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Journal articles on the topic "Anthropology of attention"
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Bangstad, Sindre. "Public Anthropology in an Attention Economy." Anthropology News 58, no. 1 (January 2017): e155-e158. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/an.296.
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Pinto, Sarah. "Madness: Recursive Ethnography and the Critical Uses of Psychopathology." Annual Review of Anthropology 49, no. 1 (October 21, 2020): 299–316. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-010220-074609.
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From the late 1990s, a wave of writing in anthropology took up the idiom of madness to orient a critical approach. However, anthropology's use of madness as critique reflects a longer conversation between psychiatry and anthropology. As madness is used to point to and connect other things—afflictions, therapeutics, medicine, politics, colonialism, religion, and, especially, trauma as a social condition—it is noteworthy not only for its breadth, but also because it is often applied to contexts in which it already has purchase as critique. Thus, madness in anthropology is a mirror onto the discipline's recursive engagements with psychiatry and the worlds to which both turn their attention.
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Holbraad, Martin. "The Shapes of Relations: Anthropology as Conceptual Morphology." Philosophy of the Social Sciences 50, no. 6 (June 1, 2020): 495–522. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0048393120917917.
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Building critically on anthropology’s “ontological turn,” this article isolates conceptualization (as distinct from explanation and interpretation) as a core concern for anthropological thinking: anthropology as the activity of transfiguring the contingency of ethnographic materials in the formal language of conceptual relations and distinctions. Focusing on works by Mauss and Evans-Pritchard, as well as my own research, the article articulates the morphological character of such a project. While akin also to philosophy, such attention to the “shapes” of conceptual relations is analogous to the practice of art in its concern for the expressive potentials of these acts of conceptual transfiguration.
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Fournier, Pierre. "Attention dangers !" Ethnologie française 31, no. 1 (2001): 69. http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/ethn.011.0069.
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Maksymowicz-Mróz, Natalia. "Antropolodzy wobec niespokojnych krajobrazów współczesnego świata w kontekście Cool Anthropology." Edukacja Międzykulturowa 21, no. 2 (2023): 41–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.15804/em.2023.02.03.
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The article is a reflection on the place, tasks and purpose of cultural anthropology in the contemporary world. It was inspired by a discussion that took place during Ethnology Without Borders 2022 Conference. The 21st century shook the foundations of anthropology’s relationship with politics and society: from the devastating pandemic and the increasing effects of climate change, to the outbreak of war in Europe. The author ponders how anthropology should operate in the face of these crises. The presentation of various research concepts aims to bring closer where the problem is while everyone means well. The article presents the achievements of some anthropologists who criticize actions based on good intentions and draws attention to the achievements of Anthropology of Development, which the author illustrates with some examples from her own observations made during field research in Nepal and NATO training. The Cool Anthropology trend is potentially a right direction for development of contemporary anthropology. The questions posed in the article are intended to provoke reflection on the author’s thesis that as anthropologists who are part of a privileged social layer, should ask themselves the question: how to reconceptualize anthropological activities outside the resources of the academic spheres in order to become socially useful.
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Koopman, Nico. "Bonhoeffer’s Anthropology and the African Anthropology of Ubuntu." NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion 59, no. 3 (July 18, 2005): 195–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/ntt2005.59.195.koop.
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Abstract This essay explores the original meaning and understanding of the concept of Ubuntu. It evaluates the strengths and limitations of this cherished African anthropological and philosophical notion. By bringing the anthropology of Ubuntu in conversation with the anthropology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer possibilities for the re-valuation of Ubuntu are opened. Attention to the anthropology of Bonhoeffer will help Ubuntu to affirm community without falling into the trap of collectivism. It will also prevent Ubuntu from overestimating the capabilities of humans through the under-estimation of the reality of sin. Where Ubuntu is also open to the transformative power of the gospel its redeeming potential on a broken continent is enhanced.
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Parsons, Michelle Anne. "Being unneeded in post-Soviet Russia: Lessons for an anthropology of loneliness." Transcultural Psychiatry 57, no. 5 (March 30, 2020): 635–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363461520909612.
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The problem of loneliness is receiving increasing attention in the popular media and among social scientists. Despite anthropology's rich engagement with emotions and experience, the anthropology of loneliness is still scant. In psychology, loneliness has been defined as relational lack. In this article, I reconsider one culturally specific form of relational lack—being unneeded among post-Soviet Muscovites. I draw on the anthropological literature on emotion, exchange, and morality to suggest that being unneeded is an ethical commentary on a lack of recognition. During Soviet times, recognition was secured through informal social exchange practices. Being unneeded among middle-aged and elderly post-Soviet Muscovites is therefore connected to a constricted ability to give and experience recognition. One avenue of analysis for an anthropology of loneliness is to consider social exchange practices and how these connect with societal and moral dimensions of loneliness.
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Doré, Antoine. "Attention aux loups !" Ethnologie française 45, no. 1 (2015): 45. http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/ethn.151.0045.
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Belova, Anna V. "Women's Social Memory: Integration of gender anthropology and anthropology of memory." Вестник антропологии (Herald of Anthropology) 47, no. 3 (September 5, 2019): 39–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.33876/2311-0546/2019-47-3/39-51.
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The article is devoted to the problem of women's social memory, recorded in the autobiographical discourse. The main attention is paid to the gender differences in memory as a subject of integrative studies of gender anthropology and anthropology of memory. The article discusses the relationship between the practice of memorization and social experience of women. The author concludes that there is a functional relationship between the anthropology of memory and the study of the gender aspects of social experience.
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Haldane, John. "Incarnational Anthropology." Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 29 (March 1991): 191–211. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1358246100007542.
