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2. Scholars Take a New Approach in Studying the Institution of Science.
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Raymond, Chris
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The science-studies approach seeks to go beyond a history of scientific concepts and their developers; rather, its practitioners want to unravel the cultural and ideological influences that shape the content of those theories. A new science-studies program was initiated at the University of California at San Diego. (MLW)
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- 1990
3. EtnoAntropoZum
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ethnology ,ethnography ,anthropology ,social sciences ,humanities ,Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology ,GN301-674 - Published
- 2023
4. Beyond artificial academic debates: for a diverse, inclusive, and impactful ethnobiology and ethnomedicine.
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Reyes-García, Victoria
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DIVERSITY & inclusion policies , *FOLKLORE , *DEBATE , *BIOLOGY , *ETHNOLOGY , *POLICY sciences , *HUMANITIES - Abstract
In answer to the question "Should ethnobiology and ethnomedicine more decisively foster hypothesis-driven forefront research able to turn findings into policy and abandon more classical folkloric studies?", in this essay I argue that a major strength of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine is their ability to bridge theories and methods from the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities. Hypothesis-driven research is a powerful way to structure thinking that can lead to forefront research findings. But hypothesis-driven research is not the only way to structure thinking and is not a necessary condition to impact policymaking. To increase policy impact, ethnobiology and ethnomedicine should continue nurturing a mixture of complementary methods and inclusive approaches as fragmentation through opposing different approaches might weaken the discipline. Moreover, with the aim to play a fundamental role in building bridges between different knowledge systems and co-producing solutions towards sustainability, the discipline could benefit from enlarging its epistemological grounds through more collaborative research. Ethnobiologists' research findings, hypothesis-driven, descriptive, or co-constructed can become leverage points to transform knowledge into actionable outcomes in different levels of decision-making. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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5. Interdisciplinary Initiatives for Age Friendly Environment. Editorial.
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KOTRADYOVÁ, VERONIKA, DANTAS, CARINA, and LIPOVAC, DEAN
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HUMANITIES ,ETHNOLOGY - Published
- 2023
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6. The Aversion to Theory.
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Alley, Jason
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SOCIAL sciences , *CLASSROOMS , *ETHNOLOGY , *HUMANITIES , *LABOR - Abstract
Tackling aversions to theory in the social sciences and humanities, this piece unpacks the bad faiths and myopic commentary directed at non-positivist and conceptually driven texts. Drawing on critiques and defenses mounted in the 1980s, 1990s, and the present—alongside exchanges inside and outside the classroom—it mounts an unapologetic defense of theory centering the skillful labors that allow us to compare, argue, distill, critique, abandon, rework, and interpret phenomena. Zeroing in on the empirical and theoretical moves always at play in ethnography, it argues on behalf of the value of allowing lines of thought to carry us obliquely along as much as explicate things. Some closing injunctions around foregrounding what is exciting and nourishing about theory and the pleasures and possibilities of adopting an experimental ethos toward it are put forward. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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7. FUTUROS VIVIDOS: ORIENTACIONES Y PRÁCTICAS DE FUTURO EN TIEMPOS INCIERTOS.
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Contreras Román, Raúl H., Bautista Santiago, Norma, and Olivos Santoyo, Nicolás
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ACADEMIC debating , *SOCIAL sciences , *HUMANITIES , *ETHNOLOGY , *ANTHROPOLOGY - Abstract
The article titled "LIVED FUTURES: ORIENTATIONS AND FUTURE PRACTICES IN UNCERTAIN TIMES" presents a dossier on the orientations and practices of the future in uncertain times. The editors of the dossier were surprised by the amount of articles received that addressed the theme of future time, as they considered that this topic did not have a significant presence in the Spanish-speaking academic debate. The article highlights the diversity of perspectives and approaches present in the dossier, as well as the importance of exploring the multiple futures that are constantly contested in society. It also mentions the temporal turn that the field of social sciences and humanities has experienced in recent decades, where greater attention has been paid to future time. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2023
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8. Editorial Towards ‘New’ Medical Humanities.
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Gazzaniga, Valentina
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MEDICAL humanities , *HUMANITIES , *MEDICAL ethics , *MEDICINE , *ETHNOLOGY - Abstract
The debate on Medical Humanities, which is beginning to be historically dated, is still far from having exhausted the potential of its discussion. These editorial aims to overview the current situation of MH and explore new paths for MH opened up by transdisciplinary collaboration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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9. Performative Practices: Theoretical Foundations of Interpretation in the Social Sciences and Humanities.
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Bezuhla, Ruslana
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SOCIAL sciences ,HUMANITIES ,EMOTIONS ,INTELLECTUAL life ,ETHNOLOGY - Abstract
The paper analyzes the works related to the understanding of performative practices as a phenomenon of modern culture and art; it highlights the principal trends of the studies of this phenomenon. The reasons for the growing interest in the study of performative practices were clarified, the complexity and ambiguity of this phenomenon as a special socio-cultural communicative action, having the appearance of an "artistic event," a theatrical action, a dynamic symbolic action affecting all channels of human perception, was emphasized. The work is aimed at the analytical study of the essence of specificity of performative practices within the framework of various study optics from the standpoint of social and cultural anthropology and art history, in direct connection with social and cultural life, human emotions, cultural patterns, etc. The aim of the paper is to identify the theoretical definition of the "performative practices" concept in the contemporary humanities, which will allow solving the scientific problem of determining the essential specificity of performative practices as a modern cultural phenomenon. General scientific approaches, principles, and methods employed made it possible to consider the phenomenon of performative practices from different angles: theoretical interpretations of the basic forms of performative practices were compared using the comparative method; the use of the structural-functional method helped to determine the components creating an idea of the meaning of certain performance elements as the forms of manifestation of performative practices in modern culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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10. Les émotions dans la recherche en sciences humaines et sociales.
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URTEAGA, Eguzki
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EMOTIONS , *HUMANITIES , *COGNITION , *SOCIAL sciences , *EDUCATION , *ETHNOLOGY , *IMPERIALISM - Abstract
The article titled "Emotions in research in the humanities and social sciences" analyzes the importance of emotions and the body in research in the humanities and social sciences. The book's directors, Stéphane Héas and Omar Zanna, highlight the relevance of these themes in scientific production and their relationship with cognition and learning. Additionally, the ethnographic work carried out worldwide in the study of representations of colonial empires and decolonized peoples is mentioned. The theoretical and methodological approach proposed in the book considers emotions as useful guides in the research and analysis process, and not as obstacles to rationality. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2022
11. Rheinische Landeskunde im Wandel Bericht über die Herbsttagung 27./28. Sept. 2021.
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Weller, Von Tobias and Winter, Naemi
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CONFERENCES & conventions ,EARLY modern history ,ARCHIVAL institutes & workshops ,COVID-19 pandemic ,HUMANITIES ,NAZI Germany, 1933-1945 ,ETHNOLOGY ,SCHOLARLY method ,AUTUMN ,WEIMAR Republic, 1918-1933 - Abstract
Copyright of Rheinische Vierteljahrsblatter is the property of Universitat Bonn, Inst fur Geschichstwissenschaft, Abt Fruhe Neuzeit & Rheinische Landesgeschichte and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2022
12. (Despre) un model intelectual umanist: Otilia Hedeşan.
