Anthropology

Educación para la salud y obesidad en un centro escolar de Badajoz

by José Ramón Vallejo Villalobos

Autor/es: Vallejo Villalobos, José Ramón; Calaco Albero, Alberto; Peral Pacheco, Diego y Altimiras Roset, Jacinto.

Revista: Gazeta de Antropología, 2009. Volumen: Nº 25 Texto 25-31.
ISSN: 0214-7564.

How to Become an Iconic Social Thinker: The Intellectual Pursuits of Malinowski and Foucault

by Dominik Bartmanski

Published in European Journal of Social Theory

The present article develops a new approach to intellectual history and sociology of knowledge. Its point of departure... more The present article develops a new approach to intellectual history and sociology of knowledge. Its point of departure is to investigate the conditions under which social thinkers assume the iconic reputation. What does it take to become ‘a founding father’ of a humanistic discipline? How do social thinkers achieve the status of a trans-disciplinary star? Why some intellectuals attract tremendous attention and ‘go down in history’ despite personal and professional failures, while others enjoy only limited recognition or simply sink into oblivion, even if they have met all the standards of their day? Quite a few sociologists have tackled this elusive issue. Pierre Bourdieu, Michele Lamont and Randall Collins are among those who fleshed out strong explanatory frameworks. This project adds to this body of knowledge by emphasizing cultural factors that these authors downplayed in their seminal accounts, despite being aware of their significance. By showing why these underdeveloped aspects of their works need to be incorporated into the debate and how this can be achieved, this article introduces a new theorization of the iconic, lasting intellectual reputation substantiated by evidence from the lifeworks of Bronislaw Malinowski and Michel Foucault. As such, it aims, minimally, to make sociology of knowledge decisively ‘cultural’. Maximally, it seeks to demonstrate that the iconic success of intellectual intervention in social theory depends on carefully performed and contingently mediated engagement with the binary systems of symbolic classification.

Extending current boundaries between the private, domestic and public display of mourning, love and visual culture in Mexico City

by Marcel Reyes-Cortez

2012: Social History, (May, Routledge), pp. 117-141.

Immigration Status

by Sarah Willen

Willen, Sarah S. 2012. “Immigration Status.” In Sana Loue and Martha Sajatovic, eds. Encyclopedia of Immigrant Health. New York: Springer. 886-888.

CHURCH NEWS: NEW UNITY MOVEMENT STEPS PROPOSED

by Daniel Keeran MSW

by Daniel Keeran, MSW (distrbute freely without charge)

Against the unity prayer of Jesus in the gospel of John chapter 17, divisions within Christianity have been common... more Against the unity prayer of Jesus in the gospel of John chapter 17, divisions within Christianity have been common from the beginning. New steps for unity are outlined that provide grass-roots opportunities in local churches and communities.

Fundamental to the new unity movement are principles and a change in paradigm that give a fresh approach to the ancient problem of divisions among people who identify themselves as followers of Jesus.

Mendi, Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea

by Rena Lederman

Interests in exchange: increment, equivalence and the limits of big-manship

by Rena Lederman

Anti Anti Antiscience

by Rena Lederman

Unchosen grounds: cultivating a cross subfield accents for a public voice

by Rena Lederman

Prácticas mágicas en la medicina popular de un pueblo extremeño de colonización

by José Ramón Vallejo Villalobos

Gazeta de Antropología
Nº 24/2 - 2008

The magical practices in folk medicine in a colonization village of Extremadura, Spain

Vallejo Villalobos, José Ramón
Peral Pacheco, Diego
Carrasco Ramos, María Consuelo

The knowledge of magical practices in the folk medicine of Guadiana del Caudillo (Badajoz) from its organization as... more The knowledge of magical practices in the folk medicine of Guadiana del Caudillo (Badajoz) from its organization as frontier town of colonization contributes a rich information about itself. In this way, we found that these practices comprise of the cultural heritage of the town and that they have not been moved, nor suppressed until now. This gives an idea of the importance of these beliefs in order to understand the subject with which we interacted as a doctor, anthropologist, etc. Thus we found the evil eye, culebro, shyness, and other practices more difficult to classify and for that reason less of interest (milk of woman, saliva, menstrual blood). The magical practices may undergo transformations, but they will always comprise part of human life.