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The renaissance of philosophy of mind within the analytical tradition owes a great deal to the intellectual midwifery of Ryle and Wittgenstein. It is ironic, therefore, that the current state of the subject should be one in which scientific and Cartesian models of mentality are so widely entertained. Clearly few if any of those who find depth, and truth, in the Wittgensteinian approach are likely to be sympathetic to much of what is most favoured in contemporary analytic philosophical psychology. Finding themselves in a minority, they might well look elsewhere for support, hoping to establish the idea that opposition to scientific and Cartesian ways of thinking is by no means philosophically eccentric. Perhaps this partly explains the increasing British and North American interest in ‘continental’ thought, particularly as it bears (as most of it does) on the nature of human beings. Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Sartre are obvious enough subjects for such attention.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Anthropology of attention"
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Munger, Emily LaRee. "Alteration to Astrocyte Density and Morphology across Mammalia with Specific Attention to Primate Brain Evolution and Aging." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1594638449298271.
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Doan, Patrick. "Parcours attentionnel chez le scripteur expert." Thesis, Compiègne, 2021. https://bibliotheque.utc.fr/Default/doc/SYRACUSE/2021COMP2600.
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L’écriture est une des habiletés les plus complexes à acquérir et repose sur plusieurs processus : psychomoteur, cognitif, sensori-moteur, attentionnel. Sa maîtrise se caractérise par la capacité de tracer de manière fluide et précise des formes graphiques lisibles et rationalisées, les lettres. L’objectif de ce travail de thèse est de comprendre comment l’activité attentionnelle permet au scripteur de diriger, coordonner et moduler les différentes composantes de sa pratique. Plus spécifiquement, nous cherchons à saisir comment l’activité sensori-motrice, l’activité cognitive et l’activité attentionnelle se co-déterminent et permettent au scripteur de vivre sa pratique comme une succession de prises de conscience émergeant de son propre engagement. Pour ce faire, nous adoptons une démarche d’investigation en première personne qui nous permet d’étudier le contenu de l’expérience vécue, au sens où celle-ci constitue une dimension nécessaire à la compréhension des processus cognitifs en général, et de l’activité attentionnelle en particulier. Nous avons adopté les outils théoriques et méthodologiques développés par le programme de recherche « cours d’action » pour interroger le scripteur et collecter des descriptions détaillées de son expérience vécue. L’analyse de ces données nous permet de qualifier l’attention au regard de l’organisation et de la signification d’une pratique, la calligraphie, qui n’est pas simplement exécutée et figée mais qui est continuellement reconstruite, adaptée, redéfinie par l’engagement de l’individu dans une situation prolongeant une histoire et une culture qui lui sont propres. La vision longitudinale que nous développons révèle que l’attention est vécue comme la combinaison d’un ensemble de gestes intérieurs qui permettent au scripteur de mettre en rapport de façon spécifique les différentes composantes de son expérience. La dynamique de ces structures est caractérisée par un processus constant d’hybridation et de ramification de l’activité attentionnelle qui débouche sur la constitution de régularités que l’on peut assimiler à des techniques. La maîtrise du tracé calligraphique repose sur l’émergence de techniques attentionnelles correspondant à un type de savoir-faireHandwriting is one of the most complex skill to learn and involves several processes: psychomotor, cognitive, sensorimotor, attentional. Its fluency can be characterized by the ability to trace in a fluid and precise way legible and rational graphic forms, the letters. The goal of the present thesis is to understand how attentional activity allows the writer to direct, coordinate and modulate the different components of his performance. More specifically, we try to apprehend how sensorimotor activity, cognitive activity and attentional activity are co-determining each other and allows the writer to live his experience as successive awakenings that are the result of his own active involvement in a situation. To do this, we used a first person approach that allows us to investigate the content of the lived experience, a dimension that has to be taken into account in order to understand cognitive processes in general, and attentional activity in particular. We adopted the theoretical and methodological tools developed by the « course of action » research program in order to interview the writer and collect detailed descriptions of his lived experience. The analysis of those data allows us to qualify attention in relation with the organization and the meaning of a task driven activity, calligraphy. This activity is not simply the repetition of a predefined experience but it is the continuous reconstruction, adaption, redefinition of its contents through the active involvement of the individual in a specific situation which finds its roots in a personal history and culture. The horizontal perspective that we developed shows that attention is experienced as the combination of a variety of inner gestures that allows the writer to put in specific relations the different components of his lived experience. The dynamic of those structures is defined by a constant process of hybridization and ramification of the attentional activity, and gives rise to regularities that can be viewed a techniques. The mastery of calligraphy relies on the emergence of attentional techniques, a form of know-how
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Schweig, Graziele Ramos. "Aprendizagem e ciência no ensino de sociologia na escola : um olhar desde a antropologia." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/131759.
