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On Mexican Folk Medicine [PDF]

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, 1970
In this paper traditional medical beliefs and practices in a Mexican village are described and interpreted. The analysis focuses on the notion that health is a balance of hot and cold within the body. Several lines of evidence are used to reveal the metaphorical meanings of hot and cold, and these meanings are then seen to be related to structural ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Folk Medicine (FA 306) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 306. Collection of Kentucky and North Carolina folk beliefs concerning the healing properties of herbs and ...
Folklife Archives, Manuscripts &
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How Do I Answer This? A Queer Critique of Australian Census Forms and the Reification of Cisheteronormative Families

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents a critical examination of Australia's 2021 household, individual and interviewer census forms. Using a form‐led analysis, this research scrutinises the underlying cisheteronormative logic that implicitly shapes the Census process, from data collection to distribution of findings.
Xavier Mills, Sal Clark
wiley   +1 more source

Use of Traditional Mongolian Medicine in Children with Concussion

open access: yesMedicines, 2022
(1) Background: There is no specific treatment for concussion in modern medicine, and existing treatment is only limited to resting and restoring cognition.
Orgilbayar Ganbat   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Indigenous Knowledge on Medicinal Plants, Village Barali Kass and its Allied Areas, District Kotli Azad Jammu & Kashmir, Pakistan [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
An ethnobotanical exploration carried out during the years 2001 and 2002 in the Village Barali Kass and its allied areas, District Kotli Azad Kashmir, Pakistan, revealed that 66 species were used as folk medicine for the curing of several diseases.
Ur-Rehman, Ejaz
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Inside a duck‐billed dinosaur: Vertebral bone microstructure of Huallasaurus (Hadrosauridae), Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Dinosaurs evolved a unique respiratory system with air sacs that contributed to their evolutionary success. Postcranial skeletal pneumaticity (PSP) has been used to infer the presence of air sac systems in some fossil archosaurs. While unambiguous evidence of PSP is well documented in pterosaurs and post‐Carnian saurischians, it remains absent
Tito Aureliano   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Il Casentino: tradizioni etnofarmacobotaniche nei comuni di Poppi e Bibbiena (Arezzo - Toscana) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
The Casentino area: ethnopharmacobotanical traditions in the towns of Poppi and Bibbiena (Arezzo-Tuscany). The results refer an ethnopharmacobotanical study carried out in the territories of Poppi and Bibbiena in the Casentino area.
CAMANGI, Fabiano   +2 more
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‘Where are the adults?’: Troubling child‐activism and children's political participation

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Children's political participation is a well‐established theme in childhood studies. In this article we offer an original account of child activism that takes into account the entangled and emergent aspect of children as activists. We begin with a historical and a conceptual review, noting the importance of mid‐20th century developments such ...
Sharon Hunter, Claire Cassidy
wiley   +1 more source

Anti-candidal activity of 7-hydroxycalamenene isolated from croton cajucara. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The leaves and bark from Croton cajucara Benth (family Euphorbiaceae), a shrub from the Amazon, have been used locally used in folk medicine to treat, diabetes, malaria, grastrointestinal and liver disorders.Abstract number ...
ALVIANO, C. S.   +4 more
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