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Phantasmic Encounters in the Arctic: Haunting Materialities Beyond the Ghosts of War
Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring 2026.ABSTRACT In the vast north, ghostly experiences are common for locals and outsiders alike. Here, we explore how cultural‐natural attributes, like remoteness and extreme seasonal variation, compound experiences of the haunting in visceral ways. This provides the Arctic region with an unusually pronounced baseline of other‐than‐human agency, which in the
Aki Hakonen, Oula Seitsonen
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Ultraviolet Protection by Fabric Engineering
Journal of Textiles, Volume 2013, Issue 1, 2013., 2013 Background. The increasing emission of greenhouse gases has evoked the human being to save the ozone layer and minimize the risk of ultraviolet radiation (UVR). Various fabric structures have been explored to achieve desired ultraviolet protection factor (UPF) in various situations. Objective.
Mukesh Kumar Singh +2 more
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Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring 2026.ABSTRACT This account explores how circumstances verging on the other‐worldly alter human perception and consciousness in a fieldwork situation. The case study involves an archaeological field survey team stranded for a time on a remote Lapland mountain.
Aki Hakonen +2 more
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Perceptions of Annwn : the otherworld in the four branches of the Mabinogi. [PDF]
, 2012 There is little description or positive information about the realm of Annwn in the Four Branches, and relatively few publications have explored the Otherworld in the Mabinogi in any depth. The redactor presumably did not deem such detail necessary since
Rees, Rhian
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Uses of Anger, Love, and Joy: Emotions in Black Resistance
Sociology Compass, Volume 19, Issue 12, December 2025.ABSTRACT Black people's expression of anger, love, and joy has long been caricatured, criticized, devalued, surveilled, and policed by dominant groups. Yet, Black people have found ways to emotionally process, respond to, and resist this harm and violence.
Chaniqua D. Simpson +2 more
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Virtually Shamans: An Anthropological Perspective on AI Chatbots
Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 36, Issue 2, Fall 2025.ABSTRACT This article explores the emerging relationship between humans and AI chatbots through the anthropological lens of shamanic practice, proposing the concept of “virtually shamans” to understand these digital interactions. Drawing on ethnographic traditions of studying magic, spirituality, and technological mediation, we argue that AI chatbot ...
Mark Friis Hau, Jakob Krause‐Jensen
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The fourth‐dimensional ontology of sankofa epistemology
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 63, Issue S1, Page S82-S91, September 2025.Abstract Debates about the metaphysical and ontological status of the principles of noncontradiction, excluded middle, identity, sufficient reason, and the identity of indiscernibles raise logical and substantive issues of interest in Western philosophy.
Nkiru Nzegwu
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Critique beyond relation: The stakes of working with the negative, the void and the abyss
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 50, Issue 3, September 2025.Abstract The ‘relational turn’ has been widely embraced in Human Geography and related fields over the last couple of decades as an alternative to the hubris of modern and colonial reasoning. Yet, increasingly, concerns over the extent that contemporary conceptualisations are overly ‘generative’, ‘productivist’ and ‘affirmational’ has come to the fore.
David Chandler, Jonathan Pugh
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Place-lore in the Mélusine Narrative from Irish Tradition [PDF]
Estudios Irlandeses, 2020 The Mélusine story is an international migratory legend (“Migratory Legend Suggested Irish Type”, MLSIT 4081), whose essential ingredients are an Otherworld bride and an interdiction. First attested in medieval Irish literature (Macha), the narrative has
Tiziana Soverino
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The Role of Sun Symbols in the Burial Rite of the Middle Bronze Age Vatya Culture
Dissertationes Archaeologicae: Ex Instituto Archaeologico Universitatis de Rolando Eötvös Nominatae, 2020 The case study investigates the burial customs of the Middle Bronze Age Vatya culture in the Carpathian Basin. It aims to deliver a comparative analysis of the archaeological finds and characteristics of several cemeteries where communities cremated and ...
Emília Pásztor
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