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Cheia de axé (full of axé): Spirituality, resistance, and repair in Pernambuco's Afro‐Brazilian traditional communities

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how Afro‐Brazilian communities in Pernambuco respond to state‐led industrial development through culturally rooted practices of resistance and repair. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in the coastal municipalities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, this study traces the effects of Brazil's large‐scale ...
Shelly Annette Biesel
wiley   +1 more source

Neuroanatomical and functional correlates in borderline personality disorder: A narrative review

open access: yesIbrain, Volume 11, Issue 1, Page 19-31, Spring 2025.
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is considered a dysfunctional, stable, and pervasive alteration in personality functioning with the inability to adapt to the environment, mental rigidity, and ego‐syntonic, and like all personality disorders is a consistent pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations of ...
Giulio Perrotta
wiley   +1 more source

Move beyond free radical theory of aging

open access: yesiMetaOmics, EarlyView.
Free radicals play a dual, dose‐dependent role in aging. Low levels activate the key sensor adenosine 5'‐monophosphate‐activated protein kinase (AMPK), promoting cell survival mechanisms like autophagy and enhancing mitochondrial health. High levels, however, push AMPK to initiate cell death pathways, such as apoptosis. This positions AMPK as a central
Xiaofeng Dai, Meilan Hu, Ruohan Lyu
wiley   +1 more source

Acoustic experience in the devotional scenology

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença
This article discusses the acoustic universe of a scenic practice strongly anchored in devotion to São Benedito. Black tradition music and its relations with popular religiosities on the north coast of São Paulo are thought of as a context from which ...
Giovanni Cirino
doaj  

Religious and popular pictorial offering: symbiosis of art, culture and devotion [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
El objeto de nuestro estudio es la interesante e inédita colección de cuadros exvotos dedicados a la Virgen del Rosario de Antequera (Málaga). La providencial intervención de esta advocación en la terrible epidemia de peste bubónica de 1679, así como en ...
León-Vegas, Milagros
core  

Practicing the Perfections: \u3ci\u3eCommunitas\u3c/i\u3e During the \u3ci\u3eSaga Dawa Kortsay\u3c/i\u3e at Swayambhunath, Nepal [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Based on observations from personal participation in the 2014 Saga Dawa Kortsay at Swayambhunath Stupa complex located near Kathmandu, Nepal, my essay draws attention to the distinctive lay Buddhist community that is formed in such ritual performances ...
Sorensen, Michelle J.
core   +1 more source

Healing Beams: Radiation and Radiotherapy in Novels, Poems, Music, Film, Painting

open access: yesJournal of Medical Radiation Sciences, EarlyView.
Radiation and radiotherapy are perceived by patients and the general public as mysterious, dangerous and healing. The image of radiation and radiotherapy can be analysed by studying novels, poems, music, film and painting. Our paper reviews how radiation and radiotherapy are perceived by patients, the general public, as reflected in various art genres.
Ad A. Kaptein   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

La guerra de sucesión española en los pliegos poéticos de la biblioteca universitaria de Salamanca

open access: yesCuadernos Dieciochistas, 2009
RESUMEN: En el siglo XVIII un significativo número de pliegos poéticos sueltos fueron protagonizados por la monarquía, sobresaliendo por su número y devoción los dedicados a Felipe V.
María José RODRÍGUEZ SÁNCHEZ DE LEÓN
doaj   +2 more sources

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