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Tongue Twisters and Local Beliefs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
O rgyan dban phyugs provides examples of tongue twisters and discusses local folk beliefsThis collection of 77 audio files focuses on weddings and weddings speeches but also contains: folk tales, folk songs, riddles, tongue twisters, and local history ...
Bkra shis bzang po
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All the bedrooms a stage: Reconceptualizing sex as “performance” to sex as “rehearsal”

open access: yesFeminist 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
wiley   +1 more source

A Folk Story of a Frog [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The respondent tells a story of a frog becoming a man.The fifty one audio and nine video files in this collection include: villages’ life stories, circle-dancing songs and performance, local history, folk tales, and interviews from Siyuewu Village ...
G.yu lha
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Cheia de axé (full of axé): Spirituality, resistance, and repair in Pernambuco's Afro‐Brazilian traditional communities

open access: yesFeminist 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
wiley   +1 more source

Sman shad Dance Song 3 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Dance songs participants sing as they dance in a circle. They do not have any musical instruments to accompany their dancing. The songs are high pitched and tuneful, with irregular rhythmsThis collection presents forty-nine audio files including: several
Zla ba sgrol ma
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Integrating General and Vocational Education to Sustain and Renew Traditional Chinese Culture: A Case Study of Chongqing Three Gorges Vocational College

open access: yesFuture in Educational Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how a Chinese higher vocational college can align skills training with the inheritance and innovative development of fine traditional Chinese culture. Grounded in perspectives that view vocational education as cultural transmission and identity work and informed by the lenses of general‐vocational integration and ...
Yuchang Xu   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Folk Song [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Zher lo sings a song normally sung at parties, picnics, and singing competitions.The fifty one audio and nine video files in this collection include: villages’ life stories, circle-dancing songs and performance, local history, folk tales, and interviews
G.yu lha
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Recent Perspectives on Phytochemical Profile, Pharmacological Activities, and Industrial Applications of Guava (Psidium guajava)

open access: yesFood 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
wiley   +1 more source

An Interview About Encountering a Ghost [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Cangs go lo provides a personal account of an encounter with a ghost.The fifty one audio and nine video files in this collection include: villages’ life stories, circle-dancing songs and performance, local history, folk tales, and interviews from ...
G.yu lha
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From Parallel Provision to Health System Integration: Exploring the Trajectory and Contextual Drivers of the Healthcare Response for Refugees in Six Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries

open access: yesThe International Journal of Health Planning and Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rising numbers of refugees, prolonged displacement and reduced funding have led to challenges in terms of how to address their healthcare needs, with different approaches taken, ranging from parallel mechanisms to arrangements that are integrated (to different extents) within the national health system. Increasingly, global frameworks call for
Maria Paola Bertone   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

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