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The Soft Side of Stone: Notes for a Phenomenology of Stone [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Stone represents the firmness and intransigence of the world within which we live and act. But beyond the perception and appropriations of stone, diverse meanings lie hidden between the hardness of stone and its uses.
Berleant, Arnold
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Cheia de axé (full of axé): Spirituality, resistance, and repair in Pernambuco's Afro‐Brazilian traditional communities

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how Afro‐Brazilian communities in Pernambuco respond to state‐led industrial development through culturally rooted practices of resistance and repair. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in the coastal municipalities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, this study traces the effects of Brazil's large‐scale ...
Shelly Annette Biesel
wiley   +1 more source

Aesthetic Sensibility

open access: yesAmbiances, 2015
Aesthetics is fundamentally a theory of sensible experience. Its scope has expanded greatly from centering on the arts and scenic nature to the full range of appreciative experience.
Arnold Berleant
doaj   +1 more source

Quantifying the Pressure of Labial and Buccinator Regions Pre‐ and Post‐ Facial Nerve Reanimation

open access: yesHead &Neck, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Flaccid facial nerve paralysis (FFNP) impairs oral function and quality of life. Tensor fascia lata slings (TFL) are used to improve oral competence. This study used the Iowa Oral Performance Instrument (IOPI) to measure oral competence in patients with FFNP undergoing facial reanimation.
Emma Charters   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Service Work as Lived Experience: A Problematizing Review

open access: yesHuman Resource Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Between employee burnout and growing recruitment challenges, a systemic crisis confronts the service industry. One reason lies in the scope of received human resource management (HRM) approaches, which often emphasize organizational performance metrics at the expense of the emotional, social, and material experiences of doing frontline service
Kushagra Bhatnagar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Everyday Aesthetics and Everyday Behavior

open access: yesContemporary Aesthetics, 2017
This article addresses everyday aesthetics from the point of view of everyday behavior. I suggest that the ordinary daily interaction of people with each other is one of the most important areas of everyday aesthetics. I present an interpretation of the concepts of both the everyday and aesthetics, and argue that in the context of everyday social ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Cultures of unruly bricolage : 'debadging' and the cultural logic of resistance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Arnould and Thompson note that the "marketplace has become a pre-eminent source of mythic and symbolic resources through which [people] construct narratives of identity' (2005: 871). Not only do consumers "actively rework and transform symbolic meanings"
Brownlie, Douglas, Hewer, Paul
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UNTOUCHABLE BEAUTY OF EVERYDAY AESTHETICS IN WIM WENDERS’ PERFECT DAYS

open access: yesParadigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya
This study is critically aimed at examining the everyday aesthetics in the slice-of-life film, Perfect Days, aligning with traditional Japanese aesthetics, particularly wabi-sabi.
Nindya Galuh Fatmawati, Agni Saraswati
doaj   +1 more source

Turning Down Mum's Cooking: The Ethics of Dietary Difference within Families

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although food ethicists have called for greater attention to the relational context of eating for over a decade, the context of ‘eating with family’ remains largely ignored. But the family is both a morally specific relational context and one within which many people do most of their eating.
Megan A. Dean
wiley   +1 more source

Student Reflections on Prosthodontics Patient Encounters: Reversible and Irreversible Procedures: Following Diagnostic Interactions

open access: yesJournal of Dental Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Conceptualizing the next patient interaction is done intuitively by the master practitioner for every patient encounter. The project analyzes student reflections following interactions with patients involving reversible and irreversible procedures and follows a project analyzing reflections with patients involving diagnoses.
David C. Johnsen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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