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PERSPECTIVISM, CULTURAL PHENOMENOLOGY AND POST-COLONIAL ETHNOGRAPHIES: INTERVENING IN A DIALOGUE ABOUT CORPOREALITIES

open access: yesEspaço Ameríndio, 2013
We propose an intercultural dialogue between cultural Phenomenology and Amerindian Perspectivism. Through different scenes we analyze the use of concepts like “body-spirit”, “flesh” and “amerindians” as existentialist categories in the Amazonic ...
Silvia Citro, Mariana Gómez
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Perspectivism and the methods of psychiatry

open access: yesComprehensive Psychiatry, 1988
In their book, The Perspectives of Psychiatry, Paul R. McHugh and Phillip R. Slavney propose four basic perspectives to undergird and inform the practice of psychiatry. These are the perspectives of diseases, dimensions, behaviors, and life stories.
M A, Schwartz, O P, Wiggins
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LiDAR‐Based Storytelling About a Historical Industrial Landscape in Southern Middle Tennessee

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 4, Page 817-832, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Industrial landscapes play deep into the imagination of American consciousness, with coal mining rooted in Appalachian culture as both identity and political flashpoint. In Tennessee, coal mining coincided with the convict leasing system that operated across the American South during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Carla E. Klehm, V. Camille Westmont
wiley   +1 more source

Nothing Rather than Something: A Zhuangzian Reappraisal of Nihilism

open access: yesJournal of Religious Ethics, Volume 53, Issue 4, Page 483-502, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Nihilism comes from the Latin nihil, meaning “nothing.” It is the belief that nothing inherently governs existence: no values, principles, or ultimate meaning. Many philosophers treat this as an existential crisis: If there is no meaning to our lives and actions, why bother? This work challenges the assumption that nihilism is terrifying.
Christine Abigail L. Tan
wiley   +1 more source

How do you assert a graph? Towards an account of depictions in scientific testimony

open access: yesNoûs, Volume 59, Issue 3, Page 678-699, September 2025.
Abstract I extend the literature on norms of assertion to the ubiquitous use of graphs in scientific papers and presentations, which I term “graphical testimony.” On my account, the testimonial presentation of a graph involves commitment to both (a) the in‐context reliability of the graph's framing devices and (b) the perspective‐relative accuracy of ...
Corey Dethier
wiley   +1 more source

Naturaleza, cultura e identidad. Reflexiones desde la tradición oral maya contemporánea Nature, culture, identity. Some thoughts from contemporary Maya oral tradition

open access: yesEstudios de Cultura Maya, 2009
Este artículo presenta algunas reflexiones en torno a la problemática derivada de la construcción y el uso de los conceptos de naturaleza y cultura para el análisis antropológico, así como sus posibilidades de aplicación al estudio de las culturas mayas.
Adriana C. Estrada Ochoa
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Decolonising intercultural theology and research: What role for cultural outsiders?

open access: yesVerbum et Ecclesia
This article addresses some reasons and requirements for intercultural theologising as boundary-crossing interaction to be decolonised and hold decolonising potential itself.
Marcus Grohmann
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A New Way of “Thinking” Consciousness: Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, and Neo-Materialism

open access: yesReligions
This paper re-examines consciousness through Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, and contemporary neo-materialism, arguing that traditional views overstate its importance and that retreating to the subconscious is inadequate.
Aloisia Moser
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Sztuka widzenia. O użyteczności perspektywizmu w antropologii i poza nią

open access: yesTeksty Drugie
After more than a quarter of a century of since the first proposition of Amerindian perspectivism by E. Viveiros de Castro (1996) and T. S. Lima (1996), the concept has reached a prominent position in current sociocultural anthropology, transcending ...
Filip Rogalski, Tarzycjusz Buliński
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