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Utilization of Local Healing Practices Among Patients Admitted to a Remote Tertiary Care Hospital in Eastern Bhutan: A Cross-Sectional Study. [PDF]
Health Sci RepABSTRACT Background and Aims In Bhutan, patients frequently choose between allopathic health professionals and Traditional Medicine (Sowa Rigpa) practitioners based on personal faith and cultural preferences. However, beyond these formally recognized systems, uncertified local healers provide alternative cultural and spiritual healing methods that are ...
Wangchuk P +4 more
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Medical pluralism and kincentric care in Indigenous Australia: Yanyuwa experiences of illness and the importance of keeping company. [PDF]
Med Anthropol QAbstract For over four decades we have collaborated as a team of anthropologists and Indigenous Elders of the Yanyuwa language group. The Yanyuwa are the Indigenous owners of lands and waters in Australia's Gulf of Carpentaria. While medicalized healthcare has not been our specific research focus, wellness and ill health have been recurring themes ...
Kearney A +3 more
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the published writings of Lorna Gulston (c. 1932–2023), a hitherto unknown Northern Irish civil servant who wrote many articles for the earliest British lesbian magazines such as Arena Three, Sappho and Sequel. In doing so, the article asks: How did Gulston find her way onto the pages of these pioneering magazines?
Maurice J. Casey
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Legal and Criminological Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Purpose Asylum seekers often struggle to recall and report their experiences during asylum interviews. This may occur for several reasons, ranging from communication challenges in high‐context cultures (relying more on indirect and context‐oriented communication) and low‐context cultures (relying more on direct and explicit communication) to ...
Md Yeasir Yunus +3 more
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“Who here is a volunteer?” Peacebuilding, brokerage, and moral authority in Papua New Guinea
The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This paper is a critical examination of the global peacebuilding industry as it has operated in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and is based around the author's experience as a volunteer broker to the United States Agency for International Development Papua New Guinea Peace Project.
Michael Main
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Afterword: Brokerage in Oceania beyond interactionism
The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract The decolonisation of Oceania came late and is far from complete, and this contemporary context influences the way brokerage is enacted. The embeddedness of brokerage in broader contexts may reduce or orientate individual brokers' room for manoeuvre. This leads to the structural dimension of brokerage, beyond the interactionist approach to the
Pierre‐Yves Le Meur
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Benefits, brokers and betrayal: Becoming a cultural broker in Papua New Guinea
The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract How processes entailed in accessing benefits are implemented in the early stages of a resource project shapes brokerage throughout the project's lifespan. Perceptions of the efficacy of these processes and of the individuals involved often vary.
Yvonne Hani, John Cox
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Interventions to Improve Sanitation Facilities for Menstrual Health: A Systematic Review
Reproductive, Female and Child Health, Volume 5, Issue 3, September 2026.ABSTRACT Objective To systematically review strategies to increase availability and access to sanitation facilities for menstrual health. Methods We searched four databases (PubMed, LILACS, CINAHL, EMBASE) and trial registries for peer‐reviewed studies evaluating the effectiveness of interventions providing and/or improving toilets, private washing ...
Emma Wallengren +7 more
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Water Beings and Capitalist Relations in India's Sundarbans Delta
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 3, Page 595-606, September 2026.ABSTRACT This article explores entanglements between water cosmologies and capitalist transformation in the Sundarbans delta of West Bengal, India. It traces how “awakened” tidal creeks have been iteratively enclosed as private fisheries from the colonial period to the present, with particular focus on the expansion of commercial aquaculture over the ...
Calynn Dowler
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Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 2, Fall 2026.ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
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