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2025, Badh Bhangar Awaj and Zenodo

ইমাম আল গাজ্জালী (রহঃ) ছিলেন ইসলামী চিন্তাধারা, দর্শন এবং আধ্যাত্মিকতার এক অনন্য পথপ্রদর্শক, যিনি ইসলামী দার্শনিকতার জগতে এক যুগান্তকারী পরিবর্তন সাধন করেন। তাঁর চিন্তাধারা কেবল ধর্মতত্ত্বের শুদ্ধতা রক্ষা করেই ক্ষান্ত হয়নি, বরং তা আত্মিক উন্নয়ন, নৈতিকতা এবং মানবিক মূল্যবোধের দিকেও বিশেষ গুরুত্ব প্রদান করেছে। তিনি এমন এক সময়ে আবির্ভূত হন, যখন মুসলিম বিশ্বে গ্রিক দর্শন ও পাশ্চাত্য যুক্তিবাদের প্রভাব প্রবলভাবে বিস্তার লাভ করেছিল। এই প্রেক্ষাপটে তিনি যুক্তিবাদী ফালাসিফাদের চিন্তার অসারতা তুলে ধরেন এবং ঘোষণা করেন যে, সত্যিকারের জ্ঞান ও মুক্তির পথ কেবলমাত্র ওহিভিত্তিক জ্ঞানের মাধ্যমেই সম্ভব। তাঁর কালজয়ী রচনা তাহাফাতুল ফালাসিফা-তে তিনি যুক্তিনির্ভর দর্শনের সীমাবদ্ধতা বিশ্লেষণ করে ইসলামী চিন্তাকে রক্ষা করেন। অপরদিকে, ইহইয়াউ উলুমিদ্দীন-এ তিনি ইসলামী জীবনাচারের গভীর ব্যাখ্যা দেন, যেখানে আত্মশুদ্ধি, ইখলাস, তাকওয়া, আল্লাহর স্মরণ এবং নৈতিক চরিত্র গঠনের উপর বিশেষ গুরুত্ব দেওয়া হয়েছে। ইমাম গাজ্জালী (রহঃ)-এর জীবনদর্শন আজও প্রাসঙ্গিক। তিনি দেখিয়েছেন, কেবল বাহ্যিক শিক্ষা বা যুক্তি নয়, বরং আত্মিক উপলব্ধি ও ঈমানপূর্ণ জীবনযাপনই মানুষের প্রকৃত পরিপূর্ণতা। তাঁর শিক্ষা মুসলিম উম্মাহর আত্মিক জাগরণে যুগ যুগ ধরে প্রেরণার উৎস হিসেবে কাজ করে চলেছে।

2025, The Jewish World—Perspectives from Israel: Images, Representations and Boundaries

The process of immigration brings about a variety of changes and influences on the immigrant. One of their manifestations is the memories that the person adopts and they shape his views. This article examines the retrospective views of Jewish men of Moroccan origin on their past in Morocco and Israel, on the circumstances of their absorption in the years 1948-1951 as young immigrants, which are reflected in the memoirs they wrote in the early 2000s. These perspectives are reflected in personal historical documents (ego-documents) that they wrote in their old age, and in the way they describe central memory centers in their immigration process—memory centers from Israel, such as service in the IDF and the encounter with Israeli society, and memory centers from Morocco, such as Jewish-Muslim relations in Morocco and the figure of the Moroccan Sultan. Their perspectives were shaped by the influence of their absorption processes and subjective integration into Israeli society, alongside changes that occurred in the public mood in the country between the 1950s and the 2000s. The narratives in personal historical documents offer a new way of examining the immigration process, which is a complex arena that is influenced by various variables and the immigrant's consciousness. In addition, the perspectives of the authors of the autobiographical works challenge the assumptions of researchers who analyze the relationship between the immigrant and the receiving society in terms of power relations, according to which the immigrant submits to the hierarchical and powerful dictates that the society imposes on them. The retrospective views of Moroccan-Israeli Jews show how, during the immigration process, the immigrant takes an active position in the negotiations he conducts with the absorbing society over values, and develops a hybrid identity that combines new and old cultural codes side by side, which helps improve his absorption strategy.

