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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Sarcasmos, Indignaciones, Invectivas y Acres Aforismos contra los Enmascarillado(re)s in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoEs una desdicha vivir en el único país del mundo en el que el Virus ataca al paseante solitario en mitad de sus ensoñaciones campestres… Cuando el espacio público está ocupado por necios y regentado por pillos, el sarcasmo y la sátira son la respuesta más adecuada. Todo para enfatizar una cuestión muy simple que se ha perdido de vista: EL DERE…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited En tiempos de los cíclopes in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoComentamos en este artículo la figura de los cíclopes en Homero y en Vico, leyéndola como un arquetipo cultural y psicológico de la sociedad protohumana. Los dos aspectos complementarios del mito (como tradición cultural que se remonta a la prehistoria, y como estructura psicológica, referida a la socialización y al desarrollo psicológico individ…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited ‘Never Let Me Go’: El sujeto en la sociedad orgánica in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoSpanish abstract: Artículo sobre algunas implicaciones ideológicas de la película ‘Never Let Me Go’ (Mark Romanek, 2010), basada en la novela de Kazuo Ishiguro. Ofrece un retrato de la sociedad como un sistema educativo manipulador, que mantiene a los niños ignorantes de las cosas más importantes que se pueden saber sobre el poder y la expl…[Read more]
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Ostap Kushnir deposited Meandering in Transition in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoThe chapter opens the “Meandering in Transition” collection. It presents contributors and outlines reasons why some of the Central and Eastern European states accomplished a decisive break with the Communist past and became members of European and transatlantic structures, while some opted for pseudo-transition and fostered hybrid political…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited La macdonaldización de la sociedad in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoSpanish abstract: Una nota sobre el libro de George Ritzer ‘La McDonaldización de la Sociedad’ (1993) desde la perspectiva de la fase avanzada de estandarización de los procesos y del trabajo en el capitalismo mediado por las tecnologías de la información y comunicación y especialmente por la Red. ____…[Read more]
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Darshi Arachige deposited Do the estimated admixture times confirm the proposed Holocene Gene flow from India to Australia? in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThis paper argues that the current estimates for the time of influx of Indian genes into
some sections of the Australian Aboriginal population during the Holocene bear large
uncertainties which make elimination of the probability of a more recent gene flow less
likely. It also highlights that indications for the plausibility of a later gene…[Read more] -
José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Encerrados en Shutter Island: Un delirio coherente in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoSpanish abstract: Análisis de la estructura narrativa de ´Shutter Island´ (Martin Scorsese, 2010), una película en la que el espectador se introduce en el mundo ficticio de una isla prisión / institución total, sólo para descubrir más adelante que no se trata del mundo social efectivo del protagonista, sino del mundo de su visión alucinat…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited ‘Riofrío’: Quién juzgará al juzgador in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoSpanish Abstract: ‘Riofrío’ es una novela de no ficción de Santiago Muñoz Machado, eminente abogado y profesor de derecho, sobre un importante caso judicial del famoso juez Baltasar Garzón—un largo proceso de instrucción en el que Garzón intentó empapelar a una serie de inversores que iban desde Berlusconi hasta Miguel Durán. Fue un macroproc…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Marca de Sumisión: La nocente Mascarilla in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoSpanish abstract: Argumentamos contra la normativa española sobre el uso obligatorio y ubicuo de mascarillas en todos los espacios públicos, incluyendo el aire libre. Denunciamos estas normas y leyes como despóticas, arbitrarias y carentes de base científica, y mostramos cómo su razón de ser se halla tanto en la agenda globalista de los princ…[Read more]
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Ian Wilson deposited Remembering Kingship: Samuel’s Contributions to Postmonarchic Culture in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoKingship has been a political mainstay in human history, even when peoples have lacked monarchic rulers. This essay examines the book of Samuel as a source for the cultural history of ancient Judah, focusing on the question of how Samuel’s representations of monarchy would function for its readers in the early Second Temple era. In this era, w…[Read more]
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Ian Wilson deposited Ezekiel as a Written Text: Archiving Visions, Remembering Futures in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoThis chapter focuses on Ezekiel as a text, i.e., a collection of writings meant to be read again and again. As a text, it presents a range of ideas in dialogue with one another—and sometimes in tension—thus providing ample space for continual discussion and reinterpretation of its ideas among its original communities of readers in antiquity. Eze…[Read more]
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Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Commitment, Correspondence, and Fieldwork as Nonvolitional Dwelling: A Weberian Critique in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoContribution to a volume reflecting on Tim Ingold’s recent interventions on the relationship between anthropology and ethnography “Anthropology and Ethnography Are Not Equivalent: Reorienting Anthropology for the Future”, edited by Irfan Ahmad.
