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The Crisis of Expertise in Schooling: An Ethnography of Parents as Educators in Israeli Alternative Schools

Anthropology &Education Quarterly, Volume 57, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Expertise in schooling is shaped by the global crisis of expertise, the contested nature of teaching as a profession, and contemporary middle‐class parenting norms. The paper examines these influences by presenting cases of parents who became educators in alternative schools in Israel.
Amit Rottman, Deborah Golden
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Avanços nas pesquisas etnobotânicas no Brasil Advances in ethnobotany research in Brazil

Acta Botânica Brasílica, 2009
A Etnobotânica moderna é produto de mudanças históricas ocorridas dentro e fora da academia. O trabalho buscou traçar a trajetória dessa disciplina e suas tendências no Brasil. Para tal foi realizado um levantamento dos trabalhos, no período de 1968-2007,
Flávia Camargo de Oliveira, Ulysses Paulino de Albuquerque, Viviane Stern da Fonseca-Kruel, Natalia Hanazaki   +3 more
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Critical Research Spaces as Scholarship: an Ethnography Lab as an Apparatus for the Experimental, the Imaginary, and the Relational

American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 3, Page 469-479, September 2026.
ABSTRACT The creation of critical research spaces, such as ethnography labs, studios, and other collaborative research environments, requires attention and attunement in anthropology to focus on the kinds of imaginative and generative spaces where creative ethnographic research can unfold as scholarship.
Fiona P. McDonald
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Water Beings and Capitalist Relations in India's Sundarbans Delta

American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 3, Page 595-606, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This article explores entanglements between water cosmologies and capitalist transformation in the Sundarbans delta of West Bengal, India. It traces how “awakened” tidal creeks have been iteratively enclosed as private fisheries from the colonial period to the present, with particular focus on the expansion of commercial aquaculture over the ...
Calynn Dowler
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Conhecimento e utilização de plantas medicinais por comunidades de pescadores do município de Itapoá - SC [PDF]

, 2008
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciências Biológicas. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia VegetalA etnobotânica procura descrever e analisar as relações existentes entre os seres humanos e os recursos vegetais,
Merétika, Adriana Heindrickson Cunha
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The Unbecoming Ghost: Spectropolitics in the Making and Unmaking of BHU's Bhoot Vidya Ayurveda Certificate Program

Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 2, Fall 2026.
ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
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When Urgency Drops: Temporal Consciousness and the Choreography of Dying

Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 2, Fall 2026.
ABSTRACT In the hospital, the transition from fighting for life to preparing for death involves not only a shift in medical repertoires but also a profound transformation in temporal experience. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a Canadian intensive care unit, this article examines how the tempo of care, its rhythms, urgencies, and pauses shapes ...
Louise Chartrand
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On 3‐MMC: A Cathinone I Have Come to Know and Love

Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 2, Fall 2026.
ABSTRACT This article attempts to complicate the mythology of a compound in a state of becoming. I will trace lightly its origins as a cultural disruptor and how I am implicated in this imperative. Introducing you to 3‐MMC will require multiple modes of storytelling and taking of liberties, drawing on literature reviews, practice‐based research, prose,
Carmen Ostrander
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Ethnobotany and traditional knowledge in the Northeastern Portugal: Past and present plant use and management.

, 2010
Resumo publicado da comunicação oral apresentada no painel Portuguese Ethnobotany do VIII International Ethnobotany Symposium, Lisboa, PortugalTraditional plant use was/is largely based on a rich and diverse wild flora existing in the Portuguese north ...
Ramos, Margarida Telo, Carvalho, Ana Maria   +1 more
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Where the Magician Lives: An Ontological Problem in the Anthropology of Magic

Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 2, Fall 2026.
ABSTRACT The purpose of the present study is to outline a theoretical framework in which the anthropologist can introduce a naturalistic approach, which will not be conflicted with scientific discourses, into his ethnographic work. First of all, I argue that the principles of magic can be understood as a part of social cognitive causal chains, based on
Keishi Okamoto
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