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Mourning Glaciers: Animism Reconsidered through Ritual and Sensorial Relationships with Mountain Entities in the Alps

open access: yesHumans, 2023
The transformation due to climate change of the high Alpine mountains is intensifying. A real disruption in the perception of this milieu and in the ways of interacting with it is ongoing, as evidenced by recent funeral ceremonies organised for ...
Jean Chamel
doaj   +1 more source

Interpreting Barth's Eschatology: An Eco‐Theological Reappraisal

open access: yesInternational Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Critical eco‐theologians do not consider Karl Barth's theology of creation helpful in addressing the contemporary ecological crisis. In this article, I explore a way to interpret Barth's theology that could lead to a fruitful eco‐theological perspective.
Othniël de Jong
wiley   +1 more source

Animal cognition

open access: yesWIREs Cognitive Science, 2010
AbstractThe main topics in the study of animal cognition are reviewed with special reference to direct links to human, and in particular developmental, cognitive sciences. The material is organized with regard to the general idea that biological organisms would be endowed with a small set of separable systems of core knowledge, a prominent hypothesis ...
G. Vallortigara   +4 more
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On Animism [PDF]

open access: yesPerformance Research, 2019
No abstract available.
Twitchin, Mischa, Lavery, Carl
openaire   +2 more sources

“A Person's God Should Look Like Them”: African Traditional Religions Among Black Queer Millennials and Gen Z Americans

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How are young Black Americans practicing spirituality contemporarily? Today younger generations of Black Americans are more likely than older Black Americans to identify as religiously unaffiliated or as practicing a non‐Christian faith. Drawing on 109 interviews with Black Millennial and Gen Z Americans, I examine how some of these younger ...
Terrell J. A. Winder
wiley   +1 more source

All in the family: Kidney donation in aging Japan

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the ethical and cultural logics shaping living donor kidney transplantation in Japan, where donation is restricted to kin and deceased donation remains rare. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a Tokyo‐area hospital, it analyzes how Japan's kin‐based transplantation regime contrasts with the utilitarian model dominant in
Amy Borovoy
wiley   +1 more source

Dancing Ambiguity: Nora and the Politics of Cultural Nationalisation in Southern Thailand

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines Nora, a traditional dance‐drama from southern Thailand, through its designation as UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage (2021) and the Thai government's recognition of its performers as National Artists (2018, 2021). It situates these actions within Thailand's cultural nationalisation.
Goeun Kim
wiley   +1 more source

The Return of the Windigo, Again

open access: yesSemiotic Review, 2015
This article continues the discussion of “And Some Guys Dream Bad Things”: Part I in this issue, an unreconstructed structural reading of the Algonquian windigo.
Robert Brightman
doaj   +1 more source

Social characteristics of animals as perceived by residents of the medieval Volga region

open access: yesУченые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки, 2020
Using theoretical developments in the field of anthropology of nature, the problem of perception of social bonds in beavers and other animals by residents of the Volga region was considered.
D.V. Puzanov
doaj   +1 more source

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