Primates et Sociétés : La sortie de l’état de nature by Thomas Robert, Gabriela Daly Bezerra de Melo

“…The concept of the state of nature, developed in the first part of the second Discourse, and the dichotomy between nature and culture that it implies are treated in the different contributions presented in this volume. …”
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Person and Property: Conceptualising Intangible Cultural Heritage in Law by Anita Vaivade

“…This finds an explanation within the subject and object dichotomy that is fundamental in law but seems to be insufficient for the interpretation of ‘intangible cultural heritage’. …”
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La seringue et la gâchette by Thomas Lequeu

“…The detective story becomes the pretext to present a gallery of characters with murky sexual identities and attributions. Thus, the dichotomy between the character of Cathy, a femme fatale and a murderer in a lab coat, and that of Gaby, a transsexual police informer made to suffer humiliation and beatings, matches the parallel between the cop and the mobster. …”
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„Rozstępy” przyszłości: o trudnych powiązaniach technologii, kultury i natury by Marcin Jewdokimow, Barbara Markowska

“…A posthumanist approach to the analysis is adopted, allowing for the unveiling of the ruptures and splits related to such issues as subjectivity, culture-nature dichotomy, and technological development.…”
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"...but the poor opted for the evangelicals!" - Evangelicals, poverty and prosperity by Gideon van der Watt

“…Have the global evangelical celebrations of 2010 bridged the dichotomy between social responsibility (Ecumenicals) and the proclamation of salvation (Evangelicals)? …”
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Vestiges du passé. Alfred Métraux et les Čipaya de Carangas (1930-1931) by Pablo F. Sendón

“…Reappraisal of the various ethnographic writings he devoted to the Čipaya in relation with other works, early and more recent, questions the existence of such a distinction, allowing us to transcend the dichotomy between « past » and « present », that dilemma faced by all ethnographies.…”
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A strategy for monitoring systemic vulnerability to marine erosion and flooding by Catherine Meur-Ferec, Iwan Le Berre, Lucie Cocquempot, Élisabeth Guillou, Alain Henaff, Thibaud Lami, Nicolas Le Dantec, Pauline Letortu, Manuelle Philippe

“…This article presents a new interdisciplinary approach towards the concept of vulnerability that makes it possible to move beyond the nature/society dichotomy, and an inter-sectorial researcher-manager method for the development of a series of monitoring indicators for the four components of systemic vulnerability: hazards, stakes, management and representations. …”
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Dialectiques hydrosociales à l’épreuve. Décrypter la dimension politique d’objets techniques utilisés pour l’irrigation au Népal by Romain Valadaud, Olivia Aubriot

“…The hydrosocial cycle is a key concept to overcome the nature / society dichotomy. This article seeks to clarify its analytical and operational scope through the study of a Nepalese irrigation system. …”
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Le périple d’Edward Snowden by Timothée Giraud, Marta Severo

“…We will carry out an analysis of the event by providing a quali-quantitative method based on the analysis of RSS feeds that is expected to solve the dichotomy data quantity-reliability.…”
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Black soteriology: the physiological and ontological process by H. M. Mdingi

“…This is linked to the untapped reconciliation of the chasm and dichotomy in Black ontological and physiological existence, where their humanity has to be reconciled in both these paradigms for authenticity and even more so for salvation. …”
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BERCEUSES DU CHAT BY IGOR STRAVINSKY by Răzvan METEA

“…The timbral balance achieved between the voice and the instrumental ensemble, the lyrical manner of musical expression, the specific rhythmic-melodic typologies of writing, the chromatic versus diatonic dichotomy, the affiliation of the opuses to the comic aesthetic category are characteristics of this series of four micro-art-songs, cradle songs, dedicated to and apparently describing the characteristics of a cat. …”
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Metamorfoses do cinema brasileiro na era da mundialização neoliberal: em busca de uma identidade estética? by Jorge Nóvoa

“…I maintain the idea that, today more than never, the dichotomy between the inside and the outside of the national economy does not find more sustentation and that with the globalization process, the hegemonic movies had incorporated the movies of the colonized. …”
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Hardesign vs Softdesign by Raffaella Fagnoni, Chiara Olivastri

“…Our thought on innovation starts from the dichotomy between the strong and the light design’s components: on the one hand opposed, on the other complementary. …”
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Global Stability of Almost Periodic Solution of a Class of Neutral-Type BAM Neural Networks by Tetie Pan, Bao Shi, Jian Yuan

“…By employing fixed-point theorem, the exponential dichotomy, and differential inequality techniques, we obtain some sufficient conditions to insure the existence and globally exponential stability of almost periodic solution. …”
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Historical psychology: the versions of synthesis by Albinas Bagdonas

“…Historical psychology as an interdisciplinary area of knowledge is complicated by different historical methodologies and experimental psychology (individualized approach vs. generalized approach according to H. Rickett's dichotomy). The introduction of the principle of historicism (historical determinism) into psychology resulted in the formation of Piagetian genetic psychology, Vygotsky's cultural psychology, and the French school of historical psychology. …”
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Die Individualisme-kollektivismedimensie van kulturele variasie by Frederick Terblanche

“…In this regard tt could be argued that the indlvidualism-coUectivlsm dichotomy can probably be regarded as the most important dimension. …”
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Le public et le privé dans Mesure pour Mesure by Michèle Vignaux

“…The initial black-and-white picture and clear-cut dichotomy of sin and virtue gradually gives way to an increasingly complex and unsettling picture resulting from the intricacies of doubts, uncertainties, fears, casuistry, perversion, and various forms of manipulation. …”
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Gambling and Consumption by Riitta Matilainen

“…Sociologist Colin Campbell (1998: 235, 238) describes the tendency of intellectual discussions of consumption to use a dichotomy of need and want. The former is viewed as ‘a legitimate activity’, because it satisfies what is necessary, whereas catering to ‘non-essential’ or ‘superficial’ desires is seen to be driven by ‘ethically dubious motives’. …”
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Une méthode de suivi de la vulnérabilité systémique à l’érosion et la submersion marines by Catherine Meur-Ferec, Iwan Le Berre, Lucie Cocquempot, Élisabeth Guillou, Alain Henaff, Thibaud Lami, Nicolas Le Dantec, Pauline Letortu, Manuelle Philippe, Camille Noûs

“…This article proposes, on one hand, a renewed interdisciplinary approach to the concept of vulnerability allowing to overcome the nature/society dichotomy. On the other hand, the paper presents an inter-sectoral researchers-managers approach to build a series of indicators to monitor the four components of systemic vulnerability (hazards, stakes, management and representations). …”
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Les danses « orientales » en France du xixe siècle à nos jours : histoire d’images, regards d’histoire by Anne-Laure Garrec

“…The partial nudity of the performer reinforces the stereotype of a “belly dance” aiming to seduce the audience. This dichotomy of representation illustrates the differing critical assessments of Indian and oriental dances. …”
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