Tra nemici e bambini. Note di una ricerca in corso sul comando kalapalo (Alto Xingu, Mato Grosso, Brasile)

by Antonio Guerreiro Júnior

Rethinking Human Nature and the Place of (Wo)Man in the world: Anthropology between Philosophy and Science. A Manifesto

by Giacomo Pezzano

We are knowing more and more about (Wo)Man, but the determination of her/his nature is still problematic: asking «What... more We are knowing more and more about (Wo)Man, but the determination of her/his nature is still problematic: asking «What is (Wo)Man?» is paradoxically possible only in the space left open by (wo)man’s erasure. Whatever human nature is, (wo)man wants to know her/himself, because if (s)he does not know who (s)he is, (s)he can not know where to go: moving from hominitas to humanitas requires a definition of (wo)man’s nature, of her/his «place» in the world, in view of describing ex-istence as a modulation of the «World Openness» and an attempt to find a way of articulate the possibilities, as intrinsically «medial» and «modal» since it is founded on «referral» and «relationship with the outside»

Misyurov D.A. Dialectical formulas based on the binary notation as the development formulas // Credo New. 2012. №2

by Dmitry Misyurov

The article suggests dialectical formulas based on the binary notation as the development formulas: formula with... more The article suggests dialectical formulas based on the binary notation as the development formulas: formula with dominant and the non-dominant elements; universal formula; formula with symbolic weight of elements; tautological formula. For example, it suggests an opportunity to use the dialectical formulas for modeling and artificial intelligence creation, etc.

L'oeuvre de Hilma Granqvist : l'Orient imaginaire confronté à la réalité d'un village palestinien

by falestin naili

publié dans la Revue d'Etudes Palestiniennes, no. 105, 2007

Cuerpo, sujeto, persona: Rodeo etnológico a la ética y la política de las tecnologías reproductivas

by Daniel Alberto Alegrett Salazar

Nociones de cuerpo, sujeto y persona fundamentarían debates éticos-políticos sobre lastecnologías de reproducción... more Nociones de cuerpo, sujeto y persona fundamentarían debates éticos-políticos sobre lastecnologías de reproducción asistida (ART). Éstas encarnarían promesas y amenazas para la“vida humana”. El desarrollo de las ART resolvería la infertilidad, superaría obstáculos a la procreación y satisfacería el deseo de familia. En un contexto tecno-científico, tienen una posición en el mercado y los regímenes de poder. Participarían problemáticamente en procesos de producción de individuos y relaciones. Reemplazarían al parentesco, unaimaginación moral para la que la persona es una especificación. Tal impacto sugeriría undesvío etnológico en la discusión. El registro etnográfico contextualizaría y recontextualizaríalas nociones de cuerpo, sujeto y persona. Recupero la etnología clásica del parentesco como principio de organización y recojo las intenciones de los llamados “nuevos estudios de parentesco” de ir más allá de supuestos naturalistas acerca de las relaciones. Trato de problematizar los usos discursivos de lo humano, natural, biológico, psicológico, social ycultural, incorporados en los debates sobre la intervención tecno-científica en la creación delhijo deseado.

