The rethinking and enhancement of the natural and cultural heritage of the cultural landscapes: the case of Sečovlje and Janubio saltpans [PDF]
Cultural landscapes represent a complex category where the nature-culture dichotomy seem to not be able to unfold the main features and the profound relations that humans have with the environment.
Abad Espinoza, Luis Gregorio
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The Monga Show: prototyping Amerindian Perspectivism through the girl-to-gorilla trick
The Monga Show is the tropical version of the girl-to-gorilla trick, a sideshow act in which a beautiful lady mutates into an agitated gorilla, through an illusion technique called Pepper’s Ghost. This paper is a personal account of the process of building a mini Pepper’s Ghost illusion device, a prototype that emulates the Monga Show.
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Geophilosophies: towards another sense of the earth. [PDF]
Keating TP, Williams N.
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Plants, people and health: Three disciplines at work in Namaqualand [PDF]
In Paulshoek, Namaqualand, three research projects focusing on medicinal plants were developed concurrently. The projects were based in the disciplines of anthropology, botany and chemistry.
Cohen, Joshua +7 more
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Finding the Taste of Knowledge: The Orphan in Indigenous Epistemologies [PDF]
Following the suggestions of my indigenous consultants, that to better understand their theories of knowledge one has to start from myth, I take here their myth, “The origin of education” as the starting point for analyzing the alchemical processes of ...
Micarelli, Giovanna
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Behavioral community psychology in the Amazon rainforest: Suggestions for when behavior analysts meet alterity. [PDF]
da Silva FB, Leugi GB.
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The amerindian perspectivism and the idea of an american aesthetics
The article discusses the idea of the existence of a pre-colonial aesthetics of the American territory, based on the great geographic distribution of a same cosmological substrate. Its material expression would be the different classes of archaeological objects involved in ritual. The concept that guides this discussion is the Amerindian perspectivism.
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Claude Lévi-Strauss as a humanist forerunner of cultural macroevolution studies. [PDF]
Sánchez-Villagra MR.
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Des Américains très inquiétants, ou de quelques conséquences de la théorie du perspectivisme [PDF]
International audienceCet article a été rédigé à la suite d'un exposé prononcé fin 2010, à l'Université de Toulouse II, sur la théorie perspectiviste de Viveiros de Castro.
Pérez, Patrick
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