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Narrative reconstruction of the self: Living funerals as rituals of trauma and transformation

The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract Living funerals mark a radical reconfiguration of contemporary engagements with mortality, transforming death from an imposed ending into an actively authored narrative. This study examines the practice in Hong Kong's hybrid sociocultural landscape, where traditional Chinese death rituals collide with neoliberal selfhood and globalised ...
Yuen‐Ki Tang
wiley   +1 more source

PSR, Modal Collapse, and Open Future in Ibn Sīnā's Philosophy

Theoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT It has been contended that the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR) implies necessitarianism—that is, the view that everything occurs out of necessity. Discussing a well‐known argument for this claim developed by contemporary metaphysicians, I show that Ibn Sīnā has anticipated a counterpart of this argument, and that is precisely why he is ...
Mohammad Saleh Zarepour
wiley   +1 more source

On the Coupling Between Cosmological Dynamics and Quantum Behavior: A Multiscale Thermodynamic Framework. [PDF]

Entropy (Basel)
Warkentin A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Leibniz on Compossibility: Towards a Neo‐Logical Interpretation

Theoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Leibniz's concept of compossibility explains why not all possible substances are actualised, thereby resisting Spinoza's necessitarianism. Yet, the precise basis of incompossibility remains unresolved. The influential ‘logical’ interpretation—exemplified by the Hintikka–D'Agostino thesis—locates incompossibility in contradictions among ...
Jun Young Kim
wiley   +1 more source

A Complex Tension Origin for Dilaton Gravity: Jordan Stiffness and Logarithmic Einstein Dynamics. [PDF]

Entropy (Basel)
Vaillant M, Scott TC.
europepmc   +1 more source

…And Breathe! Wellness, the Nation, and Holistic Reproductive Practitioners in India. [PDF]

Cult Med Psychiatry
Shetty A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Rituals of writing otherwise

Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 2, December 2026.
Abstract Drawing on theories of ritual as performative and transformative, this flash tip offers practical suggestions and examples for creating a ritual of writing otherwise, including companion texts, sensory and material cues to frame the ritual practice, writing collectively, and attitudes we might articulate and cultivate.
Madelyn Prevost
wiley   +1 more source

Formation time-scales for stellar bars in diverse galactic discs. [PDF]

Mon Not R Astron Soc
Frosst M, Obreschkow D, Ludlow A.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Affective Afterlife of the “Smelly Immigrant” Trope: Contested Scents, “Race,” and Olfactory Contact Zones in Berlin

City &Society, Volume 38, Issue 3, December 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper proposes the notion of “olfactory contact zones” to investigate the role of odors and scents and the affects they give rise to in Berlin's urban publics. Drawing on the notion of the “afterlife” of racialised violence, it shows how tropes of the “smelly immigrant,” anchored in European antisemitism and colonial history, live on ...
Claudia Liebelt
wiley   +1 more source

Isotropic fluid structures and role of non-metricity on their dynamics governed by an electric charge: A theoretical study. [PDF]

PLoS One
Naseer T, Sharif M, Waqas M, Andrade J, Emara A.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source