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Martin Boehnert deposited Methodologische Signaturen : Ein philosophischer Versuch zur Systematisierung der empirischen Erforschung des Geistes von Tieren in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoHow do we know if animals can think? In extension of the previous debate on human-animal relations, this book analyzes the conditions and contexts of the scientific acquisition of our knowledge of animals. The current discussions within animal philosophy revolve around the three central questions of whether we can attribute a mind to animals, what…[Read more]
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Martin Boehnert deposited Grundzüge einer Philosophie der Tierforschung in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoIn current debates about the relationships between humans and nonhuman animals, knowledge about animals is often adopted from the sciences. However, this largely ignores the fact that relationships of this kind also exist in empirical animal research and that these constellations between researchers and the researched have both ethical and…[Read more]
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Gustavo Racy deposited Of Cannibals and Witches: Monstrosity and Capitalism at the Onset of Colonial Visual Culture in the group
Visual Anthropology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThis article provides preliminary insight into the creation of colonial visual culture. Using visual examples, the author shows how the encounter between European and Amerindian was, at first, apparently deprived of moral judgement, later being increasingly signified through moral and physical monstrosity, especially the female body, which served…[Read more]
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Gustavo Racy deposited To Make See and to Let Die: photography and testimony in the group
Visual Anthropology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThe focus of this article is a speculative argument on the relation between photography and testimony as one that situates the viewer on a particularly powerless, but responsibility-laden position. Articulating Nilufër Demir’s viral 2015 photograph of Aylan Kurdi, and Walter Kleinfeldt’s 1918 photograph of an unknown fallen soldier, as images bear…[Read more]
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Gustavo Racy deposited The Photographer as Producer: on photography in the group
Visual Anthropology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThe current article focuses on the approach to Walter Benjamin’s theory of the author as producer, narrowing it down to the case of photography. In the attempt to both expanding and testing Benjamin’s theory, the article speculates through an approach ranging from philosophy to visual culture propos-ing, at its end, a photographic principle in tun…[Read more]
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Elizabeth B. Davis deposited Conquistas de las Indias de Dios: Early Poetic Appropriations of the Indies by the Spanish Renaissance in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoProfessor Davis’s early article on appropriations of the Indies by Spanish poets who remained in Spain invites us to contemplate a body of poetry that plays the idea of American treasures against the value of true, spiritual riches.
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Elizabeth B. Davis deposited Time of catastrophe: temporalities in the transatlantic relación of Diego Portichuelo de Ribadeneyra in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoUsing the transatlantic relación of Diego Portichuelo de Ribadeneyra (1657) as an example, this essay tracks some of the ways in which several religious passengers narrated their experience crossing the Atlantic Ocean in the Spanish Indies fleets during the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries. Of particular importance here are the ways in…[Read more]
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Elizabeth B. Davis deposited Travesías peligrosas: escritos marítimos en España durante la Época Imperial, 1492-1650 in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThis chapter is the product of a Keynote Address that Dr. Davis offered at the VII Conference of the Asociación Internacional Siglo de Oro which took place at Robinson College, Cambridge, 18-22 July, 2005. Here the author examines a variety of kinds of early modern Spanish maritime writing (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries).
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Martin Boehnert deposited When Controversies Flare Up, Matters-of-Fact Become Matters-of-Concern in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoAnimal welfare and animal rights issues have reached the curricula, agendas and priorities of a wide range of educational institutions and initiatives. Their actors are faced with the challenge of not only explaining the relevance of animal ethics and animal rights, but also conceptualising how to teach them: How can animal protection and animal…[Read more]
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Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Atmospheric resonance: Sonic motion and the question of religious mediation in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoBecause of its material characteristics, the sonic poses a challenge to the influential paradigm of religion as mediation. This article makes a case for a neo-phenomenological analytic of atmospheres in order to do justice to the sonic in anthropological approaches to religion. Approaching the sonic as atmospheric half-things, I propose a…[Read more]
