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Inhabiting - landscapes and natures [PDF]
, 2002 About the book: The Handbook of Cultural Geography presents a state of the art assessment of the key questions informing cultural geography. Emphasizing the intellectual diversity of the discipline, the Handbook presents a comprehensive statement of the ...
Hinchliffe, Steve
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Symbiotic modeling: Linguistic Anthropology and the promise of chiasmus [PDF]
, 2016 Reflexive observations and observations of reflexivity: such agendas are by now standard practice in anthropology. Dynamic feedback loops between self and other, cause and effect, represented and representamen may no longer seem surprising ...
Bartoli Cannada +44 more
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Proposing a Framework to Center Justice in Ambitious Science Teaching
Science Education, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Though educators and researchers have developed shared theory and language for priorities necessary to disrupt the status quo toward more equitable science education, we lack a tool that organizes sets of teaching practices across an instructional unit to support enactment and rehearsal.
April Luehmann +8 more
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On the independence of the humanities: Tartu–Moscow School and official Soviet politics of science
Sign Systems Studies, 2011 Review: Maxim Waldstein, Soviet Empire of Signs: A History of the Tartu School of Semiotics.
Andreas Ventsel
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Heidegger, technology and sustainability: between intentionality, accountability and empowerment [PDF]
, 2017 Transition is the adequate term for characterising contemporary societies. Norms and values are in transit, led by a technological revolution, which is, in itself, the tip of the iceberg of millenary social and cultural changes.
Duarte, Rogério +2 more
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Science Education, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Over the past decades, science education research has extensively examined the role of metaphors in teaching and learning science. However, much of the existing research has focused on verbal manifestations of metaphors, thereby overlooking aspects of metaphors that may occur in non‐verbal form. This study reconceptualises metaphors as dynamic
Magdalena Kersting +2 more
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‘Getting’ the Pox: Reflections by an Historian on How to Write the History of Early Modern Disease
Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies, 2016 This article reflects upon the recent return to linear history writing in medical history. It takes as its starting point a critique of the current return to constructivist ideas, suggesting the use of other methodological choices and interpretations to ...
Claudia Stein
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Denotation and connotation in the human-computer interface: The ‘Save as...’ command [PDF]
, 2004 This paper presents a semiotic technique as a means of exploring meaning and understanding in interface design and use. This is examined through a study of the interaction between the ‘file’ metaphor and ‘save as’ command metaphor.
Chris Condon +4 more
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Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the Chinese kimchi industry, manufacturers employ product names, photographs, and logistical strategies to promote their kimchi's “Koreanness.” So, what makes their kimchi “Korean,” and how does its Koreanness formulate kimchi's commodity value?
Heangjin Park
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Discourse, culture and forms of life: the housemaid as the face of Brazilian racism
Signata, 2022 This paper is divided into two parts. The first concerns the discussion, drawing from theory, which aims to present the contours and challenges of contemporary semiotics that focus on new demands from society, attempting to describe and explain how the ...
Matheus Nogueira Schwartzmann
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