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‘They Are Properties of the Deity, Not Sentient’: Unfolding the Tibetan Buddhist Concept of Plant-Hood

Religions
This article explores the concept of ‘Tibetan Buddhist plant-hood’ within the doctrinal and ethnographic contexts of Tibetan Buddhism, proposing it as a framework to understand the karma-intricate relationships between plants, sentient beings, and ...
Bo Yang, Phuntsok Wangden
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Public Anthropology in the United States and Indonesia

Humaniora, 2019
This paper discusses the development of public anthropology in the United States and Indonesia. Drawing on literature reviews and archive studies, this article argues that public anthropology needs to be considered as a pragmatic strategy to elevate the ...
Imam Subkhan
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ANTHROPOLOGY & MODERN LIFE

, 2004
Transaction introduction -- Preface -- I. What is anthropology? -- II. The problem of race -- III. The interrelation of races -- IV. Nationalism -- V. Eugenics -- VI. Criminology -- VII. Stability of culture -- VIII. Education -- IX.
Boas, Franz
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Anthropology of the Middle East: An Overview [PDF]

, 2017
This is a review of Soraya Altorki's edited volume, "A Companion to the Anthropology of the Middle East," 2015. This review assesses the chapters in this volume with respect to the past, present, and the future of the ...
Fazel, Solaiman M
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Anthropology of a Chinese metropolis [PDF]

, 1997
Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-331).Introduction: the anthropology of contemporary Hong Kong / Grant Evans & Maria Tam -- Hong Kong ethnicity: of folk models and change / Gregory Eliyu Guldin -- Back to the future: herbal tea shops in Hong ...
Evans, Grant, 1948, Tam, Maria
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Una passeggiata letteraria lungo le strade dell’Appennino. Con un racconto inedito di Marco Santagata

DNA Di Nulla Academia
This contribution proposes a critical reading of some prose works of twentieth-century Italian literature set in the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines. In the logic of linking the stories and novels to the territory, in a historical, cultural and sociological ...
Alberto Di Franco
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Peran Antroplogi Bagi Studi Islam

Analisis, 2018
This understanding makes Islamic studies less developed and unable to reach the religious practices of Muslims themselves. This article aims to describe the contribution of anthropology in Islamic studies. This article is a literature review by analyzing
Nurhasanah Leni
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Clowns in Anthropology

Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society, 2008
Clowns are exhilarating and disturbing, funny and frightening. They are ambiguous and confusing, yet capable of skilled disarranging and rearranging of our meaningful contexts. They can be found in rituals and courts as well as theaters and the circus. The clown is related to the trickster, who exists in stories and myths.
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‘Anthropological mutilation’ and the reordering of Cameroonian literature

Tydskrif vir letterkunde, 2016
I argue in this article that the postcolonial existential wound, otherwise referred to by Eboussi Boulaga as the anthropological mutilation, represents the intertextual nexus that bridges the generational gap in Francophone Cameroonian literature. The tragic malaise, rooted in absurdity and the dire state of the postcolonial condition, echoes anxieties
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In the name of the tourist : landscape, heritage, and social change in Chinchero [PDF]

, 2015
This thesis examines social change in the Quechua-speaking town of Chinchero (Peru), located 30 km away from the city of Cuzco. It does so by studying the conditions created by touristic development in the Region. It is an ethnography that builds on, and
García Bengoechea, Pablo, Garcia, Pablo
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