2025, Otkrytoe i distancionnoe obrazovanie

2025, Scientia. Rivista della Società Italiana di Storia della Scienza

Sapere e il dibattito sull'energia nucleare nell'Italia degli anni Settanta Andrea Candela 113 Storia della fisica e storia della scienza nella rivista Sapere negli anni Settanta Gianluca Pozzoni 137 La rivista Sapere nella direzione di Carlo Bernardini: un viaggio trentennale Luigi Romano PATRIMONI 167 La difficile definizione del patrimonio della scienza. L'Università di Padova e le disposizioni ministeriali sulla tutela del materiale storico-scientifico negli anni Venti Elena Maria Rita Rizzi DID-ACTA 193 "Senza storia non c'è memoria": spunti dalla storia della scienza e della matematica Elena Scalambro BIOGRAPHICA 215

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Curso: Antropologia no Brasil / Unicamp /graduação

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Este texto apresenta o contexto e os objetivos da mesa "Imagens e Religião", realizada durante a XX Jornadas sobre Alternativas Religiosas na América Latina, em 2022. Organizada por Rodrigo Toniol, a atividade propôs um diálogo entre os pesquisadores Mattijs van de Port e Hugo José Suárez, mediados por Renata Menezes, sobre o papel das imagens na reflexão antropológica e sociológica da religião. Mais do que enquadrar teoricamente o debate, a proposta foi abrir espaço para uma interlocução livre, provocada pela pergunta: Como as imagens fazem vocês pensarem sobre religião? O texto ressalta a importância crescente da visualidade nas ciências sociais da religião e sugere que as imagens, mais do que representações, podem operar como dispositivos analíticos centrais para repensar o fenômeno religioso.

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Shqiperia vitii 1308 dhe përshkrimin real nga dorëshkrimi mesjetar Descriptio Europae Orientalis, si dhe burime shkencore. Një rrëfim historik me fakte, analiza dhe shpjegime të thelluara Fakti 1 -Një burim i rrallë: Dorëshkrimi i vitit 1308 Në pranverë të vitit 1308, një klerik dominikan francez shkroi një përshkrim të Ballkanit Lindor për Charles, Kont i Valois'it, me qëllim përgatitjen e një kryqëzate kundër Bizantit. Teksti, i titulluar Anonymi Descriptio Europae Orientalis, përmban përshkrimin më të hershëm të hollësishëm për Shqipërinë në shek. XIV. Autori përmend Shqipërinë jo thjesht si një rajon gjeografik, por si një "krahine të madhe e njerëz të armatosur mirë", që e dallon nga Greqia dhe Serbia. Ky është dokumenti i parë ku Shqipëria paraqitet me emrin e saj dhe me identitet të veçantë territorial dhe kulturor. Fakti 2 -Struktura politike: pa mbret, por me princër lokalë Në vitin 1308, Shqipëria nuk kishte një mbretëri të vetën të unifikuar. Ajo ishte pjesë e asaj që njihet si Mbretëria e Arbërisë (Kingdom of Albania), e themeluar nga Karl Anzhu i I-rë më 1272, por qeverisja reale ishte e shpërndarë mes princërve vendas, si:

2025, Transmodernity 13:1

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Apresenta uma profunda e contundente análise de uma prática colonial amplamente silenciada nos registros tradicionais da história: a exposição de seres humanos como espetáculo nos chamados "zoológicos humanos". Trata-se de um estudo rigoroso sobre a instrumentalização do corpo de pessoas de diversos povos dominados pelas potências imperiais europeias, principalmente africanas, indígenas e asiáticas, transformadas em objeto de curiosidade, controle e dominação nos séculos XIX e XX. A autora, por meio de uma abordagem interdisciplinar, evidencia com a análise de fotografias como essas exibições compunham uma engrenagem imperialista que unia pseudociência, racismo, espetacularização e violência colonial.

