Human Evolution in Backwaters, Satellites, and Republics: How Political Change Impacts Paleoanthropology in a Shifting Landscape of Winners and Losers. [PDF]
Am J Biol AnthropolABSTRACT Objectives Paleoanthropology has been slow to adopt postcolonial frameworks to assess the validity of interpretations of human origins. This blind spot is made worse when we consider that postcolonial critique is often inappropriate for post‐communist spaces.
Glantz M, Radovčić D.
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Alternative discourses in Southeast Asia [PDF]
, 2001 This article brings into focus the question of alternative discourses in the social sciences. Alternative discourses are works that attempt to debunk ideas that have become entrenched in the social sciences, partly as a result of colonialism and the ...
Syed Farid Alatas,
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Book review: Syed Farid Alatas and Vineeta Sinha, Sociological Theory Beyond the Canon [PDF]
, 2017 No abstract ...
Dawson, Matt
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Cosmovision as Cognitive Technology: The Case of Mesoamerican Medicinal Knowledge. [PDF]
Top Cogn SciAbstract We examine the use of cognitive technologies in the acquisition and retention of botanical and medicinal knowledge. We focus on the Cruz‐Badianus codex, a 16th‐century Nahua (Aztec) herbarium which discusses the use of plants for a range of illnesses.
De Smedt J, De Cruz H.
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Historical sociology, international relations and connected histories [PDF]
, 2010 This article addresses three recent developments in historical sociology: (1) neo-Weberian historical sociology within International Relations; (2) the 'civilizational analysis' approach utilized by scholars of 'multiple modernities'; and (3) the 'third ...
Bhambra, Gurminder K.
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Cosmopolitanism, sociology and the otherness of the other [PDF]
, 2015 This article is concerned with the ‘cosmopolitan turn’ in sociology and examines the ways in which the discipline attempts to come to terms with the otherness of the other as a corrective to its own Eurocentrism.
Argyrou, Vassos
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The foundations of a nation : framing Pakistan from 1940-1971 through international relations theory and postcolonialism [PDF]
, 2018 This paper explores the emerging integration of international relations theory with postcolonial scholarship and uses Pakistan’s state formation and history as a case study. It is argued that international relations theory privileges European experiences
Orme, Joshua Charles
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LA DECONSTRUCTION DE L’EUROCENTRISME PHILOSOPHIQUE PAR LES PHILOSOPHES AFRICAINS
Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Philosophia, 2023 Deconstruction of the Philosophical Eurocentrism by African Philosophers. Eurocentrism is a current that is manifested by the refusal, disdain and depreciation of all knowledge abroad in favor of European cultures.
Bauvarie MOUNGA
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The Talisman, The Book of Saladin and Reluctant Orientalism
Nalans, 2022 The renowned writer of historical novels Walter Scott’s representations of historical figures reach beyond his country of birth. As a man of literature, he imagines the beyond.
Halil İbrahim Arpa
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