The flamboyance of things: Handmade material culture in new-wave carnival in New Orleans. [PDF]
J Mater CultKelly BA, Radice M.
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, 2014 The concept of celebrity culture remains remarkably undertheorized in the literature, and it is precisely this gap that this article aims to begin filling in. Starting with media culture definitions, celebrity culture is conceptualized as collections of sense-making practices whose main resources of meaning are celebrity.
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Induced abortion in the world: 3. In search of a minimum common ground
International Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, EarlyView.Abstract The rising worldwide trend toward legalization of termination of pregnancy has been accompanied by increased polarization around abortion. Two opposite broad coalitions emerged from this confrontation, generally known as the “pro‐life” and “pro‐choice” movements. The basic issue for pro‐life advocates is that the protection of “innocent, human
Giuseppe Benagiano +4 more
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Return to Nature: Sacred Plants in the Azerin Funerary Rite of Candomblé Nação Angola. [PDF]
Plants (Basel)Azevedo TS, Ramos YJ, Silva NCBD.
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Turning Down Mum's Cooking: The Ethics of Dietary Difference within Families
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Although food ethicists have called for greater attention to the relational context of eating for over a decade, the context of ‘eating with family’ remains largely ignored. But the family is both a morally specific relational context and one within which many people do most of their eating.
Megan A. Dean
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Narrative Co-Evolution in Hybrid Social Networks: A Longitudinal Computational Analysis of Confucius Institutes. [PDF]
Entropy (Basel)Huang M, Wang JL, Zhang ZK.
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The We‐Relationship as a Key to Addressing Dementia‐Related Ambiguous Loss
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Pauline Boss describes the challenges faced by people caring for family members with dementia in terms of ambiguous loss – a condition in which the physical presence of the person with dementia coexists with their psychological absence. This article proposes the concept of we‐relationship as a key to addressing dementia‐related ambiguous loss.
Takuya Niikawa, Xue Li
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How cultural beliefs and rituals may help alleviate grief and despair: a four-dimensional framework. [PDF]
Front SociolPhan HP, Ngu BH, Chen SC, Hsu CS.
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Membership‐Making in Diverse Societies: Revisiting the Idea of Society as a Common Possession
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The traditional aim of Western social democracy has been to create a society that is a ‘common possession’ of its members (in T.H. Marshall's words). Social democratic politics has therefore been both society‐making and membership‐making, orienting people to a shared society as an object of attachment and loyalty, and nurturing membership ...
Will Kymlicka
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Examining the American mindset on community well-being: insights from a national survey. [PDF]
BMC Public HealthWarren May L +4 more
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