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Folk Birth Rituals

open access: yes, 2021
Folk People have been following plenty of rituals when they were beginning a new step for their life which is expected to be auspicious for them. In the early days, the rituals of birth may have flourished which based on the basic principles of Folk ...
M, Vijayakumar
core   +1 more source

Beyond the grave: Do the dead have rights?

open access: yesAnatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Anatomists who work with the Dead often see themselves as custodians of the Dead. To those who opine that the Dead no longer have Rights (legal or moral) or privileges and have nothing more to contribute to the development of Society or to human endeavor, the Dead's custodians might respond that there is ample evidence that some Rights and ...
Beverley Kramer, Bernard Moxham
wiley   +1 more source

Pilgrimage, consumption and rituals: Spiritual authenticity in a Shia Muslim pilgrimage [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
A critical dimension of pilgrimage is arguably pilgrims' experience, in particular the authenticity of their experience. The aim of the study is to understand how authenticity is evoked in a religious pilgrimage and the relationship between authenticity,
Moufahim, Mona, Lichrou, Maria
core   +1 more source

The impact of family interview on the relationship between medical students and their silent mentor

open access: yesAnatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract The gross anatomy laboratory course often triggers significant negative emotions in medical students during dissection. While various pedagogical interventions aim to alleviate psychological burden, the fundamental question of how students' perceptions of donors evolve throughout the course remains underexplored.
Po‐Fang Tsai   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Extreme Rituals

open access: yes, 2023
Ritual behavior is a human universal. We know of no society, past or present, which does not have rituals, so much so that ritual might be seen as one of the defining characteristic of our species.
Dimitris Xygalatas
core   +1 more source

The human foundations of anatomy at The University of Sydney: One hundred and one years of body procurement

open access: yesAnatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Body procurement at The University of Sydney has a long history. Anatomy legislation (1881 Anatomy Act) modeled on the British Anatomy Act 1832 legalized procurement of unclaimed bodies from public institutions for anatomical dissection at licensed Schools of Anatomy, effectively conferring the University of Sydney an exclusive license until ...
Rebekah A. Jenkin, Kevin A. Keay
wiley   +1 more source

Developing a critical caste analysis within information science and technology: A research review: An annual review of information science and technology paper

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Caste—an ascriptive social hierarchy in South Asia and its diaspora—is a globalized phenomenon. Recent caste‐based discrimination, particularly in technology companies and anti‐caste efforts to address it, has compelled academia, policy, and the technology industry to better understand contemporary mechanics of caste.
Nayana Kirasur, Britt Paris
wiley   +1 more source

Family Rituals 2.0: Five Ritual Machines

open access: yes, 2015
How might people, whose work often keeps them away from home for extended periods, remain part of key aspects of domestic life whilst travelling for work?
Yurman, Paulina   +3 more
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When AI outputs become documents: Documentation activity in human–AI dialogue

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Large language models (LLMs) generate texts that increasingly circulate as documents in knowledge infrastructures, yet their documentary status remains theoretically underdetermined. Unlike traditional documents, LLM outputs lack identifiable authorship, stable provenance, or testimonial grounding.
Sascha Donner
wiley   +1 more source

What is a rite? Émile Durkheim, a hundred years later

open access: yesOpen Information Science, 2018
This paper is focused on the anthropological concept of ritual, starting from Emile Durkheim's approach in Les formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse (1912).
D’Orsi Lorenzo, Dei Fabio
doaj   +1 more source

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