Discernment in Origen of Alexandria by P. B. Decock

“…This article aims at situating Origen’s understanding of discernment within his view of creation, of anthropology and of spiritual growth. Discernment is viewed as an operation of the higher part of the soul (nou/j), whereby the soul opens itself to its spirit. …”
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Observaciones sobre la relación entre la “cosmo-lógica” y la construcción de la persona en el espiritismo cubano by Diana Espirito Santo

“…In this paper I suggest that popular forms of Cuban spiritism (espiritismo) offer a genuine “anthropology” or indigenous theory of personhood that acts as a dynamic driving force towards, and for, its sister Afro-Cuban religions, diversifying personal practices through the demands of the dead with whom the mediums communicate. …”
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The new frontier of age limits, or youthoods among the Meru (Kenya) by Anne-Marie Peatrik

“…The article offers a contribution to an anthropology of youth, viewed here from the perspective of its limits, and aims to put the rite of passage back in its rightful place within processes that concern both complex trajectories and the crucial junctions of existence.…”
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Autonomia delle persone in movimento e antropologia compromessa: riflessioni sulle reciproche influenze nella gestione dell’immigrazione in Perù by Irene Palla

“…Entering into the Latin American debate and placing it in dialogue with the concept of 'other meaning' by Ferdinando Fava, the text questions the contribution of compromised anthropology to the critical reflection of studies on the autonomy of migrations, highlighting the peculiarities of Peru. …”
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Devins sur le pas de la porte : notes pour une anthropologie visuelle du seuil en Galice by Anxo Fernández Ocampo

“…This article is the result of an experience at the crossroads of traductology and visual anthropology. It highlights the capacity of the domestic thresholds to cope with the alien by the means of traces or objects that are invested with an “exoticising” value, either because these traces or these objects are identitary representations of the past, or because they embody the other and the elsewhere. …”
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Temporality of Movements of Northern Baikal Reindeer Herders, Hunters and Fishermen by Vladimir Davydov

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Time, Infrastructure and Knowledge: Rethinking Temporality in the Anthropocene by Vando Borghi, Luigi Pellizzoni, Paolo Savoia

“…Early modern natural history is revealed as preluding anthropology that blurred nature-culture divides and anticipates a notion of “third nature” which challenges the scalability logic characteristic of modernity.…”
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Human subjectivity in the prenatal period by Tadeusz Biesaga

“…The Author thinks that the proposal to treat a human embryo as a deceased donor of organs, is wrong both in the field of embryology and philosophical anthropology. It is also wrong to question the subjectivity of human embryo using various criteria of growth (developed nervous system, brain, consciousness, participation in the life of society and looking after one's own interests). …”
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Hypothetical 3D reconstruction of the tomb of the nomarch Ini from Gebelein by Wojciech Ejsmond, Jakub Stępnik

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Les activités de conservation des lémuriens par le Groupe d’Etude et de Recherche sur les Primates de Madagascar (GERP) by Rose Marie Randrianarison, Hanta Razafindraibe, Jonah Ratsimbazafy, Fanantenana Rasolofoniriana Andriatsarafara, Lucien Marie Aimé Rakotozafy

“…The Madagascar Primate Research Group (GERP - Groupe d’Etude et de Recherche sur les Primates de Madagascar) is a conservation-focused association created in 1994 by the initiative of researcher lecturers and students from the Department of Paleontology and Biological Anthropology and the Department of Animal Biology of the University of Antananarivo. …”
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Kulturní dějiny? Kulturní dějiny! by Milena Lenderová

“…Semiotic (symbolic) determination of culture based on social (cultural) anthropology is a methodology background of the everyday life history. …”
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La recomposition des savoirs au Maghreb à l’époque de la coopération by Jean-Robert Henry

“…Indeed, a theoretical universalism intended as replacement for discriminating colonialist discourse, vested itself in a more or less modernized Marxist vulgate of the economy, sociology, linguistics, law, anthropology. More generally, the mission of serving development was conceived in new world time as somehow an echo of the civilizing mission of the past. …”
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Au cœur de la mort : faire science avec les défunts by Marc-Antoine Berthod

“…Ever since the founding of anthropology as a discipline, the theme of death has nourished an abundant literature that puts into perspective the ways in which communities construct boundaries between the living and the dead: how they define intervals between the two categories while designating places reserved for the deceased. …”
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Hyperborea: The Arctic Myth of Contemporary Russian Radical Nationalists by Victor Shnirelman

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The Taung Child then and now: Commemorating its centenary in a postcolonial age by Rebecca R. Ackermann, Robyn Pickering, Yonatan Sahle, Lauren Schroeder

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The second life of micro-organisms. Bio-digital design for a new ecology of space and behaviour by Alessandro Valenti, Claudia Pasquero

“…To do so, it is necessary to amplify the range of intervention and to engage other disciplines like biology and computer science, but also philosophy, anthropology and many more. An example of this practice is systemic design, a method defined by the combination and integration of systemic thought, computational design, biotechnology and prototyping. …”
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Love and anger in Amazonia and in academia: a disciple’s account of Joanna Overing’s oeuvre and teachings by Carlos D. Londoño Sulkin

“…He thought that she and her students were doing the most exciting research in Amazonianist anthropology at the time. Meeting him was the first in a chain of fortunate events that led to my doing a Ph.D. under Joanna’s supervision and witnessing a golden but embattled era in her career. …”
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Appréhender et s’adapter by Clément Garineaud

“…Although the knowledge-based approach provides precise information on the reality of climate change among seaweeds harvesters, it is constrained to understand all transformations, particularly in governance, and to enable the realization of a holistic anthropology of climate change.…”
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Ce qu’observer veut dire by Cyrille Marlin

“…Making choices can imply : 1. revisiting the notion of the landscape and disassociating it from any overly explicit aesthetic allusions ; 2. repositioning the practice of the observer landscape architect compared with the more traditional practice of the landscape architect and the practices of the social sciences such as geography, anthropology and sociology, with which it shares many of the same tools and raises the same questions without necessarily resorting to the same methods. …”
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A Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus em Angola: faces da nova cartografia religiosa global by Anaxsuell Fernando Silva, Karen Susan Silva Pititinga Rosa

“…In order to conduct the analysis, we start from the reports about the episode in question and go forward with the theoretical and methodological aid of sociology, anthropology and international relations.…”
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