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DIACONU, Mircea A. and COSTIN, Claudia
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OCCUPATIONAL achievement ,ROLE models ,ACTIVE learning ,ETHNOLOGY ,ANTHROPOLOGY ,VOCATION - Abstract
The present work represents the Laudatio for the Laurea Doctor Honoris Causa of the "Ştefan cel Mare" University of Suceava, bestowed upon dr. Otilia Hedeşan, a professor at the West University of Timişoara. A prestigious personality in the Romanian academic environment, with an excellent scientific and teaching career in the field of humanities in general, but particularly in the field of ethnology and anthropology, professor Hedeşan is an intellectual role-model, always concerned with her professional achievement. This text reveals the most significant aspects of her scientific and teaching activities or her membership to various relevant investigation projects; all of the above testify to the passion, devotion and vocation of a personality that increases the visibility of Romanian humanities within the international cultural environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
13. Kwartalnik Historii Kultury Materialnej
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humanities ,ethnology ,archeology ,art history ,history ,material culture ,Archaeology ,CC1-960 ,History (General) and history of Europe ,Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology ,GN301-674 ,History of the arts ,NX440-632 - Published
- 2021
14. An Ethnography of an Imaginary Road: Fear, Death, and Storytelling in the Icelandic Westfjords.
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Egeler, Matthias
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ETHNOLOGY , *STORYTELLING , *EMOTIONS , *HUMANITIES , *NARRATION - Abstract
This article presents a historical ethnography of an imaginary road. Drawing on printed sources, archival material, and new field research, the article analyses the Icelandic folktale of 'Loss of Men on Heiðarbæjarheiði' (Manntjónið á Heiðarbæjarheiði), a story of regional importance in the Strandir district of the Icelandic Westfjords, especially the fjord of Steingrímsfjörður. The article shows the shape this story takes when encountered locally, where it appears in the form of minimalist place-storytelling that is actualized in the engagement with particular places. It thus contributes to our understanding of how legends work 'on the ground'. In this local form as place-storytelling, the narrative shows considerable variation and a strong focus on the interpretation of local place names. Based on the contexts and variation observed between the different variants of the story, this article reads 'Loss of Men' as a formulation of collective fears, thereby contributing not only to research on legends, but also to the current discourse on emotions in the humanities more generally. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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15. Hong Kong Culture and Society in the New Millennium : Hong Kong As Method
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Yiu-Wai Chu and Yiu-Wai Chu
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- Culture—Study and teaching, Ethnology, Culture, Social sciences, Humanities
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This book discusses the notion of “Hong Kong as Method” as it relates to the rise of China in the context of Asianization. It explores new Hong Kong imaginaries with regard to the complex relationship between the local, the national and the global. The major theoretical thrust of the book is to address the reconfiguration of Hong Kong's culture and society in an age of global modernity from the standpoints of different disciplines, exploring the possibilities of approaching Hong Kong as a method. Through critical inquiries into different fields related to Hong Kong's culture and society, including gender, resistance and minorities, various perspectives on the country's culture and society can be re-assessed. New directions and guidelines related to Hong Kong are also presented, offering a unique resource for researchers and students in the fields of cultural studies, media studies, postcolonial studies, globalization and Asian studies.
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- 2017
16. Sport i nogomet u historiografiji i humanističkim znanostima u Jugoslaviji i postjugoslavenskom prostoru.
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ŽAGAR, IVAN
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HISTORIOGRAPHY ,CULTURAL history ,SOCIAL history ,ETHNOLOGY ,HISTORY of sports ,CULTURAL studies ,HISTORY of soccer - Abstract
Copyright of Historical Journal / Historijski Zbornik is the property of Drustvo za Hrvatsku Povjesnicu and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2021
17. The Experiment Must Continue : Medical Research and Ethics in East Africa, 1940–2014
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Melissa Graboyes and Melissa Graboyes
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- Human experimentation in medicine, Ethnology, Physical sciences, History, Science, Medicine--Research--Moral and ethical aspects--Africa, East, Human experimentation in medicine--Africa, East, Medicine--Research--Africa, East--History--20th century, Medicine--Research--Africa, East--History--21st century, Research, Social psychology, Social sciences, Anthropology, Humanities
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The Experiment Must Continue is a beautifully articulated ethnographic history of medical experimentation in East Africa from 1940 through 2014. In it, Melissa Graboyes combines her training in public health and in history to treat her subject with the dual sensitivities of a medical ethicist and a fine historian. She breathes life into the fascinating histories of research on human subjects, elucidating the hopes of the interventionists and the experiences of the putative beneficiaries. Historical case studies highlight failed attempts to eliminate tropical diseases, while modern examples delve into ongoing malaria and HIV/AIDS research. Collectively, these show how East Africans have perceived research differently than researchers do and that the active participation of subjects led to the creation of a hybrid ethical form. By writing an ethnography of the past and a history of the present, Graboyes casts medical experimentation in a new light, and makes the resounding case that we must readjust our dominant ideas of consent, participation, and exploitation. With global implications, this lively book is as relevant for scholars as it is for anyone invested in the place of medicine in society.
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- 2015
18. Victims of Ireland's Great Famine : The Bioarchaeology of Mass Burials at Kilkenny Union Workhouse
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Jonny Geber and Jonny Geber
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- Humanities, Diseases, Almshouses, Social sciences, Medical care, Public health, Poverty, Starvation, Archaeology, Anthropology, Starvation--History--19th century, Poor--Ireland--History--19th century, Malnutrition, Famines--Ireland--Kilkenny (County)--History--19th century, Mass burials--Ireland--Kilkenny (County)--History--19th century, Workhouses--Ireland--History--19th century, Demography, Sociology, Nutrition disorders, History, Social problems, Ethnology, Public welfare
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With one million dead, and just as many forced to emigrate, the Irish Famine (1845-52) is among the worst health calamities in history. In 2006, archaeologists discovered a mass burial containing the remains of nearly 1,000 Kilkenny Union workhouse inmates. In the first bioarchaeological study of Great Famine victims, Jonny Geber uses skeletal analysis to tell the story of how and why the Irish Famine decimated the lowest levels of nineteenth century society.By examining the physical conditions of the inmates that might have contributed to their institutionalization, as well as to the resulting health consequences, Geber sheds new and unprecedented light on Ireland's Great Hunger.
