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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
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Journal of Adolescence, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Globally increasing stress levels among adolescents pose a significant public health concern. Yoga‐based interventions are gaining attention as effective and holistic approaches to mental health. This study aimed to examine the effects of a Yoga‐Based Stress Management Program on adolescents' levels of perceived stress, anxiety ...
Nesrin Arslan, Aysun Ardic
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Chinese Gift-Giving, Anti-Corruption Law, and the Rule of Law and Virtue [PDF]
, 2016 This Article addresses the question of whether virtuous giftgiving in China can be used in the fight against corruption. Giftgiving, ubiquitous in Chinese familial, business, and official practices, has been under fire by both laws outside and within ...
Szto, Mary
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The Codes of Conduct of the Terāpanth Samaṇ Order [PDF]
, 2003 The article investigates the relationship between canonical rules (dharma) and customary rules (maryādā) in contemporary Jain mendicant life. It focuses on an analysis of the Terāpanth Śvetāmbara Jain mendicant order and presents translations and ...
Flügel, Peter
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Journal of Adolescence, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Socioeconomic status (SES) is a well‐established factor influencing adolescents’ mental health, as young people from disadvantaged backgrounds are more likely to experience stress, anxiety, and poorer overall wellbeing. One factor that may help protect students from these negative outcomes is school connectedness which is the ...
Esther Ariyo +2 more
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Food and the Concept of Salvation: Questioning Javanese Ethics in Environmental Issues
PopulasiMost studies refer to food as a symbol of salvation in Javanese beliefs. However, only some of these studies linked the interpretation of Javanese beliefs about the concept of salvation with values of environmental ethics.
Fardan Mahmudatul Imamah
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Leading the Assembly Is Pastoral [PDF]
, 2003 (Excerpt) I should begin, I think, by explaining a bit about what I mean by pastoral when we speak about leading the assembly. We got a phone call once at the National Association of Pastoral Musicians from a scholar who was researching the folk music ...
Funk, Virgil C
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Why Do They (Still) Sing Stories? Singing Narratives in Tanjung Bunga (Eastern Flores, Lamaholot, Indonesia) [PDF]
, 2016 In eastern Flores, on the Tanjung Bunga peninsula (among Western Lamaholot speakers), several times a year, ritual narratives (opak) are performed on a square dancing area, where all the clans of the same ceremonial land meet.
Rappoport, D. (Dana)
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Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article identifies assistive technologies (ATs) as ‘pre‐technologies’ mediating access to other technologies for disabled subjects (DSs). The motivation is to show that without ATs, DSs cannot be said to have the same level of access to freedom and self‐forming activities as able‐bodied subjects.
Sarel Marais
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A Kingdom of Priests and Its Earthen Altars in Exodus 19–24 [PDF]
, 2015 Argues that, reversing the trope of subjects visiting the magnificent, the Elohistic history has Yahweh interested in the simplest, flimsiest altars only, which he will visit when and where he is invited to do so.
simeon chavel
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