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Bali Healing Ritual in Sri Lanka from a Medical Ethnomusicology Perspective

open access: yesMuzikološki Zbornik, 2016
Medical ethnomusicology, a new growing sub-field of ethnomusicology takes into consideration on an equal basis music, medicine/healing and culture.
Lasanthi Manaranjanie Kalinga Dona
doaj   +1 more source

Historical implications of a linguistic environment - towards a systemic approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The aim of our project B6 “Towards a genesis of the ethnolinguistic situation at the southern and western fringes of lake Chad basin” within SFB 268 “West African Savannah” is to analyse the emergence and development of the complex presentday ...
Ibriszimow, Dymitr   +5 more
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Exploring micro-worlds of music meanings [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
A musical practice may have exclusive meanings shared only by some groups of people within a society. In fact, music has the capacity to create spaces for reserved communication between groups of individuals.
Macchiarella I
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Sing safety: Understanding South Sudanese protection strategies through song

open access: yesGlobal Policy, Volume 16, Issue 1, Page 150-160, February 2025.
Abstract We advocate for ethnomusicology—the critical study of the dialogical relationship between music and the contexts that define it—as one of the research approaches that humanitarians and peacekeepers should use to better understand civilians' self‐protection strategies during conflict.
Sylvia A. N. Nannyonga‐Tamusuza   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Safety of Strangers: The Realities and Politics of Protecting Civilians in Times of War

open access: yesGlobal Policy, Volume 16, Issue 1, Page 64-68, February 2025.
ABSTRACT Recent wars have brutally shown that civilians are not safe. This is despite high‐level global commitments and multi‐billion‐dollar humanitarian spending to keep civilian strangers protected. The high civilian death tolls in recent armed conflicts are prompting new questions about how and if we can protect civilians in times of war, and what ...
Naomi Pendle, Tom Kirk
wiley   +1 more source

Encoding Spatial Experience in Garhwali Popular Music Cassettes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Connections between particular sounds and geographically conceived places/spaces seems to be a recurrent part of many repertoires in different parts of the Himalaya. A number of examples exist in which ritual repertoires are linked to pilgrimage pathways,
Alter, Andrew B
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Toward Sustainable Biocultural Ecotourism: An Integrated Spatial Analysis of Cultural and Biodiversity Richness in Colombia

open access: yesPeople and Nature, Volume 7, Issue 1, Page 194-214, January 2025.
Abstract Ecotourism plays a vital role in both economic development and depending on the scale, it can also aid environmental conservation. Ecotourism planning often considers culture‐based and nature‐based tourism separately, failing to recognize the synergies between them, with the potential to market locations as biocultural destinations.
Alejandra Echeverri   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Peasant’s Interview with a Foreign Journalist by Predrag Milošević in relation to the question of socialist realism in Serbian music history [PDF]

open access: yesMuzikologija, 2016
Bearing in mind the position occupied by Yugoslav postwar music, in this article I review certain compositional strategies implemented by Predrag Milošević in his piece A Peasant’s Interview with a Foreign Journalist, by means of which this ...
Milojković Milan
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Academic Air Travel: Debates, Tensions and the Need for a Sociology of Science Perspective

open access: yesSociology Compass, Volume 18, Issue 11, November 2024.
ABSTRACT Traveling to conferences is a central feature of academic life. Yet recently, academic air travel has been called into question in the context of climate change, and the digital transformation has facilitated the spread of virtual alternatives to face‐to‐face meetings. The near‐total halt in air travel associated with the COVID‐19 pandemic has
Simone Rödder, Max Braun
wiley   +1 more source

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