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Facilitating pura medicina

open access: yesApproaching Religion, 2023
In this article, based on my doctoral research, I discuss the appropriation of religious elements from South America by Finnish ‘mystical tourists’. The plant medicine ceremonies are approached as spiritual commodities.
Tero Heinonen
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Ethno-conservation of New Guinea Singing Dog among Tribes in Pegunungan Tengah, Papua, Indonesia

open access: yesForest and Society, 2023
Interactions between humans and carnivores have been range from positive to negative, occasionally leading to human-wildlife conflict in many parts of the world.
Arni Syawal   +7 more
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Broken words, furious wasps. How should we translate the sonic materiality of Araweté ritual singing?

open access: yesJournal de la Société des Américanistes, 2020
In Araweté ritual singing, the performance of oporahẽ songs is an exercise in downplaying referential meaning without the actual removal of the sounds of the language.
Guilherme Orlandini Heurich
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Effectiveness of participative community singing intervention program on promoting resilience and mental health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This book chapter reports on a study that sought to investigate the efficacy of community participative singing on the mental health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people from several South East Queensland communities.
Jing Sun   +3 more
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Baine Maara-Indu Mama-Siddi Dhamal: Interwoven Performances of Epistemic Justice and Cognitive Freedom by the Siddis of Karnataka, India

open access: yesInternational Journal of Critical Diversity Studies, 2023
The Siddis were brought to India from the southern and eastern parts of Africa by the Arab and Portuguese colonisers. At present, the Siddis in India can be found in parts of Gujarat (a state located in western India), Hyderabad (a state located in ...
Sayan Dey
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Let me sing your songs: how Finns found xöömei

open access: yesНовые исследования Тувы, 2017
The author of this essay, musician and founder of the Throat Singing Association of Finland (1997), tells the story of how an association of throat singing practitioners came to be in Finland, and how to teach this art to those wishing to learn it.
Sauli Heikkilä
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Sami yoik, Sami history, Sami health: a narrative review

open access: yesInternational Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2018
Music as a possible health-promoting agent has attained increasing academic and scientific interest over the last decades. Nonetheless, possible connections between indigenous singing traditions and health beyond traditional ceremonial healing practices ...
Soile Hämäläinen   +4 more
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Engaged Scholarship and the Arts

open access: yesEngaged Scholar Journal, 2019
Singing and songwriting; graffiti, protest art, and mobile art installations; oral, digital, video, literary, métissage, and mixed media storytelling; drawing, photography, and other visual arts; Witness Blanketing and body mapping; embodying Indigenous
Kathy Bishop   +2 more
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Teaching Indigenous children : listening to and learning from indigenous teachers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This article is based on the findings of a qualitative case study that examined the professional experiences and career pathways of fifty current and former Australian Indigenous teachers.
Simpson, Lee   +3 more
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VUOIŊŊALAŠVUOHTA—Sámi Spirituality, Yoik and Its Relations

open access: yesReligions, 2020
The subject of identity is important in today’s political landscape. This article explores the way in which indigenous identity in particular is a contested subject, taking into account the way indigeneity in itself was, and still is, created within ...
Tuula Sharma Vassvik
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