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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 Hermeneutics
This 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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The Soul of the Frog for a Postmodern Age

Zygon
The 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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‘Unhappy Lovers’? Difficulties of Spiritual Transition and the Case of Environmentalist ‘New Animism’

Religions
In 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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Tuning into Meaning and Dropping Out of Crisis—Meaning What Exactly? Psychedelics and the Meaning Crisis

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Global 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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Women's wellness in the mountains: An exploration of medicinal plants among tibeto-burman groups in Thailand. [PDF]

Heliyon, 2023
Inta A, Kampuansai J, Kutanan W, Srikummool M, Pongamornkul W, Srisanga P, Panyadee P.   +6 more
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Animal agency, animal awareness and animal welfare

Animal Welfare, 2019
AbstractIn nature, animals need to actively engage with the environment in order to prosper in survival and reproduction. Hence, agency is a central adaptive characteristic of animal life. In this paper, I propose that from the adaptive/functional point of view, four levels of agency can be distinguished, namely passive/reactive agency (animal being ...
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Death, Reincarnation and Rebirth of BJDs

Religions
Ball-Jointed Doll (BJD) is a category of dolls that are exclusively collected by adult doll collectors. These fully articulated and customizable dolls possess a distinctively significant place in the collector’s life.
Alisha Saikia
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"It kinda has like a mind": Children's and parents' beliefs concerning viral disease transmission for COVID-19 and the common cold. [PDF]

Cognition, 2023
Labotka D, Gelman SA.
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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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