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The Anthropology of Epidemics

open access: yes, 2019
Over the past decades, infectious disease epidemics have come to increasingly pose major global health challenges to humanity. The Anthropology of Epidemics approaches epidemics as total social phenomena: processes and events which encompass and exercise

core   +1 more source

Osteohistology of two phorusrhacids reveals uninterrupted growth strategy

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Phorusrhacidae were apex predators that primarily dominated South America ecosystems for at least 40 million years with their imposing size and predatory lifestyle—yet some aspects of their biology remain poorly understood. Osteohistology is a tool for understanding growth dynamics and biomechanical adaptations.
Lotta Dreyer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comparing Nias Cultural Beliefs and Cyril’s Theological Anthropology

open access: yesEvangelikal: Jurnal Teologi Injili dan Pembinaan Warga Jemaat
This study seeks to enhance the quality of discipleship in churches based in Nias by contrasting Cyril of Jerusalem's theological anthropology with Nias' cultural conceptions of body and soul, with a particular emphasis on noso.
Hendi   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pelvic morphology and body size in relation to the preauricular sulcus: Evidence from medieval to modern Iberia

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The preauricular sulcus has long been debated as a pelvic feature variably attributed to obstetric stress, ligamentous traction, and broader biomechanical processes. To clarify its determinants, we analyzed 409 adult individuals from three archeological and one early modern skeletal collection from the Iberian Peninsula, integrating graded ...
Rebeca García‐González   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Religious ethics, Christianity, and war

open access: yesEtikk i Praksis: Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics, 2009
This article discusses elements within Christian ethics and anthropology that have ramifications for the ethics and laws of war. The author argues that several distinctively Christian conceptions of morality and of human beings contribute importantly to ...
Henrik Syse
doaj   +1 more source

To Be or Not to Be Part of the vita scaenica. Religious and Juridical Perspectives on the Status of Dancers and Performers in Late Antiquity

open access: yesMythos, 2021
Drawing on a letter from Late Antiquity explaining the difficulties experienced by a performer who recently converted to Christianity, the article explores the religious, juridical, and literary perspectives required to read this kind of source.
Donatella Tronca
doaj   +1 more source

Drivers of tail evolution in squamates and their implications for the fossorial origin of snakes

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The axial skeleton serves as the primary structural support in all vertebrates and is subdivided into five distinct regions: cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacral, and caudal. Relaxation of constraints acting on the terminal end of the axial skeleton has led to remarkable variation in caudal vertebrae number across Squamata.
Olivia Binfield   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Annual Report (Institute for Christian Studies)

open access: yes, 2023
Annual Report, Institute for Christian ...
Wehrle, Brenna   +4 more
core   +1 more source

EMERGING IN THE IMAGE OF GOD TO KNOW GOOD AND EVIL

open access: yesZygon, 2011
.  Found in the Primeval History in Genesis, the biblical concepts of the “image of God” and the “knowledge of good and evil” remain integral to Christian anthropology, especially with regard to the theologoumena of “fall” and “original sin.” All of ...
doaj   +2 more sources

Judging from the Inside

open access: yesSuomen Antropologi, 2022
Recent years have seen three monographs (and some anthologies) dealing with the relationship between theology or faith and sociocultural anthropology (referred to simply as “anthropology” from here onwards).
Mika Vähäkangas
doaj   +1 more source

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