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The Life of Winds: Knowing the Namibian Weather from Someplace and from Noplace
American Anthropologist, Volume 121, Issue 4, Page 830-844, December 2019., 2019 ABSTRACT This article brings the two questions, how and what we know, into a productive dialog to explain the difference between indigenous and scientific environmental knowledge. In the case I explore, scientists and Damara pastoralists (ǂnūkhoen) both relate the arrival of the rains in arid Namibia to the interplay between two winds. However, when it
Michael Schnegg
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Refusal and Aporia: At the Limits of Anthropological Knowledge
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 2, Page 339-348, June 2026.ABSTRACT As anthropologists increasingly take up refusal, opacity, and other forms of resistance to surveillance and subjugation, this paper questions what implications this has for the discipline in practice. Considering anthropology's enduring centrality in defining what it means to be human, including the various ways that this category has been ...
Cory‐Alice André‐Johnson
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Characterising text mining: a systematic mapping review of the Portuguese language
IET Software, Volume 12, Issue 2, Page 49-75, April 2018., 2018 Documents written in natural language constitute a major part of the artefacts produced during the software engineering life cycle. Studies indicate that more than 80% of enterprise data is stored in some sort of unstructured form, mainly as text. Therefore, the growth of user‐generated content, especially from social media, provides a huge amount of ...
Ellen Souza +8 more
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Aranguren y Heidegger: base ontológica de la “moral como estructura”
IsegoríaEl objetivo de esta investigación consiste en establecer un diálogo filosófico entre la propuesta ética de Aranguren y la filosofía fundamental-ontológica de Heidegger.
Christian Ivanoff-Sabogal
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Looking at Us Through Their Eyes. The Analytical Process from Ethnographic Perspectives1
Journal of Analytical Psychology, Volume 71, Issue 2, Page 460-484, April 2026.Abstract This article looks at the analytical situation through the Others’ eyes—through examples from contemporary ethnographies of foreign cultures. It discusses the following issues: a) The analogy between the ontological worlds of the dead, ghosts, animals and dreams in “primitive populations” and the analytical psychological descriptions of the ...
Stefano Carta
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Trading Zones Between Thick and Thin: Anthropological Description as Scaffold or Mosaic
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 1, Page 159-170, March 2026.ABSTRACT Referring to the work of historian of science Peter Galison, I argue that anthropology requires thin description as an essential counterpart for thick description. Thin accounts provide the scaffolding within which thick descriptions sit. Galison uses the idea of a “trading zone” connecting different communities who, despite their differences (
David Zeitlyn
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Antipode, Volume 57, Issue 5, Page 1792-1824, September 2025.Abstract As the world continues to grapple with severe climate change impacts over the past decade, states and international organisations are committing to ambitious policies/projects to build “resilience” while scaling up development efforts. At a critical juncture where questions of political power and knowledge production become salient, this paper
Clement Amponsah
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Daimon, 2007 Mi objetivo, en este artículo, es clarificar el programa de Heidegger denominado «ontología fundamental». La lectura crítica hecha por el neokantiano Rudolf Zocher permite mostrar algunas ambigüedades de dicho programa. Se examinan tres tesis: 1.
Arnaud Dewalque
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Pertenencia “específica” y modificabilidad de las maneras del ser
Studia HeideggerianaEste trabajo despliega la pertenencia “específica” o “más propia” de ciertas maneras del ser (p.e. existencia, ser-a-la-mano) a ciertos entes, tema que Heidegger menciona, pero no profundiza. La exposición se articula en cuatro pasos. Primero, se aclara
Christian Ivanoff Sabogal
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The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 30, Issue 2, June 2025.ABSTRACT Data from archaeology, ethnography, and ethnohistory document entanglements of dogs among South American Indigenous societies during pre‐Columbian and colonial times. The prolific presence and uses of dogs in the Central Andes and in parts of the Paraná Basin, Patagonia, and Circum‐Caribbean regions contrast with the conspicuous lack of ...
Marcelo R. Sánchez‐Villagra +2 more
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