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- 2015
19. East–West cultural discourse as seen by Georgian poets of the nineteenth century.
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Ninidze, Maia, Metreveli, Saba, Tvalavadze, Tea, and Mania, Esma
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POETS , *HUMANITIES , *ETHNOLOGY , *LITERARY criticism - Abstract
The article focuses on East–West cultural discourse as seen by Georgian poets of the nineteenth century such as Grigol Orbeliani and Ilia Chavchavadze. It mentions two empires, the Persian and the Ottoman, conquered Georgia many times over the centuries and had significant impacts on its historical and cultural development. It also mentions information contained therein using the approaches of various fields in the humanities in ethnography, literary criticism, and culturology.
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- 2020
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20. Missing Links. Indigenous Life and Evolutionary Thought in the History of Russian Ethnography.
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Grant, Bruce
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ETHNOLOGY ,INDIGENOUS peoples ,ARCHIVAL materials ,LITERATURE ,HUMANITIES - Abstract
The history of Russian social anthropology has long been best known for the work of three, late nineteenth‐century "exile ethnographers," each sent to the Russian Far East for their anti‐tsarist activities as students. All three men—Vladimir Bogoraz, Vladimir Iokhel'son, and Lev Shternberg—produced voluminous and celebrated works on Russian far eastern indigenous life, but it was the young Shternberg who had perhaps the most profound effect on setting the agenda for the canonic evolutionist line soon to take hold in late Russian imperial and early Soviet ethnography. This essay draws on archival, library, and field research to revisit the life and work of Shternberg in order to tell the story of "group marriage" that he documented for the life of one Sakhalin Island indigenous people, Gilyaks (or Nivkhgu, Nivkhi). Documented in this way by Shternberg, the Nivkh kinship system proved a crucial "missing link" for Friedrich Engels, who had long been eager to provide evidence of primitive communism as man's natural state. For Gilyaks, the die was cast. Their role as the quintessential savages of Engels' favor made them famous in Russian and Soviet ethnographic literature, and significantly enhanced their importance to Soviet government planners. This essay tracks that episode and its aftermaths as a pivotal moment in the history of Russian social anthropology and of evolutionist thought more broadly. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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21. Philosophy and Social Science: Introducing Bourdieu and Passeron.
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Althusser, Louis
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PHILOSOPHY & social sciences , *SOCIAL science conferences , *ANTHROPOSOPHY , *ETHNOLOGY - Abstract
This text derives from a recording, and transcripts, of the introduction which Althusser gave on 6 December 1963, to a seminar for students in the École Normale Supérieure, Paris, offered at his invitation by Pierre Bourdieu and Jean-Claude Passeron. Althusser takes the opportunity to raise questions about the status of social science and suggests that Bourdieu and Passeron represent slightly different strands of contemporary research practice, partly as a result of their different formation and practice since themselves leaving the École. Althusser first considers the relation between the human sciences and the traditionally instituted Faculty of Letters or Humanities. What is the origin of the compulsion to constitute a science of human relations? Given that the social sciences have established themselves, Althusser then tries to define their nature. He suggests that they have three forms: as abstract and general theory, as ethnology, and as empirical sociology. He discusses the pros and cons of each in some detail. Althusser then asks what are the features which constitute sciences and concludes that they must always possess discrete theoretical perspectives corresponding with discrete components of reality but must also possess an element of self-referentiality or, as he puts it, must be objects to themselves. Althusser suggests that his contemporary social sciences are not philosophically adequate by the criteria which he advances. He proceeds to introduce Bourdieu and Passeron in such a way as to invite consideration of whether their practices meet his criteria. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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22. Įvadas. Tautos tyrimų ištakos ir antropologija.
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Savoniakaitė, Vida
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ETHNIC groups , *INTELLECTUAL history , *RESEARCH teams , *CULTURAL nationalism , *ANTHROPOLOGY , *ETHNOLOGY , *HUMANITIES - Abstract
To mark Lithuania's centenary, this issue is dedicated to the genesis of anthropology, ethnology, ethnography and folklore. This interdisciplinary issue covers the history of ideas, or the science of ideas in the 19th and early 20th centuries and beyond. Lithuanian scientists who graduated from universities in the Russian Empire and Europe developed theoretical concepts of Enlightenment in the humanities and the social sciences. The emerging study of Lithuania integrated and interpreted the concepts of ethnic research that prevailed in Europe and Imperial Russia at that time. Using a comparative approach, the thematic articles reveal the links between the genesis of Lithuanian ethnology and anthropology, and the research into ethnic groups in the Russian Empire, the Other, the study of people and nations in the West, and the ideas of Völkerkunde. The focus is on the following issues: the reception of ethnography and Lithuanian studies, the comparative study of people and nations, and ideas of nationalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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23. الفلسفة الاجتماعية بحث في مفهومها ونظريتها وعلاقاتها
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الزواوي بغوره
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SOCIAL theory ,HUMANITIES ,SOCIAL sciences ,ETHNOLOGY ,PHILOSOPHY - Abstract
Copyright of Tabayyun is the property of Arab Center for Research & Policy Studies and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2019
24. Getting the Picture: Airtime and Lineup Bias on Canadian Networks during the 2006 Federal Election
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Marsha Barber
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Communication ,Ethnology ,Sociology ,Federal election ,Humanities - Abstract
This research article addresses the issue of media bias as it played out on Canada’s three major television networks during coverage of the 2006 federal election. The data suggest that in spite of critics’ concerns that networks exhibit political bias, this was not evident. However, a more subtle and systemic bias was apparent. Front-runners (i.e., parties that polls indicated would do well) received substantially more coverage than other parties. Conversely, parties that were perceived as being less successful received less coverage than political front-runners. In addition, reports about front-runners were placed higher in the lineup. These empirical findings should be of interest to critics on both the right and left of the political spectrum who are concerned about the gatekeeping and agenda-setting functions of the media.Resume : Cet article de recherche adresse la question de partis pris dans les medias lors de la couverture des elections federales de 2006 effectuee par les trois chaines canadiennes principales. Les donnees obtenues indiquent que, malgre ce que pensent certains critiques, il n’est pas evident que ces chaines avaient des penchants politiques particuliers. Cependant, un penchant systemique plus subtil est apparent. En effet, les favoris (c’est-a-dire les partis qui selon les sondages allaient reussir le mieux) ont recu une couverture plus approfondie que les autres partis. En revanche, les partis percus comme etant moins en avance ont recu une couverture moindre. Par surcroit, les reportages sur les favoris passaient sur les ondes avant les autres. Ces donnees empiriques devraient interesser les critiques tant de droite que de gauche qui se soucient des fonctions d’agenda et de garde barriere des medias.
