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Bridging Worlds: Can Evidence, Regulation and Indigenous Leadership Shape the Future of Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine?

open access: yesThe International Journal of Health Planning and Management, Volume 41, Issue 6, Page 1381-1393, December 2026.
ABSTRACT Background and need As the WHO Global Traditional Medicine Strategy 2025–2034 encourages countries to consider integrating traditional, complementary and integrative medicine (TCIM) into health systems, there is a need to clarify the principal scientific, regulatory, ethical, and governance challenges involved. Renewed global attention to TCIM,
Abdul‐Basit Abdul‐Samed   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Toward an Indigenous Curatorial Practice: Learning From Tłı̨chǫ Metaphors of Care to Establish Principles of Curation

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 4, Page 792-808, December 2026.
ABSTRACT The displacement of items of cultural heritage from Indigenous communities is continually perpetuated through their appropriation into collection systems that are inappropriate to Indigenous laws and customs. This paper presents the efforts of the Tłı̨chǫ Government (TG) to address such issues by creating a system that is rooted within its ...
Rebecca L. Bourgeois, Karen Gelderman
wiley   +1 more source

When Humans Need Gods and Gods Need Humans: Prophetic Authority and Ritual Negotiation in Himachal Pradesh

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 4, Page 863-874, December 2026.
ABSTRACT In Himachal Pradesh, India, village deities act as political figures who play an active role in communal affairs, especially during periods of social change. Bakhan, an annual divination ritual in which these deities speak through human mediums, is a public event that offers forecasts and instructions. I argue that the bakhan is a social arena
Asaf Sharabi
wiley   +1 more source

Probing the Cosmological Principle with CMB lensing and cosmic shear [PDF]

open access: yes
The standard cosmological model assumes the Cosmological Principle. However, recent observations hint at possible violations of isotropy on large scales, possibly through latetime anisotropic expansion.
Roy Maartens, James Adam, Julien Larena
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Spacetime Foam and the Cosmological Constant

open access: yes, 2007
In the saddle point approximation, the Euclidean path integral for quantum gravity closely resembles a thermodynamic partition function, with the cosmological constant playing the role of temperature and the "density of topologies" acting as an
The Cosmological Constant   +2 more
core  

Rituals of writing otherwise

open access: yesAnthropology 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

Reconstruction of Rock Uplift in South‐Central Germany Since Late Mesozoic Times

open access: yesGeophysical Research Letters, Volume 53, Issue 21, 16 November 2026.
Abstract Rock uplift and denudation act as first‐order controls on geological processes that influence atmospheric and ocean composition, and landscape‐forming processes. However, estimating rock uplift rates remains challenging due to the temporal averaging of rates calculated from individual thermo‐ or geochronologic systems.
Thomas Bernard   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

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