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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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Zygon®, Volume 55, Issue 1, Page 6-26, March 2020., 2020 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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The contribution of semiotics In the analysis of contemporary politics [PDF]
, 2015 Este trabalho procura mostrar quais os contributos da semiótica social para a compreensão de alguns traços da relação entre política contemporânea e os meios de comunicação.
Araújo, Emília Rodrigues +1 more
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Semiótica social, multimodalidade e Youtube®
Texto Digital, 2021 Este trabalho é resultado de uma pesquisa de doutorado, que, considerando a popularidade da plataforma YouTube®, tem dois objetivos principais: o primeiro é mostrar uma metodologia que desenvolvemos para análise de vídeo; o segundo é analisar identidades
Clarice Lage Gualberto +2 more
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Apresentação: Semiótica e vida social
Estudos Semióticos, 2021 A semiótica brasileira, que hoje pode até mesmo ser reconhecida como uma “escola” de pensamento independente, tem sido exercida “com inteligência, sensibilidade, emoção e gosto particulares” (Schwartzmann; Portela, 2017, p.
Matheus Nogueira Schwartzmann +1 more
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