2025, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

Over the last quarter-century, a growing body of scholarship has emerged that examines the historical and cultural intersection of Black and Japanese lives. These Afro-Japanese encounters, as the title of this volume suggests, constitute a discursive metaphor of transnational movement, discovery, and engagement. In their introduction, William H. Bridges IV and Nina Cornyetz describe their work as constituting a 'new wave' of scholarship on cultural, intellectual, and artistic 'transracial exchange[s]' (p. 13) between Japan and diasporic Black culture and communities, noting that texts produced by such encounters tell 'new stories' which, in the case of the volume at hand, include those heretofore untold in part because traditional disciplinary boundaries have impeded their production. Traveling texts and the work of Afro-Japanese cultural production successfully transgresses these disciplinary boundaries, covering a range of topics as eclectic and syncretic as the encounters themselves. It is divided into three sections: 'Art and performance', 'Poetry and literature', and 'Sound, song, music', with chapters covering such topics as ganguro subculture (Cornyetz, chap. 2); the African American blackface ukiyo-e portraits of conceptual artist iROZEALb (Crystal S. Anderson); representations of 'black' robots in Japanese popular culture (McKnight); Japanese Rastafarianism (Marvin Sterling); the sociopolitical context behind the Japanese translation of James Weldon Johnson's 'Negro national anthem' (Shana Redmond, chap. 9); the haiku of Richard Wright and Amari Baraka (Yoshinobu Hakutani and Michio Arimitsu's chapters); Japanese rap (Dexter Thomas Jr. and Noriko Manabe's chapters); and Black enka performer Jero (Kevin Fellezs). While the topography traversed in these chapters is diverse, a common thread emerging from them is the Japanese association of blackness with resistance and rebellion as a means to critique the status quo and to forge resistive identities. However, as historian Reginald Kearney points out in his pioneering African American views of the Japanese (1998), Japan has historically occupied a similarly reflexive space in the African American imagination, despite occupying, as Sterling puts it in his chapter 12, an 'extra-diasporic space . . . largely untouched by the Atlantic slave trade ' (pp. 239-40). Perhaps because of this placement, both sides have seen qualities in the Other that have led them to question, resist, and reinscribe essentialist racial tropes as they seek both affinities and differences with that Other. The theme is explored in Anne McKnight's chapter 7 on 'black' robots in the Japanese translation of Czech writer Karel Čapek's 1921 play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) and other Japanese cultural products in which the multivalent meaning of blackness that these entities embody is presented as a catalytic force for social change, anti-colonial insurrection and liberation, as well as serving as a critique of

2025, Bulletin of the History of Archaeology

The Cotsen Institute's Director of Publications is archaeologist Marilyn Beaudry-Corbet� herself a specialist on the production and distribution of archaeological ceramics in Mesoamerica and Central America and a scholar of complex society economic organization. Her colleague and the co-editor of this volume, Ellen Hardy, is a Research Associate at The Cotsen Institute and an expert on mortuary customs of the Nicoya region. Theodore (Ted) Gutman (1909Gutman ( -1997) ) was a longtime supporter of the Institute at UCLA worked on a number of translation projects, several of which are presented here. He was the translator of Karl Sapper's Ve rapaz Un 16. und 17. lahrhundert, which appeared as The Ve rapat in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: A Contribution to the Historical Geography and Eth nography of Northeastern Gualemala (Los Angeles, University of California, Institute of Archae ology, Occasional Paper 13, 1985). The contributors to the volume's narrative include, in add�tion to Beaudry-Corbett and Hardy, nine other anthropologists who are recognized experts on the region and subject matter. The volume includes the English renderings of nine never before translated German language ar ticles written by three scholars who were preeminent in Central American studies during the early 20th century. Collectively, they studied and wrote about a diversity of subj ects: geology, geography, archaeology, ethnography, epigraphy, physical anthropology, and linguistics. Beaudry-Corbett and Hardy's edited publication includes ten chapters, comprised of an introduction followed by seven articles written by Karl Sapper, and one each by Walter Lehmann and by Franz Termer. Each of the nine translations is prefaced by a commentary on its significance for contemporary scholarship. Ten maps, 23 illustrations, glossaries, tables, and a bibliography of 77 items emend the volume. There is no index. Karl Theodor Sapper (1866-194-), a German geographer who held a doctorate from the University of Munich ( I X88), lived in the Alia Ve rapaz for 12 years during a period of German colonialism. His brother Richard owned a large coffee finca (plantation) that he used as a base for his studies of geology, geography, ethnology, archaeology, linguistics, history, and physical anthropology. Follow ing a stint as a geologist for the Mexican government in 1900, he returned to Germany where he held professorships at prestigious German universities (Leipzig, Tubingen, Strassburg. and Wurzburg). WaIter Lehmann (1878-1939), a German physician turned linguist, is perhaps best known for defin ing the Tlapanec language of northeastern Mexico in 1920 (later studied by Sapir). Lehmann, a student of Eduard Seler, specialized in pre-Hispanic art, astronomy, calendrics, and mythology, and translated numerous Nahuatl texts. His professional career was spent at the Universities of Munich

