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Social Analysis: Journal of Cultural and Social Practice, 2023 In “Dark Anthropology,” Sherry Ortner questions the critical potential of anthropological studies of ethics, and particularly of research focused on studying cultural articulations of the good. She promotes instead the study of people's critiques of the
Joel Robbins +6 more
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Societies, 2014 Over the last decade, the tourist destination of Lloret de Mar (Gerona, Spain) has experienced an increasing concentration of souvenir stores owned by a population of Indian origin.
Hugo Valenzuela-García +5 more
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Antropoloogiline vaade tööle: mõtisklusi kaevuritest ja diginomaadidest [PDF]
Mäetagused, 2023 This article gives an overview of how to research work and labour from an anthropological perspective. Based on the examples of my ethnographic research with miners, teachers and digital nomads, I show how the anthropology of work is based both on the ...
Eeva Kesküla
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Diversity-aware social robots meet people: beyond context-aware embodied AI [PDF]
Anthropology, AI and the Future of Human Society, 6-10 June 2022,
1-7, 2022 The article introduces the concept of "diversity-aware" robotics and discusses the need to develop computational models to embed robots with diversity-awareness: that is, robots capable of adapting and re-configuring their behavior to recognize, respect, and value the uniqueness of the person they interact with to promote inclusion regardless of their ...
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Afro-Turks: Representation, Tradition and Identity / Afro-Türkler: Temsiliyet, Gelenek ve Kimlik [PDF]
Folklor/Edebiyat, 2020 This study problematizes how representations and traditions relate to identity with a particular focus on Afro-Turks. Analyzing identity along with representation and tradition, this study traces the history of slavery while constructing the bonds of ...
Müge Akpınar
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Pastoralism, 2022 Most studies and conceptualizations of tipping points in environmental and climatic systems have been conducted using natural science perspectives and approaches. Socio-scientific contributions—including Anthropology—are scarce.
Diego Augusto Menestrey Schwieger
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Becoming Part of an Eco-Community: Social and Environmental Activism or Livelihood Strategy?
Social Sciences, 2017 Studying grassroots initiatives which aim to respond to environmental and social crisis is of renewed importance nowadays, in the aftermath of the 2008-9 financial crisis in southern Europe. This paper studies people’s motivations for becoming part of an
Paula Escribano +2 more
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Mudra: Jurnal Seni BudayaBasic human needs, including clothing, have become commodities in the hands of industrial players, leading to a culture of consumption and negatively impacting the environment.
Diaz Restu Darmawan +2 more
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Learning Patterns of Tourist Movement and Photography from Geotagged Photos at Archaeological Heritage Sites in Cuzco, Peru [PDF]
, 2020 The popularity of media sharing platforms in recent decades has provided an abundance of open source data that remains underutilized by heritage scholars. By pairing geotagged internet photographs with machine learning and computer vision algorithms, we build upon the current theoretical discourse of anthropology associated with visuality and heritage ...
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Structures, actors, and interactions in the analysis of natural resource conflicts
Ecology and Society, 2018 We propose a research approach to natural resource conflicts that includes different tempos of the developments that lead to a conflict becoming manifest. This approach can help to distinguish dimensions of the conflict and to understand the logic behind
Ton Salman +2 more
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