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Studia Mythologica Slavica, 2014 The author of this paper analyses the sources of the early medieval Western Slavs that point to the existence of the beliefs that connected heads with the essence of the life – the spirit/soul, and considered the head as the most important part of the ...
Kamil Kajkowski
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Science, substance and spatial appearances [PDF]
, 2020 According to a certain kind of naïve or folk understanding of physical matter, everyday ‘solid’ objects are composed of a homogeneous, gap-less substance, with sharply defined boundaries, which wholly fills the space they occupy.
Raleigh, Thomas
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All the bedrooms a stage: Reconceptualizing sex as “performance” to sex as “rehearsal”
Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract In the United States, sex is often spoken about in terms of performance, and naturally invokes language of theatricality. Sexual performance has been used as an umbrella term to refer to sexual satisfaction, behavior, embodiment, and also pathology in terms of conditions such as erectile dysfunction.
Taylor Harmon
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The Hmong 'Dab Pog Couple' Story and its Significance in Arriving at an Understanding of Hmong Ritual [PDF]
Hmong Studies Journal, 2003 Many Hmong continue to believe in the efficacy, and commission the practice by shamans of, some of the more important traditional rituals, such as marriage rites (kab tshoob kev kos), "soul calling" (hu plig), healing rites (ua neeb or khaw koob ...
Dia Cha
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Narratives about Dreams which Foretell Death and Dying and Their Interpretation
Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2012 As in many others, in Serbian folk tradition a lot of attention is given to dreams which foretell death through the means of certain images and symbols, which should first be decoded in order to understand the prophesy.
Žarko Trebješanin
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Theories of understanding others: the need for a new account and the guiding role of the person model theory [PDF]
, 2018 What would be an adequate theory of social understanding? In the last decade, the philosophical debate has focused on Theory Theory, Simulation Theory and Interaction Theory as the three possible candidates. In the following, we look carefully at each of
Coninx, Sabrina, Newen, Albert
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Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores how Afro‐Brazilian communities in Pernambuco respond to state‐led industrial development through culturally rooted practices of resistance and repair. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in the coastal municipalities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, this study traces the effects of Brazil's large‐scale ...
Shelly Annette Biesel
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Dennett’s Theory of the Folk Theory of Consciousness [PDF]
, 2010 It is not uncommon to find assumptions being made about folk psychology in the discussions of phenomenal consciousness in philosophy of mind.
Sytsma, Justin
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Food Safety and Health, EarlyView.Psidium guajava leaves contain potent bioactive compounds like quercetin, myricetin, and triterpenoids that show antioxidant, antidiabetic, anti‐inflammatory, and anticancer effects. They act by modulating NF‐κB, PPARγ, and α‐glucosidase and by inducing apoptosis and cell cycle arrest.
Muhammad Waqar +10 more
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Ethnobiology Letters, 2012 Ethnobiological studies of local economic or folk religious uses of plants often rely on the assumption that plant use relates to folk knowledge about specific taxa.
Ingvar Svanberg
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