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Runa, 2013 The article analyzes the sociopolitical dynamics of the xinguano multiethnic system, located in central-west Brazil, drawing from the logics revealed by sorcery practices.
Marina Vanzolini
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Phantasmic Encounters in the Arctic: Haunting Materialities Beyond the Ghosts of War
Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring 2026.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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Believed belief: science/religion versus Sukuma magic [PDF]
, 2008 status ...
Stroeken, Koenraad
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Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2017 Certain South African perceptions of sorcery acquire new resonance when considered in the context of present-day corporatised, managerially governed higher education. Concepts of witchcraft from elsewhere in Africa further illuminate this.
Felicity Wood
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Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.ABSTRACT This paper proposes Virtual Reality (VR) and 360 film as promising fieldwork tools for addressing problematic temporalities in ethnographic museums and for collaborating with communities of origin. Focusing on the Maria Czaplicka Siberian collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, we examine how previous methods of display marginalized the
Anya Gleizer +2 more
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Falling Through the Net? Gender and Social Protection in the Pacific [PDF]
, 2015 This paper examines the gender dimensions and implications of social protection in relation to rapid transformations in the globalizing economies in the Pacific region. The paper analyzes the dynamics of gender and social protection in three countries of
Anna Naupa +4 more
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Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.ABSTRACT This work reflects on the presence of a desacralized Buddha statue in the Museum of Chinese Art and Ethnography, established in Parma, Italy, in 1901 by Xaverian missionaries. The Buddha's hollowed back is a potent trace of the transnational interactions between these Roman Catholic missionaries and folk believers from the Henan region ...
Valentina Gamberi
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THE SLOW DEATHS FROM CLIMATE CHANGE: A Planetary View from Papua New Guinea
Cultural Anthropology, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 57-81, February 2026.ABSTRACT How do we tell the stories of climate change? This essay explores the slow violence and death experienced by marginalized, racialized, indigenous bodies as climate change differentially impacts communities across the globe. Paying attention to locations beyond the spectacular events that have come to be associated with climate change, the ...
JAMON ALEX HALVAKSZ II
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Bad Witches: Gender and the Downfall of Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos and Disney’s Maleficent
Social Sciences, 2019 Female villains, both fictional and real, are subject to unconscious gender bias when part of their iniquity involves the disruption of male authority.
Lauren Dundes +2 more
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Bulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 45, Issue 1, January 2026.In Mariana Enriquez's Nuestra parte de noche (Our Share of Night), the insistence on narrating putrid wounds and hewn limbs seeks to reinvigorate stagnant tropes, to highlight the corporeal cruelty obfuscated by the ghostly. This article explores the association between textures and emotions, specifically questioning what it can lead to when remains ...
Ana María Villaveces Galofre
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