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Starving for Data: Eating Disorders Prevalence and Research Gaps in Southern Africa

International Journal of Eating Disorders, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Studies reporting prevalence estimates of eating disorders in Southern Africa are scarce. To fill this gap, the present Research Forum reviews existing literature on the prevalence of eating disorders, including as assessed by clinical interviews, screeners, and self‐reported behaviors, among individuals in Southern Africa.
Bernou Melisse, Jojanneke M. Bijsterbosch, Lot Sternheim   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

They bewitched the generator: state power and religious authority at the New Year’s festival in Makunduchi, Zanzibar

Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 2006
The New Year’s festival in Makunduchi, Zanzibar, has been one of the central sites for the interaction between state power and religious authority. It has changed considerably since colonial times, as political rituals were grafted onto religious ones ...
Magnus Echtler
doaj   +1 more source

In The Trenches: Traditional Healers\u27 Understanding of Health and Healing [PDF]

, 2016
This study explored understandings of traditional healing from the perspectives of traditional healers and helpers. The sample of sixteen individuals was initially identified by key informants, and then the sample snowballed by word of mouth.
Hill, Gus
core   +1 more source

Pathological Eating Patterns in Adults Displaying Obsessive‐Compulsive Symptoms: A Scoping Review

European Eating Disorders Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim Numerous studies have now shown that those with eating disorders have statistically higher rates of obsessive‐compulsive disorder (OCD). However, much less is known about the eating behaviours of adults with OCD. This scoping review aimed to identify and synthesise the existing literature describing pathological eating behaviours in adults
Sonay Kucukterzi‐Ali, Amanda K. Ludlow, Roberto Gutierrez, Naomi A. Fineberg, Tim M. Gale   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

In XII minuendi sumptus sunt lamentationisque funeris – sed ea non tam ad religionem spectant quam ad ius sepulcrorum: Restrictions on Funeral Luxury in Rome

Journal on European History of Law, 2023
The legal attempts to curb funeral lavishness and extravagance come into two groups: the first includes the provisions of the Law of the XII Tables, the second the lex Cornelia sumptuaria (81 BC), and the leges Iuliae sumptuariae (46 BC, 18 AD) (Rotondi,
János Erdődy
doaj   +2 more sources

Water in Pre-Christian Beliefs in Pomerania (Northern Poland) of the Early Medieval Period
Woda w przedchrześcijańskich wierzeniach na wczesnośredniowiecznym Pomorzu (północna Polska)

Studia Mythologica Slavica, 2017
Based on written sources and archaeological evidence, ethnographic and linguistic material, and the knowledge of the rest of Slavonic-occupied regions, the authors research early medieval Pomeranian communities in which water played a significant role ...
Kamil Kajkowski, Andrzej Kuczkowski
doaj   +1 more source

The Changing Features and Functions of Funeral Art Forms in Ibibio Land of Nigeria [PDF]

, 2015
Ibibio funeral art form has developed with the ethnic belief system of ancestral veneration. It has been marked with distinctive indigenization of spatial symbolization of forms to the creation of “nwommo” and cement tomb stone in their quest for ...
E. Umoanwan, Uwem, Nyah, Anselem A.
core   +1 more source

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

Feminist 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

Performing myths, ritualising modernity: dancing for Nomkhubulwana and the reinvention of Zulu tradition [PDF]

, 2012
The European colonial expansion T in Africa disrupted and in instances stopped the celebration and development of traditional values in the colonised territories. This disruption is more acute in southern Africa, especially in the South African territory
Adeyemi, Sola
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DeepSeek in Education: Exploring the Transformative Potential of AI‐Driven Educational Intelligence

Future in Educational Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The integration of artificial intelligence into education remains challenged by issues of scalability, interpretability, and multimodal adaptability. DeepSeek's AI‐driven educational tools show potential to improve educational applications through advances in reasoning efficiency, lightweight deployment, and multimodal fusion.
Jian Liao, Fan Sun, Yajie Liu, Yuli Hu
wiley   +1 more source