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- 2023
25. Missing and Misrepresented: Portrayals of Other Ethnic and Racialized Groups in a Greater Toronto Area Ethnocultural Newspaper
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April Lindgren
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White (horse) ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Ethnic group ,French ,General Medicine ,Metropolitan area ,language.human_language ,Newspaper ,Political science ,Multiculturalism ,language ,Ethnology ,Humanities ,media_common - Abstract
The vibrant ethnocultural press in the Greater Toronto Area is a testament to the multicultural reality of a metropolitan area where visible minorities are expected to be the majority by 2031. The GTA's ethnocultural and racialized communities are served by more than 200 newspapers, many of them published in languages other than English or French. What role do these publications play in shaping how ethnic and racialized groups "see" each other? This case study examines how other groups are portrayed in the Chinese-language daily newspaper Ming Pao . With the exception of members of the White community, it concludes that other racial and ethnic groups are represented only to a limited extent and that, in some cases, they are also misrepresented. Resume: La presse ethnoculturelle dynamique de la region de Toronto temoigne de la realite multiculturelle de la zone metropolitaine ou on prevoit que les minorites visibles seront majoritaires d'ici 2031. Les communautes ethnoculturelles et racialisees de la region de Toronto ont acces a plus de 200 journaux, dont plusieurs sont publies dans des langues autres que l'anglais ou le francais. Quel est le role de ces publications sur leur perception mutuelle les unes des autres? Dans cette etude, nous examinons comment le quotidien Ming Pao de langue chinoise depeint d'autres groupes ethniques. Nous concluons que, a l'exception de la communaute blanche, les autres groupes ethniques et raciaux y sont peu et meme, dans certains cas, faussement representes.
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- 2023
26. Human trafficking and media myths: federal funding, communication strategies, and Canadian anti-trafficking programs
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Robert Heynen, Emily van der Meulen, and Ann De Shalit
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Politics ,business.industry ,Communication ,Discourse analysis ,Ethnology ,Human trafficking ,Mythology ,Sociology ,business ,Humanities ,Mass media - Abstract
This article looks at debates over human trafficking by considering the linkages between federal funding, media myths, and non-governmental organization (NGO) activities and by examining the textual and visual content of NGO websites. By highlighting the ways in which NGOs echo government communication strategies, we argue that these debates are constrained not only by the current political terrain, but also by an ingrained and problematic anti-trafficking discourse. Further, we interrogate the language and emotive appeals of NGOs that receive federal funding for anti-trafficking programming through the exploration of counter-discourses developed by both scholars and independent organizations that are critical of dominant narratives and policies. We conclude by suggesting that alternative narratives and media strategies are needed for the development of more nuanced and authentic conceptions of labour, migration, and sex work. Cet article examine les debats sur la traite des personnes en considerant des liens entre le financement federal, les mythes des medias, et les organisations nongouvernementales (ONG) et en examinant le contenu textuel et visuel des sites web des ONG. En analysant la facon dont les activites des ONG refletent les strategies de communication du gouvernement, nous soutenons que ces debats sont limites non seulement par le terrain politique actuel, mais aussi par un discours anti-trafic enracine et problematique. En outre, nous interrogeons le langage et les appels emotifs des ONG qui recoivent des fonds du gouvernement federal pour la programmation pour la lutte contre la traite a travers l’exploration de contre-discours developpes par les universitaires et les organisations independantes critiques de recits et politiques dominants. Nous concluons en suggerant que les recits alternatifs et des strategies mediatiques sont necessaires pour le development des conceptions plus nuancees et authentiques du travail, de la migration, et du travail du sexe.
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- 2023
27. Testimonies: The rewards and challenges of letting their voices be heard.
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VandeBurgt, Melissa Minds, Rodgers, Bailey Mae, and Brown, Kinsey
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CULTURAL prejudices , *ETHNOLOGY , *STORYTELLING , *SEXUAL assault , *REPRODUCTIVE rights - Abstract
The paper will examine two cases studies regarding collection development within Florida Gulf Coast University's Archives and Special Collections to highlight the department's efforts to curate collections that challenge gender and cultural bias. Librarians can influence the common historical perspective by collecting primary resources, such as oral histories, that challenge established norms. In recent decades, librarians have sought more diverse and inclusive collections to augment the resources available to scholars and storytellers. Oral histories are a powerful resource capable of providing valuable and differing perspectives of history and the human experience. This paper will discuss the rewards and challenges of collecting, cataloguing, and providing access to two oral history collections: a collection of ethnographies regarding sexual assault (S(he) Will Fade) and a collection of testimonies from people who dealt with the reality of abortion pre- and post-Roe v. Wade (Histories of Choice). The case studies address the importance of academic institutions' engagement with such collections, faculty and students' role in the collection of the oral histories, potential legal issues, and the impact of letting their voices be heard. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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28. Health, Wellbeing, Competence And Aging
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Ping-chung Leung, Jean Woo, Walter Kofler, Ping-chung Leung, Jean Woo, and Walter Kofler
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- Culture, Humanities, Sociology, National health services, Social control, Therapeutics, Mental health, Quality of life, Health promotion, Medicine, Chinese, Aging, Ethnology, Philosophy, Medical care, Medicine, Oriental, Anthropology, Social sciences
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The fear of death may translate into the desire for longevity. However, longevity is a true blessing only if it is coupled with good health. Healthiness, in today's expectation, is not simply a disease free state. Rather, it is very much a state of wellbeing and competence, both physically and socially. While Oriental medicine emphasizes on the promotion of physiological balance and internal balance as an integral requirement for longevity, other cultures also have various sophisticated concepts and orientations. This book successfully collates all the different views and approaches from Austria, Russia, China and Japan in the exploration of Health, Wellbeing, Competence and Aging.
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- 2013
29. At the Limits of Art : A Literary Study of Aelius Aristides' Hieroi Logoi
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Janet Downie and Janet Downie
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- Social sciences, Anthropology, Ethnology, History, Medicine--History, Medicine--Religious aspects, Religion, Culture, Humanities, Civilization
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The Hieroi Logoi (or'Sacred Tales') of Aelius Aristides presents a unique first-person narrative from the ancient world-one that seems at once public and private, artful and naive. A prominent rhetor among the educated elite of second-century Asia Minor, Aristides produced a substantial body of polished discourses, declamations, and hymns. Within his oeuvre, however, the unparalleled Logoi stand out, and while scholars have embraced it as a rich source for Imperial-era religion, politics, and elite culture, the style of the text has presented a persistent stumbling block to literary analysis. Setting this dream-memoir of illness and divine healing in the context of Aristides'professional concerns as an orator, this book investigates the text's rhetorical aims and literary aspirations. At the Limits of Art argues that the Hieroi Logoi is an experimental work. Incorporating numerous dream accounts and narratives of divine cure in a multi-layered and open text, Aristides works at the limits of rhetorical convention to fashion an authorial voice that is transparent to the divine. Reading the Logoi in the context of contemporary oratorical practices, and in tandem with Aristides'polemical orations and prose hymns, the book uncovers the professional agendas motivating this unusual self-portrait. Aristides'sober view of oratory as a sacred pursuit was in tension with a widespread contemporary preference for spectacular public performance. In the Hieroi Logoi, he claims a place in the world of the Second Sophistic on his own terms, offering a vision of his professional inspiration in a style that pushes the limits of literary convention.
