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Developing World Bioethics, Volume 26, Issue 3, Page 212-226, September 2026.ABSTRACT Mental privacy is a growing concern as neurotechnologies and digital mental health tools collect and process sensitive brain‐related data. In South Africa, cultural and religious diversity adds complexity to protecting mental privacy, with traditional healing practices, communal decision‐making, and spiritual beliefs influencing mental health ...
Marietjie Botes +4 more
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The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 3, September 2026.ABSTRACT Emancipation Day commemorates the end of slavery and is observed annually by African Guyanese on the first Monday in August. Celebrations provide a space to honor ancestors, express gratitude, mourn, and engage in cultural rejuvenation through communal activities such as night vigils, libation ceremonies, drumming, dancing, and pilgrimages to ...
Gillian Richards‐Greaves
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Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 30, Issue 4, Page 482-490, September 2026.ABSTRACT This introduction explores ways of understanding multilingualism in relation to coloniality, with insights from ethnographic case studies in former colonies across several continents. We argue that this theme series advances theorization of the subtleties of power inherent in multilingual discourse with a focus on listening subject agency as ...
Kathe Managan, Jacqueline H. E. Messing
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Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 65, Issue 3, Page 480-488, September 2026.ABSTRACT This research note analyzes the ambiguous boundaries of religious identity, belief, and ritual behavior in Japan, drawing on data from a nationally representative postal survey conducted in 2024 (N = 3947). The findings reveal widespread participation in Buddhist and Shinto rituals even among individuals who identify as nonreligious or atheist,
Koki Shimizu, Yoshihide Sakurai
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Decolonising intercultural theology and research: What role for cultural outsiders?
Verbum et EcclesiaThis article addresses some reasons and requirements for intercultural theologising as boundary-crossing interaction to be decolonised and hold decolonising potential itself.
Marcus Grohmann
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Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Volume 40, Issue 3, September 2026.Abstract 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 ...
Amanda Kearney +3 more
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SEMANTIC SYNCRETISM AS A REGULATOR OF DYNAMIC STABILITY IN THE LEXICAL SYSTEM OF A LANGUAGE
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. ЯзыкознаниеThe article aims to describe the peculiarities of historical evolution in the lexical-and-semantic system of the Russian language stipulated by the development of the phenomenon of syncretism – formal substantive linguistic asymmetry, which is noted to ...
Marina Vas. Pimenova
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Remnant Case Forms and Patterns of Syncretism in Early West Germanic
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 2, Page 357-385, July 2026.Abstract Early stages of the Old West Germanic languages differ from the other two branches, Gothic and Norse, by showing remnants of a fifth case in a‐ and ō‐stem nouns. The forms in question, which have the ending ‐i or ‐u, are conventionally labelled ‘instrumental’ and cover a range of functions, such as instrument, means, comitative and locative ...
Will Thurlwell
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ACT BLUR, LIVE LONGER: Muslim Artists Blurring the Categories of Singapore's Smart City
Cultural Anthropology, Volume 41, Issue 2, Page 218-246, May 2026.ABSTRACT In 2024, Singapore was again named “Smartest City in Asia,” a position achieved through the strategic deployment of surveillance infrastructures and technocratic governance. This article explores the practices of three Muslim artists whose work challenges the limiting categorizations produced by the intertwined logics of Smart Nation ...
JAMES MCGRAIL
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VALORILE ASPECTUALE ALE TIMPURILOR VERBULUI ROMÂNESC
Studia Universitatis Moldaviae: Stiinte Umanistice, 2015 Articolul reia discuţia privind existenţa aspectului verbal, în calitate de categorie gramaticală, în alte limbi decât cele slave şi, în special, în limba română.
Claudia CEMÂRTAN
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