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Cognitive colonialism: Nationality bias in Brazilian academic philosophy
Abstract This paper presents the results of an experiment designed to test for nationality bias among members of the Brazilian philosophical community. Faculty members and postgraduate students from philosophy departments at seven Brazilian universities evaluated texts attributed to authors of European and Latin American nationalities. Results showed a
Murilo Rocha Seabra +3 more
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Gutting fishy empathies off the Shetland Islands, Scotland
Abstract This article builds upon Amerindian epistemologies and develops a perspectival ethnography of industrial Northwestern European skilled modes of engaging with wild fish. It explores Amerindian perspectivism as an ethnographic methodology grounded on animic premises: subject or object status are relative and relational, experience is ...
César E. Giraldo Herrera
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Melioristic genealogies and Indigenous philosophies
Abstract According to Mary Midgley, philosophy is like plumbing: like the invisible entrails of an elaborate plumbing system, philosophical ideas respond to basic needs that are fundamental to human life. Melioristic projects in philosophy attempt to fix or reroute this plumbing.
Helen De Cruz, Johan De Smedt
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Ontology, ‘hauntology’ and the ‘turn’ that keeps anthropology turning [PDF]
© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. Twentieth-century anthropology has been operating with the assumption of one nature and many cultures, one reality experienced and lived in many different ways. Its primary job, therefore, has been to render the otherness of
Argyrou, Vassos
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Animating archaeology: local theories and conceptually open-ended methodologies [PDF]
Animists’ theories of matter must be given equivalence at the level of theory if we are to understand adequately the nature of ontological difference in the past.
Alberti, Benjamin, Marshall, Yvonne
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Composing postcolonial geographies: Postconstructivism, ecology and overcoming ontologies of critique [PDF]
This paper seeks to bridge postcolonialism's turn to the environment with postconstructivist ecology and political ontology. Recent critiques by Chakrabarty, Spivak, and associated postcolonial theorists seek to expand the remit of postcolonialism and ...
Jackson, Mark S
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Equality without equivalence: an anthropology of the common★
Abstract This article elaborates an Amazonian conception of the common and the challenge it poses to Western thinking about individualism and equality. It is suggested that a number of distinctive features of Amazonian Urarina sociality may have their basis in a shared refusal of factors that give rise to relations of equivalence between people.
Harry Walker
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Ontology, ethnography, archaeology: an afterword on the ontography of things [PDF]
In commenting on the preceding articles of the Special Section, this afterword elaborates on the methodological and analytical implications for archaeology of the ontological alterity of animist phenomena.
Holbraad, M
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De natureza qualitativa e bibliográfica, o presente artigo apresenta uma reflexão teórico-filosófica que parte do seguinte problema: qual categoria seria mais pertinente para se pensar a educação ameríndia: epistemologia ou sabedoria?
Ana Paula Kahmann +1 more
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The purpose of this text is to develop and compare the philosophical-anthropological notions of perspectivism, cannibalism and metamorphosis in Cannibal Metaphysics, by the anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, and in various essays and novels by ...
María José Rossi
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