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Pluribiological Cosmopolitanism and More-than-Human Societies
NUML Journal of Critical InquiryIn this essay, I discuss the notions of multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism from an interspecies perspective. I propose the concept of "pluribiologism" as an alternative to Western multiculturalism and to the multinaturalism that anthropologists such as
Patricia Vieira
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Geofluids, Volume 2019, Issue 1, 2019., 2019 The simulation of hydraulic fracturing by the conventional ABAQUS cohesive finite element method requires a preset fracture propagation path, which restricts its application to the hydraulic fracturing simulation of a naturally fractured reservoir under full coupling.
Xiaoqiang Liu +7 more
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Weaponizing Nature, Naturalizing Violence: Anthropologies of Ecofascism
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 1, Page 224-236, March 2026.ABSTRACT After decades of denial and obstruction, the global Right is increasingly willing to acknowledge that climate change is a threat to lives and lifeways everywhere. Moreover, some seize on the specter of ecological collapse to advance fascistic politics.
Chloe Ahmann +7 more
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Power in/of/as water: Revisiting the hydrologic cycle in the Peruvian Andes
WIREs Water, Volume 5, Issue 2, March/April 2018., 2018 Mount Hualca Hualca of Cabanaconde. Water is important not only as a natural resource but also as an object of political empowerment, social meaning, and cultural imagination. To unpack the social nature of water, the article examines it as “a total human‐material fact” which implies enquiring into water's fundamental properties, that is, its ...
Karsten Paerregaard
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Wibana: How Bobonaza Runa and Forest Animals Know and Live With Each Other
The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 1, March 2026.ABSTRACT Runa women living along the Bobonaza river in the Ecuadorian Amazon raise captured forest animals, in a practice called wibana. Runa women are attentive to the particular ways the wiba (raised) animals interface with the world, and learn the wibas’ communicative repertoires and are able to “read” what wibas sense in the forest, including ...
James Beveridge
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MCA Model for Simulating the Failure of Microinhomogeneous Materials
Journal of Nanomaterials, Volume 2008, Issue 1, 2008., 2008 A special cellular automaton (CA) model called mechanical cellular automaton (MCA) is built, in which inhomogeneity of material cell can be evaluated by Weibull′s distribution function. In MCA, such material physical parameters as energy or strength and anisotropy defined by the different transferring energies along different directions are adopted. To
Yunliang Tan +3 more
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Infra‐culture and infrastructures: Relational placemaking at the coast
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 50, Issue 4, December 2025.Short Abstract This article explores the concept of infra‐culture, emphasising how cultural practices and material interactions influence the development of physical infrastructures over time. Using the Alde and Ore estuary in eastern England as a case study now increasingly disrupted by climate change, it examines the role of infra‐culture in shaping ...
Julian Clark
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Visual Nature: Multiperspectivity on Peru’s South Coast
ArtsImagery produced by the Indigenous peoples of south-coastal Peru (100 BCE–700 CE) frequently paired plants, animals (human and otherwise), and what have been called mythical or supernatural entities in predator–prey relationships.
Carolyn Dean
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 874-898, September 2025.Ethics and ontology have become prominent concepts in recent anthropology, informing a variety of research endeavours. Despite their different approaches, agendas, and concerns, they share a central focus on alterity and the relationship between self and other: Who is the other? How should I relate to the other?
Jan David Hauck
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Indigenous Metaphysics and Freudian Metapsychology
Critical HermeneuticsThis article resorts to some concepts formulated by the anthropologist Viveiros de Castro on indigenous metaphysics: perspectivism, multinaturalism, animism, cannibal otherness, and the analysis of the xapiri and shamanic work, implied by the Yanomami ...
Fernanda Silveira Corrêa
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