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Tentacular Faces: Race and the Return of the Phenotype in Forensic Identification. [PDF]

Am Anthropol, 2020
ABSTRACT The face, just like DNA, is taken to represent a unique individual. This article proposes to move beyond this representational model and to attend to the work that a face can do. I introduce the concept of tentacularity to capture the multiple works accomplished by the face. Drawing on the example of DNA phenotyping, which is used to produce a
M'charek A.
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Whose Global, Which Health? Unsettling Collaboration with Careful Equivocation. [PDF]

Am Anthropol, 2019
ABSTRACT The recent push for multidisciplinary collaboration confronts anthropologists with a long‐standing ethnographic problem. The terms we have to talk about what we do are very often the same as the terms used by those with whom we work, and yet we are often doing very different things with these terms.
Yates-Doerr E.
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Pragmatism and Theology: Between Hasdai Crescas and Charles Peirce

Modern Theology, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 232-254, April 2023., 2023
Abstract The noted Jewish scholar Harry Wolfson (d. 1929) claimed in youthful writings that the fifteenth‐century rabbinic thinker and physicist, Hasdai Crescas, was a pragmatist. This essay introduces evidence that there are, indeed, significant analogies between elements of Hasdai Crescas’s critique of Aristotle and elements of Charles Peirce’s ...
Peter Ochs
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Meaning or presence? Ways of knowing of the Sámi yoik

American Anthropologist, Volume 124, Issue 4, Page 855-865, December 2022., 2022
Abstract This article approaches an Indigenous singing tradition, the yoik, practiced by the Sámi people in the north of Europe, as a way of knowing the environment through presence rather than meaning. The yoik consists of short unaccompanied melodies, often without lyrics, sung in everyday life, associated with a specific being (typically a person ...
Stéphane Aubinet
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Anthropology‐as‐theology: Violent endings and the permanence of new beginnings

American Anthropologist, Volume 124, Issue 2, Page 333-344, June 2022., 2022
Abstract This article examines the temporality of dispensationalist imaginings of the apocalypse, with a particular focus on why such imaginings often have an acutely violent character. For the Brethren and for Jehovah's Witnesses, the most convincing signs of the imminent apocalypse are violent ones.
Joseph Webster
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Blessed Beats: Religious Profanation and Evangelical Syncretization from Samba to Carnaval Gospel

The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 26, Issue 2, Page 324-353, June 2021., 2021
Abstract This article examines Evangelical carnaval in Brazil to argue that anthropological writing on syncretization expresses a theoretical gap or shortcoming. In several large Brazilian cities, Evangelicals are currently organizing carnaval parades and performing samba music with percussion instruments.
Martijn Oosterbaan
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DAS PRIMEIRAS NOÇÕES DE SIGNO AOS PLANOS DA LINGUAGEM NA SEMIÓTICA GREIMASIANA

CASA: Cadernos de Semiótica Aplicada, 2023
Neste artigo, iremos apresentar uma perspectiva teórico-metodológica sobre as noções de signo que, posteriormente, remetem à noção de planos da linguagem na semiótica discursiva.
C. Castro, Jean Cristtus Portela
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Nassirya: una serie italiana entre ficción y realidad histórica

Cuadernos de Información y Comunicación, 2014
Las autoras realizan un análisis de Nassirya, miniserie televisiva que ficcionaliza y conmemora un evento trágico de la historia: la muerte de un contingente de soldados italianos en la guerra de Irak.
Anna Maria Lorusso, Patrizia Violi
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50 ANOS DE ESTUDOS SOBRE A ENUNCIAÇÃO NA SEMIÓTICA BRASILEIRA

CASA: Cadernos de Semiótica Aplicada, 2023
Este artigo tem a finalidade de historiar as contribuições teóricas da semiótica brasileira à teoria da enunciação proposta por Greimas. Em 1974, foi publicado, na revista Significação, um texto de Greimas, em que ele estabelece a postura epistemológica ...
José Luiz Fiorin
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Héroes y antihéroes transtextuales: el caso "Kony2012"

Cuadernos de Información y Comunicación, 2014
En el marco de la teoría narratológica de la semiótica estructural y generativa, el artículo define las narraciones como “maquinas civilizadoras”, indispensables para que un grupo social y sus miembros perpetúen en el tiempo y transmitan en el espacio su
Massimo Leone
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