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Animism in Rainforest and Tundra: Personhood, Animals, Plants and Things in Contemporary Amazonia and Siberia (Book Review) [PDF]

, 2013
Animism is a form of traditional spiritual belief that receives welcome treatment here. The observations of Victorian ethnologist travellers on the local peoples they regarded as primitive was analysed by Sir Edward (E.
Bigger, Stephen
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Haunted Care: Engaging Health Hauntology to Understand Health Citizenship in Evolving Welfare States

Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper applies a hauntological framework to explore how health citizenship in the UK is shaped by the spectral presence of neoliberal policies, particularly through increased use of Public‐Private Partnerships (PPPs) in the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS).
Anna Horton
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The history of present challenges of Experimental Physiology

Revista Habanera de Ciencias Médicas, 2017
Experimental physiology is a science with a bulk of results, publications, scientific societies, institutions and Nobel Prize. Nevertheless Physiology face some challenges such as: animistic conceptions, preformative ideas, research control regulations ...
Nibaldo Hernández Mesa
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Sensible Quantum Mechanics: Are Probabilities only in the Mind? [PDF]

, 1995
Quantum mechanics may be formulated as {\it Sensible Quantum Mechanics} (SQM) so that it contains nothing probabilistic except conscious perceptions. Sets of these perceptions can be deterministically realized with measures given by expectation values of
Page, Don N.
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Phantasmic Encounters in the Arctic: Haunting Materialities Beyond the Ghosts of War

Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT In the vast north, ghostly experiences are common for locals and outsiders alike. Here, we explore how cultural‐natural attributes, like remoteness and extreme seasonal variation, compound experiences of the haunting in visceral ways. This provides the Arctic region with an unusually pronounced baseline of other‐than‐human agency, which in the
Aki Hakonen, Oula Seitsonen
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Scientific Ritual: The Institutional Review Boards for Human Clinical Trials in Israel

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Volume 40, Issue 1, March 2026.
Abstract This ethnographic study analyzes Israeli Institutional Review Boards (IRBs’) main practices and discourses. I describe IRB operations as bureaucratic rituals derived from idealized scientific values, with physician‐scientist members serving as gatekeepers who perform boundary work to preserve professional independence.
Hedva Eyal
wiley   +1 more source

Le parti pris des choses : sur quelques apories onto-épistémiques du New Materialism

Socio-anthropologie
The theoretical movement known as New Materialism, which emerged in the early 2000s, saw not only the return of ontology, but also the affirmation of a materialism in which all oppositions and contradictions would dissolve.
Charles Wolfe
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Animism rather than Shamanism: new approaches to what shamans do (for other animists)

, 2010
What shamans do is sometimes said to involve possession by spirits. However, shamanism has also been defined in opposition to spirit possession.
Harvey, Graham
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‘Do You Really Want to Live Forever?’: Animism, Death, and the Trouble of Digital Images [PDF]

, 2018
This essay examines two works of video art to think through the apparent ‘immortality’ of recorded data and digital images, along with the use of ‘animism’ as a framework to describe the ‘liveliness’ of objects in recent cultural theory.
Bollmer, Grant, Guinness, Katherine
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Religion and Official Politics in Contemporary China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan

Religion Compass, Volume 20, Issue 2, March/April 2026.
ABSTRACT With increasing discussions on political deification and the official references to traditional religions in the People's Republic of China (PRC), recent debates on the PRC's alleged infiltration over Taiwan elections through the goddess Mazu, and the post‐Handover government's emphasis on filiality to China in Hong Kong, it is high time to ...
Ting Guo
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