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Queer configurations: The female divine, regional identity, and Queer‐religious belonging in South India

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
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Keeping their powder dry: Purity, pollution, and handgun ownership among Jewish women in Israel

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the gendered practices through which Jewish women in Israel experience and negotiate personal handgun ownership in everyday life. Drawing on interviews, participant observation in gun‐related spaces, and analysis of women‐only online forums, we explore the expanding participation of Jewish women in civilian gun ownership,
Maya Maor, Nehemia Stern, Guy Nagar, Uzi Ben Shalom   +3 more
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Fest, ritual og myte fra et socialontologisk og fra et neurosociologisk perspektiv

Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In recent years, new research has emerged that support Emile Durkheim's claim about the existence of collective consciousness and effervescence from different angles.
Niels Reeh
doaj  

The Nature of Culture: Rites of Interaction Between Ukrainian Refugees and Latvian Society (2022)

Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies
The article deals with the challenge in migration studies to find a solution to the problem of how to analyse the rapidly emerging and increasing immigration of Ukraine war refugees, which started in 2022 in Latvia as well as in other European Union ...
Māra Kiope
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Integrating General and Vocational Education to Sustain and Renew Traditional Chinese Culture: A Case Study of Chongqing Three Gorges Vocational College

Future in Educational Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how a Chinese higher vocational college can align skills training with the inheritance and innovative development of fine traditional Chinese culture. Grounded in perspectives that view vocational education as cultural transmission and identity work and informed by the lenses of general‐vocational integration and ...
Yuchang Xu, Dequan Zhu, Jiancheng Tan, Xue Pan, Fukui Zhao, Dufan Cao, Ning Wang, Ying Tang   +7 more
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Further Findings on the Intergenerational Transmission of Alcohol Consumption

Health Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using 43,817 parent–child pairs from 23 waves of the HILDA Survey, I study the intergenerational transmission of alcohol use within a rational model of trait transmission. Transmission is predominantly same‐sex: the mother–daughter elasticity is 0.10 and the father–son elasticity is 0.09; there is no father–daughter effect.
Sergey Alexeev
wiley   +1 more source

Ritual and drama

Вісник Київського національного університету культури і мистецтв. Серія: Сценічне мистецтво, 2019
Метою статті є дослідження природи зв’язків ритуалу й театру на прикладі мусульманського обрядового театрального дійства те’зіє – шиїтської пасійної п’єси. Обрана проблематика обумовила широкий контекст дослідження. Зокрема, автор звертає увагу на особливості поєднання ритуалу й театру в античній Греції, а також в європейській та американській культурі
openaire   +3 more sources

Rituals of Royalty and the Elaboration of Ceremony in Oman: View from the Edge [PDF]

Ceremonial and elaborate protocols are commonly associated with kingship, authority and power and imbued with a sense of an ancient past. Yet traditions, particularly as pertaining to European practices, are often made up, choreographed and then formally
Dawn Chatty (QEH)
core  

Local song [PDF]

, 1975
Just a few men and women in the villages were well known for their voice and ability to sing these local songs. The songs were sung when people gathered together in someone’s house in the evening, tired from work, and at times of sadness and happiness ...
Wright, Susan
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The Effect of a Yoga‐Based Stress Management Program on Depression, Anxiety, Stress and Psychological Well‐Being in Adolescents: Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

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
wiley   +1 more source