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ReligionsThis 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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Études Britanniques Contemporaines, 2020 An aspect of Iris Murdoch’s ethics, situated in her environmental imagination, appears to date to have been largely overlooked. Concern about the climate crisis and its impact on our natural world posits an ethical debate that offers quite different ...
Lucy Oulton
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Animal Memory and Animal Welfare
Animal Welfare, 2001 AbstractRetrieved memories of emotionally laden events are likely to influence the ongoing emotional state and behaviour of animals. If animals consciously experience memories and/or associated emotions, then recall of aversive or pleasurable events will affect their welfare. Even if they do not, retrieval of these (non-conscious/implicit) memories may
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Can a good death occur for those who balance on the edges of grievability? In Bali, where death marks a transition within the cycles of reincarnation, a good death depends on the mortuary care performed by intimate others – care that may be foreclosed to those whose lives are shaped by stigma.
Sylvia Tidey
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, 2019 Animism is a particular sensibility and way of relating to various beings in the world. It involves attributing sentience to other beings that may include persons, animals, plants, spirits, the environment, or even items of technology, such as cars ...
Swancutt, Katherine Anne
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Amerindian Cosmologies and European Prehistoric Cave Art: Reasons for and Usefulness of a Comparison
Arts, 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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Spendemic: Japan’s Marketing of Mythical Creatures and the Business of Selling Hope
IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies, 2022 With their roots in animism and Shintōism, Japan’s mythical creatures known as yōkai have been feared, revered, and used to explain calamities or inexplicable phenomena.
Antonija Cavcic
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The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
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World Heritage Sites, storytelling, the non-human and new animism
, 2023 The Durham World Heritage Site annual lecture. The lecture to practitioners and academics uncovered the intersections between heritage, storytelling, new animism, non-human persons and light.
Lovell, J.
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Sustaining fecundity: artistic creation as care for life
Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2023 Art is as old as human culture. For most of the time, art was part of an exchange between humans and the cosmic order. Art was meant as a gift to nourish the fecundity of life.
Andreas Weber
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