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Une joute intellectuelle au détriment du jeu? Claude Lévi-Strauss vs Roger Caillois (1954-1974) [PDF]
, 2010 En 1954-1955, un violent débat intellectuel opposa Roger Caillois à Claude Lévi-Strauss autour du relativisme culturel. Prenant la forme d’une joute oratoire, ce conflit marqua ces deux grandes figures de la vie intellectuelle française. Par la suite, il
Wendling, Thierry
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What Do Lithics Tell Us About Cultural Evolution? Insights From the Central African Record
Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While Western historical narratives often incorporate a biased vision of human evolution—driven by a progressive view tied to a progressively evolving state of culture—this paper proposes combining archaeological lithic data with epistemological reflections to critique the modern regime of historicity, where progress is assumed as rational ...
Isis Isabella Mesfin
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Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, EarlyView.In this study we measured the impact of access to sugar and hosts on the longevity and fecundity of six Trichogramma species: T. cacoeciae, T. chilonis, T. minutum, T. leptoparameron, T. pintoi and T. sibericum. The impact of food differed among species, but there was a general tendency of increased life expectancy and potential fecundity with sugar ...
Véronique Martel +2 more
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“A minimum of domination”—the overt normative orientation of Foucault's work
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract Answering the charge of ‘crypto‐normativity’ that has long overshadowed Michel Foucault's work, I argue that this work is animated by an overt normative orientation to keep domination to a minimum. This orientation operates both at the level of content and form.
Fabian Freyenhagen
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The caliph and the falcons: a ninth‐century history from Iceland to Iraq
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.In the late ninth and early tenth centuries, an extraordinary number of falcons were given to the ʿAbbāsid caliphs in Baghdad, many of which were white. Gifts from competing dynasties in the northern provinces of the Caliphate, at least some of these birds were almost certainly gyrfalcons from near the Arctic Circle.
Caitlin Ellis, Sam Ottewill‐Soulsby
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Playing simplicity: polemical stupidity in the writing of the French Enlightenment [PDF]
, 2002 Polemical stupidity - a critical concept drawn from Bakhtin – denotes the strategic refusal to understand. It appears most familiarly in the character of the Fool (like Candide), who genuinely does not understand the world, thus unmasking its ...
Howells, Robin
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The ecclesiastical fight against storm‐makers in the Latin west
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.This paper studies the strategies used by the Church to fight against the storm‐makers. These figures were said to cause the storms that ruined crops, and during Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the Visigothic and Frankish kingdoms were subject to punishment and constraints.
Juan Antonio Jiménez Sánchez
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Croiser le fer ou croiser la plume
Sur le JournalismeFR. Face aux transformations du champ médiatique depuis la fin du 20e siècle, la profession de journaliste est régulièrement sous les feux des projecteurs, et les discours alarmistes se succèdent sur la « crise » du métier, voire sa disparition.
Pierre Evéquoz
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Racialisation du discours dans l’Histoire de l’habitation humaine d’Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc [PDF]
, 2014 For a while now an object of interest for scholarship has been the double evolution of art history at the end of the 19th century, with its institutionalisation as a discipline and the racialization of the discourse of some of tis practitioners.
Kerr, Greg
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Does ulnar curvature covary with locomotion and substrate use in cercopithecids?
Journal of Anatomy, EarlyView.This study investigates ulnar curvature in cercopithecids in relation to locomotor behaviors, introducing an analysis of anteroposterior and mediolateral curvature, using geometric morphometric on 167 specimens (23 species). Although the two curvatures distinguish arboreal and terrestrial quadrupeds, their moderate covariation suggests that they ...
Nicolas Pappalardo +4 more
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