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Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Atmospheric resonance: Sonic motion and the question of religious mediation in the group
Aesthetics of Religion – Research Network on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoBecause of its material characteristics, the sonic poses a challenge to the influential paradigm of religion as mediation. This article makes a case for a neo-phenomenological analytic of atmospheres in order to do justice to the sonic in anthropological approaches to religion. Approaching the sonic as atmospheric half-things, I propose a…[Read more]
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Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Language and identity in an Indian diaspora: “Multiculturalism” and ethno-linguistic communities in Mauritius in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoIn this essay I focus on language among people of South Asian background in a diasporic location, Mauritius, for two reasons. First, language has often been considered as one of the cultural elements whose persistence may yield clues about the production of diasporic identity. However, diasporas do not exist objectively on the basis of a…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited वंचितों के हक की लड़ाई लड़ने वाले हैनी बाबू की गिरफ्तारी के मायने in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoएक अखबार को दिए गए साक्षात्कार में साई बाबा ने बताया था कि हैदराबाद में “मेरा राजनीतिक जीवन मंडल आयोग और आरक्षण की लड़ाई से शुरू हुआ।” जिसमें वसंथा भी उनके साथ शामिल थीं। उसी दौरान मार्च, 1991 में उन्होंने विवाह भी किया। वह लड़ाई वे आजीवन लड़ते रहे।
इसी प्रकार हैनी बाबू ने भी अन्य पिछड़ा वर्ग के हितों की अनेक बड़ी लड़ाईयां, जिस…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited महिषासुर: मिथक व परंपराएं in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoइक्कसवीं सदी के दूसरे दशक में भारत में महिषासुर आंदोलन द्विज संस्कृति के लिए चुनौती बनकर उभरा। इसके माध्यम से आदिवासियों, पिछड़ों और दलितों के एक बड़े हिस्से ने अपनी सांस्कृतिक दावेदारी पेश की।
लेकिन यह आंदोलन क्या है, इसकी जड़ें समाज में कहां तक फैली हैं, बहुजनों की सांस्कृतिक परंपरा में इसका क्या स्थान है, मौजूदा लोक-जीवन में महिषासुर क…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited महिषासुर: मिथक व परंपराएं in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoइक्कसवीं सदी के दूसरे दशक में भारत में महिषासुर आंदोलन द्विज संस्कृति के लिए चुनौती बनकर उभरा। इसके माध्यम से आदिवासियों, पिछड़ों और दलितों के एक बड़े हिस्से ने अपनी सांस्कृतिक दावेदारी पेश की।
लेकिन यह आंदोलन क्या है, इसकी जड़ें समाज में कहां तक फैली हैं, बहुजनों की सांस्कृतिक परंपरा में इसका क्या स्थान है, मौजूदा लोक-जीवन में महिषासुर क…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited महिषासुर से संबंधित परंपराओं और आंदोलन के निहितार्थ in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoमहिषासुर आंदोलन के इस कदर अचानक फैल जाने का एक बड़ा कारण था कि बहुजन समाज में इन परंपराओं की जड़ें बहुत गहरी रही हैं और इनका प्रसार उसके अवचेतन तक रहा है। इन समुदायों से आने वाले फुले, आंबेडकर, पेरियार समेत सभी चिंतकों ने असुर-संस्कृति की न सिर्फ विस्तृत गवेषणा की है, बल्कि अगर आप ध्यान से देखें तो पाएंगे कि यही उनकी वैचारिकी का प्रस्थान…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited Haryana’s Dalit Movement and Vedpal Tanwar in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoOn the night of April 21, 2010, the powerful Jat community at Mirchpur in Haryana’s Hisar district attacked a Dalit colony. A 70-year-old man and his handicapped daughter were burnt alive in this fire. After that, the Dalits of Mirchpur had to leave the village and run away.
Scholar and journalist Pramod Ranjan visited Mirchpur in July 2012. He…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited हरियाणा का दलित आंदोलन और वेदपाल तंवर in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months ago21 अप्रैल 2010 की रात को हरियाणा के हिसार जिला के मिर्चपुर में दबंग जाट समुदाय ने दलितों की बस्ती में लगा दी थी। इस अग्निकांड में 70 साल के बुर्जुग और उनकी अपंग बेटी जिंदा जला दिया गया था। उसके बाद मिर्चपुर के दलितों को गांव छोड़कर भागना पड़ा था।
अध्येता प्रमोद रंजन ने जुलाई, 2012 में मिर्चपुर का दौरा किया। वे जिला मुख्यालय हिसार में मिर…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited सच कहने का समय: सेना के भीतर युद्ध (भारतीय सेना में जातिवाद) in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoइस आलेख में बताया गया कि भारतीय सेना के सर्वोच्च पदों पहुंचने वाले लोग ऊंची जातियों से आते हैं। सेना में इनके भीतर जाति के आधार पर वचर्स्व की लड़ाई भी चलती रहती है। सन् 2012 में जनरल वीके सिंह से संबंधित विवाद इसी प्रकार के जाति-युद्ध का नतीजा था। सेना के सर्वोच्च स्तर पर मौजूद ये प्रवृत्तियां भारत की सुरक्षा के लिए खतरनाक हैं।
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Pramod Ranjan deposited Time for truth: War within the army (Casteism in Indian army) in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoPeople who reach the highest positions in the Indian Army come from the upper castes. In the army, the fight for supremacy also goes on within them on the basis of caste. In 2012, the controversy regarding General VK Singh was the result of a similar caste war. These trends at the highest level of the military are dangerous for India’s security.
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