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Trading Zones Between Thick and Thin: Anthropological Description as Scaffold or Mosaic
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Referring to the work of historian of science Peter Galison, I argue that anthropology requires thin description as an essential counterpart for thick description. Thin accounts provide the scaffolding within which thick descriptions sit. Galison uses the idea of a “trading zone” connecting different communities who, despite their differences (
David Zeitlyn
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International Interfaith Centre Annual Lecture 1995: The Eco-Human Crisis: Interfaith Dialogue and Global Responsibility [PDF]
, 1995 The Eco-Human Crisis: Interfaith Dialogue and Global ResponsibilityThe thesis I put before you today is that this eco-human crisis - and the suffering that propels the crisis - must be not only a central concern for each religious tradition and community
Paul Knitter
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Haunted by Houses: Built and Lived Absences in a Transnational Mexican Community
Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Globally, millions of migrants have sent money home to build a house. In early phases of migration, remittance houses are aspirational objects that materialize the continuous belonging of migrants to a community. In later stages, experiences of loss, estrangement, deportation, and death increasingly challenge these attachments.
Julia Pauli
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Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Combining different theoretical frameworks can lead to new insights into the role of material things in shaping human experience in the Paleolithic period. This paper first presents a historical review of three theoretical approaches in archaeology, anthropology, and the philosophy of mind: Material culture and materiality studies, the ...
Bar Efrati
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THE LAUGHTER OF THE HOLY FOOL AS A MANIFESTATION OF BLASPHEMY: THE EXPERIENCE OF PROBLEMATIZATION
Докса, 2017 This article contains a critical analysis of the relationship to the foolishness of a non-conformist form of religiosity. The dynamics of the alternative justifications of this form of holiness is discussed.
Олена Петриківська
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"Revolution? What Revolution?" Successes and limits of computing technologies in philosophy and religion [PDF]
, 2004 Computing technologies like other technological innovations in the modern West are inevitably introduced with the rhetoric of "revolution". Especially during the 1980s (the PC revolution) and 1990s (the Internet and Web revolutions), enthusiasts ...
Ess, Charles
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Advertising communication and spirituality: a critical approach of academics and professionals [PDF]
, 2019 This article explores advertising as a space where spiritual discourses are reproduced from the critical approach of academics in communication and sociology, along with professionals in the advertising sector.
Gil-Soldevilla, Samuel +2 more
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Provincializing Frankfurt: A Postcolonial Rereading of Habermasian Theory
Constellations, EarlyView.
Floris Biskamp
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