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Cannibals and Colonialism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
On 23 December 1826 on the New South Wales frontier, a white shepherd named Henry Preston went to his employer, John Jamieson, to conect his weekly rations. Neither Preston nor his dog returned home, and another shepherd raised the alarm.
Biber, K
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La représentation du Brésil et de ses habitants dans l’Europe de la fin du xvie siècle

open access: yesConfins, 2010
At the end of the 16th century, the protestant engraver Theodor de Bry illustrated two travels to a part of America: Brazil. In this country, Europeans met a tribe who used to eat humans during a ritual ceremony. With the third part of the Grands Voyages,
Grégory Wallerick
doaj   +1 more source

Rasquache vulnerability and theories of the flesh: Working through the flesh in (auto)ethnography as a site of disruption

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, Volume 6, Issue 2, November 2025.
Abstract In this article, I blend authoethnography and ethnography to activate a Chicanx feminist theory of the flesh, which is grounded in the sensibilities of vulnerability and rasquachismo. Rasquachismo is a politicized Mexican American visceral modality of being in the world—in art, in politics, in everydayness—that is rooted in purposeful defiance
Andrea M. Lopez
wiley   +1 more source

Towards a cosmopolitan criticality: Relational aesthetics, Rirkrit Tiravanija and transnational encounters with pad thai [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Marsha Meskimmon and Nikos Papastergiadis have responded to contemporary art’s concern with transculturalism, audience participation and intersubjectivity by re-articulating the cosmopolitan in relation to both aesthetics and globalisation.
null null, Renate Dohmen
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The Myths and Mess of Conversational Video AI

open access: yesEthnographic Praxis in Industry Conference Proceedings, Volume 2025, Issue 1, Page 354-366, November 2025.
Abstract This offers a design framework to guide more effective and ethical design of AI systems that model human likeness. Drawing on ethnographic research with StoryFile, a company pioneering conversational video AI, it traces how the promise of “authentic interactions” and lasting legacies emerge through the assemblage of human storytelling ...
Helen Robertson
wiley   +1 more source

Confiance, anthropophagie et pédagogie [PDF]

open access: yesRecherches en éducation, 2018
Nous évaluerons la notion de confiance à partir d'une enquête sur ses « occurrences anthropophagiques », avec l'intention d’en dégager ses possibles implications pédagogiques. Dans un premier temps, il s’agit de saisir les phénomènes ou les images qu’il faut associer à une relation de confiance dans les rituels anthropophagiques et dans les cultures ...
openaire   +3 more sources

The ugly in fine arts. The sensory nature of terror in the tales of the Brothers Grimm [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The author, inspired by philosophical aesthetic reflection, presents one of the aesthetic qualities: ugliness. Based on the assumption that “Grimms’ Fairy Tales” directly reach the realm of the unconscious, utilising towards that end not only symbolic ...
Szwajkowska, Anita
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Thinking Thought Otherwise:Cannibal Metaphysics and The Resistance to ideal Form [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper focuses on Eduardo Viveiros de Castro’s notion of Cannibal Metaphysics and the use of indigenous alter-anthropologies that offer the possibility to think thought otherwise than the dominant frameworks of Western modernity. It traces the use of
Curran, Fiona
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Diversity and Plasticity in Mosquito Feeding Patterns: A Meta‐Analysis of ‘Universal’ DNA Diet Studies

open access: yesGlobal Ecology and Biogeography, Volume 34, Issue 6, June 2025.
ABSTRACT Aim Although mosquitoes can have innate preferences for particular blood‐meal hosts, their realised feeding patterns on different host species can be modified under climate and land use change with implications for disease spread. Therefore, it is important to understand the niche breadth of vectors and the extent to which shifts in feeding ...
Meshach Lee   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

On Non-Folklorizing the Popular: reinterpreting the so-called popular cultures through Torquato Neto

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença, 2018
The article analyzes the only audio record (1968) of Torquato Neto, which points out, in dialogue with the experimental context of Tropicália (Süssekind, 2007), another point of view to rethink the creations and studies related to the so-called popular ...
Weslley Fontenele
doaj   +3 more sources

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