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Since around 2000, a
growing number of women in Dakar, Senegal have come to act openly as spiritual
leaders for both men and women. As urban youth turn to the Fayḍa Tijāniyya Sufi
Islamic movement in search of direction and community, these women provide
guidance in practicing Islam and cultivating mystical knowledge of God. While
women Islamic leaders may appear radical in a context where women have rarely
exercised Islamic authority, they have provoked surprisingly little controversy.
Wrapping Authority tells these women’s stories and explores how they have
developed ways of leading that...
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In 2014, Belgium became
the first country in the world to legislate euthanasia for children. The
decision evoked questions and criticisms in Belgium and in the world at large:
should children have the right to ask to die? Are children able to make reasoned
and independent choices on such an important matter? Does maturity matter? Are
children as autonomous as adults? Is it a logical move to grant terminally ill
children who are in intolerable pain this right? What happens if there is a
conflict of wishes between the child and parents? This article argues that these
questions should be...
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Migrants are one of the
most deprived and vulnerable groups who receive the least health services in the
society. Only a few studies have been conducted on access to health care among
migrants in Asia, despite hosting 75 million migrants. In Japan, Nepalese
migrants constitute the largest South Asian community. Their number increased by
three folds from 2011 to 2016. However, little is known about their access to
health care in Japan. Based on Andersen’s model, we examined the factors
associated with access to health care among Nepalese migrants in Japan. We
conducted a cross-sectional...
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Book review published
in Sport in History 36 (4). pp. 546-549, 2016.
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Taking the particular
case of maize cultivation and consumption among the Totonac of central-eastern
Mexico, we argue for a synthesis of insights from both environmental
anthropology and indigeneity studies by approaching indigeneity and its
performance from the point of view of human-nature relations. This analysis
explores indigenous ideas and practices regarding native, hybrid and genetically
modified (GM) maize in relation with claims to indigeneity for both humans and
plants. Focusing on the notion of a life-principle (listakni) shared between
plants, humans and divinities, we thus...
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