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A investigação apresentada nesta tese consiste em um esforço por lançar um olhar antropológico acerca do tema do ensino de Sociologia na escola básica. Esta questão ganhou maior atenção acadêmica no contexto do retorno da obrigatoriedade da presença da disciplina nos currículos do Ensino Médio, por meio do Parecer CNE/CEB 38/2006 e pela Lei 11.684/2008. Nesta pesquisa, busca-se tomar um desvio da perspectiva pedagógica e normativa que vem animando boa parte dos trabalhos sobre o tema, comprometida em justificar e delinear parâmetros para o ensino da Sociologia na escola. Diferentemente, parte-se de um entendimento antropológico sobre o processo de aprendizagem e o conhecimento científico, especialmente ancorando-se nas perspectivas da “aprendizagem situada” de Jean Lave e da “educação da atenção” de Tim Ingold. Entende-se que os professores e estudantes de licenciatura em Ciências Sociais são permanentes aprendizes da prática da docência da Sociologia e, com isso, procura-se identificar quais os espaços privilegiados de participação em práticas de aprendizagem da docência durante a formação universitária e como ela ocorre. Para isso, foi realizada pesquisa etnográfica junto a escolas de educação básica, ao Programa de Bolsas de Iniciação à Docência (PIBID) das Ciências Sociais e junto à disciplina de Estágio de Docência do curso de licenciatura em Ciências Sociais, ambos da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). Busca-se menos identificar ou definir as especificidades da docência da Sociologia na escola e mais atentar para os modos pelos quais ela “vaza”, seguindo em um movimento de correspondência com o mundo.The research presented in this thesis consists in an effort to launch an anthropological approach on Sociology teaching in basic education. This issue has gained more academic attention in the context of the return of the mandatory presence of the subject in high school curricula, through 38/2006 CNE/CEB appraisal and the federal law 11.684/2008. In this research, I try to take a detour from pedagogical and normative perspective which grounds much of the recent research on the subject, committed to justify and outline parameters for Sociology teaching in school. In contrast, I start from an anthropological understanding of learning process and scientific knowledge, especially based on the perspectives of Jean Lave’s “situated learning" and Tim Ingold’s "education of attention". It is understood that teachers and undergraduate students in Social Sciences are permanent learners of teaching Sociology practice and, therefore, we seek to identify which are the privileged spaces of participation in teaching learning practices during university education and how it occurs. For this, ethnographic research was conducted among basic education schools, the Federal Program for Introduction to Teaching (PIBID) of the Social Sciences and the Teaching Internship of Social Sciences degree course, both from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). I attempted less to identify or define the specific features of Sociology teaching at school and more to attend to the ways in which it "leaks", following in a correspondence movement with the world.
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Rösler, Lara [Verfasser], Matthias [Gutachter] Gamer, Angelika [Gutachter] Schmitt-Böhrer, Esther [Gutachter] Asan, and Johannes [Gutachter] Hewig. "Behavioral and Neural Mechanisms of Social Attention / Lara Rösler ; Gutachter: Matthias Gamer, Angelika Schmitt-Böhrer, Esther Asan, Johannes Hewig." Würzburg : Universität Würzburg, 2020. http://d-nb.info/1221527983/34.
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Tria, Parareda Núria. "Cursant Concerta. Una aproximació etnogràfica a nens, adolescents i joves diagnosticats de TDAH." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/434476.
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La diagnosi de TDAH i la medicació amb metilfenidat o atomoxetina, junt (o no) a reeducacions cognitivo-conductuals, ha esdevingut en les darreres dècades una solució habitual que els dispositius educatiu i sanitari han ofert als nens que es considera que no progressen a l’escola adequadament. Aquesta “solució” ha generat abundant debat i controvertida literatura des de la inclusió del TDAH als anys ’80 del segle passat als manuals diagnòstics psiquiàtrics de referència, especialment als EEUU, pioner en la medicalització d’aquest àmbit de la vida dels nens i les seves famílies. Mentre uns afirmen que es tracta d’una malaltia “inventada” d’altres defensen “l’evidència científica” de la seva ubicació cerebral i el pes de la genètica en la seva aparició.
A la present recerca pretenc explorar per mitjà del treball de camp etnogràfic el fenomen social del TDAH estudiant-lo a un context local format per dues unitats d’anàlisi: un Centre de Salut Mental infanto-juvenil (CSMIJ) i el meu propi centre de treball, un Institut d’Ensenyaments Secundaris (IES), ambdós ubicats a Barcelona.
La recerca l’he plantejat en dos temps, i des de dos angles diferents, reflectits a les dues parts de que consta l’etnografia. A la primera part i amb l’objectiu de copçar el fenomen del TDAH en conjunt, l’he considerat un “fet social total” i he utilitzat les nocions de “joc” i “institució” per a preguntar-me i descriure, tant al CSMIJ (capítol I) com a l’IES (capítol II) els processos de construcció i institucionalització de la nosologia mèdica TDAH i la seva administració a nens, adolescents i joves. A la segona part (capítol III) m’he apropat a l’experiència particular d’alguns nois que han estat, en algun moment de la seva vida, designats com a TDAH i medicats. He escoltat la seva veu i m’he preguntat què significa “esdevenir TDAH”, posant el focus en els processos de subjectivació, d’internalització, de la taxonomia biomèdica així com del que anomenarem “lògica del diagnòstic”.
La reflexió final gira entorn la configuració de la persona, de la identitat, d’aquests nens, adolescents i joves que han estat diagnosticats de TDAH i medicats, entenent aquesta identitat com una construcció en procés i en diàleg permanent, al frec del joc institucional i les particularitats biogràfiques individuals. Em pregunto si podem parlar d’identitats medicalitzades i, finalment, procuro explicar què significa per a mi, “cursar Concerta”, una expressió que, sobre el terreny, sentia plena de significatA diagnosis of ADHD and treatment with methylphenidate (Ritalin) or atomoxetine (Strattera), combined with cognitive-behavioral therapies (though not always), has emerged in recent decades as the solution that education and health professionals customarily provide to children who are considered not to make adequate progress at school. This “solution” has generated intense debate and produced controversial literature ever since the 1980s when ADHD was included in clinical psychiatric diagnostic manuals, especially in the US, a pioneer in pathologizing this area of children’s and families’ lives. While some maintain that ADHD is an “invented” disease, others point to the “scientific evidence” of its location in the brain and the genetics involved in its presentation. In this study, I aim to explore the social phenomenon of ADHD through ethnographic field- work, specifically by studying a local context comprised by two sites of analysis, both located in Barcelona: a Childhood & Juvenile Mental Health Center (CSMIJ, in Catalan) and my own workplace, a Secondary Education Institute, (IES, in Catalan). I have planned the research to take place in two periods, from two different angles, reflected in the two parts that make up the ethnography. In the first part, in order to better grasp the phenomenon of ADHD in its totality, I approach it as a “global social fact,” using the concepts of “interplay” and “institution” to inquire and describe the processes of construction and institutionalization of the medical classification of ADHD and its management in children, adolescents and young adults at both the CSMIJ (Chapter 1) and the IES (Chapter 2). In the second part (Chapter 3), I approach the personal experience of certains youths who at some point in their lives have been diagnosed with ADHD and medicated. I have listened to their voices and considered what it means to “develop ADHD” by focusing on the processes of subjectivation and internalization of the biomedical taxonomy, as well as what I call the “logics of diagnosis.” The final reflection centers on the configuration of the personhood and identity of these children, adolescents and young adults who have been diagnosed with ADHD and medicated. I understand “identity” as a construction-in-process and in constant dialogue, between institutional interplay[1] and individual biographical particularities. I venture to ask if we could be dealing with “medicalized identities,” and finally, I attempt to explain what the expression “cursant Concerta[2]” (one that I felt charged with meaning on the ground) means to me.
