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The reckoning: ethnographic explorations of the ending of a friendship Règlement de comptes : explorations ethnographiques de la fin d'une amitié

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article examines the ending of a friendship in ethnographic fieldwork. I argue that friendship is a necessarily ambiguous concept and relation, made most distinctive as a ‘friendship’ at its end. Reflecting on a friendship that was ended between this author and an old friend in fieldwork in Halleigh, North Manchester, England, I discuss the ...
Katherine Smith
wiley   +1 more source

A Systematic Review of Plants Used for the Treatment of Diarrhea in Mozambique. [PDF]

Biomed Res Int
Mataveia A, Barbosa F, Langa S, Bila C, Chichava V, Ngome N, Inroga M, Correia H, Hlashwayo D.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Not Even Newton's Word: Authority and Resistance in the Royal Society Corpus1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper investigates the historical development of Isaac Newton's proposed distinction between mass and weight in the Principia Mathematica of 1687 and traces its fate in the scientific English of the Royal Society between 1700 and 1920.
Nina Haket
wiley   +1 more source

The Chemical Imitation Game: Navigating Spaces of Meaning in Language and Chemistry. [PDF]

J Chem Inf Model
Moro S.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
wiley   +1 more source

Effect of a Clear Communication Training on Medical Residents' Use of Jargon in Written Messages to Patients. [PDF]

Healthcare (Basel)
Coleman C, Lin C.
europepmc   +1 more source

Divine Self‐Placement, Sacred Placemaking: The Virgin of El Rocío and Territorial Custodianship in Early Modern Spain

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This essay argues that the Rocío hallazgo legend employs divine self‐placement to turn territorial uncertainty into sacred stewardship. The Virgin's miraculous refusal to move establishes the marshlands of Las Rocinas as a communal religious site, transforming a marginal and legally ambiguous area.
Adriano Duque
wiley   +1 more source

Life beyond diagnosis: My journey of hope. [PDF]

S Afr J Psychiatr
Nkurunungi E.
europepmc   +1 more source

All Gone to the Dogs: Peasant and Aristocratic Masculinities in a Late Medieval Swiss Revolt

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines chronicle accounts of the so‐called ‘Waldmann Affair’, a revolt within the territories of the city–state of Zurich in 1489 directed against its mayor, Hans Waldmann. The revolt was partly the consequence of failed economic and political reforms which put pressure on the countryside, but was provoked by the command issued ...
Jamie Page
wiley   +1 more source

The Folk Sociological Imagination: Manufacturing Agency Through Smoking Among Chinese Adolescents. [PDF]

Sociol Health Illn
Li B.
europepmc   +1 more source