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Lloyd Graham deposited The sp tp.y (First Occasion) and the Dreamtime: Egyptian D.t as a parallel to Aboriginal tjukurrpa? in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoEgyptologists have long struggled to translate D.t nHH, with expressions ranging from ‘linear and circular eternity’ to ‘everlasting completedness and ongoingness’. Similarly, ethnologists have found it impossible to translate the pan-Australian Aboriginal concept of tjukurrpa, resorting to neologisms such as ‘the Dreamtime’ or ‘the Dreaming’.…[Read more]
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Samuel Adu-Gyamfi deposited Medical Tourism in Ghana: A History in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoMedical tourism can be defined as the process of travelling outside of an individual’s country to another to seek medical care. The current research studies medical tourism in Ghana historically, focusing on Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra and Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumase. Using a qualitative research approach, the study p…[Read more]
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Samuel Adu-Gyamfi deposited Medical Tourism in Ghana: A History in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoMedical tourism can be defined as the process of travelling outside of an individual’s country to another to seek medical care. The current research studies medical tourism in Ghana historically, focusing on Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra and Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumase. Using a qualitative research approach, the study p…[Read more]
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Luis Ernesto Paz Enrique deposited Vasculitis leucocitoclástica in the group
Archives on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoIntroducción: la vasculitis leucocitoclástica constituye un proceso clínico patológico caracterizado por inflamación y necrosis de los vasos sanguíneos. Objetivo: describir las características clínicas de la vasculitis leucocitoclástica y el tratamiento utilizado. Resultados: se indicaron estudios de laboratorios: eritrosedimentación, células L…[Read more]
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Luis Gregorio Abad Espinoza deposited The Ethnographic Quest in the Midst of COVID-19 in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoThe outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 has threatened ethnographic inquiry, undermining its quintessential characteristic. Participant observation, then, has been thoroughly dismembered by the radical measures implemented to prevent the spread of the virus. This phenomenon, in short, has dragged anthropologists to a liminal state within which ethnography is…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Globalización y sostenibilidad in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoSpanish abstract: Unas notas sobre el final del libro ‘El lugar del hombre en el cosmos’ de Fred Spier, sobre la sostenibilidad de la actual comunicación globalizada. La Gran Historia sitúa al ser humano en el contexto de la evolución cósmica y de la ecología de los recursos. Vivimos hoy en la Era de los Combustibles Fósiles. Con esta energ…[Read more]
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Jonathan Basile deposited Symbioautothanatosis: Science as Symbiont in the Work of Lynn Margulis in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoLynn Margulis’s writing about symbiosis has profoundly influenced contemporary evolutionary theory, as well as continental and analytic philosophy of science, the materialist turn, and new materialism. Nonetheless, her work, and all symbiosis or evolution, is founded on a paradox: symbiosis fictionalizes customary accounts of the origin and e…[Read more]
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Lloyd Graham deposited Pre-Christian Ruins as Reservoirs of Supernatural Agency in Egypt, Ireland and Peru in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoThis note outlines several features common to the reception of ancient ruins by the Christian populations of three countries, each located on a different continent. Most of the sites were and are strongly associated with the realm of the dead. Fear of misadventure or calamity typically inspired a respectful avoidance of such pre-Christian sites…[Read more]
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Chris A. Kramer deposited Is Laughing at Morally Oppressive Jokes Like Being Disgusted by Phony Dog Feces? An Analysis of Belief and Alief in the Context of Questionable Humor in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoIn two very influential papers from 2008, Tamar Gendler introduced the concept of “alief” to describe the mental state one is in when acting in ways contrary to their consciously professed beliefs. For example, if asked to eat what they know is fudge, but shaped into the form of dog feces, they will hesitate, and behave in a manner that would be…[Read more]
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Luis Gregorio Abad Espinoza deposited Transcending human sociality: eco-cosmological relationships between entities in the ecosphere in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoBased on a discussion of the theoretical contributions of Claude Lévi-Strauss and Pierre Clastres, this article explores social relationships as more than a human dimension. Though strongly analysed by both anthropologists, these relationships appear to involve indigenous societies’ whole ecological and cosmological system. In this sense, re…[Read more]
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Anne Pasek deposited DIY Methods 2022 Conference Proceedings in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoAs the past years have proven, the methods for conducting and distributing research that we’ve inherited from our disciplinary traditions can be remarkably brittle in the face of rapidly changing social and mobility norms. The ways we work and the ways we meet are questions newly opened for practical and theoretical inquiry; we both need to s…[Read more]
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Swati Arora deposited Fugitive aesthetics: performing refusal in four acts in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoThis chapter discusses the aesthetic of refusal as it is articulated in contemporary performances in India and South Africa while debates around the #MeToo movement continue to agitate and exhaust womxn around the globe. In the aftermath of the Indian Supreme Court acquitting the Chief Justice of India of all sexual harassment charges in May 2019,…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited ‘Eva’: Imitation of Life in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months agoSpanish abstract: Comentario sobre algunas cuestiones éticas y metaficcionales en la película ‘Eva’ (dir. Kike Maíllo, 2011).