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Yoboue, Tchindji Houphouët Félix. "Le viol comme arme de guerre en Côte d'Ivoire (1999-2010) : champs de causalité entre brisures, savoirs contaminés et vérités en ruines. Le plain-chant des narrations ethnophotographiques et du hors texte de 13 survivantes du peuple guéré à DUEKOUÉ en contre-configuration." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Université de Lorraine, 2022. http://www.theses.fr/2022LORR0276.
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Les récits de treize survivantes de viols subis à Duékoué, ville carrefour située à l’ouest de la Côte d’Ivoire, lors du coup d'État manqué du 19 Septembre 2002 jusqu’à la crise postélectorale de 2010, constituent la matrice narrative de cette thèse. Ces 13 femmes sont des survivantes, avec la sidération, l’angoisse, le désespoir des survivantes. Où trouver encore du sens quand on a vécu ce qu’elles ont vécu et vivent encore dix ans après ? En effet, les survivantes continuent de vivre un enfer permanent, victimes de formes lentes de violence invisibles, une forme subtile d’assassinat social par la mise à l’écart brutale de la famille et de la communauté, par la forme à dominante patriarcale et occidentale d’une réparation irrespectueuse ; des conséquences collatérales peu ou pas documentées voire déniées. Cette thèse tente de proposer des réponses à trois questions essentielles. Comment faire avancer une recherche formellement plus complexe que d’autres, avec une réflexion sur les tensions de l‘histoire ivoirienne, les récits des survivantes, le récit du chercheur-baoulé-survivant et des propositions esthétiques pour l’écrire ? Comment écrire scientifiquement sur la vulnérabilité, la détresse et la souffrance et rester à distance ? Comment restituer le chant des acteurs-témoins dans l’expression d’origine, de ces « vies minuscules », avec la parole hachée, balbutiante, et le faire dialoguer avec la parole, vigoureuse et affirmée, d’un chercheur qui découvre en fait lors d’une journée particulière qu’il est en quête de sa propre parole, celle d’un survivant, enfouie dans une gangue cadenassée. Il fallait pouvoir rendre l’adhésion du chercheur baoulé à sa propre parole et dans sa foi en les capacités du langage à atteindre l’intouchable et l’invisible, un monde perdu, le passé lui-même. Il fallait tenter de multiplier les détours narratifs et les pistes formelles, et prendre le risque de rejeter certains codes universitaires narratifs pour rendre palpable, en transformant une matière difficilement maniable et hautement inflammable, cette violence vécue par les survivantes dont Michel Foucault dit : « que le plus dangereux dans la violence est sa rationalité ». C’est aussi pour cette raison, pour faire ressentir plus particulièrement les ondes lointaines de cette souffrance exprimée et la certitude que nous passons souvent à côté, que le choix des narrations photoethnographiques s’est imposé. Pour confronter chacun des lecteurs à sa propre relation à l’image et d’une manière plus subtile aux récits des survivantes. Ce qui amène ensuite à réfléchir sur l’énigme des apparences. « Lire ce qui n’a jamais été écrit ». Pour dire la violence dans sa vérité, seule une anthropologie de l’attention qui entrerait en résonance avec ce qu’Édouard Glissant nomme « les profonds », désignant ainsi « ce qu’il y a réellement, concrètement, en dessous de l’apparence », permet de ressusciter la dignité de vie des survivantes et rendre légitime l’écriture d’un chercheur engagéThe accounts of thirteen survivors of rapes suffered in Duékoué, a crossroads city located in the west of Côte d'Ivoire, during the failed coup d'état of September 19, 2002 until the postelectoral crisis of 2010, constitute the narrative matrix of this thesis. These 13 women are survivors, with the astonishment, the anguish, the despair of the survivors. Where can we still find meaning when we have lived what they have lived and are still living ten years later? Indeed, the survivors continue to live in a permanent hell, victims of slow forms of invisible violence, a subtle form of social assassination through the brutal exclusion from family and community, through the predominantly patriarchal and of a disrespectful reparation; collateral consequences little or not documented or even denied. This thesis tries to propose answers to three essential questions. How to advance a research that is formally more complex than others, with a reflection on the tensions of Ivorian history, the stories of the survivors, the story of the researcher-baoulé-survivor and aesthetic proposals for writing it? How to write scientifically about vulnerability, distress and suffering and stay at a distance? How to restore the song of the actor-witnesses in the original expression, of these "tiny lives", with the choppy, stammering speech, and make it dialogue with the vigorous and assertive speech of a researcher who actually discovers during a particular day that he is in search of his own word, that of a survivor, buried in a padlocked gangue. It was necessary to be able to render the adhesion of the baoulé researcher to his own word and in his faith in the capacities of language to reach the untouchable and the invisible, a lost world, the past itself. It was necessary to try to multiply the narrative detours and the formal tracks, and to take the risk of rejecting certain narrative university codes in order to make palpable, by transforming a material that is difficult to handle and highly flammable, this violence experienced by the survivors of whom Michel Foucault says: "that what is most dangerous in violence is its rationality”. It is also for this reason, to make the distant waves of this suffering expressed more particularly felt and the certainty that we often overlook, that the choice of photoethnographic narrations was imposed. To confront each of the readers with their own relationship to the image and, in a more subtle way, to the stories of the survivors. Which then leads us to reflect on the enigma of appearances. “Read what has never been written”. To see violence in its truth, only an anthropology of attention that would resonate with what Edouard Glissant calls "the deep", thus designating "what there is really, concretely, below the appearance », making it possible to resuscitate the dignity of life of the survivors and to legitimize the writing of a committed researcher
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Lange, Bastian [Verfasser], Paul [Gutachter] Pauli, Jürgen [Gutachter] Deckert, Martin J. [Gutachter] Herrmann, and Matthias [Gutachter] Gamer. "Influence of social anxiety on social attention and corresponding changes in action patterns / Bastian Lange [né Söhnchen] ; Gutachter: Paul Pauli, Jürgen Deckert, Martin J. Herrmann, Matthias Gamer." Würzburg : Universität Würzburg, 2020. http://d-nb.info/1220227951/34.
