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Plantes médicinales, savoirs et société : vue des rastafaris sud-africains [PDF]
, 2009 L’article se penche sur le rôle de guérison que jouent les plantes à l’intérieur du mouvement rastafari sud-africain dans les townships de Cape Town, notamment sous l’angle de l’anthropologie de la santé, des sciences et des technologies.
Laplante, Julie
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 269-292, March 2026.Hair is an integral part of the skin's interface and has sensory capacity. It actively contributes to processes of bodily materialization and facilitates transactional exchange with other social actors and environments, particularly regarding energies and vibrations that can be perceived as subtle matter.
Sinah Theres Kloß
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The Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography, 2015 This paper explores the relationship between Rastafari herbalists and tuberculosis in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Marginalized and impoverished communities are the worst affected by the TB epidemic, and government-funded biomedical ...
Gilad Levanon
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Times of the self in Kingston, Jamaica [PDF]
, 2016 Revival Zionists – a small spiritist following in Jamaica – describe how their relations with spirits allow them to bring personal spiritual gifts to bear on every day or ‘temporal’ experience.
Wardle, Huon
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(Re)Pairing With Water: Climate Finance and the Prefigurative Positions of an Ocean Counter‐Politics
Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.ABSTRACT This paper takes up recent calls to work ‘for and against climate capitalism’ to foreground the possibility of strategic engagements within capitalist structures that could destabilise its long‐standing exploitative dynamics. In doing so, it locates prefigurative positions of an ocean counter‐politics generated through novel blue financial ...
Carlo Ceglia
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Dread Hermeneutics: Bob Marley, Paul Ricoeur and the Productive Imagination. [PDF]
, 2017 This article presents Paul Ricœur’s hermeneutic of the productive imagination as a methodological tool for understanding the innovative social function of texts that in exceeding their semantic meaning, iconically augment reality.
Duncanson-Hales, Christopher
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Learning not to help in Nanjing and London–Cultural elaboration of empathy in childhood
Ethos, Volume 54, Issue 1, March 2026.Abstract Helping is one of the key features of human sociality. The ethnographic record is pervaded by accounts of people doing things with and for each other from an early age. Developmental psychology has shown that by the time children begin to walk and talk, they already display helpful behavior in many situations.
Anni Kajanus
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"Food Ethics and Religion" [PDF]
, 2016 How does an engagement with religious traditions (broadly construed) illuminate and complicate the task of thinking through the ethics of eating? In this introduction, we survey some of the many food ethical issues that arise within various religious ...
Doggett, Tyler, Halteman, Matthew C.
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Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, Volume 117, Issue 1, Page 44-64, February 2026.Abstract In India and Bangladesh cities, footpaths play a crucial role in enhancing the mobility of older adults. To age in place, the design and maintenance of footpaths become pivotal for older men to access services, opportunities and goods in neighbourhoods and beyond.
Ajay Bailey +2 more
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Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Volume 143, Issue 1, Page 13-23, January 2026.ABSTRACT Missing pedigrees are a common problem in most populations. Animals with unknown ancestors are usually treated as founders; however, this can underestimate inbreeding, not properly account for different base populations, and bias breeding values.
Larissa Temp +7 more
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