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Torture and scepticism in Papua New Guinea witch hunts Torture et scepticisme dans les chasses aux sorcières en Papouasie‐Nouvelle‐Guinée

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
For over a century, anthropologists have documented the many institutions that exist to respond to witchcraft and the uncanny that it names: oracles that attempt to produce certainty by naming the witch; moots in which grievances are aired; trials in magistrates’ courts that attempt to satisfy the community while preserving the life of the accused ...
Chloe Nahum‐Claudel
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Equal before time: on the sensory suspension of accumulated time in Sichuan, China Égaux devant le temps : suspension sensorielle du temps accumulé au Sichuan (Chine)

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Food and alcohol indulgence, along with tea‐drinking, gambling, and gossip, are integral to a characteristically Sichuanese ethos of ‘life enjoyment’ (xiangshou shenghuo). Beyond mere pleasure, sensory, ludic, and comic experiences temporarily strip participants of both their formal and subjective qualities.
Angel Nayden
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Design and Referentiality in Analogue and Digital Photography

open access: yes, 2020
This short archaeology of digital photography underlines the constitutive role that image processing has for the constitution of referentiality - in opposition to arguments that 'manipulation' would reduce the credibility of photographic images (although
Jens Schröter
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Self‐Description and the Agro‐Industry's Response to Environmental Crises

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores how self‐descriptions can orient organisations towards trajectories that sustain activities that contribute to environmental crises while simultaneously acknowledging both the crises themselves and the need for transformative responses.
Sharon Kishik, Morten Knudsen
wiley   +1 more source

Epistemology and Metaphysics in Interdisciplinary Communication: Insights from Ian Barbour and Bernard Lonergan, SJ [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, 2019
Interdisciplinary communication is a significant area of concern for researchers who engage in scholarship across academic fields as well as practitioners whose work is intrinsically interdisciplinary.
Fr. Joseph R. Laracy
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Self-referentiality in Constructive Semantics of Intuitionistic and Modal Logics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This thesis explores self-referentiality in the framework of justification logic. In this framework initialed by Artemov, the language has formulas of the form t:F, which means the term t is a justification of the formula F.
Yu, Junhua
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Rebuilding the Ladder? Contemporary Contests Over Industrial Policy

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Does the greater embrace of industrial policy globally signal the emergence of a New Washington Consensus? We show that the multiplication of industrial policies, while consequential, signals neither normalisation nor consensus. Rather, industrial policy is increasingly the object of contestation over norms and practices of state ...
Ilias Alami, Jack Taggart, Tom Chodor
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Allegorical self-reflexivity in Mallarmé’s Sonnet en -x

open access: yes, 2019
Stéphane Mallarmé’s poem “Sonnet en -x” is one of the most famous examples of modern self-referential texts. However, it does not contain any explicit motif of self-referentiality, such as a text inside the text (mise-en-abyme) or open comments about ...
Dueck, Evelyn
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The Unintended Consequences of German Deterrence

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Germany's evolving deterrence posture boils down to continued participation in NATO nuclear sharing and an ambitious conventional rearmament program. Due to its non‐nuclear status and a result of decades of underinvestment, Germany prioritizes modern conventional weapons.
Ulrich Kühn
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UNIQAT: An open‐source toolkit for reproducible image quality assessment in marine surveys

open access: yesMethods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.
Abstract Modern marine surveys generate tens of thousands of underwater images per expedition, yet many are unusable due to image quality deterioration. Manual quality screening is labour‐intensive, subjective and inconsistent across observers and teams, hindering reproducible science, creating large backlogs of unprocessed imagery, and limiting real ...
Alzayat Saleh, Arjun Chennu
wiley   +1 more source

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