between animism and naturalism in the treatment of Nuosu illness ...
Qian Sun, Ximing Xue, Chen Chen
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Amerindian Cosmologies and European Prehistoric Cave Art: Reasons for and Usefulness of a Comparison

open access: yesArts, 2013
Several anthropological studies conducted in recent years among different Native American cultures have revealed a series of common features in ontological premises and cosmological frameworks.
Enrico Comba
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Restoring Relational Balance: Family Therapy Through the CAT‐FAWN Indigenous Lens

open access: yesAustralian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, Volume 47, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This article introduces the mnemonic, CAT‐FAWN. CAT stands for Concentration‐Activated Transformation as a tool for family therapy that emphasises trance‐based learning and self‐hypnosis mastery. FAWN refers to contrasting understandings of pre‐colonial and dominant worldview precepts that relate to Fear, Authority, Words and Nature. It offers
Don Four Arrows Jacobs
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Otherworldly Relations in CAM Practice

open access: yesTemenos, 2021
The globalizing culture of health and wellbeing flourishes both as demand and supply, posing multiple intriguing and critical questions both to the individuals who face distress and suffering and to the surrounding society.
Terhi Utriainen
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Interrogating the Rhodes Must Fall Student Protests Through Fanonian Sociogeny: A Psychosocial Analysis of Historical Trauma and Political Violence in Postapartheid South Africa

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, Volume 23, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This article employs Frantz Fanon's sociogenic method to analyze the MustFall# student protest movement as an illustration of the psychic afterlife of colonialism in postapartheid South Africa. Fanon's sociogeny, which locates the formation of subjectivity in the reciprocal interplay between the psychic and the political, offers a framework ...
Veeran Naicker
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Techno-animism or the Magical Existence of Technical Objects

open access: yesInternational Journal of Film and Media Arts, 2021
If, on the one hand, the classic notion of artefact presupposes inert objects and a reliability between the user and the uses that can be extracted from the objects, on the other hand, it is recognized a suspicion that technical objects and their ...
Manuel Bogalheiro
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Kinship through code, personhood as node: AI afterlives and new technologies of the self Parenté par le code, personne nodale : vie posthume dans l'IA et nouvelles technologies du moi

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 150-166, March 2026.
This article examines how emerging generative AI technologies in Europe and North America are being used to reanimate the dead, prompting users to define the ‘edges’ of self and personhood through coding practices. These technologies invite new engagements with fundamental questions of relatedness and the construction of the self, challenging and ...
Jennifer Cearns
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Hybrid beasts of the Nordic Bronze Age

open access: yesDanish Journal of Archaeology, 2018
During the Nordic Bronze Age (NBA), hybrid beasts contributed to cosmological and mythical narratives on the main media of metal and rock. These hybrids are composed of body parts from particular animals – including bull, bird, snake, horse and human ...
Laura Ahlqvist, Helle Vandkilde
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