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On animism

open access: yesRe-visiones
A co-edited volume of the journal Performance Research gathering articles from artists and scholars across the world on the theme of ...
Pablo Martínez
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Reflection of religious motives in the heroic epic «Manas»

open access: yesNomadic Civilization: Historical Research, 2023
At the beginning of the I millennium BC, one of the largest events in the history of the peoples inhabiting the mountainous expanses of Eurasia took place — the transition of steppe tribes to a nomadic lifestyle, to nomadic cattle breeding. The presented
A. A. Bakirov
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Anthropomorphism in Human–Animal Interactions: A Pragmatist View

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2018
This paper explores anthropomorphism in human–animal interactions from the theoretical perspectives of pragmatism and anthropology of human–animal communication.
Véronique Servais
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Mythological Xullyukuns in Beliefs of Yakuts (Sakha) (Expedition Materials)

open access: yesНаучный диалог, 2021
Information about the mysterious supernatural water creature “xullyukun” is summarized in the article. It is emphasized that it takes its place in the pantheon of deities among the Yakuts (Sakha) — one of the indigenous peoples in the North-East of the ...
Yu. A. Sleptsov
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Animating fracture

open access: yesCommunications of the ACM, 2000
11 pages, 5 figures, 5 anc videos. Also available at: http://graphics.berkeley.edu/papers/Obrien-AFX-2000-12.
James F. O'Brien, Jessica K. Hodgins
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Belief and the beast: Religion and attitudes towards tigers in Central India

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Human perceptions of wildlife are critical to shaping conservation outcomes, particularly in landscapes where people coexist with large carnivores. Religion, a deeply rooted sociocultural force, remains underexplored in the context of human–wildlife conflict.
Sathvika Krishnan   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Human–wildlife coexistence and social context: Evidence from farmer communities in southern Sri Lanka

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Studies on human–wildlife interactions (HWI) often focus on conflict mitigation studies, thus overlooking underlying factors that influence community decisions to coexist with wildlife. To address this knowledge gap, we collected empirical evidence of how community interactions with wildlife are shaped by their social contexts.
Anuradhi Dulangi Jayasinghe   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Thinking with trees: Responding to sympoietic plant relations through visual art

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Amid escalating climate crises, this paper explores how we might rethink our relationship with the natural world, particularly with plants and trees, through the perspectives of visual art. This paper reveals how art invites us to see trees and other plant life not as passive background scenery, but as living beings with their own forms of experience ...
Xiaoyu Yang
wiley   +1 more source

Animals and Animals

open access: yesBetween 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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‘Why didn't you bring us a pumpkin?’ Relational recognition of caste, class, and tribe in rural Andhra Pradesh, India « Pourquoi ne nous as‐tu pas apporté de citrouille ? » Reconnaissance relationnelle de la caste, de la classe et de la tribu dans les zones rurales de l'Andhra Pradesh (Inde)

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article analyses the ways characteristics associated with the ‘Schedule Tribe’ (‘ST’) category in India shape situated acts of relating to others with either deference or assumed superiority. Ethnography shows how within an indigenous Adivasi community the traits that determine identification within the group generate feelings of entitlement and ...
Thomas Herzmark
wiley   +1 more source

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