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Sympathetic science: analogism in Brazilian ethnobiological repertoires among quilombolas of the Atlantic forest and Amazonian ribeirinhos [PDF]
Background Drawing on Phillipe Descola’s comparative analysis of ontological regimes across cultures, this article identifies analogism guiding ethnobiological repertories among two distinctive traditional tropical forest communities in Brazil.
Rui Sérgio Sereni Murrieta +1 more
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Exploring safety capacity from a risk and safety information integration perspective: Connotation, dimension mining and dimensionality reduction [PDF]
With the development of safety science, the concept of safety capacity (SC) has been proposed. SC has been applied in many fields. Concurrently, there has been an active and robust development of research pertaining to it.
Fang Yan +4 more
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Previous research on ecosystem and climate dynamics using fossil data has mainly focused on tracking shifts at the species or biome levels or relied exclusively on abiotic proxies.
Petra Hájková +2 more
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Virkeligheder og religionshistorie: En introduktion til ontologier ifølge Philippe Descola
ENGLISH SUMMARY: A presentation of Philippe Descola’s model of four ontol-ogies (animism, totemism, analogism, and naturalism) and six forms of attach-ment (gift, exchange, etc.) and an argument for their relevance for the academic study of ...
Hans J. Lundager Jensen
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Ontology in Neolithic Britain and Ireland: Beyond Animism
A combination of new animism and new materialism has influenced recent interpretations of the Neolithic archaeology of Britain and Ireland, including decorative and figurative productions often referred to as ‘art’.
Chris Fowler
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Dyrenes betydning i religion og filosofi – en oversigt
English abstract: In this article, I present an overview of the meaning and significance of animals in a religious context, ranging from tribal cultures to a Christian tradition.
Lars Albinus
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Entre tropicalité et Anthropocène : « nature » et « culture » dans l’Inde hindoue
Wouldn't an explanation for the difficulties of national parks in India be cultural? Doesn't this model correspond to an imported vision of the world opposing humans and nature, different from the dominant representations in India?
Frédéric Landy
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Social characteristics of animals as perceived by residents of the medieval Volga region
Using theoretical developments in the field of anthropology of nature, the problem of perception of social bonds in beavers and other animals by residents of the Volga region was considered.
D.V. Puzanov
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This paper aims to analyse the way three Japanese contemporary artists, namely Tadashi Kawamata, Kōichi Kurita and Motoi Yamamoto, employ fragile organic materials (wood, soil, salt), in formal propositions that question social links between humans and ...
Nicolas-Xavier Ferrand
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Analogical Proportions and Analogical Reasoning - An Introduction [PDF]
Analogical proportions are statements of the form “a is to b as c is to d”. For more than a decade now, their formalization and use have raised the interest of a number of researchers. In this talk we shall primarily focus on their modeling in logical settings, both in the Boolean and in the multiple-valued cases.
Prade, Henri, Richard, Gilles
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