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American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Arabic phrase Allāhu a‘lam—“God knows best”—is used frequently in everyday Muslim speech and to conclude seemingly assertive statements or fatwas. At its heart lies the recognition that God is the All‐Knowing, whereas humans know next to nothing. Reflecting on this recognition, this essay discusses Sufi refusals of the ethnographic project
Amira Mittermaier
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The Anthropocene and the End of Nuclear Disaster: Normalizing the Fukushima Nuclear Accident
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article places the concept of disaster in critical dialogue with that of the Anthropocene, which introduces new imaginaries that negatively affect the governance of crises like nuclear accidents. I argue that tropes surrounding the Anthropocene can depict certain events as apocalyptic calamities while also portraying other events as mere “
Maxime Polleri
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A foundational perspective of deontology and deontological codes through Paul Ricoeur´s "little ethics". [PDF]
Med Health Care PhilosRibeiro Ferreira N +3 more
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Spectral Ecologies: Sintering More‐Than‐Human Pasts to Less‐Than‐Certain Futures
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How do we mourn the loss of more‐than‐human beings, and what becomes of them when they are gone? This commentary examines two installations in Spectral Remix, an art exhibition at the 2025 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in New Orleans.
Suraiya Luecke
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Medical Archaeology and the Research Roads of Global Health in the Age of Eugenics
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article centers on an underexplored dimension of archaeology—the role of medicine and medical doctors in the ways archaeological excavations connected at times with early global health research and infrastructures. Its case studies focus on archaeology's role in the institutional networks, research routes, and racialized pathologies that ...
Franco D. Rossi
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American Ethnologist, EarlyView.Abstract Engaged Dharma Israel (EDI), a radical‐left group, combines Buddhist‐inspired contemplation with anti‐occupation activism in solidarity with Palestinians. For EDI, ethical self‐cultivation and political resistance are mutually sustaining commitments, yet their relationship demands ongoing, sometimes anxious work.
Ori Mautner
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Gender-Affirming Surgery as a Treatment Option for Gender Dysphoria in Adults: A Systematic Review of Ethical Reasons. [PDF]
Healthcare (Basel)Moolekkudiyil Baby B +2 more
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Breathing in Plants and Chaos—Cosmic Tree Events in Cameroon and Beyond
Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Contemporary practices of tapping into the wisdom of ancestral trees are described through three entangled recent events lived within the context of Bantu practices in Cameroon. In the three instances, the steered or chance encounters with high potency trees were serendipitous telling moments which brought something new to the horizon.
Julie Laplante +3 more
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Progress and ongoing conceptual challenges "on the way to integrative human neuroscience"-ten years after. [PDF]
Front Integr NeurosciTretter F +10 more
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