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Making Mining Licit: Gold, Commodification, and the Everyday Performance of Law in Colombia

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ethnographies of resource‐making have shown that the extraction of resource value from objects is premised on obviating the emplaced lifeworlds that surrounded objects before they traveled to consumer markets. Much of this literature looks at such supply‐chain disentanglement from the viewpoint of corporate and formal regulatory practices ...
Jesse Jonkman
wiley   +1 more source

ILLUMINATING THE DIVINE: THE USE OF LAMPS IN MAGICAL AND INCUBATORY PRACTICES IN GRÆCO-ROMAN EGYPT. [PDF]

Maǧallaẗ Kulliyyaẗ Al-Sīyāḥaẗ wa Al-Fanādiq (Ǧāmiʿaẗ Al-Mansoura)
InGræco-Roman Egypt, the Greeks mostly used lamps to light their homes, theaters, and baths. Within the temples, lamps were also given as presents or as a vow.
Khlood Hosny Younis Ibrahim Ghena, Rehab Mahmoud El-Sharnouby, Sara El-said Kitat   +2 more
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The Unbecoming Ghost: Spectropolitics in the Making and Unmaking of BHU's Bhoot Vidya Ayurveda Certificate Program

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Should We Use Citizens' Assemblies to Make Health Policy?

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article assesses the normative case for using citizens' assemblies—small deliberative forums of randomly selected citizens—in health policymaking. Although they are increasingly popular, their normative justification remains underexplored. We reconstruct three possible rationales: Norman Daniels's ‘Accountability for Reasonableness’ (A4R)
Daniel Hutton Ferris, Johannes Kniess
wiley   +1 more source

The relation of spatial skills, spatial memory span, and two anxiety types with statistics anxiety in European and North American University students

British Journal of Educational Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Background & Aims The present two studies investigated the role of spatial cognition in statistics anxiety. The hypothesis that spatial representations and/or visuospatial skills are related to the acquisition of statistics abilities which, when lacking or unused, generate statistics anxiety is examined.
Rose‐Marie Gibeau, Sébastien Béland, Erin A. Maloney, Michael Cantinotti, Lucile Chanquoy, Daniel Lalande, Jessica Simon, Charlotte Paulis, Gaën Plancher, Marie‐Aude Boislard, Denis Cousineau   +10 more
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Indexical Hierarchies in Ulu Kapuas Malay Mantras: Vernacular Islamic Multilingualism in West Kalimantan

Ascarya
Ritual multilingualism in Islamic communities is often viewed as syncretic, hybrid, or acculturative. Such forms rarely reflect an indexical hierarchy of language use.
Yusriadi Yusriadi, Hermansyah Hermansyah, Ismail Ruslan, Shin Chong, Hui Pan   +4 more
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Anchors or relational risks? Educator and psychologist narratives of attachment in child–robot relationships

British Journal of Educational Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Background As AI‐enabled social robots become more common in schools, children may form strong emotional bonds with them despite robots not being caregivers and lacking the capacities for “true” attachment. Given limited understanding of potential risks and safeguards, professional perspectives are needed to inform responsible design and ...
Dimitris Pnevmatikos, Panagiota Christodoulou   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Theory to Practice: A Framework for Collaborative Anti‐Racist Research With Young Black Children

Children &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While researchers continue to make significant scholarly inroads toward the acknowledgment of Black children's agency and competencies, including their recognition of and resistance to systemic racism, practical guides to anti‐racist qualitative research with young Black children factor conspicuously less often into the contextual balance of ...
Kerry‐Ann Escayg, Amber M. Neal‐Stanley, Stephanie Fearon   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Incantation and Oracle in the First Written Documents of Anatolia

Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi, 2017
There are only eight incantation texts among 23500 Kültepe tablets. Some researches assert that these incantation texts were exercising documents belong to people who were trying to learn literacy, and should be accepted as school texts. This opinion can
Hakan EROL
doaj  

A Wider View: Amie Siegel's Panorama and the Role of Contemporary Art in Natural History Museum Critique and Practice

Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Panorama, artist Amie Siegel montaged films made by Carnegie Museum of Natural History (CMNH) staff in the 1930s–1970s when documenting their research expeditions and exhibition projects, along with her own footage shot in the museum. Displayed at Carnegie Museum of Art in 2023–2024, the exhibition made visible the often hidden labors of ...
Deirdre Madeleine Smith
wiley   +1 more source