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English abstract: A comment on some ethical and metafictional issues in the science-fiction film ‘Eva’ (dir. Kike Maíllo, 2011).
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Justin Walsh deposited Automated identification of astronauts on board the International Space Station: A case study in space archaeology in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months agoWe develop and apply a deep learning-based computer vision pipeline to automatically identify crew members in archival photographic imagery taken on-board the International Space Station. Our approach is able to quickly tag thousands of images from public and private photo repositories without human supervision with high degrees of accuracy,…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited The Sealed Book of the Future: The Collected Prose of Edward Taylor Fletcher in the group
Archives on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months agoThis digital book is a companion to Of Sunken Islands and Pestilence: Restoring the Voice of Edward Taylor Fletcher to Nineteenth-Century Canadian Literature. It is intended as an aid to readers, in particular students and scholars, who wish to know more about Fletcher’s works. The ideas that drove Fletcher’s creative works are on display here,…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Grandiosa secuencia de acontecimientos: Darwin sobre la evolución humana in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 6 months agoEn este artículo sobre teoría narrativa evolucionista releemos y comentamos algunos textos y nociones clave de la teoría de Charles Darwin, en el ‘Origen de las Especies’ y ‘El Origen del Hombre’, a la luz de la sociobiología cognitiva con…[Read more]
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Meredith Warren deposited To Work or Not to Work: The Hand and Embodied Wisdom of the Valiant Woman in Proverbs 31:10–31 in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 6 months agoThe discipline of embodied cognitive science and associated concept of intercorporeality provide the theoretical framework of our analysis of Proverbs 31:10–31. This essay fleshes out the underlying cognitive and meaning-making processes and entailments inherent in the valiant woman’s use of her hands and body as depicted in the poem. The val…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited पत्रकारिता और पुस्तक प्रकाशन में नैतिकता का सवाल एक पत्र in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 6 months agoयह पत्र नई दिल्ली से प्रकाशित फारवर्ड प्रेस नामक द्विभाषी पत्रिका और पुस्तक प्रकाशन संस्थान के मालिक को लिखा गया था। यह पत्रिका वर्ष 2011 से 2016 के बीच अपने तार्किक तेवर और दलित, आदिवासी व अन्य पिछड़े वर्गों की हिमायत करने के कारण चर्चित रही थी। पत्रिका ने अन्य अनेक कामों के साथ इस दौरान हिंदू मिथकों का दलित-बहुजन नजरिए से पुर्नपाठ प्रस…[Read more]
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Luis Gregorio Abad Espinoza deposited Más allá de las operaciones del pensamiento salvaje entre los shuar de la Amazonía ecuatoriana in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 6 months agoAl tratar de disolver la neta separación entre una mente racional y la materia inerte abogada por el dualismo Cartesiano, el monismo lucha por reunificar estas distintas realidades ontológicas. Tal como para Claude Lévi-Strauss y Baruch Spinoza, esa dicha unificación no puede prescindir de la trascendencia de la mente humana como locus del pen…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited Four years of a cultural movement in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 6 months agoWe wrote this report in December 2015. In this report, we have tried to bring out the ideology of the organisers of Mahishasur Day, and their strategy for cultural-social change.
When, on 25 October 2011, a handful of students of Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University celebrated Mahishasur Martyrdom Day for the first time, no one could have i…[Read more] - Load More