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A new Anthropocene aesthetics: Mediating Harman, Morton, and Boysen
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract Practitioners of Object‐Oriented Ontology (OOO) have critiqued the metaphysical assumptions of contemporary poetry, and particularly the position of the lyric speaker. Scholars such as Graham Harman and Timothy Morton have positioned themselves as critics of these lyric sensibilities. In recent years, concerns have risen around their critiques
Chase Cate
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Insider/Outsider/Transsiders of Transnational Migration
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Migration is individually and collectively a challenging but also a transformative praxis and process. In my proposal, I present these in the context of transnational migration of two multigenerational families whose pioneers originally migrated from Turkey to Germany.
Halil Can
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ANIMISM, RECIPROCITY AND ENTANGLEMENT
, 2016 Sir Edward Tylor defined animism as the belief that features of the natural world, such as rock, trees, rivers, and mountains have souls or spirit. Within cultural anthropology animism was eventually abandoned as a useful analytic tool partly because of ...
Malville, J. McKim
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The Return of the Windigo, Again
Semiotic Review, 2015 This article continues the discussion of “And Some Guys Dream Bad Things”: Part I in this issue, an unreconstructed structural reading of the Algonquian windigo.
Robert Brightman
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WIREs Cognitive Science, 2010 AbstractThe main topics in the study of animal cognition are reviewed with special reference to direct links to human, and in particular developmental, cognitive sciences. The material is organized with regard to the general idea that biological organisms would be endowed with a small set of separable systems of core knowledge, a prominent hypothesis ...
G. Vallortigara +4 more
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Kinship and reproduction: A perspective of the Akha in Laos
The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract Drawing on fieldwork among the Akha people in Phongsaly District, Phongsaly Province, northern Laos, this paper examines Akha patrilineal kinship and its links to reproduction. The Akha people's reproductive decisions and behaviours are shaped by patrilineality, ancestral connections and cultural–spiritual perceptions of reproduction, which ...
Vanly Lorkuangming
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Social characteristics of animals as perceived by residents of the medieval Volga region
Ученые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки, 2020 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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Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.Abstract Postcolonial textbook research leads us to reflect on the representation of (post)colonial communities in educational media for adolescents in geography education. This paper contributes to this scholarship through Critical Discourse Analysis tracing how nine Dutch geography textbooks (1946–2018) have represented such communities from ...
Marthe Wierenga, Dietha Koster
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The history of present challenges of Experimental Physiology
Revista Habanera de Ciencias Médicas, 2017 Experimental physiology is a science with a bulk of results, publications, scientific societies, institutions and Nobel Prize. Nevertheless Physiology face some challenges such as: animistic conceptions, preformative ideas, research control regulations ...
Nibaldo Hernández Mesa
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Animating the Land: Native American Spirituality, Identity and the Struggle for Sovereignty in Contemporary Literature [PDF]
LitinfiniteThis paper explores the intricate relationship between Native American identity and the land, emphasising the spiritual, cultural and communal dimensions of this bond.
Dr. Anu Lakshmi Babu
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