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Somatic sympathy jako podstawa uniwersalnej etyki. Perspektywa Critical Human-Animal and Media Studies (CHAMS) Somatic Sympathy as the basis for a universal ethics: A Critical Hu-man-Animal and Media Studies (CHAMS) Perspective STRESZCZENIE Badania nad mediami do tej pory posẃięcały niewiele miejsca krytycznej re�leksji nad relacją człowieka z innymi istotami zẏwymi -dotyczy to również cierpienia zadawanego zwierzętom. Stan ba-dań w tym obszarze odzwierciedla społeczno-kulturowy stosunek do zwierząt, oparty na skrajnie antropocentrycznych uzasadnieniach. Taki sposób ujęcia tematu wpływa na przekaz medialny, utrwala antropocentryczne podejsćie do kwestii relacji człowiek-zwierzę, co z kolei jeszcze wyrazniej konstytuuje praktyki społeczne i idee dotyczące zwierząt, ich statusu i sensu ich cierpienia. Celem niniejszego artykułu jest odniesienie się do subdyscypliny Krytycznych Studiów nad relacją Człowiek -Zwierzęta w Mediach (CHAMS) poprzez zastosowanie kategorii somatic sympathy Ralpha R. Acampory, zarówno w odniesieniu do metody badań nad relacjami człowieka z innymi bytami o zẏwych ciałach i mediach, jak i w celu większego zaangazȯwania mediów i społecznosći dziennikarskiej w prezentację i promocję postaw ludzkich, które przełamują paradygmat antropocentryczny wobec innych istot ozẏwionych i nieozẏwionych.

2025, American Anthropologist

2025, Revista mexicana de pediatría

2025, Anthropological Journal of European Cultures

World fairs and exhibitions served as important venues for empires to showcase their industrial and technological achievements. Moreover, they also presented ‘civilisational models’ that portrayed Europeans as the most advanced and sophisticated and depicted the distant inhabitants as exotic and primitive. In portraying distant peoples, these contrasts were evident through their dress styles, dance, music, and performance of daily customs, but most noticeably, through their skin colours. With five articles focusing on world fairs and exhibitions in diverse locations and times, this special issue raises questions about the display and showcasing of humans that are still pertinent to the current contexts of anthropology. The articles call for ‘decolonising’ thoughts, discourses, and practices in political and public space in displaying contemporary cultures. While acknowledging the problematics and limits of ‘decolonisation’ itself, the articles reassess through a critical lens the co...

2025, ETNOREMA

Recensioni 129 interests and had no care to their benefit from the outcome of the war. In other words, they are still victims of an alien structure which had less to do with their free will. In a nutshell, the book displays alternative narratives and methods in a historiography that suffers from scholarly attention. For these reasons alone, I recommend all interested historians and all breeds of readers to have it gone through, I am sure it will be worthy digesting.

2025, Leetra indigena

Na década de 1820, pelo menos sete Botocudos de Minas Gerais (duas mulheres, quatro homens e uma criança) viviam na Europa, onde mais três crianças nasceram. Três deles residiram em lares de famílias imperiais ou nobres na Áustria e na Alemanha, enquanto outros quatro foram exibidos ao público na Inglaterra, Alemanha, Países Baixos e Bélgica, atraindo considerável atenção. Apenas um retornou ao Brasil, enquanto os restos mortais de pelo menos três se tornaram parte de coleções museológicas. Este artigo descreve as experiências desses testemunhos involuntários da diversidade cultural, inserindo-as no contexto da história de povos indígenas levados à Europa. Além disso, explora as motivações de seus "coletores", as estratégias empregadas na exibição desses indivíduos e o impacto dessas práticas na percepção pública de "primitividade", abordando tanto a alteridade quanto a humanidade compartilhada. Embora tenham sido apresentados ao público europeu como exemplos de um povo supostamente antropófago, colocado no nível mais baixo de desenvolvimento cultural, todos foram reconhecidos como seres humanos e, frequentemente, indivíduos cativantes.

2025, LE GRANDI AVVENTURE DELL’ANTROPOLOGIA. Vol. I. da Adolf Bastian a Vinigi Lorenzo Grottanelli

LE GRANDI AVVENTURE DELL’ANTROPOLOGIA. Vol. I. da Adolf Bastian a Vinigi Lorenzo Grottanelli [The Great Adventures of Anthropology. Cultural, social, physical, applied anthropologists, ethnologists, ethnographers, ethnomusicologists, ethno-historians. Vol. 1 : from Adolf Bastian to Vinigi Lorenzo Grottanelli].
CHAPTER: KARL VON DEN STEINEN, 1855-1929: Polo Sud, Sud America (Indios dello Xingú, Mato Grosso, Brasile), Oceania (Isole Marchesi, Polinesia).