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- 2013
30. Simon of Genoa's Medical Lexicon
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Barbara Zipser and Barbara Zipser
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- Ethnology, Books, Therapeutics, Alternative medicine, Therapeutics, Physiological, Anthropology, Translations, Medicine, Arab, Social sciences, Medicine, Medieval, Civilization, Medicine--History, Publications, Medicine, Medieval--History, Encyclopedias and dictionaries, History, Humanities, Culture, Reference books, Mass media, Reference sources
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“Simon of Genoa's Medical Lexicon”, an edited volume based on the conference held on March 17th, 2012, is part of the Simon Online project – a dynamically growing Wiki edition of Simon of Genoa's Clavis sanationis, a Latin-Greek-Arabic medical dictionary from the late 13th century. In the individual articles, written by well-known scholars, authorities in their fields of research, Simon and his major work, are approached from different perspectives and as a whole. The volume offers a comprehensible and well-balanced collection of current research on Simon and Clavis sanationis.The volume demonstrates the importance of the Clavis, not only for the history of pharmacology and medicine, but also for Byzantine and medieval studies, Roman, Greek, Latin and Arabic philology and lexicography.Barbara Zipser (Doctor of Philosophy, Wellcome Trust University Award 2006, 2010) is a researcher at the Centre for the Study of the Body and Material Culture, History Department, Royal Holloway University of London. Her main field of research is Greek medicine from Galen to the late Middle Ages, with an emphasis on textual criticism, manuscript transmission, and the formation of Greek vernacular terminology. Dr Zipser is a well-known and promising young scholar in the field of Ancient and Medieval Medicine. She runs Simon Online (http://www.simonofgenoa.org) – the joint edition and translation project of Simon of Genoa's Clavis sanationis, a dictionary of Latin, Greek and Arabic medical terminology in Wiki format.
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- 2013
31. Networked Publics: The Double Articulation of Code and Politics on Facebook
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Ganaele Langlois, Zachary Devereaux, Fenwick McKelvey, and Greg Elmer
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Politics ,Communication ,Ethnology ,Political communication ,Sociology ,Double articulation ,Publics ,Humanities ,New media ,Code (semiotics) - Abstract
Through three case studies of online political activism on Facebook, this article conceptualizes the deployment of issue publics (Lippmann, 1993; Marres, 2005) on Facebook. We argue that issue publics on Facebook come into being through a specific set of double articulations of code and politics that link and reshape informational processes, communicational constraints and possibilities, and political practices in different and sometimes contradictory ways. Using Maurizio Lazzarato’s exploration of immaterial labour (2004), we demonstrate the need to further understand the networking of publics and their issues by considering how online platforms provide the material, communicational, and social means for a public to exist and therefore define the parameters for assembling issues and publics and circumscribe a horizon of political agency. Resume : Au travers de trois analyses d’exemples d’activisme politique en ligne sur Facebook, cet article offre une conceptualisation du developpement de problemes d’interet general et de leurs publics sur Facebook (Lippmann, 1922; Marres, 2005). Nous demontrons que les problemes d’interet general et leurs publics sur Facebook sont crees au travers d’une serie de double articulations du code et du politique qui lient et refaconnent les processus informationnels, les possibilites et contraintes communicationnelles et les pratiques politiques de manieres differentes et parfois contradictoires. En se referant aux travaux de Maurizio Lazzarato sur le travail immateriel (2004), nous demontrons le besoin d’analyser le processus de reseautage des problemes d’interet general et de leurs publics. Ceci inclut une nouvelle approche envers les plates-formes en ligne comme fournissant les moyens materiels, communicationnels et sociaux pour qu’un public puisse exister, et comme definissant par la meme un horizon d’activite politique et les parametres selon lesquels des problemes d’interet general et leurs publics peuvent etre assembles.
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- 2023
32. The NEBI YEARBOOK 2003 : North European and Baltic Sea Integration
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Lars Hedegaard, Bjarne Lindström, Pertti Joenniemi, Heikki Eskelinen, Karin Peschel, Carl-Einar Stalvant, Lars Hedegaard, Bjarne Lindström, Pertti Joenniemi, Heikki Eskelinen, Karin Peschel, and Carl-Einar Stalvant
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- Ethnology, Culture, International relations, Social sciences, Humanities, Regional economics, Spatial economics, Europe—Economic integration
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Bjllrn Tore Godal Norwegian Ambassador to Germany Chairman of the Editorial Advisory Board Several of the contributions to the present volume of The NEBI Yearbook have been inspired by the fact that roughly speaking, ten years have passed since the first steps were taken to initiate cross-border co-operation in the Barents and Baltic Sea areas. One of the most important co-operative organisations in the European Northeast, i. e. The Council of the Baltic Sea States, was launched in 1992. The Barents Euro Arctic Council was established in 1993. An avalanche of co-operative and cross-border initiatives has since hit this part of Europe with all kinds of actors participating - states, regional and municipal authorities, univer sities, national organisations, businesses and private interests. Even international organisations and actors from outside the immediate NEBI area have taken a special interest in this dynamic part of the world. Among the most important is the European Union, whose Finnish-inspired Northern Dimension initiative has become a permanent fixture. As many of the chapters in NEBI 2003 testifY, integration in the NEB I area - across old political and ideological borders and cultural and socio-economic divides that are among the most pronounced anywhere in the world - has on the whole been a great success.
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- 2012
33. Devilish deals: art, research, and activism with/in the institution.
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Hatton, Oona
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ACTIVISM , *SOCIAL sciences , *ETHNOLOGY , *HUMANITIES , *INSTITUTIONAL environment - Abstract
The annual ethnographic performance SJS-Who? is an example of how theatre may survive or even thrive in an educational/institutional environment that seems increasingly indifferent to the arts and humanities. In addition to being a meaningful educational experience for many students, SJS-Who? has successfully increased the profile of performance work within the department, college, and university. It also offers an opportunity to publicly critique university policy and campus climate. However, there are risks to aligning theatre with social science, and about the work's efficacy as an activist tool within a larger institution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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34. Unbecoming: The aftereffects of autoethnography.
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Luvaas, Brent
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AUTOETHNOGRAPHY ,EDUCATION research ,SOCIAL sciences ,ETHNOLOGY ,HUMANITIES - Abstract
Autoethnography is a research methodology that employs conscious becoming as a strategy for producing academic knowledge. As it grows in popularity across disciplines in the social sciences and humanities, should those who employ the methodology start thinking through the consequences of such becoming for the person engaging in it? This essay draws from the author's long-term work on street style bloggers to argue that autoethnography is a practice with risks both practical and existential, and it suggests that social scientific training should begin to take into consideration the kinds of people ethnographers have to become in order to do their work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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35. Surface Tensions : Surgery, Bodily Boundaries, and the Social Self
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Lenore Manderson and Lenore Manderson
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- Anthropology, Social sciences, Human behavior, Humanities, People with disabilities, Self-perception, Social adjustment, Surgery, Operative, People with disabilities--Psychology, Medical anthropology, Human body--Social aspects, Body image, Personality development, Personality, Ethnology, Art, Culture
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Surface Tensions is an expansive, yet intimate study of how people remake themselves after catastrophic bodily change—the loss of limbs, the loss of function, the loss or replacement of organs. Against a sweeping cultural backdrop of art, popular culture, and the history of science and medicine, Manderson uses narrative epistemology based on in-depth interviews with over 300 individuals to show how they re-establish the coherence of their bodies, identities, and biographies. In addition to offering important new insights into the care, rehabilitation, and rehabituation of post-trauma patients, Manderson's work challenges conventional ideas about the nature of embodiment and is an important contribution to medical anthropology, disability studies, and cultural studies.
