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Time poetics and ageing in the Ik mountains: seeing time disappear Poétique du temps et vieillissement dans les montagnes des Iks : voir le temps disparaître

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In the Ik mountains in Uganda, only few old people still have the skills to ‘see time’ with sundials. Common ways of knowing time and age now include phones and ID cards in digital registers. I follow the elder seer Komol to explore how changing the measures of time influences the experience of time and age. How do being a ‘time being’ and ideas about ‘
Lotte Meinert
wiley   +1 more source

Autonomous password generation and setting system with cosmic coding and transfer (COSMOCAT) and cosmic time calibrator (CTC). [PDF]

open access: yesSci Rep
Tanaka HKM   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Ancient Maya Script of Hand Forms Embedded in Figural Art: A Decipherment of Numerals Signed by the Rulers of Altar Q1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Ancient Maya texts are informationally dominated by hieroglyphic inscriptions and visually dominated by figural art with distinctly formed hands. The hands suggest iconographically embedded hand signs, which would constitute a unique modality of semantic expression and a discourse complement to hieroglyphic writing.
Rich A. Sandoval
wiley   +1 more source

The Outsider Within. Anticolonial Critiques of Humanity and the Cosmopolitan Vision

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article re‐examines the anticolonial critique of the concept of ‘humanity’. It uses the example of Leopold Senghor to show the extent to which this critique is shaped by their sociological marginality. Drawing on Georg Simmel's discussion of the ‘stranger’ and Patricia Hill Collins's discussion of the ‘outsider within’, the study rethinks
Daniel Davison‐Vecchione   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Primordial Rotating Disk Composed of ≥15 Star Forming Clumps at Cosmic Dawn

open access: yes
Fujimoto S   +45 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Challenges to the [Formula: see text]CDM cosmology. [PDF]

open access: yesPhilos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci
Efstathiou G.
europepmc   +1 more source

Tools for relatedness: “Fetishes” in Burkina Faso and the work of enacted metaphors

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, EarlyView.
Abstract In West Africa, certain objects can act in the world and interact with people as subjects. Labeled “fetishes” by Europeans, these material things have generated centuries of debates on the nature of their agency. In this article, I rely on participant fieldwork as a student in a group of initiated donso hunters in Burkina Faso, which involved ...
Lorenzo Ferrarini
wiley   +1 more source

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