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Concepts of the body and personhood in the Mesolithic-Neolithic Danube Gorges: interpreting animal remains from human burials

open access: yesEtnoantropološki Problemi, 2016
In recent years, humanities have brought forward the idea of non-human agency; either in the form of meanings bestowed upon objects, animals and natural phenomena, or through deconstruction of ontological differences between ‘people’ and ‘things’.
Ivana Živaljević
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Perspectival Kinaesthetic Imaging

open access: yesMultimodality & Society, 2023
Perspectival Kinaesthetic Imaging is being proposed as a method designed to facilitate the heightened sensitivity needed for the anthropological study of the relationship between making and thinking, during the creative engagement with form-generating materials.
Malafouris, Lambros   +5 more
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"Vårt liv drar bort i förvandling"

open access: yesTidskrift för Litteraturvetenskap, 2015
”Our Life Glides By in Transformation”. Literature and Scholarship in the Flux of Time This article – originally a sexagenarian lecture – first considers the transience of the inner life of human beings, bringing out the unique ability of literature ...
Torsten Pettersson
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A Perspective on Perspectivism

open access: yesTeorie vědy, 2023
Book review: Smith, Kenneth. Perspectivism. A Contribution to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences. London: Routledge, 2022. 320 pages.
William Outhwaite
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“Ontological predation” and the conjuring of liberal fixations: ruminations on (inter)dependencies and “savage” (dis)possessions [PDF]

open access: yesRevista do Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros
This essay explores (inter) dependency through the concepts of Claude Lévi-Strauss’s “floating signifiers” and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro’s “ontological predation”, placing them in dialogue with other social theories, such as Fernando Henrique Cardoso’s ...
Gustavo S. Azenha
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The birth of an earth being: ‘Rights of nature’ in Brazilian Amazonia and elsewhere Naissance d'un être de la terre : « droits de la nature » en Amazonie brésilienne et ailleurs

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In June 2023, the Laje River, located in the traditional territory of the Wari’ Indigenous people in Rondônia, Brazil, was declared a legal entity, an earth being, with rights, following the co‐ordinated action of an indigenous councillor and non‐indigenous activists.
Aparecida Vilaça
wiley   +1 more source

External‐World Skepticism and the New Ethics of Belief

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT External‐world skepticism challenges, among other things, the epistemic credentials of beliefs about other people. Some external‐world skeptics deny that I know my loved ones exist; some claim that my belief that my loved ones exist is epistemically impermissible. However, abandoning this belief would be highly unattractive.
James Fritz
wiley   +1 more source

Conversas entre Escher e Deleuze: tecendo percursos para se pensar a subjetivação Colloquies between Escher and Deleuze: weaving passageways for thinking on subjectiveness

open access: yesPsicologia & Sociedade, 2006
Este texto busca visualizar configurações espaciais e temporais que subvertam estruturas lineares e dicotômicas através de formas de ocupação do espaço construídas na multiplicidade. Tal visualização incidirá a partir das obras do artista plástico Murits
Andréia Machado Oliveira   +1 more
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Risk, Recklessness, and Objectivism

open access: yesRatio, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT One classic objection to Objectivism about ought is that it recommends unconscionably risky actions in so‐called Three‐Option‐Cases, the most famous of which is Jackson's case featuring a doctor called Jill. Some philosophers deny this orthodoxy and claim that Objectivism can yet account for our intuitions in such cases.
Daniele Bruno
wiley   +1 more source

The Right to Exist as the Foundation of Equal Citizenship: An Ontological Inquiry of State‐Citizen Relations in Türkiye

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite enduring decades of advocacy, Alevi communities in Türkiye find themselves in a constant state of anticipation for acknowledgment from the Turkish state. Previous studies have long documented the marginalized status of Alevis within Turkish society and their ongoing struggle for recognition; however, they have overwhelmingly framed the
Aslı Gücin
wiley   +1 more source

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