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Kristiansen, Silje [Verfasser], Heinz Akademischer Betreuer] Bonfadelli, and Mike S. [Gutachter] [Schäfer. "Media and risk : a phase model elucidating media attention to nuclear energy risk / Silje Kristiansen ; Gutachter: Mike S. Schäfer ; Akademischer Betreuer: Heinz Bonfadelli." Ilmenau : Universitätsbibliothek Ilmenau, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1137076534/34.
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Zanolli, Clément. "L'organisation endostructurale de restes dentaires humains du Pléistocène inférieur final-moyen initial d'Indonésie et d'Afrique, avec une attention particulière à Homo erectus s. S. : caractérisation comparative à haute résolution et problématiques taxinomiques." Paris, Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011MNHN0033.
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Depuis la découverte en 1891 des premiers restes de Pithecanthropus (Homo) erectus à Trinil, plusieurs sites à vertébrés d'âge pléistocène ont été mis au jour sur l'île de Java, en Indonésie. Le registre paléoanthropologique comprend à ce jour un total d'environ 230 éléments dentaires. Cependant, alors qu'une grande majorité appartient à H. Erectus s. S. , certains spécimens ont été par le passé provisoirement attribués à d'autres taxons hominidés (e. G. , Meganthropus paleojavanicus, Pithecanthropus dubius), ou sont encore en attente d’attribution. Cette incertitude taxinomique est probablement le résultat des variations eustatiques qui ont affecté cycliquement l'archipel indonésien au cours du Quaternaire, permettant la formation temporaire de ponts terrestres et donc des échanges intermittents avec le continent. Dans ce scénario dynamique, il est fort probable que des phases d'isolement ont périodiquement modelé la biodiversité locale. Dans le but d'apporter des éléments originaux au débat sur la taxinomie du registre hominidé javanais, nous avons utilisé des techniques propres à la paléoanthropologie "virtuelle" pour la caractérisation de la morphologie interne d'un échantillon dentaire, en grande partie inédit, du Pléistocène inférieur final-moyen initial de la région de Sangiran. A titre comparatif, l'analyse a aussi intégré des dents de Pongo, actuel et fossile. Pour explorer la variation des caractéristiques structurales d'un échantillon humain d'âge comparable à la série indonésienne ayant évolué en contexte non insulaire, nous avons également détaillé à haute résolution les dents de H. Heidelbergensis africain du site de Tighenif, en Algérie, et deux spécimens de H. Erectus/ergaster de Buia, en Erythrée. L'ensemble des résultats issus des analyses comparatives basées sur les caractéristiques morphodimensionnelles externes, les proportions 2-3D des tissus dentaires, la variation topographique de l'émail, l'étude de morphométrie géométrique de la jonction émail-dentine et de la cavité pulpaire nous a permis d'identifier la présence d'au moins deux taxons hominidés pénécontemporains à SangiranSince the early discovery of Pithecanthropus (Homo) erectus in 1891 at Trinil, a number of Pleistocene vertebrate remains have been unearthed in the island of Java, Indonesia. The paleoanthropological record available so far includes a total of ca. 230 dental elements. However, while most specimens belong to H. Erectus s. S. , some have been tentatively attributed to other hominid taxa (e. G. , Meganthropus paleojavanicus, Pithecanthropus dubius), or are still pending attribution. This taxonomic incertitude probably results from the eustatic variations which have cyclically affected the Indonesian archipelago during the Quaternary, allowing the formation of temporary land-bridges and, therefore, to intermittent exchanges with the Asian mainland. In this dynamic scenario, it is likely that isolation phases have periodically shaped the local biodiversity. In order to bring new elements to the taxonomic debate on the Javanese hominid fossil record, we applied methods developed in "virtual" paleoanthropology to characterize the inner structural morphology in a largely unpublished sample of late Lower-early Middle Pleistocene dental remains from the Sangiran area. For comparative purposes, we also integrated in our analysis extant and extinct Pongo teeth. To explore the structural variation shown by a human sample of comparable age from a mainland context, we have also detailed at high-resolution the teeth of the H. Heidelbergensis African series from Tighenif, Algeria, as well as two H. Erectus/ergaster specimens from the site of Buia, Eritrea. As a whole, the results of the comparative analyses dealing with the external morpho-dimensional features, the 2-3D dental tissue proportions, the enamel topographic distribution, the geometric morphometric assessment of the enamel-dentine junction and of the pulp chamber point to the presence at Sangiran of at least two penecontemporaneous hominid taxa
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Hart, M. J. Alexandra. "Action in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: an Enactive Psycho-phenomenological and Semiotic Analysis of Thirty New Zealand Women's Experiences of Suffering and Recovery." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Social and Political Sciences, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/5294.
