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Kinship and reproduction: A perspective of the Akha in Laos
The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract Drawing on fieldwork among the Akha people in Phongsaly District, Phongsaly Province, northern Laos, this paper examines Akha patrilineal kinship and its links to reproduction. The Akha people's reproductive decisions and behaviours are shaped by patrilineality, ancestral connections and cultural–spiritual perceptions of reproduction, which ...
Vanly Lorkuangming
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Tamburi nella steppa: saggio sullo sciamanismo mongolo-buriato [PDF]
Ethnorêma, 2012 The purpose of the present article is to analyze some salient features with regard to Mongolian and Central Asian shamanism. Following some preliminary considerations concerning the origin of Shamanism in general, here codified as a pre-religious ...
Stefano Beggiora
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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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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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Shamanism as a research subject: some methodological viewpoints
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1967 There is hardly any other ethnological or historico-religious subject that has had such a great power of attraction on scholars or on other more or less popular writers as shamanism, particularly in its North-Eurasian version, the one dealt with in this ...
Gustav Ränk
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Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, August 2026.Abstract I propose the concept of delomization, the process whereby a sign comes to be understood as a symbol. I term such signs delomes. With rhematization and dicentization, delomization completes the triplet that linguistic anthropologists derive from Charles Sanders Peirce's third trichotomy.
Urmila Nair
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Do Early Career Researchers Consider AI as an Opportunity or a Threat? A Pathfinding Study
Learned Publishing, Volume 39, Issue 3, July 2026.ABSTRACT The article presents the latest (2025) iteration of the Harbingers longitudinal project on early career researchers (ECRs), artificial intelligence (AI) and scholarly communications. In conversation with a purposive and diverse sample of more than 60 ECRs in six countries and numerous subjects, we present an evaluation of a pressing issue ...
David Nicholas +9 more
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INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF THE AMERICAS’ COSMOLOGY, SHAMANISM AND ETHNOGRAPHY -- A POSTCOLONIAL CRITIC
Espaço Ameríndio, 2012 This paper reviews some general assumptions about the anthropological research on shamanism from a postcolonial approach. The latter aims at decentering the eurocentric locus of enunciation of the Western suject of knowledge, questioning the ontological ...
Pablo Wright
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Shamanic and\or cognitive evolution
Documenta Praehistorica, 2006 Many misconceptions have been associated with shamanism. Recent studies, however, show a way to reinterpret basic concepts concerning shamanism. New field data from ethnology/anthropology, and studies on cognitive evolution have provided new results to ...
Mihály Hoppál
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