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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

“Not a Single Leaf Is Meant to be Taken With You”: Conservation Motivations and Belief Systems in a Khasi Sacred Landscape of Meghalaya, India “一片叶子都不许带走”:印度梅加拉亚邦卡西族神圣景观中的保护动机与信仰体系

open access: yesIntegrative Conservation, EarlyView.
This study examines the Mawphlang Sacred Forest in Meghalaya as a culturally embedded model of community‐led conservation. Drawing on qualitative fieldwork, it highlights how spiritual reverence, sacred taboos, and ancestral authority shape ecological stewardship, complementing formal governance systems.
Mrinal Saikia
wiley   +1 more source

Un établissement de l’étape moyenne du Bronze final à Morancez (Eure-et-Loir)

open access: yesRevue Archéologique du Centre de la France, 2022
The excavation of the Ardrets site in Morancez (28) has uncovered an occupation from the Middle Bronze Age. The occupation includes habitat structures to the north and excavations linked to funerary practices to the south.
Bruno Lecomte, Delphine Capron
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In hora mortis: deceso, duelo, rapiña y legado en la muerte del obispo visigótico

open access: yesHispania Sacra, 2012
En estas páginas nos acercamos a los momentos finales de la vida de un obispo visigótico –su muerte y el ritual debido– y a los inmediatamente posteriores. Son la manifestación última de su preeminencia social.
Pedro Castillo Maldonado
doaj   +1 more source

Crying the Wrong Tears: Floral Tributes and Aesthetic Judgement [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
I am for the art of hearts, funeral hearts or sweetheart hearts, full of nougat...... I am for the art of slightly rotten funeral flowers...... (Claes Oldenburg) Material practices concerning death and bereavement are changing.

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Facilitators and Barriers of Adolescent Self‐Disclosure Across Different Confidants: A Multi‐Informant Mixed Methods Study

open access: yesJournal of Adolescence, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Adolescent self‐disclosure is essential for relationship building, receiving support and mental well‐being. However, little is known about whom adolescents confide in and what factors facilitate or hinder this process. Method In this mixed methods multi‐informant study, twelve Dutch adolescents (Mage = 18.3, 66.6% girls) and their
Marie‐Louise J. Kullberg   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Last rites and human rights: funeral pyres and religious freedom in the United Kingdom [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This article considers the litigation in Ghai v Newcastle City Council in which the legality of open air funeral pyres under the Cremation Act 1902, and under the right to freedom of religion and belief in article 9 of the European Convention on Human ...
Cumper, P, Lewis, T
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The Ebola virus disease outbreak in Tonkolili district, Sierra Leone: a retrospective analysis of the Viral Haemorrhagic Fever surveillance system, July 2014–June 2015 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
In Sierra Leone, the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak occurred with substantial differences between districts with someone even not affected. To monitor the epidemic, a community event-based surveillance system was set up, collecting data into the ...
Colizzi, Vittorio   +7 more
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Understanding Autistic Young Adults' Perceptions and Experiences of Traumatic and Stressful Events

open access: yesJournal of Clinical Psychology, Volume 81, Issue 6, Page 445-461, June 2025.
ABSTRACT Objectives The aim of this study was to explore how young autistic adults experience and respond to stressful life events, and the relationship between autistic characteristics and symptoms of stress associated with these events. Methods Using an exploratory sequential mixed‐methods approach, an online qualitative survey was first administered
Alliyza Lim, Robyn L. Young
wiley   +1 more source

Precious Evanescence: The “Little Angels” by Chichico Alkmim through the Lens of Vladimir Jankélévitch

open access: yesText Matters
This article establishes a dialogue between two distinct domains: the portraits of deceased infants—known in Brazil as anjinhos (“little angels”)—captured by the Brazilian photographer Chichico Alkmim (1886–1978) in the first decades of the 20th century
Clovis Salgado Gontijo
doaj   +1 more source

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