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This research into Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) presents the results of 60 first-person psycho-phenomenological interviews with 30 New Zealand women. The participants were recruited from the Canterbury and Wellington regions, 10 had recovered. Taking a non-dual, non-reductive embodied approach, the phenomenological data was analysed semiotically, using a graph-theoretical cluster analysis to elucidate the large number of resulting categories, and interpreted through the enactive approach to cognitive science.
The initial result of the analysis is a comprehensive exploration of the experience of CFS which develops subject-specific categories of experience and explores the relation of the illness to universal categories of experience, including self, ‘energy’, action, and being-able-to-do.
Transformations of the self surrounding being-able-to-do and not-being-able-to-do were shown to elucidate the illness process.
It is proposed that the concept ‘energy’ in the participants’ discourse is equivalent to the Mahayana Buddhist concept of ‘contact’. This characterises CFS as a breakdown of contact. Narrative content from the recovered interviewees reflects a reestablishment of contact.
The hypothesis that CFS is a disorder of action is investigated in detail.
A general model for the phenomenology and functional architecture of action is proposed. This model is a recursive loop involving felt meaning, contact, action, and perception and appears to be phenomenologically supported.
It is proposed that the CFS illness process is a dynamical decompensation of the subject’s action loop caused by a breakdown in the process of contact.
On this basis, a new interpretation of neurological findings in relation to CFS becomes possible. A neurological phenomenon that correlates with the illness and involves a brain region that has a similar structure to the action model’s recursive loop is identified in previous research results and compared with the action model and the results of this research. This correspondence may identify the brain regions involved in the illness process, which may provide an objective diagnostic test for the condition and approaches to treatment.
The implications of this model for cognitive science and CFS should be investigated through neurophenomenological research since the model stands to shed considerable light on the nature of consciousness, contact and agency.
Phenomenologically based treatments are proposed, along with suggestions for future research on CFS. The research may clarify the diagnostic criteria for CFS and guide management and treatment programmes, particularly multidimensional and interdisciplinary approaches.
Category theory is proposed as a foundation for a mathematisation of phenomenology.
Books on the topic "Anthropology of attention"
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Hans, James S. The mysteries of attention. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1993.
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Methodological issues in religious studies: With special attention to Lauri Honko's theoretical contribution. Lewiston, N.Y: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2012.
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Tyumaseva, Zoya. The basics of anthropology. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1077542.
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The textbook covers the relevant issues of our times: the essence of life, theories and hypotheses of the origin of life and man. For millennia, people interested in the question: where did we come from? The guide presents the views, ideas, hypotheses of philosophers, anthropologists, biologists and other specialists on the specifics of human evolution. Special attention is paid to the ontogenetic relationship of language, thought and consciousness, as well as phylogenetic stages of language development.
Addressed to teachers, students of Humanities universities, focused on independent work and advanced study courses "Social anthropology", "Anthropology and life safety", as well as teachers of biology and ecology.
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Oh, Jung-Sun. A Korean theology of human nature: With special attention to the works of Robert Cummings Neville and Tu Wei-Ming. Lanham, Md: University Press of America, 2005.
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Cobern, William W. Everyday thoughts about nature: A worldview investigation of important concepts students use to make sense of nature with specific attention of science. Dordrecht [Netherlands]: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000.
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Everyday thoughts about nature: A worldview investigation of important concepts students use to make sense of nature with specific attention of science. Dordrecht [Netherlands]: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000.
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Cobern, William W. Everyday thoughts about nature: A worldview investigation of important concepts students use to make sense of nature with specific attention of science. Dordrecht [Netherlands]: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000.
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Ernwein, Marion, Franklin Ginn, and James Palmer, eds. The Work That Plants Do. Bielefeld, Germany: transcript Verlag, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.14361/9783839455340.
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Whether driven by developments in plant science, bio-philosophy, or broader societal dynamics, plants have to respond to a litany of environmental, social, and economic challenges. This collection explores the `work' that plants do in contemporary capitalism, examining how vegetal life is enrolled in processes of value creation, social reproduction, and capital accumulation. Bringing together insights from geography, anthropology, and the environmental humanities, the contributors contend that attention to the diverse capacities and agencies of plants can both enrich understandings of capitalist economies, and also catalyze new forms of resistance to their logics.
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Karpikov, Aleksey, and Sergey Kondrat'ev. Psychology of learning and education: the Christian humanitarian paradigm. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/25286.
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The monograph deals with the issues of spiritual, moral and intellectual development of the individual in terms of training and education from a position of humanitarian Christian psychological paradigm. Defined methodological basis of Christian psychology education, and its subject, tasks and basic categories; from the position of metaphysical and empirical levels of explanation of the theory of identity as a core category of psychology of education, proposed the concept of intelligence as a core category of psychology training.
From the standpoint of Christian psychology education reveals the General psychological and social-psychological basis for learning the major strategies of developmental education, the concept of personality-developing education. Special attention is paid to family education in the context of Christian anthropology and psychology.
Of interest to seminarians, students of Orthodox schools, the students of the Higher theological courses, faculty training and retraining.
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Hafsaas, Henriette, ed. Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies 8. Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.53288/0515.1.00.
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Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies offers a platform in which the old meets the new, in which archaeological, papyrological, and philological research into Meroitic, Old Nubian, Coptic, Greek, and Arabic sources confront current investigations in modern anthropology and ethnography, Nilo-Saharan linguistics, and the critical and theoretical approaches of postcolonial and African studies. Dotawo gives a common home to the past, present, and future of one of the richest areas of research in African studies. It offers a crossroads where papyrus can meet the internet, scribes meet critical thinkers, and the promises of growing nations meet the accomplishments of older kingdoms. The eighth issue of Dotawo aims to offer new insights into violent conflicts and wars in Sudan through time and across the region. Special attention is devoted to research on Nubia. The authors use archaeological, historical, philological, and artistic sources to investigate war in the Sudan from the 4th millennium BCE until the present day.
