What Dreams May Come

What dreams may come is a piece of ethnofiction that tells the story of a young girl and her grandmother, displaced by the climate crisis and conflict. The story centres on the strong, abiding relationship between the girl and her grandmother. Their relationship is the anchor point for their survival in the new unhappy world that they find themselves in. As an anthropologist of displacement, this short story is an attempt to tell the story of climate crisis, displacement and conflict through a fictional lens, a place where fable and reality coincide and collide.

Alastair White, RUNE, Tête à Tête Festival, Round Chapel, Hackney, London, 17 August 2021.

The setting is Khye-Rell, part of a web of worlds in our universe's distant future. In this society, history is forbidden. A young girl, Kes'Cha'Au’, crosses a series of ‘transdimensional canals’, journeying back through our own time and our looming ecological collapse. She reveals, at the heart of everything, the universe creating itself out of nothing: it inscribes itself like a rune.

Digital Gangrene and Pulmonary Consolidation in a Young Girl with Takayasu Arteritis

ABSTRACT Takayasu arteritis is a large-vessel vasculitis most commonly affecting women of childbearing age. The disease process is usually slow and smoldering, presenting over months to years. Digital gangrene is an uncommon manifestation of Takayasu arteritis because of the formation of good collateral circulation. Similarly, although pulmonary artery involvement is well described, pulmonary parenchymal involvement is very rare. We are reporting a case of a young girl with Takayasu arteritis presenting with digital gangrene and pulmonary consolidation, which was treated successfully with a combination of aggressive systemic immunosuppression and anti-coagulants. The possible mechanism for gangrene along with the confounding diagnostic possibility of co-existing tuberculosis have been discussed.

Severe Posterior Infra-occlusion on a Young Girl Posing a Diagnostic Challenge- Review and Report of a Case of Primary Failure of Eruption

Primary failure of eruption is characterized by a non-syndromic eruption failure of permanent teeth in the absence of any mechanical obstruction. Applying orthodontic traction to teeth affected by PFE will not be successful and may cause ankylosis. This correspondence reviews and demonstrates the treatment of a case of PFE.

PSYCHOLINGUISTIC IMAGE OF JOY (IN THE COMPUTER-ANIMATED FILM INSIDE OUT)

The paper is focused on the correlation between the psychological archetype of a film character and the linguistic elements composing their speech. The Nurturer archetype is represented in the film Inside Out by the personalized emotion Joy. Joy is depicted as an antropomorphous female character, whose purpose is to keep her host, a young girl Riley, happy. As the Nurturer, Joy is completely focused on Riley’s happiness, which is expressed by lexico-semantic group ‘happy’, positive evaluative tokens, exclamatory sentences, promissive speech acts, and repetitions. She needs the feeling of connectedness with other members of her family, which is revealed by lexico-semantic groups ‘support’ and ‘help’. She is ready to sacrifice everything to save the girl in her care, which is demonstrated by modal verbs, frequent word-combination ‘for Riley’, and directives.

A young girl with severe polyarteritis nodosa successfully treated with tocilizumab: a case report

Background Childhood Polyarteritis nodosa (PAN) is a systemic vasculitis with necrotizing inflammation of medium- and small-sized arteries. Disease evolution may be severe and refractory to standard treatment including prednisone, azathioprine and cyclophosphamide. Case presentation We present the case of a young girl with severe PAN resulting in progressive ischemia and necrosis of fingers and toes. Biological work-up revealed increased acute phase reactants and interleukin-6 levels. She was only partially controlled despite high-dose corticosteroids and cyclophosphamide infusions, and eventually achieved rapid improvement and sustained remission on tocilizumab. Further, we review the current evidence of the interleukin-6-inhibitor tocilizumab for the treatment of PAN. Conclusion Tocilizumab may be an efficient therapeutic option in a subset of treatment-refractory children with PAN.

Changing Motivations for Woman-to-Woman Marriages among the Nandi of Kenya

In Africa, marriage was only seen to be complete if there were offspring and for that matter, male offspring. In cases of childlessness or bearing of only girls, woman-to-woman marriages were explored as an alternative to siring of a male offspring. An elderly childless lady or one bearing only girl children would marry a young girl who for one reason or another would be able to get offspring to inherit the name and the property of the older woman. However, in the present situation the practice of woman-to-woman marriage is facing various challenges, health, legal, economic, social and religious implications. In this paper we will look at the past and present status of the practice and then give a summary of the practice in the African continent in general, in Kenya and within the Nandi community in Nandi in particular. We will show how this practice was done in the past as discussed by the ethnographies and we will show some of the changes that have come up in the modern context. We will also use two modern case studies to highlight the challenges that this practice is facing in the modern situation. We will specifically discuss the challenge that this poses to the church and how the church can respond to it. In the end we will provide some theological guidelines to the church even as they provide guidance for the adherents who are faced with challenges on this matter