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Revealing Secrets: Talismans, Healthcare and the Market of the Occult in Early Twentieth-century China. [PDF]

Soc Hist Med, 2021
Bernardi Junqueira LF.
europepmc   +1 more source

Divine authority as divine parenthood

Religious Studies
Abstract In this article, I argue that God is authoritative over us because he is our divine, causal parent. As our causal parent, God has duties to relate to us, but he can only fulfil those duties if he has the practical authority to give us commands aimed at our sanctification.
openaire   +1 more source

Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
wiley   +1 more source

When Rituals Fail: Rationalization, Bayesianism, and Predictive Processing. [PDF]

Evol Anthropol
Hong Z.
europepmc   +1 more source

Le Classique des mutations (Yijing) comme outil psychologique dans le monde francophone contemporain : de la divination à la connaissance de soi

, 2017
Jean-François Jutras
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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
wiley   +1 more source

Divination of the panatta'

Horst Liebner, Chiara Zazzaro
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Perspectives on health, illness, disease and management approaches among Baganda traditional spiritual healers in Central Uganda. [PDF]

PLOS Glob Public Health
Sekagya YHK, Muchunguzi C, Unnikrishnan P, Mulogo EM.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

CONSULTANCY STATE: Government as (a) Service and the Anti‐politics of Technological Expertise in Indian Cities

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses ideas of ‘good governance through technology’ in India that first emerged from the software industry, symbolizing state support for the ‘new middle‐class’ values of liberalized private enterprise. We suggest that the contemporary prominence of consulting firms in government represents a second transformation that embeds ...
Matt Birkinshaw, Sanjay Srivastava
wiley   +1 more source

The Rhetoric of Disenchantment: Ghost Belief and Secular Critique in Early Twentieth-Century China. [PDF]

Cogn Sci
Hong Z, Chen Y.
europepmc   +1 more source