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What Happens When a Black Swan Meets a Gray Rhino? Reflections on the Evaluation Market in Transformative Times

New Directions for Evaluation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This chapter examines recent disruptions in the U.S. evaluation market through the combined lens of the Evaluation Marketplace Framework and the Black Swan/Gray Rhino typology. We argue that the Trump Administration's abrupt reduction in federal evaluation commissioning constitutes a Black Swan shock, whereas the long‐anticipated technological
Steffen Bohni Nielsen, Sebastian Lemire
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Social network structure and composition predicting cognitive impairment: racial/ethnic differences among older adults. [PDF]

J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci
Copeland M, Zhang W, Liu H, Gao M.
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All the bedrooms a stage: Reconceptualizing sex as “performance” to sex as “rehearsal”

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract In the United States, sex is often spoken about in terms of performance, and naturally invokes language of theatricality. Sexual performance has been used as an umbrella term to refer to sexual satisfaction, behavior, embodiment, and also pathology in terms of conditions such as erectile dysfunction.
Taylor Harmon
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Importance of Humanities and Compassionate Care in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. [PDF]

JNMA J Nepal Med Assoc
Subedi M.
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Cheia de axé (full of axé): Spirituality, resistance, and repair in Pernambuco's Afro‐Brazilian traditional communities

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how Afro‐Brazilian communities in Pernambuco respond to state‐led industrial development through culturally rooted practices of resistance and repair. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in the coastal municipalities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, this study traces the effects of Brazil's large‐scale ...
Shelly Annette Biesel
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Ethnological study of birth timing decisions: a scoping review protocol. [PDF]

BMJ Open
Samim Y, Spence N.
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Queer configurations: The female divine, regional identity, and Queer‐religious belonging in South India

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
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The Moral Force of Guidelines: How Surgeons Use Evidence-Based Medicine to Curb Their Interventionism. [PDF]

Sociol Health Illn
Davis C.
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Caught in the fire: An accidental ethnography of discomfort in researching sex work

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on fifteen years of engagement with researching Israel's sex industry, this article uses accidental ethnography to propose discomfort‐as‐method for feminist anthropology. I argue that discomfort is not a by‐product of fieldwork but a constitutive condition that disciplines researchers and shapes what can be known.
Yeela Lahav‐Raz
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Protocol for a scoping review on information and communication technologies (ICTs) in community practice. [PDF]

PLoS One
Sivan O, Pearson A, Begun S.
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