Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.For over a century, anthropologists have documented the many institutions that exist to respond to witchcraft and the uncanny that it names: oracles that attempt to produce certainty by naming the witch; moots in which grievances are aired; trials in magistrates’ courts that attempt to satisfy the community while preserving the life of the accused ...
Chloe Nahum‐Claudel
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Regimen-Related Oral Mucosal Injury: Pathobiology, Clinical Consequences and Rationale for Intervention Across Cancer Treatment Modalities. [PDF]
Curr Oncol RepSonis S, Wardill H, Villa A.
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Cutting freedom down to size Liberté calibrée
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Freedom, as a concept and a value, presents limited prospects for anthropological comparison. The study of enslavement, much neglected in attempts to develop an anthropology of freedom, shows that freedom has been imagined by the enslaved as the opposite of their condition only under particular circumstances.
Harri Englund
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"The Computer as a Sophisticated Disguise of the Devil" : Supposed Technophobia in German-Speaking Protestant Churches towards Electronic Data Processing (EDP). [PDF]
NTMMeyer J.
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The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.This essay argues that the Rocío hallazgo legend employs divine self‐placement to turn territorial uncertainty into sacred stewardship. The Virgin's miraculous refusal to move establishes the marshlands of Las Rocinas as a communal religious site, transforming a marginal and legally ambiguous area.
Adriano Duque
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<i>Inter Arma, Judicialis:</i> Legal Bricolage and the Agency of Ukrainian Judiciary in Wartime. [PDF]
Soc Leg StudKubal A, Oliinyk H.
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The Obligations of Exempt Monasteries: The Practice in England
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Abstract This note draws on the extensive sources surviving from the fourteenth century to examine, in the light of debates about the medieval papacy, the observance by English houses of papal obligations imposed on exempt monasteries. It concludes that these arrangements, reflecting the complex history of exemption, were more fluid, negotiable and ...
Peter McDonald
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Molecular Weight Distribution of Humic Acids Isolated from Calcic Cryosol in Central Yakutia, Russia. [PDF]
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Carl Schmitt's International Order: A Decolonial Reappraisal
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Andrea Mura
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