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Problèmes de structure dans les Andes. De la parenté, de la polygynie et des moitiés à Cuzco
Journal de la Société des Américanistes, 2005 Problems of structure in the Andes. Kinship, polygyny and moieties in Cuzco. Lévi-Strauss, in articles written in 1983, poses the problem of multiple choices, with different advantages, of kin relationships between a ruler and his subjects. He takes as a
R. Tom Zuidema
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Agro‐pastoralist communities in Karamoja, Uganda, face food insecurity driven by climate variability, declining livestock numbers and crop failures. In this context, local ethnobotanical knowledge systems play a central role in subsistence and adaptation.
Emiel De Meyer +8 more
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Testigo en tierra salvaje: la cita tropical de Levi-Strauss y Theodore Roosevelt
Revista de Antropología Social, 2002 Este ensayo compara el texto de Claude Léví-Strauss Tristes Tropiques con Through the Brazilian Highlands, obra de Theodore Roosevelt, dos documentos referidos a la misma región de Brasil. El recorrido del presidente norteamericano (1913-1914) tuvo lugar
William A. Douglass
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Food practices have evolved alongside industrialization and urbanization. Compared to earlier generations, modern individuals grow and cook food less often and consume more processed products, weakening awareness of food's natural origins. Three studies examined explanatory pathways linking food practices to pro‐environmentalism through the ...
Shu Tian Ng, Angela K.‐y. Leung
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História e Etnologia. Lévi-Strauss e os embates em região de fronteira
Revista de Antropologia, 1999 O objetivo desse texto é recuperar, a partir de dois textos específicos de Lévi-Strauss, o debate que esse autor trava com a História. Tratam-se mais exatamente de dois ensaios que, apesar de apresentarem título idêntico - "História e etnologia" -, foram
Lilia K. Moritz Schwarcz
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Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.What happens when stories refuse coherence? This article examines ambiguous loss among mothers of combat soldiers, focusing on how prolonged waiting and uncertainty infiltrate everyday life, eroding sensemaking. Drawing on ethnographic interviews, it explores how mothers experience the contraction of time and space—manifested in suspended routines ...
Shirly Bar‐Lev +2 more
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Journal 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
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María Eugenia Olavarría, Levi-Strauss
Iztapalapa, 2018 Reseña del libro,Levi-Strauss, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, México, María EugEnia Olavarría, Lévi ...
Camilo Sempio Durán
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Journal 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
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What is social science if not critical?
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.Abstract This short article represents a contribution to the debate on the motion “Social science is explanation, or it is nothing.” While in the format of parliamentary debating the contribution would fall on the side of the opposition, I will not be arguing against explanation as such.
Jana Bacevic
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