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Miniatures and Animism: The communicative role of Inka carved stone conopa [PDF]

, 2016
Andean offerings use miniaturisation and synecdoche to enact connections within a relational animism (where people, places and things participate in an interactive network), allowing the person preparing the offering to make material links between them ...
Sillar, B
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Animals and Animals

Between the Species: An Online Journal for the Study of Philosophy and Animals, 2010
Speciesism is the wrong of not acknowledging the moral qualities that non-human animals possess that are similar or equivalent or even superior to the moral qualities that human beings possess. However, since it is manifestly clear that no one thinks that apes are in any way obligated to human beings, it clearly cannot be a form of speciesism to be ...
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Nature on the Move III: (Re)countenancing an Animate Nature

New Proposals, 2013
Current market-based approaches to environmental governance for conservation and sustainability tend to disaggregate non-human natures into discrete units to which ‘value’ can attach, and release these new units into markets of circulating commodities so
Sian Sullivan
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Indigenous Metaphysics and Freudian Metapsychology

Critical Hermeneutics
This article resorts to some concepts formulated by the anthropologist Viveiros de Castro on indigenous metaphysics: perspectivism, multinaturalism, animism, cannibal otherness, and the analysis of the xapiri and shamanic work, implied by the Yanomami ...
Fernanda Silveira Corrêa
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"It kinda has like a mind": Children's and parents' beliefs concerning viral disease transmission for COVID-19 and the common cold. [PDF]

Cognition, 2023
Labotka D, Gelman SA.
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Animistic design: how to reimagine digital interaction between the human and the nonhuman [PDF]

, 2016
This article puts forward the notion of animistic design as an uncertainty-driven strategy to reimagine human–machine interaction as a milieu of human and nonhuman. Animistic design is suggested as capable of fostering affects, sensibilities and thoughts
Marenko, Betti, van Allen, Philip
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‘Unhappy Lovers’? Difficulties of Spiritual Transition and the Case of Environmentalist ‘New Animism’

Religions
In this paper, we reflect on difficulties connected with transitioning from one spiritual tradition to another. We consider Western New Animism, sometimes proposed as a remedy to the exploitative and anthropocentric values typical of Western Modernity ...
Ondřej Beran, Olli Lagerspetz
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Posthumanism: Anthropological Insights by Alan Smart and Josephine Smart [PDF]

, 2018
Review of Alan Smart and Josephine Smart’s Posthumanism: Anthropological ...
Shaw, David
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The Soul of the Frog for a Postmodern Age

Zygon
The history of modern science bears abundant witness to the fact that the humble frog has yielded myriad insights into the intricacies of anatomy and physiology far beyond frogs, producing several Nobel laureates in the process.
Gordon Lynn Miller
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Scientific Animism [PDF]

Conscious beings are efficacious and that is how we can know where they exist. They are able to sense their environment and interact with it in a dynamic flexible goal oriented way.
Sleakes, Lorenzo
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