2025, Bérose

António Jorge Dias (1907-1973) foi o mais importante antropólogo português da segunda metade do século XX. A sua vida e obra - 50 anos após a sua morte em fevereiro de 1973 - estão ainda insuficientemente estudadas. Este artigo pretende contribuir para um melhor conhecimento do seu percurso, nomeadamente internacional. O seu papel na etnologia europeia do pós-guerra e os seus intensos intercâmbios com folcloristas e antropólogos brasileiros são já conhecidos. Este artigo pretende alargar a análise da circulação internacional de Jorge Dias, centrando-se nas suas relações com dois dos mais importantes centros de produção antropológica nas décadas de 1950 e 1960: os Estados Unidos e a Inglaterra. Jorge Dias não só se deslocou frequentemente a estes dois países, como estabeleceu relações de cooperação científica (e, nalguns casos, de amizade) com importantes antropólogos americanos e ingleses. Para além de traçar alguns dos segmentos mais significativos destas circulações, o artigo procura mostrar como estes diálogos anglo-saxónicos de Jorge Dias se articulam com o seu programa de investigação em Portugal e entre os macondes de Moçambique

2025, Etnološka tribina : Godišnjak Hrvatskog etnološkog društva

Istraživanje je provedeno za izradu diplomskog rada obranjenog još 1996. godine, a koji će uskoro u integralnom obliku biti objavljen u mrežnom izdanju HED-a, kojem ujedno zahvaljujem što mi je omogućio da ovaj studentski rad dopre do... more

2025, September 1980 Human Organization 39(3):284-286

The position of the Ethno-Anthropological Sciences and of Applied Anthropology in Italy.

2025, in “ERAT OLIM” 2024 (4), 99-122.

Nel libro IV delle Etymologiae di Isidoro di Siviglia, intitolato De medicina, la materia medica è trattata con toni di narratio. Vi sono presenti inserti aneddotici e mitologici. Nell'articolo si tratta dell'inserto narrativo relativo all'origine del nome dell'amaracinum. L'aneddoto ha stretto rapporto con uno dei Carmina attribuiti ad Isidoro (22 Beeson). In book IV of Isidore of Seville's Etymologiae, entitled De medicina, medicine is treated with narrative tones. There are anecdotal and mythological inserts. The article deals with the narrative insert relating to the origin of the name of amaracinum. The anecdote has a close relationship with one of the Carmina attributed to Isidore (22 Beeson).

2025, ICON EDU 2025 - 4th International Congress: Education and Knowledge

L'educazione alle sessualità è concettualizzata e riconosciuta come diritto sessuale di tutte le persone, caratterizzandosi come processo di lifelong learning che parte dalla prima infanzia. Per essere efficace, è necessaria la collaborazione e la responsabilità educativa condivisa tra scuola, famiglia e persone esperte sul territorio in termini di salute psicofisica e sociale. La mancanza dell'EaS in diversi contesti educativi porta le persone ad auto educarsi su temi sessuali e affettivi tramite Internet, media o messaggi sociali, che spesso producono una conoscenza distorta sulle tematiche sessuali, affettive e relazionali, ma anche anatomiche. Ciò comporta delle conseguenze negative in termini di salute corporea e sessuale, un piacere sessuale meno soddisfacente e la produzione di un lessico colloquiale per esprimersi e riferirsi ad alcune parti del corpo specifiche. Un esempio-focus del presente lavoro-è l'uso comune di due termini come fossero sinonimi: vulva e vagina. Il tabù intergenerazionale e la confusione sui termini scientifici relativi alle parti del corpo femminile che compongono l'apparato genitale conducono al fenomeno dell'Alienazione genitale. Ovvero, porre una parte del corpo sotto l'attenzione sociale impattando soprattutto l'accettazione personale. Nello specifico, il termine vulva, più di vagina o di altre parti componenti l'apparato genitale femminile, è invisibilizzato attraverso il linguaggio, con azioni come il non nominarlo o indicandolo con termini errati. L'invisibilità è dovuta alla mancanza di informazioni o alla presenza di simboli, costrutti e rappresentazioni rinforzati da un comune discorso sociale. Nei corsi educativi e formativi, per educatrici e educatori in formazione e insegnanti in servizio, volti all'ottenimento dell'Open Badge EduSex è stato posto l'obiettivo di esplorare le rappresentazioni sociali e lessicali legate all'apparato genitale femminile. È stato chiesto di disegnare una vagina per far emergere le rappresentazioni sociali e decostruire il lessico scientificamente scorretto. Ciò che è emerso dai disegni di persone iscritte alle formazioni offerte da Sapienza Università di Roma è stato analizzato seguendo la Teoria delle Rappresentazioni Sociali, ovvero lo studio di forme, contenuti e funzioni socialmente condivise sulla base di una conoscenza comune. Le persone partecipanti hanno rappresentato alcune parti dell'apparato genitale femminile-vulva, utero, intero corpo femminile-mostrando una mancanza di conoscenza e consapevolezza a discapito dell'anatomia genitale personale. Difatti, nella formazione erano presenti sia donne sia uomini. Terminata la fase pratica del disegno, è stata avviata una discussione attraverso lo stimolo visivo di rappresentazioni anatomiche delle diverse parti componenti l'apparato genitale femminile. Ciò ha permesso l'analisi della costruzione storico-sociale-culturale del termine vagina come univoco per l'intero apparato. Di fatto, lo stimolo visivo ha suscitato la consapevolezza dell'errore commesso nel proprio disegno. I disegni hanno evidenziato come le persone partecipanti non avessero conoscenze anatomiche corrette e come fossero influenzate dalla sopracitata costruzione storico-sociale-culturale. Contemporaneamente, ha permesso di rendere consapevole tale inesattezza provocando una nuova costruzione di conoscenze comuni e scientifiche. Difatti, le implicazioni dell'analisi dei disegni avevano l'obiettivo di promuovere un cambiamento socioculturale e linguistico per un'educazione volta al benessere delle persone. Il mancato utilizzo di un corretto linguaggio-o la non conoscenza anatomica di base-ha conseguenze negative in termini di salute; lo stigma attorno l'anatomia genitale femminile potrebbe essere destrutturato attraverso l'educazione e la formazione. Nello specifico, attraverso una riprogettazione educativa, rispettosa del progresso scientifico. Educare ad un linguaggio corretto promuoverebbe un lessico scientificamente accurato, seppur spontaneo e naturale, sulle tematiche che riguardano la salute e il benessere delle persone, come ad esempio la sessualità.

