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Engaging in Culturally Informed Nursing Care with Hmong Children and Their Families [PDF]
, 2016 The Hmong are an ethnic hill tribe group originally from Southern China with concentrated populations throughout Southeast Asia, especially the mountains of northern Laos.
Byington, Hayley +5 more
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Phantasmic Encounters in the Arctic: Haunting Materialities Beyond the Ghosts of War
Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the vast north, ghostly experiences are common for locals and outsiders alike. Here, we explore how cultural‐natural attributes, like remoteness and extreme seasonal variation, compound experiences of the haunting in visceral ways. This provides the Arctic region with an unusually pronounced baseline of other‐than‐human agency, which in the
Aki Hakonen, Oula Seitsonen
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Journeys to Others and Lessons of Self: Carlos Castaneda in \u3cem\u3eCamposcape\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]
, 2012 Drawing on Michel Foucault’s concept of heterotopia, this article examines the importance of place and gender within constructions of race politics in Carlos Castaneda’s series on shamanism.
Sluis, Ageeth
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Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article questions the moral and causal certainties attributed to the clinical assumptions of the breath of chaos. Instead of seeing chaos as an exceptional intruder that causes problems in health, I suggest that chaos underlines the changing conditions of health and it's an intrinsic part of breathing and everyday life. I discuss the five‐
Yuxin Peng
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Formation of Soviet Medical Care to Indigenous Minorities of Turukhansk Territory in the 1920s
Журнал Фронтирных ИсследованийDue to the specifics of its geographical and climatic location, historically formed disease structure, ethnic approach to the development of traditional medical culture, the North territories’ population possesses a range of characteristics significantly
Tatyana A. Kattsina, Lyudmila E. Mezit
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The Invention of Traditional Knowledge [PDF]
, 2007 Sunder argues that the failure of intellectual property to recognize the contributions of traditional and natural sources cannot be rectified by mere payment and she posits a non-monetizable, non-utilitarian benefit in terms of worth or dignity in having
Sunder, Madhavi
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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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CULTURE, RITUALS AND NATURE: EXPERIENCES OF MYSTICAL TOURISM IN NORTHERN PERU [PDF]
Geo Journal of Tourism and GeositesThis study explored cultural tourist experiences of Andean rituals on Peru's northern coast using ethnographic methods. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 65 participants, field notes, and observations of interactions among ...
Miguel Angel RUIZ-PALACIOS +5 more
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Maps and Diaspora: Affect, Agency and Epistolary Praxis
Area, EarlyView.Short Abstract Following discussions, interactions and reflections during the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) conference ‘Map Room Conversations’ sessions, this paper examines maps and diaspora through an affective lens. By utilising an auto‐ethnographic epistolary praxis of letter writing and employing the therapeutic prompt, ‘What came up for ...
Rohini Rai, Iqbal Singh
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Shamanism in Contemporary Norway: Concepts in Conflict
Religions, 2018 To choose a terminology for an investigation of shamanism in contemporary Norway is not entirely without problems. Many shamans are adamant in rejecting the term religion in connection with their practices and choose broader rubrics when describing what ...
Trude Fonneland
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