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Traditional beliefs and electromagnetic fields [PDF]
Antropólogos Iberoamericanos en Red, 2011 The author proposes that a wide range of traditional beliefs and practices may provide clues to real electromagnetic field interactions in the biosphere.
Colin A. Ross
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High risk sexual behaviours associated with traditional beliefs about gender roles among men interested in medical male circumcision in South Africa [PDF]
AIDS Research and Therapy, 2021 Background Beliefs about gender roles and high-risk sexual behaviours underlie the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic in South Africa. Yet, there is limited information on the relationships between beliefs about gender roles and risky sexual ...
Candice M. Chetty-Makkan +5 more
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African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine, 2017 Background: The practice of traditional circumcision is associated with considerable morbidity and mortality, yet there is a paucity of literature that provides an understanding of the cultural values that influence men to choose traditional rather than ...
Salome Froneman, Paul A. Kapp
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Rural Indonesia women’s traditional beliefs about antenatal care [PDF]
BMC Research Notes, 2012 Background The Indonesia Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) of 420/100.00 live births remains among the highest in East Asia while coverage of births assisted by skilled providers is still low.
Agus Yenita +2 more
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Traditional beliefs prolong outbreaks of man-eating lions [PDF]
Frontiers in Conservation ScienceFrom the 1800s to the 1950s, “spirit lions” and “spirit leopards” were blamed for countless deaths across Africa that were in fact caused by a combination of genuine carnivore attacks and murders instigated by witch doctors and secret societies.
Craig Packer +2 more
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Lietuvos Istorijos Studijos, 2023 The article provides preliminary notes on traditional beliefs and ideas about good and bad and happy and unhappy days known to Tatars in Dobrudja and Polish-Lithuanian Tatars. For this purpose, beliefs related to the days of the week from M.
Veneta Yankova
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Indian Dermatology Online Journal, 2022 Background: Recalcitrant dermatophytosis has become a menace in recent times. The perception of the hosts or patients regarding the disease gives a real-life picture of the deep-rooted host-factors and the way to overcome the socio-economic and cultural ...
Tridibes Bhattacharya +6 more
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Deities and spirits in the ideas of the Khanty of the Surgut Ob region (based on materials from 2002 to 2017) [PDF]
Вестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, 2023 The research is aimed at the characteristics of deities and spirits in the traditional beliefs of the Khanty of the Surgut Ob basin (the territory of Surgut, Nizhnevartovsk, and Nefteyugansk Districts of KMAO — Yugra and Uvatsky District of the Tyumen ...
Rud’ A.A.
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Subjugated knowledges, contested spaces and African Christianity: An appraisal
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2023 Religion mediates and shapes how people negotiate and navigate their existential realities. Christianity accentuates the belief in Jesus Christ and prescribes how that belief should influence the worldview and actions of people.
Ebenezer Akesseh
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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020 Before the intervention of the missionaries in Bapedi society, the traditional beliefs, customs and practices, such as traditional healing, circumcision, polygamy, indigenous music and rituals, had a vibrant existence.
Morakeng E.K. Lebaka
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