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Phantom Limbs: Affect, Haptics and ‘Partes De Mucha Gente’ in Mariana Enriquez's Nuestra Parte De Noche

open access: yesBulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 45, Issue 1, January 2026.
In Mariana Enriquez's Nuestra parte de noche (Our Share of Night), the insistence on narrating putrid wounds and hewn limbs seeks to reinvigorate stagnant tropes, to highlight the corporeal cruelty obfuscated by the ghostly. This article explores the association between textures and emotions, specifically questioning what it can lead to when remains ...
Ana María Villaveces Galofre
wiley   +1 more source

A Folk Tale of an Elderly Monk [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Bstan 'dzin tells a folk tale in which a rabbit, a wolf, a magpie, and a pigeon cheat an elderly monkThis collection of 77 audio files focuses on weddings and weddings speeches but also contains: folk tales, folk songs, riddles, tongue twisters, and ...
Bkra shis bzang po
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Amazonian fish migration as a social–cultural–ecological process

open access: yesPeople and Nature, Volume 7, Issue 12, Page 3297-3312, December 2025.
Abstract In this study, we highlight the rich perspectives and explanations of fish migration held by Indigenous groups across the Amazon. We present the aspects of Indigenous cosmological stories, drawing from our exploratory review of cultural ethnographies and grey literature, as well as the authors' own experiences. We ask, how do Amazonian peoples
LuLu Victoria‐Lacy   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Folk Tale of a Dog [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Bstan 'dzin tells a folk tale in which a dog helps three girls escape from a demonThis collection of 77 audio files focuses on weddings and weddings speeches but also contains: folk tales, folk songs, riddles, tongue twisters, and local history from Bang
Bkra shis bzang po
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Learning to Love Rats: A Postwar Ecology in a Cambodian Minefield

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 4, Page 746-756, December 2025.
ABSTRACT This paper follows the implementation of landmine detection rats in Cambodia. Over the course of my ethnographic fieldwork with the team for the landmine detection rat technique training in Cambodia, I saw that the way the human landmine detectors (a.k.a.
Darcie DeAngelo
wiley   +1 more source

A Folk Tale of a Clever Boy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
O rgyan dban phyugs tells a folk tale in which a clever boy kills his foolish brotherThis collection of 77 audio files focuses on weddings and weddings speeches but also contains: folk tales, folk songs, riddles, tongue twisters, and local history from ...
Bkra shis bzang po
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Animal medical systems from Apis to apes: history, recent advances and future perspectives

open access: yesBiological Reviews, Volume 100, Issue 6, Page 2608-2624, December 2025.
ABSTRACTAnimal medical systems encompass a wide range of behaviours aimed at maintaining or improving health. It has become clear that these behaviours are not limited to animals treating themselves (self‐medication) but also include the treatment of group members, resulting in the adoption of the more inclusive term “animal medication”. Behaviour with
Michelina Pusceddu   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Last Word: The Prattling, Tattling Parrots of Popular Lore

open access: yesThe Journal of Popular Culture, Volume 58, Issue 6, Page 290-299, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Garrulous parrots appear in a wide array of pop culture forms—from urban legends, television sitcoms, and advertising, to comics, pulp detective fiction, and jokes (naming a few). The birds can be helpful, clever agents; but more often they are mischief makers challenging social norms. Among the pandemonium of parrots in expressive culture, we
Greg Kelley
wiley   +1 more source

A Folk Tale of a Family of Deer [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This folk tale tells how two members of a deer family are killedThis collection of 77 audio files focuses on weddings and weddings speeches but also contains: folk tales, folk songs, riddles, tongue twisters, and local history from Bang smad Village and ...
Bkra shis bzang po
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This Language Is Mine: US College Students Navigating Contradictions of “Mother Tongue” and Heritage Language

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 3, Page 623-628, September 2025.
ABSTRACT In this essay, I draw on both autoethnography and ethnographic research among college students studying their Heritage Language (HL)—or Heritage Language Learners (HLLs)—at a US university. I explore the felt contradictions and tensions that get voiced when attempting to navigate the uneasy relationship between two terms: “mother tongue” and ...
Arnaaz Khwaja
wiley   +1 more source

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