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PEASANTS, BRIGANDS, AND THE CHRONOPOLITICS OF THE NEW LEVIATHAN IN THE MEZZOGIORNO
History and Theory, Volume 62, Issue 4, Page 24-44, December 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT The image of a backward, archaic South whose barbarian population had remained at a low tier of civilization was a child of Italian unification. Not unlike the Orientalist East, the South that meridionalist discourse brought forth was a “chronotopos”—that is, a time‐space that had supposedly remained in the past.
FERNANDO ESPOSITO
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American Ethnologist, Volume 50, Issue 4, Page 609-621, November 2023., 2023 Abstract Bird language is an emerging practice among nature‐connection enthusiasts in which practitioners strive to comprehend the signals emitted by birds and other nonhuman beings. This practice shares much with contemporary academic interests in more‐than‐human sociality and foregrounds relational ways of knowing.
Ariel Appel, Nurit Bird‐David
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Courage in the Anthropocene: Towards a philosophical anthropology of the present
The Philosophical Forum, Volume 54, Issue 4, Page 249-259, Winter 2023., 2023 Abstract In the late 18th century, Immanuel Kant attracted attention for his criticisms of colonialism, that problematized the established boundaries between civilization and barbarism, and chastised English colonialism in particular. Some years later, however, in his lectures on Anthropology, he ventured some oddly racist views, concerning the ...
Julian Reid
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 29, Issue 2, Page 347-362, June 2023., 2023 Abstract I consider the influence of the language used in anthropological analysis (the metalanguage). If in principle there are at least as many anthropologies as there are languages, then we must allow the possibility of seven thousand or so more or less incommensurable anthropologies.
David Zeitlyn
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Language otherwise: Linguistic natures and the ontological challenge
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 4-24, May 2023., 2023 Abstract Linguistic anthropology has remained largely unaffected by debates about ontology in other subfields. In turn, the concept of language has been conspicuously absent from ontological debates. The past few years, however, have seen attempts at articulating the two, interrogating what language is from ethnographic perspectives and extending the ...
Jan David Hauck
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Naturaleza y cultura: perspectivas científico-vitales de la ciencia de Humboldt
HiN - Alexander von Humboldt im Netz. Internationale Zeitschrift für Humboldt-Studien, 2016 Resumen El presente trabajo gira en torno al inexpugnable vínculo entre naturaleza y cultura y la 'no naturalidad' de la primera, producto de las milenarias intervenciones del hombre, subsumido bajo el término del 'antropoceno'.
Ottmar Ette
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J Hist Behav SciJournal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Volume 61, Issue 1, Winter 2025.
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Natureza e sociedade. Entrevista com Philippe Descola
Revista de Antropologia, 1992 Edmundo Magaña
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Equality without equivalence: an anthropology of the common★
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 26, Issue 1, Page 146-166, March 2020., 2020 Abstract This article elaborates an Amazonian conception of the common and the challenge it poses to Western thinking about individualism and equality. It is suggested that a number of distinctive features of Amazonian Urarina sociality may have their basis in a shared refusal of factors that give rise to relations of equivalence between people.
Harry Walker
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