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Anmeldelse af Claude Lévi-Strauss: "Paroles données"

open access: yesReligionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 1985
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Hans J. Lundager Jensen
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Claude Lévi-Strauss v sociologii: Baudrillardova teorie společnosti konzumu

open access: yesTeorie vědy, 2009
Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Inspiration in Sociology: Baudrillard’s Theory of the Consumer Society Contrary to what is often thought, the structuralist approach has never been adopted in French sociology very extensively.
Jan Maršálek
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Keeping their powder dry: Purity, pollution, and handgun ownership among Jewish women in Israel

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the gendered practices through which Jewish women in Israel experience and negotiate personal handgun ownership in everyday life. Drawing on interviews, participant observation in gun‐related spaces, and analysis of women‐only online forums, we explore the expanding participation of Jewish women in civilian gun ownership,
Maya Maor   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Claude Levi-Strauss: Mask and Myth

open access: yesEtnoantropološki Problemi, 2009
This paper discusses a relationship between mask and myth and how the appropriate analysis by Claude Levi-Strauss may make clearer a complex field of masks in the part of North America.
Senka Kovač
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Petite exploration d’une « géographie affective ». La fonction mythopoïétique du phonosymbolisme dans le Muu igala

open access: yesSignifiances (Signifying), 2020
            On discutera dans cet article la thèse soutenue pour la première fois par Lévi-Strauss dans un essai intitulé « L’efficacité symbolique » (publié en 1949), concernant en particulier l’efficacité performative transmodale du Muu Igala, un ...
Andrea Picciuolo
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Animal translations: AI and the intelligibility of non‐human worlds Traduire l'animal : l'IA et l'intelligibilité des mondes non humains

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Amid the general sense of worry that large language models will soon drown out human voices, some researchers are optimistic that machine learning will allow humans to listen to and understand animal voices to an unprecedented extent. As part of a broader project aimed at interspecies communication, a loosely connected set of animal behaviourists, AI ...
Courtney Handman
wiley   +1 more source

‘Everything is a signal’: speaking circuits and noisy signs in the making of language‐oriented AI « Tout est signal » : circuits parlants et signes bruyants dans la création de l'IA orientée langage

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Contemporary artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are often presumed to be capable of revealing unmediated truths about the world, including the truths language might hold, echoing the long‐standing assertion that language's primary function is to directly translate reality.
Beth M. Semel
wiley   +1 more source

Reconceptualising Schopenhauer's "Compassion" through Diametric and Concentric Spatial Structures of Relation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Schopenhauer's compassion (Mitleid) emphasises that a person participates immediately in another's suffering. A pervasive theme among critics historically is that Schopenhauer engages in an unwitting reduction of compassion to some form of egoism.
Downes, Paul
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‘The Good Couscous That Pleases Us!’: The Meanings of Enduring Imperialist Imagery in Postcolonial French Food Advertising, 1970–2000

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
wiley   +1 more source

Claude Lévi-Strauss a problém tzv. synchronického času

open access: yesTeorie vědy, 2009
In societies described as “cold” by Claude Lévi-Strauss, the historical dimension is coded into myths, traditions and rituals. Lévi-Strauss says that ritual is an “instrument for the destruction of time”.
Jiří Šubrt
doaj   +1 more source

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