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- 2011
36. Medical Meddlers, Mediums and Magicians : The Victorian Age of Credulity
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Dr Keith Souter and Dr Keith Souter
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- Quacks and quackery, Mental healing, Magic, Social sciences, Anthropology, Occultism, Magical thinking--History--19th century, Ethnology, Spiritual healing, Humanities, Mind and body therapies, Quacks and quackery--Great Britain--History--19th century, Magical thinking--Great Britain--History--19th century, Spiritualism--Great Britain--History--19th century, History, Sociology, Therapeutics, Superstition, Social problems, Culture
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The Victorians had a thirst for knowledge. This drove them to explore the unchartered corners of the world, plumb the unfathomable depths of science, discover evolution and create some of the engineering and architectural marvels of the world. Yet this open-mindedness also at times made them utterly gullible. Because of their closeness to disease and the ever-present threat of their own mortality, it was inevitable that they would be open to the claims of quacks who promised all kinds of panaceas, and to mediums who offered a means of communicating with the dead. So too did it make them eager for diversion and entertainment by the conjurers and illusionists of the great music halls. Strangely, it was through the magic-making skill of the conjurers that the activities of many of the tricksters and fraudulent mediums finally came to be exposed. Medical Meddlers, Mediums & Magicians is a box of delights for all students of Victoriana.
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- 2011
37. Body Work in Health and Social Care : Critical Themes, New Agendas
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Julia Twigg, Carol Wolkowitz, Rachel Lara Cohen, Sarah Nettleton, Julia Twigg, Carol Wolkowitz, Rachel Lara Cohen, and Sarah Nettleton
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- Psychology, Anthropology, Humanities, Ethnology, Sociology, Social medicine, Human body--Social aspects, Culture, Social sciences, Art, Medical personnel
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The first book to fully explore the multiple ways in which body work features in health and social care and the meanings of this work both for those employed to do it and those on whose bodies they work. Explores the commonalities between different sectors of work, including those outside health and social care Contributions come from an international range of experts Draws on perspectives from across the medical, therapeutic, and care fields Incorporates a variety of methodological approaches, from life history analysis to ethnographic studies and first person accounts
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- 2011
38. The Liberal Order Framework: A Prospectus for a Reconnaissance of Canadian History
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Ian McKay
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History ,Political science ,Prospectus ,Religious studies ,Ethnology ,World history ,Humanities - Abstract
How can we get beyond the present socio-cultural versus national-political impasse in Canadian history writing? By a historical practice of re/connaissance, which begins not with the essentialist project of ‘rethinking Canada,’ but rather with the more modest goal of mapping the Canadian state as a project of liberal rule in northern North America. Those who undertake this re/connaissance of the complex moment of liberal hegemony called Canada will have much to learn from the national-political and socio-cultural historians who have come before them. But they will also be doing (and some are already doing) something radically new -because the reconceived category ‘Canada’ in their work denotes not an untheorized context or an unanalyzable essence, but that socio-cultural project through which liberal order became the national-political ‘commonsense’ in northern North America. Abstract: Comment nous sortir de ľimpasse actuel du debat socio-culturel par opposition a national-politique dans les travaux qui s’ecrivent sur ľhistoire canadienne? Par une pratique historique de re/connaissanee, qui debute non pas par le projet essentialiste qui consiste a «repenser le Canada», mais plutot par le but plus modeste de representer ľEtat canadien comme un projet de regne liberal dans la partie septentrionale de ľAmerique du Nord. Les individus qui entreprendront cette re-con naissance ďun moment complexe de ľhegemonie liberale qui s’appelle le Canada auront beaucoup a apprendre des historiens nationaux-politiques et socio-culturels qui les ont precedes. Mais de plus, ils s’engageront (et certains le font deja) dans une voie radicalement nouvelle – parce que la categorie «le Canada» repensee dans leurs travaux denote, non pas un contexte depourvu de theorie ou une entite essentielle impossible a analyser, mais ce meme projet socio-culturel grâce auquel ľordre liberal est devenu le «bon sens» national-politique dans la partie septentrionale de ľAmerique du Nord.
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- 2021
39. Ces gens ont raison : La controverse christologique de 1165-1166, la question des échanges doctrinaux entre l’Occident latin et Byzance et leur portée politique
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Georges Sidéris
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History ,biology ,Subject (philosophy) ,Emperor ,Ethnology ,Historiography ,General Medicine ,biology.organism_classification ,Humanities ,Byzantine architecture ,Wonder - Abstract
Imported from the West by a Byzantine, Demetrios of Lampe, the controversy that broke out in Byzantium in 1165-1166 over Christ’s words “The Father is greater than I,” is evidence of the intensity of theological debates between the two worlds, but also of the ability of Byzantine society to respond on its own, i.e. orthodox, terms to a question that emerged from a debate that was internal to Latin society. Contrary to what traditional historiography portrays as the influence of a Latin theologian, Hugo Eteriano, on the Emperor Manuel I Komnenos and as a confrontation between pro- and anti-Latins in Byzantium, the subject is in fact much more complex. If, at the end of this crisis, the Emperor could consider that he had won both internally and externally, one might nonetheless wonder whether, in the long term, this controversy did not contribute to the exacerbation of anti-Latin sentiment in Byzantium. Importée d’Occident par un Byzantin, Dèmètrios de Lampè, la controverse qui éclate à Byzance en 1165-1166, sur la parole du Christ « Le Père est plus grand que moi », témoigne de la vivacité des échanges théologiques entre ces deux mondes, mais aussi de la capacité de la société byzantine à répondre en ses propres termes, orthodoxes, à une question issue d’un débat interne à la société latine. Contrairement à ce que l’historiographie traditionnelle analyse comme une influence d’un théologien latin, Hugues Ethérien, sur l’empereur Manuel Ier Comnène et un affrontement entre pro et anti-Latins à Byzance, le dossier est bien plus complexe. La position de l’empereur sur la question est d’abord issue de sa propre connaissance théologique. La position de Dèmètrios n’est pas motivée par un « antilatinisme » mais par une volonté politique de défendre l’Orthodoxie. Le débat a donc fondamentalement eu lieu entre Orthodoxes et dans les termes de l’Orthodoxie. Le rôle de Hugues Ethérien a en fait consisté à faire valider par un Latin la pensée théologique de l’empereur offrant à ce dernier l’opportunité de conforter sa politique internationale d’ouverture vis-à-vis de l’Occident et de la papauté. Si à l’issue de cette crise l’empereur pouvait estimer qu’il avait triomphé sur tous les plans, intérieur et extérieur, en revanche on peut se demander si à long terme cette controverse n’a pas contribué à exacerber le sentiment antilatin à Byzance.
