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inner pig

Original link: https://anthropology.fivest.one/archives/84?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=%25e5%2586%2585%25e5%25bf%2583%25e7%259a%2584%25e7%258c%25aa In the Kaluli community of Southern Highland Province, Papua New Guinea, the two main responsibilities of local psychics are: cure people and finding the villager’s lost pig What is the connection between these two things? In the local culture, a person is sick because of his inner pig, lost… Séances maybe called […]

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Tibetan Refugee Culture in America

Yeh, ET, 2007. Exile meets homeland: politics, performance, and authenticity in the Tibetan diaspora. Environment and Planning D: Society and space , 25 (4), pp.648-667. There are generally three groups of Tibetan refugees in the United States Tibetans who went into exile in India with the Dalai Lama in 1959, and exiles born in South

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