ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
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Support of Underrepresented and Early-Stage Faculty at a Research Center for Minority Institutions: A Social Network Analysis of Research Productivity over a Five-Year Period. [PDF]
Wayment HA, Laurila KA, Baldwin JA.
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When Urgency Drops: Temporal Consciousness and the Choreography of Dying
ABSTRACT In the hospital, the transition from fighting for life to preparing for death involves not only a shift in medical repertoires but also a profound transformation in temporal experience. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a Canadian intensive care unit, this article examines how the tempo of care, its rhythms, urgencies, and pauses shapes ...
Louise Chartrand
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Large range sizes link fast life histories with high species richness across wet tropical tree floras. [PDF]
Baker TR +221 more
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On 3‐MMC: A Cathinone I Have Come to Know and Love
ABSTRACT This article attempts to complicate the mythology of a compound in a state of becoming. I will trace lightly its origins as a cultural disruptor and how I am implicated in this imperative. Introducing you to 3‐MMC will require multiple modes of storytelling and taking of liberties, drawing on literature reviews, practice‐based research, prose,
Carmen Ostrander
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Structural diversity and technological trajectories in the agrarian sector in the Amazon: ideas and contexts. A testimony by Francisco de Assis Costa. [PDF]
Monteiro AMV +3 more
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(Un)threading Rhythms: On Affect and Vibe in a Rave
ABSTRACT In Toronto, raves arise across large nightclubs, DIY venues and outdoors, despite changing regulations that have further arranged and narrowed their possibility in the past 4 years. Following a rave in Toronto, this work explores ways that potentialities and affects emerge in a single night, through my entry of taking part in dancing and ...
Tatiana Yunadi
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"Dengue fever is not just urban or rural: Reframing its spatial categorization." [PDF]
Trostle JA +5 more
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The Vicissitudes of the Nafs: Madness, Paralysis, and the Work of Transgression in Sufi Ethics
ABSTRACT How should we theorize Sufi ethics when the practice of zikr (remembrance) that leads to spiritual enlightenment (tazkiyya) might also bring one to the brink of majzubiyat (madness)? What forms of regulation or restraint are imagined or enacted by practitioners to prevent spiritual boundlessness from perverting into its underside of paralysis (
Muhammad Osama Imran
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