Book chapters on the topic "Anthropology of attention"
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Porr, Martin, and Niels Weidtmann. "Being alive and educating attention." In One World Anthropology and Beyond, 12–26. London: Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003162773-3.
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Henriksen, Jan-Olav. "Erotic Attention to the Whole: The Spirituality of the Imago Dei." In Theological Anthropology in the Anthropocene, 125–28. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21058-7_9.
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Barros, Beatriz, and Richard Wilk. "Why We Need to Pay Attention to Wealth and Inequality in Lowering Carbon Emissions." In Anthropology and Climate Change, 245–56. 3rd ed. New York: Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003242499-20.
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Widlok, Thomas. "Chapter 2. The cultural, linguistic and cognitive relativity of time concepts." In Culture and Language Use, 30–48. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/clu.23.02wid.
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There has been a considerable boost in studies on the cognitive foundations of language, including the fields of space, time, and causality. While Africa has increasingly been included in these studies, the attention to cognitive constraints has sometimes overlooked possible diversity as captured by anthropological linguistics. The study of cultural relativity with regard to time concepts which flourished initially in anthropology and linguistics has been overshadowed by research in economics and neighboring disciplines. Linguistic distinctions such as that between weak FTR (Future Time Reference) and strong FTR languages become associated with cultural differences such as saving for the future. This contribution looks critically at these typologies and argues that research would benefit from closer cooperation between comparative and intrinsic approaches to the study of African languages.
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Bocking, Stephen. "Indigenous Knowledge and Perspectives." In Historiographies of Science, 1–24. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92679-3_20-1.
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AbstractIndigenous knowledge, once dismissed as mere folklore, is now widely recognized as an essential dimension of global environmental knowledge. Indigenous people, once excluded, now participate across a range of environmental affairs. Understanding how and why this has occurred requires attention to a complex history of scientists and others constructing ideas about Indigenous knowledge. A variety of scholars, including historians of science, environmental historians, and political ecologists have examined this history, identifying the factors that have influenced expert, public, and institutional perceptions of Indigenous knowledge. These include various colonial and postcolonial contexts, ideas about development, changes in the natural environment, disciplinary perspectives (such as those of anthropology), and shifting views of human-environment relations. Indigenous peoples – as knowledge producers, brokers, and intermediaries – have been crucial to these evolving perceptions, by asserting that their knowledge can be a means of achieving change in both knowledge and politics. The Arctic provides a distinctive setting in which the historical construction of Indigenous knowledge can be examined in more detail.
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Kortesoja, Matti. "Structural Marxism and Its Critique." In Power of Articulation, 63–82. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33077-3_4.
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AbstractThis chapter contends with the discursive turn in which images of social structure and social change shifted from anatomicalconceptual metaphors to relational thinking that captures social structure as a complex articulation of interlinked ideological, political, and economic instances. The examination begins with one of the most influential takes in the so-called return to Marx, addressing the Althusserian theory of ideology, which discourse theorists have accused of ‘yoking together’ a totality in connection with the larger structure of society in ideological terms. In fact, Althusser and his colleagues studied ideology’s practical application as a discursive interpellation of subjects. When discourse theory ultimately prevailed, it had adapted this part of the theory of ideology, while the concept of the capitalist mode of production has been excised from sociological discussions. Informed by awareness of ‘the spectre of Marx(ism)’, where social sciences are haunted by the ghostly notions of class-struggle and bourgeois ideology, this chapter turns attention to the less famous modes-of-production controversy in French new economic anthropology, which drew ethnographers’ gaze to class, ethnicity, and gender issues.
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Silvast, Antti, and Chris Foulds. "A Sociology of Interdisciplinarity." In Sociology of Interdisciplinarity, 91–120. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88455-0_5.
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AbstractIn building upon the cases presented in Chaps. 10.1007/978-3-030-88455-0_2, 10.1007/978-3-030-88455-0_3, and 10.1007/978-3-030-88455-0_4, we develop a Sociology of Interdisciplinarity that draws our empirical insights together with resources from Science and Technology Studies (STS), in addition to Sociology of Scientific Knowledge, Research Policy, Infrastructure Studies, Anthropology, and Philosophy of Science. The key novelty of this framework is using STS insights to unpick the dynamics and consequences of interdisciplinary science, which distinguishes us from decades of earlier interdisciplinarity studies and gaps in understanding. Moreover, we not only focus on individual scholars and their experiences but pay careful attention to the wider contexts of interdisciplinary research, such as the impacts of funding structures, different access to resources, and power relations. We are careful in our approach so that our units of analyses—which vary from research groups and projects to whole epistemic communities and research policies—are most appropriate for the problem definitions that we put forward. The framework rests on a set of six dimensions, which we discuss in relation to current debates in the literature and our empirical analyses.
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Ingold, Tim. "For attention." In Anthropology and/as Education, 20–36. Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315227191-2.
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Lienhardt, Godfrey. "Excerpt from “The Dinka and Catholicism”." In Anthropology of Catholicism. University of California Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520288423.003.0005.
