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Before the Fire Burns: Trials for Superstition, Magic, and Witchcraft in Sixteenth-Century Bologna
ReligionsThis article investigates the factors that provoked the trial and death sentence of four witches in Bologna in 1559. That is, it aims to elucidate how a witch hunt (albeit a small one) was triggered in a context where demonology was present, but the ...
Guido Dall’Olio
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Anxious Projections: Mass Hysteria and the Problem of Interpretation
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Stories of “mass hysteria” among teenage girls have often graced the headlines of Nepal's local and national newspapers, creating a public spectacle of a strange and mysterious form of affliction. Treatments include both shamanic rituals and psychosocial interventions, a new therapeutic modality that has gained prominence over the past two ...
Aidan Seale‐Feldman
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Voodoos and Obeahs. Phases of West India Witchcraft [PDF]
, 1934 Fernando Ortíz
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Zoonotic anxieties: The cultural politics of Nepal's quest for pandemic preparedness
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Based on fieldwork conducted in Nepal (2022–2024) and by paying attention to how local and transnational notions of epidemiological risk are deployed, this ethnography introduces the concept of “zoonotic anxieties” to make sense of the multi‐species relational ethos that contemporary global health regimes propose.
Max D. López Toledano +3 more
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Museum Anthropology, EarlyView.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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Speech Repression and Threat Narratives in Politics: Social Goals and Cognitive Foundations
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, EarlyView.Why do political activists repress speech, especially to protect simplistic ideological narratives? I argue that speech repression stems from at least three key motivations: hypersensitivity to social threats, desires to maintain mobilizations through information control, and status‐seeking through loyalty signaling.
Antoine Marie
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Bet on innovation, not ESG metrics, to lead the net zero transition
Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, EarlyView.
Bartley J. Madden
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