Comunità, immunità, apertura verso l’alterità: una biopolitica affermativa e oltre-umana?

by Giacomo Pezzano

Published in "Trópos. Rivista di ermeneutica e critica filosofica”, IV, 2, 2011, pp. 167-184

Roberto Esposito claims that biopolitics characterizes the entire modernity, and that it is built on the immunity... more Roberto Esposito claims that biopolitics characterizes the entire modernity, and that it is built on the immunity dispositive. Im-munity is the negation of the munus which animates and builds com-munity: inside the immunitarian paradigm, thinking politics and ontology is considering men as ab-solutes beings, without any kind of engagement to each other, inhabited by a vacuum to deny. Esposito believes this means shaping an anthropological paradigm (systematized by philosophical anthropology in the 20th century) in which man is thought to be distinct from the animal since he is capable of denying his own nature and, more generally, his relationship with the world and the other beings – that is, a paradigm in which community has no ‘positive’ place. In order to overcome the immunitarian paradigm, we need to define the outlines of an affirmative biopolitics, a politics ‘of ’ life and not ‘on’ life. This biopolitical shift requires the understanding of the ‘flow of life,’ of its everlasting and unprotected openness: Esposito claims that life is impersonal and intrinsically normative, over-human and perpetually exposed to the ‘outside.’ Finally, this perspective leaves open a crucial question: can over-man exist without man?

Can the subaltern eat? Anthropophagic culture as a Brazilian lens on post-colonial theory

by Gazi Islam

Engineering love

by Brian Earp

Savulescu, J. and Sandberg, A. (2012). Love machine: Engineering lifelong romance. New Scientist, 2864, 28-29.

Essay partially adapted from Earp, B. D., Sandberg, A., and Savulescu, J. (2012). Natural selection, childrearing, and the ethics of marriage (and divorce): Building a case for the neuroenhancement of human relationships. Philosophy & Technology, forthcoming [see "profile" box in article].

Available at the New Scientist website: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21428646.200-love-machine-engineering-lifelong-romance.html

New Scientist BIG IDEA section, May 2012.

With break-up and divorce a major part of modern life, it looks... more New Scientist BIG IDEA section, May 2012.

With break-up and divorce a major part of modern life, it looks like we may be outliving our inborn capacity to love. But there could be a way to outwit evolution and make love last.

Also available at New Scientist: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21428646.200-love-machine-engineering-lifelong-romance.html.

Theaterlandscapes - Understanding and Alterity at the Theater an der Ruhr, Germany

by Jonas Leonhard Tinius

published in: (2012) Imponderabilia. Cambridge Student Anthropology Journal (4): 17-21.

In this article, based on research conducted between June and October 2011 at the West German Theater an der Ruhr... more In this article, based on research conducted between June and October 2011 at the West German Theater an der Ruhr (hereafter, TaR), I intend to explore the notion of theater-landscapes, or theatrescapes (‘Theaterlandschaften’) coined by its director Roberto Ciulli and dramatic advisor Helmut Schäfer. What it refers to is the vision that theatre is, on the one hand, always a local (contextual) phenomenon referring to local situations, people and historical circumstances. At the same time, it can establish links between them. People from such diverse contexts can be brought together, on, behind and before the stage, they can speak to each other – indifferent of language, ethnic or religious background. For the TaR, the concept is more than mere recognition of difference; it has brought to the attention of the German and international public the theatre landscapes of a whole nexus of regions, such as Yugoslavia, the Silk Road, Arabia and North Africa and thereby initiated a dialogue not just between theatrical visions, but different ‘styles of life’, projects of artistic self-formation and social engagement. In this essay I argue that their vision of theatrescapes is not only an expansion of the German hermeneutic philosopher H.G. Gadamer’s notion of the fusion of horizons (‘Horizontverschmelzung’, 1960: 310), but also an anthropological quest for the appreciation of difference whilst recognising the commonalities of humankind. Doing so, I seek to point to the enriching implications of theatre for anthropological studies of the way people transform the cultural landscapes they inhabit.

UrSprünge - Das Feld zwischen Anthropologie und Theater

by Jonas Leonhard Tinius

forthcoming: (2012) Brink. Magazin zwischen Kunst und Wissenschaft. (2)

How to conceptualise the field that anthropology encounters in the study of theatre. An essayistic exploration. How to conceptualise the field that anthropology encounters in the study of theatre. An essayistic exploration.