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- 2022
40. Les Moyen Âge de Game of thrones
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Florian Besson, Cécile Troadec, Catherine Kikuchi, Centre de Recherche Roland Mousnier Histoire et Civilisation (CRM), École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris-Sorbonne (UP4)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris-Sorbonne (UP4)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)
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media_common.quotation_subject ,General Medicine ,Art ,Medievalism ,16. Peace & justice ,01 natural sciences ,Medieval fantasy ,010305 fluids & plasmas ,010101 applied mathematics ,0103 physical sciences ,Medieval history ,Ethnology ,0101 mathematics ,[SHS.HIST]Humanities and Social Sciences/History ,Humanities ,media_common - Abstract
International audience; This paper discusses George R. R. Martin’s literary saga, A Song of Ice and Fire, and its now famous adaptation as a TV show, Game of Thrones. Critics have been keen to underline the “realism” of these cycles; but the authors of the present study seek to re-examine what kind of real is being represented and re-created here. Which Middle Ages are we talking about? Far from being a unified historical block, the Middle Ages are a rich and complex period, marked by many evolutions. The world created by Martin thus merits close analysis: which elements are being used or left out, and which play a crucial or marginal role in the story? Such questions will allow us to gain a better understanding of how Middle Ages are represented today.; Cet article se penche sur la grande saga de George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire, et sa célèbre adaptation en série télé, Game of Thrones. Là où tous les critiques soulignent le « réalisme » de ces cycles, les auteurs de cet article se demandent quel est ce réel représente et réimaginé : de quel Moyen Age parle-t-on ? Car le Moyen Age, loin d'être un bloc historique, est une période riche et complexe, marquée par de nombreuses évolutions. Il s'agit des lors de s'intéresser de près au monde crée par Martin, pour se demander quels éléments sont retenus ou laisses de cote, places au cœur de l'intrigue ou en marge de l'histoire, ce qui conduit aussi à s'interroger sur ce que cela nous dit des représentations contemporaines du Moyen Age.
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- 2022
41. Projecting Politics: The Grapes of Wrath
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Stephen J. Whitfield
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media_common.quotation_subject ,General Earth and Planetary Sciences ,Ethnology ,Social Sciences ,Art ,Humanities ,General Environmental Science ,media_common - Abstract
Publié en 1939 et adapté à l’écran l’année suivante, Les Raisins de la colère, roman de John Steinbeck, eut un impact immédiat et extraordinaire pour le portrait sans concession qu’il dressait d’un capitalisme américain qui semblait avoir abandonné sa progéniture la plus loyale, la plus assidue et la plus courageuse, celle qui labourait la terre en plein coeur de la république. Écrit à la toute fin de la « Décennie rouge », mais juste avant que les États-Unis entrent dans la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Les Raisins de la colère exprimaient, d’une certaine manière, la colère accumulée contre un système économique qui avait trahi le prolétariat rural. Le roman, tout comme le film de John Ford (1940), furent compris par le grand public de l’époque, et bien des années plus tard, comme une protestation clairement gauchiste, voire radicale, contre une telle injustice. Mais cet essai montre combien les idées politiques de ces œuvres jumelées sont en réalité difficiles à saisir et combien il est hasardeux de définir, quel que soit l’effort rétrospectif, la critique que Steinbeck et Ford ont proposée dans leur version des Raisins de la colère, une œuvre inoubliable, déchirante mais ambiguë sur le plan politique.
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- 2022
42. Identificaciones sociales y construcción de sentidos étnicos entre nahuas urbanos en la Ciudad de México
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Olivia Leal Sorcia
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Mexico city ,Ethnography ,Ethnic group ,Agency (philosophy) ,Ethnology ,Sociology ,Humanities ,Indigenous - Abstract
A partir de la descripción etnográfica de un grupo de indígenas nahuas que venden revistas en la ciudad de México, me propongo discutir dos categorías de análisis: identificaciones sociales y sentidos étnicos. Busco abonar a una discusión más amplia sobre la emergencia de una etnicidad urbana donde la agencia de los sujetos indígenas es moldeada por sus trayectorias individuales y colectivas en los ámbitos de lucha social, gremial y de demanda de derechos ciudadanos. Su análisis también me permitirá problematizar las tensiones entre los intereses individuales/familiares y los colectivos que se derivan de la sociabilidad cotidiana y que han sido poco explorados en los estudios sobre etnicidades urbanas en México.
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- 2021
43. Los legados de la Provincia de Costa Rica ante el I Imperio mexicano durante la coyuntura independentista (1821-1823)
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Arias Castro Tomás Federico
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media_common.quotation_subject ,costa rica ,Colonialism ,soberanía ,Political science (General) ,Politics ,Political science ,historia política ,Research article ,media_common ,méxico ,autonomía ,independencia ,Empire ,K1-7720 ,General Medicine ,Demise ,Independence ,libertad ,Law in general. Comparative and uniform law. Jurisprudence ,Ethnology ,Law ,JA1-92 ,Nexus (standard) ,Humanities - Abstract
El artículo expone un pormenorizado recuento de los episodios, particularidades, sucesos e incidencias de naturaleza histórica, política y jurídica que acontecieron durante la época decimonónica en que se fraguó y materializó la independencia del territorio colonial de Costa Rica respecto del Imperio español, y que se erigieron, a su vez, en los antecedentes directos para la posterior conjunción del territorio costarricense con el I Imperio mexicano. Así, se describen los acontecimientos que propiciaron la ruptura entre España y sus posesiones ultramarinas, las variables que provocaron el desencadenamiento de los procesos autonomistas novohispanos, los factores que conllevaron el nexo político entre los territorios de México y Costa Rica y, con especial significancia, los derroteros personales y públicos de los tres costarricenses que fungieron, desde distintas perspectivas y realidades, como nuestros representantes ante el citado régimen imperial mexicano. Por último, se analizan las diversas razones que produjeron el contundente fenecimiento de dicho vínculo político y los periplos posteriores de los tres legados referidos, todos ello con el fin de que pueda conocerse los detalles de uno de los hechos menos conocidos de nuestra historia
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- 2021
44. Cartografía digital disidente: el caso de Santiago de Chile durante el estallido social de 2019
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Víctor Jiménez Barrado
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History ,Emerging technologies ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,Geography, Planning and Development ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,021107 urban & regional planning ,Citizen journalism ,02 engineering and technology ,0506 political science ,State (polity) ,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) ,Political science ,Collation ,Capital (economics) ,050602 political science & public administration ,Milestone (project management) ,Disinformation ,Ethnology ,Humanities ,media_common - Abstract
El 18 de octubre de 2019 estalló en Santiago de Chile una de las mayores crisis sociales de la historia reciente del país. En un contexto de represión estatal y de desinformación surgieron múltiples iniciativas dedicadas a reunir colaborativamente información espacial, mayoritariamente apoyadas en las nuevas tecnologías. El objetivo de este trabajo es descubrir su significado y utilidad. Para ello se han identificado y analizado estos registros cartográficos mediante la observación participante no impostada en redes sociales. Los resultados muestran la cartografía digital como una estrategia de cuidado mutuo, un entorno de lucha y un hito fundamental para su continuidad. On the 18th October 2019, one of the biggest social crises in Chile’s recent history broke out in its capital Santiago. Against a backdrop of state repression and disinformation, there emerged multiple collaborative initiatives, largely based on new technologies, to collate spatial information. The objective of this article is to discover this collation’s significance and usefulness. As such, these cartographic records have been identified and analysed by way of genuine participatory observation within social networks. The results present digital cartography as a strategy of mutual care, an arena for struggle and a fundamental milestone in its continuity.
