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While death remains a popular topic for anthropology, relatively few ethnographic accounts consider the modern bureaucratic processes accompanying it. One such process is public health autopsy, which scholars have largely taken for granted. Existing analysis has regarded it as a form of ‘cultural brokering’ and autopsy reluctance in communities is seen,
David M.R. Orr
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Ubuntu as a blueprint: learning ethical transdisciplinarity from African indigenous knowledge systems. [PDF]
Gqaleni N, Foláyan MO.
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The contested dynamics of slum gentrification in Rio de Janeiro came into focus during the brief period of relative peace brought by the pacification policy leading up to the 2016 Olympics. In this unprecedented moment, Rio's South Zone favela residents experienced a respite from the daily confrontations with police operations and drug trade violence ...
Angela Torresan
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Pelvic dose accumulation accuracy in a CBCT based online adaptive radiotherapy system. [PDF]
Byrne M +7 more
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Democratic Alarmism: Coherent Notion or Contradiction in Terms?
Constellations, EarlyView.
James S. Pearson
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This article contributes to rethinking the dichotomy between informal sociality and ritual formality by examining the occasional ritual encounters surrounding spirit‐tablet inscription in Chinese Buddhist temples. Rather than viewing rituals as enactments of established orders, it presents ritual engagement as a contingent process of relational ...
Yang Shen
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Evaluating intra-fraction motion and its dosimetric impact in ethos online adaptive radiotherapy for prostate cancer. [PDF]
Sa Y +9 more
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Why do some women choose to submit to their husbands in marriage? In anthropology, the paradox of ‘chosen submission’ has famously been explored by Saba Mahmood. Her work amongst Egyptian women donning the veil in the Islamic da'wa movement spotlights the notion of ‘piety’ to explore how devotion to God can act as a powerful motivator of human ...
Naomi Richman
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Quality assurance of online adaptive radiotherapy workflows using film dosimetry in a 3D printed thorax anthropomorphic phantom. [PDF]
Hoffmans D +3 more
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