2025, The Routledge International Handbook of Visual Research Methods in Anthropology

H. Geismar. Drawing. In Cox, R., & Wright, C. (2025). Routledge International Handbook of Visual Research Methods in Anthropology (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315142784

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This study presents an analysis of early researches of the pre-Columbian past of South America, which preceded the development of archeology on the continent. Significant is a brief essay on scientific stereotypes, in the context of which... more

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2025, Anuário Antropológico

2025, Nouvelle Mythologie Comparée / New Comparative Mythology

Nouvelle Mythologie Comparée (New Comparative Mythology), revue de mythologie au comité de lecture international, lance, pour son huitième numéro, un appel à texte sur le thème « Monothéismes et mythologie comparée ». Les articles proposés devront présenté une approche comparative des traditions légendaires des différentes religions monothéismes (christianisme, judaïsme, islam, zoroastrisme, etc.), en particulier dans leur rapport avec les mythologies des cultures polythéistes qu'elles ont rencontrées. Ainsi, des exemples d'axes d'études sont l'héritage des traditions celtiques dans le christianisme médiéval ; l'influence des autres religions proche et moyen orientales sur le judaïsme ; l'incorporation de récits locaux dans telle ou telle forme régionale de l'islam ; les parallèles entre le zoroastrisme et les autres cultes indo-iraniens voire indo-européens ; etc.

2025, Annals of Science

In the summer of 1732, a young medical student named Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) journeyed through Sápmi. Just under two decades later, Lars Montin (1723-1778), a student of the now famous Uppsala professor Linnaeus, followed his teacher's footsteps. We will focus on the accounts that both naturalists gave of the parasitic reindeer warble fly Hypoderma tarandi. While Linnaeus integrated the life history of this fly with his image of Sámi pastoralism as representing a 'silver age' of humanity in tune with the balance of nature, Montin mused about ways in which the fly's damaging effects on reindeer could be weaponized to force the Sámi into 'productive' labour. As a consequence, Linnaeus's timeless conception of an economy of nature was infused by Montin with notions of historical development and an open future. We will suggest that the differing attitudes of Linneaus and Montin can be explained by changes in the political context-most notably an emerging effort to enforce national borders and fiscal regimes in Northern Scandinavia in the 1740s and 1750s. But the different attitudes they developed towards the reindeer warble fly also point to deeper connections between natural history practices and the writing of human histories.

