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Food and Rituals: Narratives of Food Consumed by Assamese Menstruating Women
International Journal of Research and ReviewFood and its consumption carry with them, not only physiological meanings but have equal cultural connotations. It is so mundane an element in our daily lives that we do not realize the intensity with which it influences us socially, culturally and politically.
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Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.The production‐distribution‐consumption triad has structured how anthropologists understand exchange for roughly a century. This article argues for expanding this triad to include an explicit focus on acquisition – the systems, processes, and practices of acquiring.
Hanna Garth
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Ritual food and otherness among Amerindian societies
Calenda, 2011 Le groupe de travail sur les nourritures rituelles dans les sociétés amérindiennes a le plaisir de vous inviter à son atelier thématique (projet CNRS-CONACYT) : Nourritures rituelles et altérités au sein de sociétés amérindiennes. Dynamique de l’atelier : présentations brèves par les participants de leurs textes, téléchargeables depuis le blog : http://
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.While death remains a popular topic for anthropology, relatively few ethnographic accounts consider the modern bureaucratic processes accompanying it. One such process is public health autopsy, which scholars have largely taken for granted. Existing analysis has regarded it as a form of ‘cultural brokering’ and autopsy reluctance in communities is seen,
David M.R. Orr
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"<i>Warmi urquy"</i>: marriage proposals and gender hierarchy in the Peruvian Andes. [PDF]
Front SociolGutiérrez-Gómez E +5 more
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, 2016 At the level of a historical-religious analysis, the dietary practices that the practitioner, so-called “magician”, asks to share with the divinity suggest an interpretation of these foods as signs and/or distinctive features intended at emphasizing a ritual border – more or less crossable, depending on the context – between human and divine.
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article argues that the current way of thinking about ethics in sport in primarily biomedical terms, and in particular in terms of the presence of particular pharmaceutical substances, fails to account for broader notions of sporting ethics and fairness in the Global South.
Michael Crawley, Uroš Kovač
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Cultural and Ethnic Dimensions of Mealtime Practices in Long-Term and Residential Care: a Comprehensive Scoping Review. [PDF]
Can Geriatr JDavis ED +4 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.In June 2023, the Laje River, located in the traditional territory of the Wari’ Indigenous people in Rondônia, Brazil, was declared a legal entity, an earth being, with rights, following the co‐ordinated action of an indigenous councillor and non‐indigenous activists.
Aparecida Vilaça
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