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Evidentiary Authority as a System: Johann Christoph Gatterer and the Collective Making of Historical Knowledge in the Eighteenth Century. [PDF]
How is historical evidence conveyed? How could an eighteenth‐century scholar vouch for the information stored on paper, drafted with the quill, and publicized in copperplate engravings or letterpress? In this article, I employ material and medial perspectives to reconstruct the multiple production stages of Johann Christoph Gatterer's Historia ...
Araújo AM.
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Abstract While Indigenous/mestizo distinction in Latin Americanist anthropology has been mainly thought of as a cultural and/or socioeconomic demarcation, I argue that a conceptualization in terms of race offers some valuable insights. Starting from a soccer championship in the Otavalo region of Ecuador, I show how otavaleño Indigenous people's ...
Jérémie Voirol
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Abstract Engaging with the assassination of black city councillor Marielle Franco, the paper discusses how “milícia urbanism”, a formation of power and capital accumulation driven by parapolice networks, intensifies the necropolitical governance of Rio de Janeiro.
Jan Simon Hutta
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Caribbeanist Anthropology and Minerva's Owl: Lessons Forgotten, Lessons Learned
Abstract This essay presents a sketch of what a critical genealogy of the anthropology of the Caribbean might involve. After looking at the origins of anthropological interest in the region, I will focus on two case studies that, for better or worse, may be said to have had lasting diagnostic value for key epistemological orientations in Caribbeanist ...
Stephan Palmié
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A New Priest for a New Society? The Masculinity of the Priesthood in Liberal Spain*
This study examines the formation of the ideal of the “good parish priest” as a means for the Catholic Church to recover its social influence in the Spain that emerged from the liberal revolutions of the early nineteenth century. It makes use of the concept of masculinity as a resource for illuminating the forms of authority and social relationships ...
María Cruz Romeo Mateo
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Objects Don't Have Desires: Toward an Anthropology of Technology beyond Anthropomorphism
ABSTRACT “Postdualist” approaches, such as the material turn in the humanities and social sciences, represent understandable reactions to the humanist and idealist traditions in Western thought, but tend to be deluded by a focus on individual artifacts rather than on the global, material relations on which their existence depends.
Alf Hornborg
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Water theft as social insurance: south‐eastern Spain, 1851–1948†
Abstract For centuries, irrigation communities in south‐eastern Spain were socially stable and economically efficient. In this article, we show how these self‐governing institutions persisted by resolving conflicts over scarce resources with flexible punishment for water theft.
Javier D. Donna +1 more
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Cadernos do Arquivo Municipal, N.º 5 (2016): Histórias de casas e de quem lá vive(u) - vol ...
Fátima Tomé, Inês Sapeta Dias
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O rizoma “género”: cartografia de três genealogias
Este texto visa discutir o conceito de género enquanto rizoma. Analisando-o na sua multiplicidade e recusando leituras únicas e definitivas sobre o conceito, coloca em evidência três conceções de género- Recorrendo a uma cartografia inspirada na ideia de
João Manuel de Oliveira
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La genealogia "líquida" de la interfície
La interpretació de la interfície en el marc d'una genealogia positivista, expansionista, economicista i determinista de la comunicació ha sigut potenciada enormement per l'ús constant de les metàfores del "fluid" i del "líquid", nocions associades a l ...
Jorge Marzo Perez
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