2025, Agora Psycho-Pragmatica

In October 2018, an international symposium adressed to specialists in anthropology and management took place in Arad, at "Aurel Vlaicu" University, in colaboration with "Vasile Goldi‫"܈‬ Western University. It was the first autumn edition of "Francisc I.Rainer" Symposium. The meeting, that aimed to improve the recognition of anthropology implications in human life areas, brought together specialists in the field of anthropology, medicine, education, and management. During the twoday symposium, 52 papers analysing the importance of anthropology in human life have been presented, along with debates and brainstorming sessions, intended to highlight anthropology as a complex science. Each participant has thus contributed to the development of anthropology, as a science of the human beings in their integral bio-social-cultural context of biodiversity. In conclusion, the symposium has responded to questions with solutions and recommendations regarding the few anthropological paliers.

2025

In this semester's unit we will open with a short overview of the major discussions taking place in anthropological, sociological, and philosophical discourse on race and racism. The remainder of the semester will be divided into themes:... more

2025

on Mothersland, a novel by Shahzoda Samarqandi, translated from the Russian by Shelley Fairweather-Vega reviewed by Olga Zilberbourg Novels from Uzbekistan come to English but rarely, and if there's one thing that may be helpful to know before you launch into Mothersland, it is the immense role that cotton production has played in the modern history of this country. Grown for centuries in the Central Asian region connected to China and Persia via the Silk Road, cotton was a domestic plant. "My grandmother used to say that when she was young, every family used to plant as much cotton as they needed," reports Aftab, the mother of the novel's protagonist Mahtab. Things began to change in the industrial era, when the Russian Empire had conquered this area and started building railroads and expanding cotton production. After the revolution, the USSR's increased pace of industrialization and a centrally planned economy led to extreme specialization between the regions. In the 1980s, 70% of Soviet cotton was grown in Uzbekistan, and nearly half of Uzbekistan's arable land had been converted to cotton production. This led to numerous systemic problems that only increased after the Soviet Union fell apart. Although Uzbekistan tried to diversify, its dependence on cotton persisted. The government coerced most of its citizens, including children, to work during harvest season. Here's how Aftab puts it

2025, Studime Historike

Gjashtë dokumente, fragmente e relacione në gjuhën origjinale me përkthimet shqip nga fushata habrburgase në Kosovë e vitit 1689.

2025, Studime Historike

Detajet e fushatës së shkurtër të habsburgëve në vjeshtën e vitit 1689 në Kosovë, për një pjesë të madhe të historiografëve, bazohen në disa prej kronikave të hershme kryesisht të dorës së dytë që e përshkruajnë këtë ngjarje. Një burim kryesor për shumicën e tyre, dorëshkrimi i njohur si Annotationes und Reflexiones…, rishtazi është vërtetuar të jetë po ashtu i tillë, pra, burim i dorës së dytë (burim sekondar) dhe jo vepër nga një pjesëmarrës në këtë fushatë. Burimet primare, nga protagonistë që kanë qenë dëshmitarë të këtyre ngjarjeve, megjithëse një pjesë e tyre janë njohur që më parë, nuk janë përdorur sa duhet në ndriçimin e këtyre fragmenteve të historisë. Në këtë artikull do të synojmë identifikimin e disa prej këtyre burimeve të kohës që bazohen në letra, relacione e raporte. Së këndejmi, përmes tyre, dhe duke botuar disa prej tyre edhe në shqip, do të synojmë sendërtimin e një pasqyre të përditësuar të ngjarjeve historike të kësaj fushate në Kosovë. Më kryesoret prej këtyre dokumenteve janë tri letrat e vetë Pikolominit gjatë ditëve të qëndrimit të tij në Kosovë.

2025, Commemorating a Century of Kapit Peacemaking (1924-2024)

This paper is concerned with States and statecraft in Borneo. It explores the demands that States made on the populations that they claimed and sought to rule and the contributions to the lives of those people that States offered. It... more

2025, Sánchez Rei, Xosé Manuel, Xosé Seivane. A gaita con maiúscula

2025, Celtica

The 'Yellow Plague' (pestis flava, buidechair, ball felen, etc.) is a term used by Irish and Welsh authors working in the tenth century and later to describe several epidemics of the sixth and seventh centuries. This paper examines one particular set of stories about this illness found in Welsh sources written between 1100 and 1223, in which the Yellow Plague is responsible for a mass migration from Wales to Brittany. This legend, I argue, was likely created at Llancarfan in the late eleventh century from various older sources, including annals and saints' Lives from Ireland and Brittany; I also provide an account of how this legend may have been transmitted to other Welsh centers, and suggest connections to other contemporary works of pseudo-history, such as Geoffrey of Monmouth's De gestis Britonum.

