'Islamic fatalism': life and suffering among Bangladeshi psychiatric patients and their families in London--an interview study 2 [PDF]
, 2013 An interview study of 44 Bangladeshi patients and relatives in eastern London demonstrated frequent appeals to God and deprecation of personal agency.
Dein, S, Littlewood, R
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Understanding Judicial Independence in Vanuatu [PDF]
, 2020 This paper is intended to fill a gap in the literature concerning the Vanuatu judiciary, as this topic is rarely addressed other than in reports by international non-government organisations, such as Transparency International and its local chapter ...
Forsyth, Miranda
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Confronting uncertainty: Anthropology and zones of the extraordinary [PDF]
, 2013 This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below, copyright @ 2013 the American Anthropological Association.Anthropological theory has privileged consideration of the regularities of everyday life and
Niehaus, I
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Managing inequality: the political ecology of a small-scale fishery, Mweru-Luapula, Zambia [PDF]
, 2013 This paper starts from the perspective on resource management approaches as based upon a body of environmental knowledge. By analysing fisheries management in Mweru-Luapula, Zambia, we argue that this body of environmental knowledge has (i) remained ...
Verelst, Bram
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The Transitioning of Jewish Biomedical Law: Rhetorical and Practical Shifts in Halakhic Discourse on Sex-Change Surgery [PDF]
, 2016 This article examines discourse dynamics in Jewish law on sex-change surgery (SCS) and, in general, transitioning between genders. Orthodox medical ethics has moved beyond the abstract condemnation of SCS to the design of practical rules for transsexuals
Hillel Gray
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Revealing the Ritually Concealed: Custodians, Conservators, and the Concealed Shoe [PDF]
, 2018 This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Material Religion, on 19 April 2018, available online at: https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2018.1443892.
Houlbrook, Ceri, Shawcross, Rebecca
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Sorcery and Witchcraft: A Critical Challenge in Papua New Guinea
Religion and Social CommunicationIn the modern age of the twenty-first century, with rapid developments in technology and science, accusations of sorcery and witchcraft appear to be occurring with increasing and spreading regularity throughout Papua New Guinea (PNG), a country in the ...
Tuan Viet Cao
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THE PRESENCE OF TRADITION IN THE AFRICAN MODERNITY [PDF]
Studia Warmińskie, 2016 Based mainly on the author’s own experience and field research in Togo, the article outlines the way in which tradition is woven into modernity, as political and social discourse uses a worldview based on traditional religion.
Jacek Pawlik
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Mysticisme et mondialisation aux Antilles : le cas de la Guadeloupe
Études Caribéennes, 2013 This study shows how an authentic mysticism arose in Guadeloupe. The West Indies are made up of many ethnic groups. In Guadeloupe, the society has been constituted by two waves of migrations; so far this society has been pluri-ethnic and pluri-cultural ...
Dimitri A. Lasserre
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'A woman like any other' : female sodomy, hermaphroditism and witchcraft in seventeenth-century Bruges [PDF]
, 2017 This article discusses the official and popular responses to a particular sodomy trial held at Bruges in 1618 during which two women, Mayken and Magdaleene, were accused of several sexual and moral transgressions. The interrogation records of the accused
Roelens, Jonas
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