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- 2021
45. 'This is war, isn’t it?' Fear and mortality from El Wak to El Alamein, 1940–1942
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Karen Horn
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Battle ,History ,media_common.quotation_subject ,World War II ,education ,second world war ,North africa ,General Medicine ,medical services ,mortality ,humanities ,east african campaign ,Military Science ,Memoir ,parasitic diseases ,north african campaign ,Ethnology ,fear ,Narrative ,media_common - Abstract
During the Second World War, soldiers experienced fear and became aware of their mortality as a result of those factors that were unfamiliar to them. Where memoirs or other narratives are available, it is possible to interpret soldiers’ expressions of fear and mortality and to determine the ways in which they began to deal with these emotions in different war situations, whether in battle, in confronting disease or in handling difficult environmental conditions. In this instance, the East African campaign and the campaign in North Africa form the background to the investigation into soldiers’ experience of fear and mortality as expressed in their writings.
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- 2022
46. Michel Foucault and Qualitative Research in Human and Social Sciences.
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Ferreira-Neto, João Leite
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QUALITATIVE research ,SOCIAL sciences ,ANTHROPOSOPHY ,ETHNOLOGY - Abstract
In this article, I analyze the methodological contributions of Michel FOUCAULT, highlighting his affinity with qualitative strategies of research in the human and social sciences. I propose a theoretical study on the subject, working with historical and conceptual aspects of Michel FOUCAULT's methodology and its application to qualitative research. This text is organized into three analytical axes: a discussion of the methodological questions developed by Michel FOUCAULT; a correlation of his perspective with contemporary literature about qualitative research; and an analysis of the methodological design of his final research. I emphasize his decision to study problems from their "most singular and concrete forms." I explore the outline of his final research on the genealogy of the modern subject, analyzing the reasons for his methodological choices. Finally, I propose that the construction of relevant research problems, handled with detail and precision, and using classic research methods, contributed to the incisive impact of his work in the field of human and social sciences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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47. Developing Academic Engagement: A Qualitative, "Ethnographish" Study of a Devolved Library Structure at the University of Cambridge.
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Tilley, Elizabeth and Murphy, Helen
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HUMANITIES , *ETHNOLOGY , *LIBRARIES , *ARTS - Abstract
An ethnographic research project undertaken by the libraries of the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Cambridge sought to understand the impact of academic/library relationships in a devolved institutional structure. The results of the research provided clear evidence of the high regard in which academic engagement with libraries is held by both academic and library staff in Arts and Humanities subjects. It underlined the academic perception of library staff as colleagues and confirmed the advantages of the current devolved structure. As subject libraries are inextricably bound up with Faculty matters, academic, administrative, or library-related, this familiarity and the contextualized knowledge it affords can be beneficial for academics with limited time. In addition, it means local libraries are able to provide the wider University library services with a head start in implementing new initiatives. The principal findings highlight collaboration, context, and empowered staff as underpinning successful academic engagement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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48. Content and Its Discontents: Undergraduate Literary Study Today.
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Stanton, Domna
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HUMANITIES ,HIGHER education ,HUMANISTIC education ,FRENCH language ,ETHNOLOGY - Abstract
The article focuses on literary studies including humanities and mentions the impact of higher education on liberal arts education. Topics discussed include French language and literature, promotion of students for development of thesis and writing research papers, and collaborations with fields of cultural anthropology, history, and philosophy.
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- 2018
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49. On learning how to live in this strange place.
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Buckland, Luke A.
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PHILOSOPHY , *WHITE people , *HUMANITIES , *ETHNOLOGY - Abstract
In “How do I live in this strange place?”, Samantha Vice contends that white South Africans ought to feel shame for their unjustly acquired privilege and their morally compromised selves, and recommends that they engage with humility and political silence in projects of personal transformation though private, critical self-examination. On one view, philosophy is in part concerned with practical inquiry into how one might lead a good life, and for many, at least, this necessitates some form of moral learning. Ideally, the philosophers concerned with this question could give practical, action-guiding advice on how one might undertake this moral learning, advice well-supported by evidence and with reasonably good prospects for success. I argue that philosophically “therapeutic” projects of the kind advocated by Vice necessarily involve forms of moral learning, and that a range of empirical research in cognitive, moral, and educational psychology thus bear on their methods and prospects. These considerations undermine the outlook of therapeutic projects that rely principally on solitary methods of critical reflection and introspection. I challenge philosophers to develop more practical, actionable, evidence-based counsel on how to engage in moral learning of the type that Vice and her critics recommend, and I articulate several candidate proposals inspired by research from the educational, learning sciences and debiasing literatures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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50. "INVISIBLE PLACES, HIDDEN HISTORY": THE ROLE OF THE FORMER "RUSSIAN AIRPORT" IN TELLING STORIES ABOUT THE FRONT IN THE SOUTH VÉRTES REGION.
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Sántha, István
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AIRPORTS , *WORLD War II , *PARADOX , *HUMANITIES , *ETHNOLOGY - Abstract
The South Vértes is one of the regions in Hungary where the battles between the opposing Hungarian-German and Russian sides went on for the longest period of time and were the severest. The fates of the people living in the region varied, as every village had its unique history and played a different role in the war. Moreover, individual families expressed unique attitudes in their narratives about the front, depending on whether they survived the war without major losses or suffered great traumas. The article explores stories told by local people about the "Russian airport", the only Soviet barracks established in the region after World War II, and how it was linked to the violent events of the war. While the Russian barracks in general appeared to serve as a platform for the fear accompanying the comments on World War II, different generations of local people have different positions in relation to the front and rely on different techniques for telling stories about the war. The focus is on people who were born during or just before the war and consequently have limited personal experience of the front. Members of this generation unconsciously use the "Russian airport" and its residents as a parallel platform to talk about World War II and experiences involving their families, exemplifying the complexities of communicating about the war and emotions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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