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The Mutable Original: How Chinese Counterfeits Become Nigerian Originals in African Markets

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Affordable Chinese copies of Western brands are ubiquitous in African markets. Despite democratizing consumer access, these goods appear to cement hegemonic value hierarchies that rank Chinese or local products as inferior to Western goods.
Jing Jing Liu
wiley   +1 more source

Systemic electioneering from the evangelical pulpit: Evidence from a computational analysis. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Jacob MS, Lelkes Y, Wolken S, Westwood SJ.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

On 3‐MMC: A Cathinone I Have Come to Know and Love

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article attempts to complicate the mythology of a compound in a state of becoming. I will trace lightly its origins as a cultural disruptor and how I am implicated in this imperative. Introducing you to 3‐MMC will require multiple modes of storytelling and taking of liberties, drawing on literature reviews, practice‐based research, prose,
Carmen Ostrander
wiley   +1 more source

Deciphering the Impact of High-Fat Diet and Tobacco Exposure on Urothelial Integrity and Bladder Inflammation: A Mechanistic Systematic Review. [PDF]

Cureus
Francis HO, Agbonifo WO, Chimezie J, Awoleye M, Adedeji T.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Vicissitudes of the Nafs: Madness, Paralysis, and the Work of Transgression in Sufi Ethics

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How should we theorize Sufi ethics when the practice of zikr (remembrance) that leads to spiritual enlightenment (tazkiyya) might also bring one to the brink of majzubiyat (madness)? What forms of regulation or restraint are imagined or enacted by practitioners to prevent spiritual boundlessness from perverting into its underside of paralysis (
Muhammad Osama Imran
wiley   +1 more source

Putting Voluntary, Charity, and Social Enterprise (VCSE) Organisations at the Heart of Research: Creating a Northern Ireland VCSE Research Directory. [PDF]

Int J Popul Data Sci
Spikol E, Redican E, McBride O, Murphy J, Shevlin M.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Where the Magician Lives: An Ontological Problem in the Anthropology of Magic

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The purpose of the present study is to outline a theoretical framework in which the anthropologist can introduce a naturalistic approach, which will not be conflicted with scientific discourses, into his ethnographic work. First of all, I argue that the principles of magic can be understood as a part of social cognitive causal chains, based on
Keishi Okamoto
wiley   +1 more source

Generated cultural heritage question-answer dataset: Durga in multi-dimensional perspectives. [PDF]

Data Brief
Suryanto TLM, Wibawa AP, Hariyono, Nafalski A, Kurubacak Çakır G.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

On the Destruction and Humanitarianisation of the Health System in Gaza and the Need for a Biopolitical Bioethics

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines Israel's destruction and ‘humanitarianisation’ of Palestinian health systems, arguing that this should be understood as an instance of ‘necropolitics,’ as conceived by Achille Mbembe. We review the extensive, long‐term destruction of health systems in Palestine before 7 October 2023 and the catastrophic acceleration of that
Mohammad Salaymeh, Arianne Shahvisi, Sohail Jannesari   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Real-world Speech Communication Experiences of Cochlear Implant Users. [PDF]

Otol Neurotol Open
Titanji BN, Moberly AC, Tamati TN.
europepmc   +1 more source