When Ghosts Can Talk: Informant Reality and Ethnographic Policy by James M Nyce, Sanna Talja, Sidney Dekker

“…The analytic models and categories we use in these cases are equivalent to often tacit and taken-for-granted Western strategies for dealing with ‘non-existent things’ and these make it impossible to take native statements at face value. …”
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Overweight and Weight Loss Maintenance by Anne Mathews, Lauren Foster, Wendy Dahl

“…Popular diets are often unsuccessful because they cannot be followed permanently. There is no magic diet to make you instantly shed pounds, but some good tips for steady, long-term weight loss are listed in this 2-page fact sheet written by Anne Mathews, Lauren Foster, and Wendy Dahl, and published by the UF Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, February 2013. …”
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Overweight and Weight Loss Maintenance by Anne Mathews, Lauren Foster, Wendy Dahl

“…Popular diets are often unsuccessful because they cannot be followed permanently. There is no magic diet to make you instantly shed pounds, but some good tips for steady, long-term weight loss are listed in this 2-page fact sheet written by Anne Mathews, Lauren Foster, and Wendy Dahl, and published by the UF Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, February 2013. …”
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Binary decision diagram‐based synthesis technique for improved mapping of Boolean functions inside memristive crossbar‐slices by Anindita Chakraborty, Vivek Maurya, Sneha Prasad, Suryansh Gupta, Rajat Subhra Chakraborty, Hafizur Rahaman

“…The authors propose to map the BDD‐nodes for any input Boolean function to the crossbar‐slices using an improved technique, where each BDD‐node is mapped more efficiently, and the node‐logic is implemented following the Memristor Aided loGIC (MAGIC) design style. …”
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Excès et sacré dans la littérature victorienne et édouardienne by Annie Escuret

“…During the 20th century there was an explosion of literary forms like the magic realism of Salman Rushdie who dared to rewrite texts considered as « sacred » by some who tried to punish him for his transgressions but what about the 19th century ? …”
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“When the Cock crows, the Devil Falls” – a Review of Christian Thought Concerning Birds in Selected Folk Tales by Agnieszka Tańczuk

“…I would also like to answer the question; does a modern man need myths to discover his sense of life and realise its meaning?…”
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Etno-show Quando l’antropologia andò in scena, un’antropologia bella da vedere by Alberto Baldi

“… The second half of the nineteenth century witness an anthropology that from the narrow scientific fields shifts to the forestage of exhibitions and universal expositions. It takes a more essentially popular, pedagogical and often absolutely spectacular capacity and role, using archeomedia’s technological know-how, like peepshow, stereoscopy, magic lantern, panorama and moving panorama, diorama, stereorama and cinerama. …”
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Do the media in South Africa offer alternatives to violence in their coverage of protests? by Wellington Radu, Kgalalelo Morwe, William Bird

“… Against the backdrop of the many social ills affecting the country, South Africa continues to make strides in the creation of a non-racist, non-sexist and non-violent society. …”
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"The Horse on which Words Ride": Proverbial Narrative in Toyin Falola's A Mouth Sweeter than Salt by Felicia Ohwovoriole

“…The oral forms Faiola has used in the text come from the oral character of everyday life, prose narratives, songs, proverbs and proverb-like expressions while exploring the themes of innocence, curiosity and growth. …”
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Starożytne źródła antropocentryzmu by Anita Ganowicz-Bączyk

“…One can distinguish at least several stages of the process, which led to this crisis, namely: stage of Magic and Myth, Ancient Times, Middle Ages, and Modern Times. …”
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Past Times and Our Times: Reading Our Mutual Friend by David Paroissien

“…Yet to be cut off from the world of print, is to live only half a life, a truth the illiterate Noddy Boffin immediately acts to correct when he inherits a fortune. …”
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The Wandering Jew as Monster: John Blackburn’s <i>Devil Daddy</i> by Lisa Lampert-Weissig

“…In his 1796 gothic novel, <i>The Monk</i>, Matthew Lewis creates a new strand of the Wandering Jew tradition, a gothic Wandering Jew, a being transformed from wonder to horror through association with centuries of antisemitic accusations against Jews as agents of conspiracy, ritual murder, nefarious magic, and disease. This essay argues that a variation on the representation of the gothic Wandering Jew, which began with Coleridge’s <i>Rime of the Ancient Mariner</i>, further adapts the legend to make the Wanderer not a sign of redemption, but the monstrous cause of catastrophe not only for himself, but for those he encounters. …”
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Ethnomulticultural dimensions in Osing literature of Banyuwangi: An analysis of Samar Wulu and Lintrik by Akhmad Taufiq, Sukatman Sukatman, Budi Setyono

“…The results revealed the significant role rituals play in expressing Osing cultural identity. Rituals like Kebo-Keboan, for overcoming plagues, and Lintrik, for warding off misfortune, are deeply rooted in Osing society and reflect themes of magic and tragedy. …”
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Venüs Heykelciklerinden İdollere Kadın Temsilleri by Tülin CENGİZ

“…The cuneiform tablets discovered by archaeological studies in Anatolia in the Bronze Age, a period that its history could be traced in writing, were able to provide more detailed information on the place and importance of women in political, social and economic life, compared to previous periods.…”
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Lessons Learnt from the Monetary System of Guernsey by Gábor Sárdi, József Varga

“…Bailiwick of Guernsey, situated in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy, just like Jersey and the Isle of Man, is an UK Crown dependency and an autonomous jurisdiction. …”
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Le Livre des Morts et le travail de rédaction des scribes-copistes : le cas du papyrus Louvre E 11078 by Silvia Einaudi

“…The ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead is a collection of magic-religious formulas, whose aim was to aid the deceased on his way to a happy life in the hereafter. …”
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