Dancing Ambiguity: Nora and the Politics of Cultural Nationalisation in Southern Thailand
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
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Associations between plant-based dietary patterns and risks of cognitive impairment and dementia: A systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis. [PDF]
Tsai JH +12 more
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ABSTRACT How should we understand the duration of a pleasant or unpleasant sensation, insofar as its duration modulates how good or bad the experience is overall? Given that we seem able to distinguish between subjective and objective duration and that how well or badly someone's life goes is naturally thought of as something to be assessed from her ...
Andreas L. Mogensen
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Association Between the Combined Herbal Medicines and Risk of Dental Diseases in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis: Insight from a Nationwide Database. [PDF]
Ling CH +5 more
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Mindful and Intuitive Eating: A Bibliometric Analysis of Research Trends From 2004 to 2024
ABSTRACT Introduction Excessive body weight and problematic eating behaviors are major public health concerns. Mindful eating and intuitive eating offer alternative approaches to dieting by encouraging individuals to focus on internal hunger and satiety cues.
Mengying Zhang +4 more
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Inducing Lucid Dreaming Based on a Contemplative Practice of Compassion. [PDF]
Morris DJ +11 more
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Scents of care: Multispecies relations in Pakistan's heatwave
Abstract This article examines how odour, intensified by heat, shapes the sensory aspects of social and multispecies relations in Pakistan. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Kasur's tanneries and Lahore's animal shelters during a period of record‐breaking heat, it analyses how smell structures inclusion and exclusion, mediates encounters with humans
Muhammad A. Kavesh
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When does the story end? Presence, the present and ‘the contemporary world’
Abstract We write and read ethnography in the wake of time passing: a fact that has long thrown up a host of epistemological and ethical issues for the doing of anthropology. In this essay I revisit this classic problem—the problem of the ethnographic present—asking what happens when we rethink the relationship between ‘the present’ and ‘presence’, the
Michael Edwards
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The anthropomorphization of AI and the concept of Buddhist compassion in human-machine interaction. [PDF]
Miao F.
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