Mímesis, performance, representação: o uso das máscaras na Amazônia [PDF]
El presente artículo intenta revisar el uso y empleo de las máscaras para la creación de un efecto transformador y sinestético en el arte simbólico e imaginativo de crear un paisaje de lejanía y familiaridad en que un ‘otro’ visualiza un diagrama ...
Tassi Teixeira, Rafael
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BODY, KNOWLEDGE AND PERSPECTIVE: MERLEAU-PONTY'S PHENOMENOLOGY AND THE AMERINDIAN PERSPECTIVISM
This article aims to establish a parallel of comparison between Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology and amerindian perspectivism, mainly on body and knowledge relations. Merleau-Ponty's influence on anthropology resulted in studies concerning body's centrality in socialization processes, which are fundamental in our knowledge experience of the world.
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The problem with economics: naturalism, critique and performativity [PDF]
http://www.csi.ensmp.fr/Items/WorkingPapers/Download/DLWP.php?wp=WP_CSI_020.pdfA critical review of debates on the performativity of economics from the vantage point of a general anthropology of modern economic reason.Révision critique des débats sur la ...
Muniesa, Fabian
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Human rights and Latin American southern voices [PDF]
What does it mean to say that Western law tends towards Eurocentrism and ethnocentrism? A tendency is an inclination towards a particular type of behaviour; a proclivity or predisposition. Building upon Twining’s insight I am going to argue in this paper
Guardiola-Rivera, Oscar
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Ethnography, ethnobiology and natural history: narratives on hunting and ecology of mammals among quilombolas from Southeast Brazil. [PDF]
Prado HM +3 more
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Furukawa, Fukachi +2 more
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This article explores how different formal techniques used by the Cashinahua and other “people with design” can be considered as “perspectival techniques”, meaning techniques enabling the onlooker to change point of view. I also consider the possibility of baptizing these design systems as “abstract chimeras”.
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Perspectival Anthropology and the Method of Controlled Equivocation [PDF]
This article argues that doing anthropology means comparing anthropologies. Comparison is not just our primary analytic tool, it is also our raw material and our ultimate grounding, since what we compare are always and necessarily, in one form or other ...
Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo
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Views from many worlds: unsettling categories in interdisciplinary research on endemic zoonotic diseases. [PDF]
MacGregor H, Waldman L.
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Remembering the auca:Violence and Generational Memory in Amazonian Ecuador [PDF]
Anderson +61 more
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