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited The Story Behind Any Story: Evolution, Historicity, and Narrative Mapping in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months ago“The narratives of the world are numberless”; yet, all stories may be seen as chapters of a single story, the story of universal evolution as uncovered by contemporary science, with processes of human emergence and cultural development as a prominent backdrop to the understanding of any narrative process. Evolutionary approaches to literary and…[Read more]
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Darshi Arachige deposited A guided tour through a labyrinth of biological and behavioural information- A Review of Behave by Robert Sapolsky (Vintage, London, 2017) in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoBehave by Robert Sapolsky (Vintage, London, 2017) is a book full of information about human aggression. Even though Prof. Sapolsky does not provide new solutions to deal with human aggression, he tells us about its biological roots and makes us look at the aggressors with a broader understanding. Our behaviours are more complex than what a single…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Con la Historia a cuestas: ‘Lone Star’, de John Sayles in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoSpanish abstract: ‘Lone Star’ (John Sayles, 1996) es una película sobre la etnicidad y sobre el peso del pasado tratado aquí de manera reflexiva. Es un tema inevitablemente presente en las películas norteamericanas (o en muchas de ellas) pero a menudo sólo como parte del trasfondo, o evitado en el desarrollo de la historia principal. Aquí está…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Infiltrados (The Departed): La paradoja del espía in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoSpanish abstract: Dos hombres en lados opuestos de la ley están infiltrados —en la Policía y en la mafia— pero hierven la violencia y la sangre derramada cuando la información sale a la luz, y se envía a cada topo a averiguar quién es el enemigo interior. ‘Infiltrados’ es una película de Martin Scorsese que explora la ‘paradoja del espía’, a…[Read more]
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Justin Walsh deposited Photography and the International Space Station Archaeological Project in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThis chapter describes the International Space Station Archaeological Project and the importance of photography as a source of evidence for life and society on ISS.
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Justin Walsh deposited Eternity in Low Earth Orbit: Icons on the International Space Station in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThis paper investigates the material culture of icons on the International Space Station as part of a complex web of interactions between cosmonauts and the Russian Orthodox Church, reflecting contemporary terrestrial political and social aairs. An analysis of photographs from the International Space Station (ISS) demonstrated that a particular…[Read more]
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Ostap Kushnir deposited Business, Values, and EU’s Response to Protests in Ukraine: Cases from 2003–2004, 2010, and 2013–2014 in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 12 months agoThis book aims to uncover and assess changes in the EU’s foreign policy towards Ukraine in the times of wide-scale social protests in Kyiv. To accomplish this task, this book enlists and analyses documents, agreements, and treaties which establish the frameworks for EU-Ukraine cooperation. It also identifies the interests of lobbying groups in…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited An Interactional Theory of Truth: On Searle on Truth and Facts in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 12 months agoThis is a critique of the logicist theory of truth and facts set forth in the final section of John R. Searle’s book ‘The Construction of Social Reality’ (1995). Searle’s logicist account, much in the line of his theory of speech acts, is contrasted to a pragmaticist and interactionalist perspective on truth, facts, and discourse. Keywords:…[Read more]
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