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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract There is rising recognition of resource‐use rights of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs) within wildlife conservation. Historically, sociocultural institutions ensured wildlife sustainability in many IPLC areas. However, the future viability of such institutions is uncertain as IPLCs change in response to external pressures and ...
Sahil Nijhawan +5 more
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The visible and invisible drivers of biocultural loss in the Amazon
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract The Amazon is rapidly approaching an ecological tipping point driven by deforestation, forest degradation and global climate change. These are visible issues that receive increasing political and public attention. However, the accelerating biocultural loss in the Amazon, including the extinction of Indigenous languages, the disruption of ...
Torsten Krause +5 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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The Portrayal of the "Shaman’s" Role in Funeral Portraits of the Great Ilkhanid Shahnameh [PDF]
نگرهGreat Ilkhanid Shahnameh’s drawings depict Mongolian rulers' aspirations, ideals, and desires as well as their way of life and culture. Such a depiction in connection with Turco-Mongolian culture is described in the obituaries of Esfandiar, Rostam and ...
Masoumeh Azarmdel, Mehdi Mohammadzadeh
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American Ethnologist, EarlyView.Abstract This commentary examines how artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes scholarly authorship through Fredrik Barth's figures of the guru and the conjurer. The guru instructs within moral and scholarly frameworks, while the conjurer mystifies through spectacle.
Jaap Timmer, Anna‐Karina Hermkens
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Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
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Mäetagused, 1996 When the shaman felt the spirit's arrival, he began to sing on its melody. A song consisted from the fragments of different length (from couple to several hundreds of lines), each started with words tamany, tamany - a sign that the shaman, who between ...
Aado Lintrop
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Gods and Things: Is “Animism” an Operable Concept in Korea?
Religions, 2021 Shamanship is a thing-ish practice. Early missionary observers in Korea noted that features of the landscape, quotidian objects, and specialized paraphernalia figure in the work of shamans (mansin) and in popular religious practice more generally ...
Laurel Kendall
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Area, EarlyView.Short Abstract This paper draws on the concepts of ‘researching up’ and ‘researching down’, often used to distinguish between relative ‘power over’ or ‘power under’ interlocutors. It suggests that by mobilising these concepts through feminist geography as a relational analytic rather than oppositional categories, we can generate new insights into our ...
Jennifer C. Langill
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Evaluation of Abhyanga and Unmardan with Dashmool Taila in the Management of Vedana (Muscular Pain): A Randomised Controlled Trial Protocol [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic ResearchIntroduction: Pain is a significant diagnostic marker and a primary reason individuals seek medical care. Recognised as the fifth vital sign, it serves an essential role in the body’s defense mechanism.
Farid Hassan Dawood Raza Hussain Hydri +2 more
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