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Entangled Foodways and Livelihood Pathways: Cinnamon, State Interventions, and Everyday Life in Hmong Communities of Northern Vietnam

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The agroecological practices of ethnic minority farmers in Vietnam's northern uplands are being reshaped by intersecting pressures of land‐use reform, market integration, and state‐backed crop promotion. Among Hmong communities in the south of Lào Cai Province (former Yên Bái Province) cinnamon was once valued primarily for its medicinal ...
Mélie Monnerat, Sarah Turner
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Shamanic Gift in the Global Village: Spiritual Energy and Biomedicine

Slovenský Národopis, 2019
Neo-shamanism or urban shamanism is a movement which concentrates on spiritual healing and aims to revive traditional shamanism. The aim of the paper is to explore the legitimation of charismatic neo-shamanic healers in relation to biomedicine which is a
Bužeková Tatiana
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Shamanism with a drum among the Khanty of the Surgut Ob River region in the beginning of the 21st century [PDF]

Вестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии
The area of this research is confined to the Surgut Ob River region and includes the western and central areas of residence of the Eastern Khanty. The purpose of this work is to summarize and analyse information about the current state of shamanism with ...
Rud’ A.A.
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“A Person's God Should Look Like Them”: African Traditional Religions Among Black Queer Millennials and Gen Z Americans

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How are young Black Americans practicing spirituality contemporarily? Today younger generations of Black Americans are more likely than older Black Americans to identify as religiously unaffiliated or as practicing a non‐Christian faith. Drawing on 109 interviews with Black Millennial and Gen Z Americans, I examine how some of these younger ...
Terrell J. A. Winder
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Did shamans always play the drum? Tracking down prehistoric shamanism in Central Asia

Documenta Praehistorica, 2012
This paper considers the question of antiquity of shamanism in Central Asia and outlines several lines of enquiry into the issue. It analyses both linguistic and archaeological data with particular emphasis on ancient rock art.
Andrzej Rozwadowski
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Introduction: Measuring Religiosity and Multi‐Religiosity in East and West

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The introduction to the spotlight set of research notes that are based on the Global East Survey of Religion and Spirituality briefly explains why we believe it is necessary to develop new measures of religiosity, the process of developing the questionnaire, and the key findings in this set of research notes, including the common phenomenon of
Fenggang Yang
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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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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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Dancing Ambiguity: Nora and the Politics of Cultural Nationalisation in Southern Thailand

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines Nora, a traditional dance‐drama from southern Thailand, through its designation as UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage (2021) and the Thai government's recognition of its performers as National Artists (2018, 2021). It situates these actions within Thailand's cultural nationalisation.
Goeun Kim
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Význam šamanismu v postmoderní době na příkladu oblasti peruánské Amazonie / The Purpose of Shamanism in the Postmodern Age Demonstrated on the Peruvian Amazon District

Kulturní Studia, 2018
This article considers the purpose of shamanism in the postmodern age. It explores why Western tourists travel to the shamans of the Amazon to participate in the shamanic ritual with ayahuasca. The field research focuses mainly on a description of Amazon
Sylvie Abbasová
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