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Evidentiary Authority as a System: Johann Christoph Gatterer and the Collective Making of Historical Knowledge in the Eighteenth Century. [PDF]
How is historical evidence conveyed? How could an eighteenth‐century scholar vouch for the information stored on paper, drafted with the quill, and publicized in copperplate engravings or letterpress? In this article, I employ material and medial perspectives to reconstruct the multiple production stages of Johann Christoph Gatterer's Historia ...
Araújo AM.
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Tentacular Faces: Race and the Return of the Phenotype in Forensic Identification. [PDF]
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]
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
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
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
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
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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Abstract Through analysis of film sequences focusing on DNA in two British Broadcasting Corporation nonfiction science television programs, Wonders of Life and Bang! Goes the Theory, first broadcast in 2013, contrasting “religious” and “secular” representations of science are identified.
Will Mason‐Wilkes
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Análise dos objetos enquanto signo no contexto estético do cinema, mais especificamente na obra do cineasta alemão Wim Wenders. No cinema, os objetos traduzem o interior das personagens, num jogo cujas regras se baseiam no compromisso ético-estético com ...
Malaguti, Simone +1 more
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Totalitarismo em The Handmaid’s Tale: entre manipulação e programação
In this paper, based on the regimes of meaning and interaction from sociosemiotics theory (LANDOWSKI, 2014), we aim to understand how the totalitarian regime of Gilead, a fictional nation in the dystopian series The Handmaid’s Tale, is constituted ...
Natália Silva Giarola de Resende +1 more
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