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Back to the Land: Museum Practices, Collections, and Other‐Than‐Human Politics in Southern Chile

open access: yesCurator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since the 2000s, Mapuche communities' participation has transformed the Mapuche Museum of Cañete. This participation shifted the institution's concept, curation, and conservation practices. From the second half of the 2010s onwards, other‐than‐human politics reshaped the participatory process.
Lucas da Costa Maciel
wiley   +1 more source

Animism rather than Shamanism: new approaches to what shamans do (for other animists)

open access: yes, 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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Trends in Spirituality and Spiritual Care in Nursing—A Discursive Paper

open access: yesJournal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim This paper outlines key developments, innovations, and milestones in the field of spirituality and spiritual care in nursing. Design A discursive paper. Results Nursing scholars have significantly influenced the profession and contributed to the development of nursing knowledge, particularly in the field of spirituality and spiritual care.
Fiona Timmins   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Shamans, Portals, and Water Babies: Southern Paiute Mirrored Landscapes in Southern Nevada

open access: yesArts
Delamar Valley is a unique landscape located in southern Nevada that contains places associated with ceremony and Southern Paiute Creation. This ceremonial landscape is composed of volcanic places, a large Pleistocene Lake, and an underground ...
Kathleen Van Vlack   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Engendering Performance in the Late Iron Age

open access: yesCurrent Swedish Archaeology, 1999
This paper deals with humanoid figures on gold foils from the Late Iron Age in Scandinavia. Interpreted as figures wearing masks, an effort is made to show the complexity, importance and significance of masking practices.
lng-Marie Back Danielsson
doaj   +1 more source

Just shamans and healers or indigenous medical systems? A critical discourse analysis of the categories of shamans and healers as constructed by social science texts [PDF]

open access: yes
"Just as even a single sentence has traditionally been taken to imply a whole language so a single discourse implies a whole society." Language and Power, N. Fairclough.
Moreno-Leguizamon, Carlos
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How to Change Minds Ethically: Doxastic Vulnerability, Epistemic Harm Reduction, and the Role of Therapists in Psychedelic Therapy

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Psychedelics offer an intriguing novel method for changing minds, supposedly by destabilizing the neurobiology of the belief system. The resulting power to change minds raises ethical and epistemic concerns. This article examines the epistemic status of psychedelic experiences and suggests a skeptical attitude towards beliefs formed under ...
Jan Christoph Bublitz
wiley   +1 more source

Facilitating Access of Aids Drugs While Maintaining Strong Patent Protection [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
The AIDS pandemic has thrust the subject of patent protection into the spotlight, a spotlight that has attracted the attention of broad audience including interested parties from the political, legal, and medical communities.
Ziker, Dana
core   +1 more source

Information systems and digitization of traditional knowledge: Trends in cultural heritage and memory institutions and the WIPO Genetic Resources Treaty*

open access: yesThe Journal of World Intellectual Property, EarlyView.
Abstract Understanding the role of information communication technologies (ICTs) in development, especially in relation to marginalized populations, has been the focus of many related disciplinary categories within the broader ecosystem of information sciences.
Chidi Oguamanam
wiley   +1 more source

L’agentivité métaphorique dans les incantations des Yucuna d’Amazonie colombienne

open access: yesBulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines, 2016
Yucuna incantations are mumbled in a low voice and without an audience, as are those of the Desana described by Dominique Buchillet to question Lévi-Strauss’s explanation of symbolic efficiency.
Laurent Fontaine
doaj   +1 more source

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