2025, Anthropological Theory

Anthropologists have long relied on powerful concepts operant in the societies where they have carried out fieldwork to unlock the meanings of various, even seemingly disparate, practices and experiences, and which, in virtue of their sharing a name, are given coherence by ethnographic and ethnological texts. In this essay, we examine how anthropological icons like hau, mana, and the shaman, are created, and suggest that there might be fragments encountered during fieldwork that do not, in themselves, necessarily add up to a coherent whole, but which are fit into stories of these kinds because of the pressure of narrativity within conventional notions of anthropological theory. To illustrate this argument, we draw in particular on Malinowski's stories of the baloma, Trobriander spirits of the dead, reading his well-known fieldwork diaries alongside his published account, in order to show how life is always stitched across multiple registers of storytelling, some of which take the form of narrative and others that do not. Attending to the space between these modalities, or to their crossings, a different picture of theory begins to emerge, and which hews a bit closer to our ordinary experience of social life.

2025

Claude Lévi-Strauss won international attention from his colleagues in anthropology when he published his Structures élémentaires de la parenté [Elementary structures of kinship] (1947). He had been appointed to the chair of Anthropology in the Collège de France in 1959. There he had created the Laboratory of Social Anthropology, within which he would train his students, and the journal L’Homme, soon the premier anthropological journal in France. In 1963, he published La pensée sauvage [The savage mind] (1962; English translation, 1966). This work made clear that its author’s original perspective was not limited to the analysis of kinship, vital though that is, but aimed at the larger issue of universal, uniquely human symbolic meaning. It was the tetralogy Mythologiques (1964, 1966, 1968, 1971) that revealed the breadth of Lévi-Strauss ’ structural approach. In his sixtyfifth year, he was elected to the Académie Française. His brilliant Tristes tropiques—widely regarded as the most...

2025

Claude Lévi-Strauss won international attention from his colleagues in anthropology when he published his Structures élémentaires de la parenté [Elementary structures of kinship] (1947). He had been appointed to the chair of Anthropology in the Collège de France in 1959. There he had created the Laboratory of Social Anthropology, within which he would train his students, and the journal L'Homme, soon the premier anthropological journal in France. In 1963, he published La pensée sauvage [The savage mind] (1962; English translation, 1966). This work made clear that its author's original perspective was not limited to the analysis of kinship, vital though that is, but aimed at the larger issue of universal, uniquely human symbolic meaning. 1971) that revealed the breadth of Lévi-Strauss' structural approach. In his sixty-fifth year, he was elected to the Académie Française. His brilliant Tristes tropiques—widely regarded as the most remarkable traveler's account of the ...

2025, Anthropological Theory

Anthropologists have long relied on powerful concepts operant in the societies where they have carried out fieldwork to unlock the meanings of various, even seemingly disparate, practices and experiences, and which, in virtue of their sharing a name, are given coherence by ethnographic and ethnological texts. In this essay, we examine how anthropological icons like hau, mana, and the shaman, are created, and suggest that there might be fragments encountered during fieldwork that do not, in themselves, necessarily add up to a coherent whole, but which are fit into stories of these kinds because of the pressure of narrativity within conventional notions of anthropological theory. To illustrate this argument, we draw in particular on Malinowski’s stories of the baloma, Trobriander spirits of the dead, reading his well-known fieldwork diaries alongside his published account, in order to show how life is always stitched across multiple registers of storytelling, some of which take the fo...

2025, Вестник НГУ. Серия: История, филология

Статья посвящена анализу ранней корреспонденции Н. Я. Бичурина с корейскими посланниками в Пекине на материалах из собрания Института восточных рукописей РАН. Письма первой четверти XIX в. представителей миссий двух стран не встречаются в изданных сборниках документов. Целью данной статьи является анализ содержания писем, описание взаимоотношений между членами миссий, определение исторической ценности их ранней корреспонденции для изучения китайско-российско-корейских отношений накануне Нового времени и введение писем в научный оборот. Содержание писем свидетельствует о глубоком взаимном интересе и стремлении обеих сторон получить ценные знания в различных сферах. Новизна исследования заключается в том, что данные рукописные материалы, тесно связанные с великим российским китаеведом Н. Я. Бичуриным, прежде не изучались и не были опубликованы. Актуальность исследования вызвана ростом научного интереса к новым рукописным материалам по истории российского китаеведения и российско-корейских отношений. Ключевые слова Н. Я. Бичурин, Российская духовная миссия в Пекине, Корея, российско-корейские отношения.