Míticas do envelhecimento: em busca de uma vida saudável by Monique Borba Cerqueira

“…It is an ethnographic study with a social-anthropological perspective that assesses contemporary aging, based on its social remodeling process.…”
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Divine exultation and agony in the face of evil, a creation theodicy of divine restraint by R. Potgieter

“… Horrendous evil describes the anthropological view of excessive evils which devastate and dehumanise both victim and perpetrator, casting doubt as to whether life is worth living. …”
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Editor's note by Marie-Louise Karttunen

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« Et si Félicité portait malheur ? » by Marie Scarpa

“…Is Félicité so perfect in her role (thematic and anthropologic) of the “helping woman”? It seems that her relation to fate (bad luck) and to death (bad deaths) could be here reexamined.…”
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W.V.O. Quine’s “Indeterminacy Thesis of Radical Translation” and the Logic Problem in the Expression of African Thoughts by Emmanuel Ofuasia (csp)

“… Western missionaries, ethnographic and anthropological scholars arrived in Africa, quizzed the pre-colonial African, and adjudged her, pre-critical and pre-logical, since the latter could not disclose or express thoughts according to the dictates or criteria initiated by the former. …”
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Tirando del hilo desde el Gran Chaco: significación y alcance del estudio de las figuras de hilo tradicionales by José Braunstein

“…The main aim of the article is to exhibit the general aspects of the handicraft, its meaning for culture and the scope of its study for anthropological sciences. On the basis of the author’s ethnographic experience of more than half a century in the South American Gran Chaco, it shows the development of a line of research that, from Marcel Mauss’ definition of “body techniques,” proposes a method to advance in the phylogenetic understanding of human societies.…”
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Sociologia e a esfera cultural contemporânea by Edson Silva de Farias

“…Therefore, it not only impacts the overall shape, content and dynamics of the cultural sphere, but it equally triggers reflective waves aiming at modes of cognition and socio-anthropological analytical inference procedures concerned with symbolization processes in production and use of cultural goods.…”
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Interesting new publications by Marie-Louise Karttunen

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San la Muerte : un métissage religieux insistant by Maureen Burnot

“…From a simultaneously anthropological and historical approach, we show that San la Muerte combines elements of Guarani and Christian traditions, and constitutes a mixed and autonomous expression of the Argentinian identity.…”
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Figurine Embodiment and Household Ritual in an Early Mixtec Village by Nathan J. Meissner, Katherine E. South, Andrew K. Balkansky

“…The archaeological contexts at Tayata allow for an integrated application of embodiment theory with cross-field anthropological data, and reveal a deep-seated Mixtec worldview concerning the animism of corporeal objects.…”
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Book review: Maya Mayblin. Gender, Catholicism, and Morality in Brazil: Virtuous Husbands, Powerful Wives by Ryan Schram

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Book review: David W. Westbrook. Navigators of the Contemporary: Why Ethnography Matters by Edward Dutton

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La Tentation et les savoirs by Gisèle Séginger

“…Flaubert uses historical, anthropological and psychiatric knowledge which legitimates the organization of the text while at the same time he deconstructs this body of knowledge. …”
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Book review: Jessica K. Taft. Rebel Girls: Youth Activism and Social Change across the Americas by Laura Lyytikäinen

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Book review: Chris Coulter. Bush Wives and Girl Soldiers: Womens Lives through War and Peace in Sierra Leone . by Toomas Gross

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Les sols (péri)urbains à l’épreuve du discours sur le primat du local by Élisabeth Rémy, Nolwenn Gauthier, Marine Canavese

“…Moreover, in the name of crops in urban soil development, cultivation off the ground is paradoxically chosen, which raises numerous technical, anthropological and political questions. Based on investigations carried out over several years, this article addresses the complex mechanisms that produce ignorance on an emerging object, that is, the nurturing urban soil valued in the name of local primacy.…”
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L’eau potable pourrait-elle devenir un bien commun ? by Rémi Barbier, Bernard Barraqué, Cécile Tindon

“…After showing the difficulty to use either the institutional economic framework or the “right to water” approach, we explore an anthropologic perspective based on the notion of “coexistent space”.…”
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Czas w uczeniu się. Analiza krytyczna perspektywy obiektywistycznej by Maria Groenwald

“…Referring to results of anthropological research and literary studies in this field, I justify in it the thesis that in transmissive teaching becomes an instrument for subjugating children. …”
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Love and Education. Love in Education by Maria Amilburu

“…After considering four anthropological assumptions that teachers must keep in mind for an adequate hermeneutics of human beings, education is presented like a kind of craftmanship, not as a mechanical production. …”
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L’eau potable pourrait-elle devenir un bien commun ? by Rémi Barbier, Bernard Barraqué, Cécile Tindon

“…After showing the difficulty to use either the institutional economic framework or the “right to water” approach, we explore an anthropologic perspective based on the notion of “coexistent space”.…”
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