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Extracting vitalities: Cuts in Indigenous women's bodies‐territories (Brazil)
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract In this article, I explore the connections between the medicalization of childbirth and environmental devastation through Guarani‐Mbyá understandings of life and the living. I argue that the cuts made to Guarani‐Mbyá women's vaginas (episiotomies) in Brazilian hospitals are experienced and situated on the same cosmopolitical level as the cuts ...
Maria Paula Prates
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Epidemic dynamics of respiratory syncytial virus in current and future climates. [PDF]
, 2019 A key question for infectious disease dynamics is the impact of the climate on future burden. Here, we evaluate the climate drivers of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), an important determinant of disease in young children.
Baker, Rachel E +8 more
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Lonergan, Decolonization and First Nations Peoples: An Apologetic from an Insider on the Outside
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract The purpose of this article is to respond critically to a research project initiated out of the Board of the Lonergan Research Institute that seeks to expose colonialist assumptions in Lonergan's thought. Some of the initiatives seek to link Lonergan with complicity in Canadian residential schools, spiritual violence, and cultural genocide ...
John D. Dadosky
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Óðinn - en guddommelig shaman?
Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2008 Denne artikel undersøger om Óðinn kan karakteriseres som en guddommelig shaman og tager udgangspunkt i en analyse af Ynglinga Saga kap. 6-7 med særlig inddragelse af eddadigtene Lokasenna 24 og Hávamál 155 samt Eiríks saga rauða 4. Jens Peter Schjødt har
Torben Hammersholt Christensen
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Animism rather than Shamanism: new approaches to what shamans do (for other animists)
, 2010 What shamans do is sometimes said to involve possession by spirits. However, shamanism has also been defined in opposition to spirit possession.
Harvey, Graham
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Chrysalis: Shamanic Discovery [PDF]
, 2015 Student perspectives on worship services from Instructor Jennifer Garvin-Sanchez\u27s Religious Studies 108 Human Spirituality course at Virginia Commonwealth ...
Chambers, Lauren
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Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract This manuscript documents a systematic ethnomycological analysis of ethnographic archives. Focusing on texts describing human–fungi interactions, I conduct a global, cross‐cultural review of mushroom use, covering 193 societies worldwide. The study reveals diverse mushroom‐related cultural practices, emphasizing the significance of fungi ...
Roope O. Kaaronen
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Nominalization in Rawang [PDF]
, 2010 This paper discusses the various forms, origins, and uses of nominalization in the Rawang (Rvwàng) language, a Tibeto-Burman language of northern Myanmar, with data taken mainly from naturally occurring ...
LaPolla, Randy J.
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Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract Mushrooms are a ubiquitous and essential component in our biological environment and have been of interest to humans around the globe for millennia. Knowledge about mushrooms represents a prime example of cumulative culture, one of the key processes in human evolution.
Andrea Bender, Åge Oterhals
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