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“Ontological predation” and the conjuring of liberal fixations: ruminations on (inter)dependencies and “savage” (dis)possessions [PDF]

Revista 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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Diet and leishmaniasis in the Ecuadorian Amazon

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In Ecuador's Amazon, Indigenous communities affected by leishmaniasis often modify their diets as part of their health‐seeking practices. Drawing on qualitative research with sixty‐eight participants from seven Indigenous groups, this study explores how and why patients’ diets shift in pursuit of healing from leishmaniasis.
Veronica Cristina Vargas Roman
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The Right to Exist as the Foundation of Equal Citizenship: An Ontological Inquiry of State‐Citizen Relations in Türkiye

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

Psicologia & 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, Tania Mara Galli Fonseca   +1 more
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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

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 833-851, September 2026.
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
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Against Pluriversality: Epistemology, Ideology, and the Disavowal of Capitalist Antagonism

Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 5, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Recent years have witnessed a dramatic surge of interest in decolonial pluriversality across critical geography, political ecology, and development studies. Advanced most prominently by scholars, such as Walter Mignolo and Arturo Escobar, pluriversality promises a world in which multiple ontologies, epistemologies, and lifeways coexist without
Ilan Kapoor
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Formation of Ian McEwan’s artistic perspectivism

Семиотические исследования
Artistic perspectivism is considered to be the author’s value-based creative will. From this perspective, we analyse the formation of Ian McEwan’s specific perspectivism based on his first novels The Cement Garden and The Comfort of Strangers.
Maksim A. Rozanov
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No Guide to Ground: Right‐Making and Right‐Makers

Noûs, Volume 60, Issue 3, Page 606-618, September 2026.
ABSTRACT It is often taken for granted that right‐makers, that is, the things that make something—say, an action—right, do so by explaining why it is right. This view can be spelled out in terms of metaphysical ground: right‐making just is grounding of rightness facts.
Singa Behrens
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External‐World Skepticism and the New Ethics of Belief

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 113, Issue 2, Page 285-297, September 2026.
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
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Amerindian Cosmologies and European Prehistoric Cave Art: Reasons for and Usefulness of a Comparison

Arts, 2013
Several anthropological studies conducted in recent years among different Native American cultures have revealed a series of common features in ontological premises and cosmological frameworks.
Enrico Comba
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