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Like Julian Pitt-Rivers, Godfrey Lienhardt (1921–93) was a student of E. E. Evans-Pritchard at Oxford. His great ethnography Divinity and Experience: The Religion of the Dinka, published in 1961, is regarded as one of the great social anthropological studies of religion. In his research (1947–50) on this southern Sudanese nomad population (neighbors of the Nuer, the people researched by Evans-Pritchard), Lienhardt approaches religious symbolism, imagery, and leadership as informed intimately by the Dinka’s own everyday experience of the world. He altered dominant social anthropological perspectives on religion of the time by drawing attention to the discrepancy and contradictions that existed between people’s everyday experience of “religion” and their conscious, reflexive articulations about those practices. The attention to skepticism and ambiguity is evident in this essay (first published in 1982, and reproduced here almost in its entirety) that reflects on the interaction between the Dinka and Italian Catholic missionaries, who had been in the Sudan since the mid-nineteenth century. Lienhardt begins by asking, “What kind of translation, as it were, of experience is required for a Dinka to become a nominal or believing Christian?” He responds to this question with circumspection, stressing the challenges in any missionary encounter, which he aptly characterizes as not one of simple straightforward instruction and conversion (or rupture), but one fraught with gaps in understanding and divergent intentions on both sides. Many of these gaps inhere in language, both idiomatic and semantic terms, with many ideas being “caught in translation,” leading Catholicism to “stick” unevenly and in unpredictable ways across the Dinka world. Thus the Dinka accepted the Church mostly, Lienhardt suggests, through ideas of progress and mostly material development that were quite foreign to Dinka experience and, somewhat ironically, also to the ideas and principles taught by the missionaries. Catholic doctrine and eschatology were thus absorbed into the Dinka life-world through a kind of “linguistic parallax” (a displacement or change in the perception of objects in space from different points of observation). Lienhardt erroneously characterizes the church as “the bearer of a theoretically unified body of theological and social doctrine”—a portrayal similar to widespread views even today. But the acuity of his attention to the intricacies and uncertainties of the exchange of meanings that is part of missionization—and to the political economic realities shaping the encounter—distinguishes this work as a pioneering study in the anthropology of missions, especially in colonial Africa. In this respect Lienhardt’s essay might be seen as a precursor to a great tradition of poststructuralist works on African religious missionaries, postcolonialism, and social transformation.1 His focus on Catholicism, however, provides us a glimpse of the dynamics of “syncretism” in situ as a process that cannot be understood outside its social, historical, and political context.
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Turner, Victor, and Edith Turner. "Excerpt from “Iconophily and Iconoclasm in Marian Pilgrimage”." In Anthropology of Catholicism. University of California Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520288423.003.0006.
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Before he died, the well-known anthropologist of African religion Victor Turner (1920–83) turned his attention to Catholic forms of pilgrimage and, with Edith Turner, traveled across the world visiting Marian shrines. Victor and Edith Turner were themselves Catholic. The book that resulted is a classic of early anthropological writing about Catholicism and has done much to lay down an analytical “grammar” for thinking about it. In this chapter the Turners draw attention to the long-standing tension in Christianity between iconoclasm and iconophily—a topic that resonates deeply with contemporary debates about semiotics.1 In this chapter the Turners explore the potent affordances of material form through an analysis of shrines, images, and statues. Of interest here are the multiple and sometimes contradictory layers of personification and signification that accrue to devotional objects and places over time, through repeated human interaction. The shrine’s semantic field has a diachronic axis as a well as a synchronic one—both axes further layered with political and historic events that inscribe themselves upon the place. Both in and out of structure and time, shrines condense symbols, practices, histories, and culturally specific influences and affordances. An analytical question running through this chapter is thus whether the power of the divine is compressed within and hence generated by the image or whether the image simply represents the power of the divine. This, of course, is something of an age-old theological problem in Christianity, which the Turners as Catholics themselves are eminently aware of. In their treatment of this issue, however, they remain steadfastly anthropological, taking seriously the sensorial plasticity of devotional objects and their inherent capacity to exceed the roles intended of them by official theology. Rather than “materiality” or “aesthetic formations,” the Turners describe devotional objects as “outward vehicles” for symbols. “Outward vehicles,” they argue, have a tendency to become more bound up with the orectic pole of signification than the normative pole. Here the “orectic” encompasses the emotional, sensorial, and affective field of semantics, whereas the “normative” encompasses the abstract, ideational field. The Turners see this as a basic religious structure common to all religious traditions, although the respective stability of each pole is reversed in different cultures. Thus in non-Christian “tribal” societies the orectic pole is more stable than the normative one, whereas in hierarchically organized, scripturally complex religions such as Christianity the normative is more stable than the orectic. Although the language the Turners employ is reflective of the structuralist and symbolic-humanist fields they were very much embedded within, their work is relevant to a renewed anthropology of Catholicism for the way it helps to make sense of the relationship of parts to wholes, and for the creative attention it draws to the circulation of ideas and affects within Catholic institutional territories.
Conference papers on the topic "Anthropology of attention"
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Kholboboeva, Aziza Sherboboevna. "The Theoretical View of Advertising Discourse." In GLOCAL Conference on Mediterranean and European Linguistic Anthropology Linguistic Anthropology 2022. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/comela22.1-13.
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The article discusses the textual features of advertising. Recently, along with the continuing interest in advertising practice, more and more attention has been paid to the theoretical aspects of advertising, through fields such as linguistics, psychology, sociology, psycho and sociolinguistics, semiotics, cultural studies, and art history. This article presents a theoretical interpretation of advertising discourse in modern Uzbekistan. I consider the linguistic aspect, and the concept of a text as topical issues. The theoretical basis of the research is work on the theory of discourse and communicative interaction, and work that justifies an anthropocentric approach to a language in general and its categories in particular.
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Klestov, Alexander. "New Linguistic Horizons in Medieval Europe." In GLOCAL Conference on Mediterranean and European Linguistic Anthropology Linguistic Anthropology 2022. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/comela22.1-8.
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The article focuses on the idea of the formation of European civilization and, in this connection, to the discovery of linguistic possibilities in the Middle Ages. The author draws attention to the works of Amable Jourdain, who discovered the paths of Aristotle's philosophy in the 12th-13th centuries, the works on the intellectual renaissance of the 12th century by Charles Gaskins, and the works on religiosity of this period by L. P. Karsavin; the later are still, however, little studied. I have singled out, following these scholars, the figures of Aristotle, Francis of Assisi, and Angela of Foligno, as leaders in the history of the extension of linguistic horizons in New Europe.
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Presutti, Stefano. "The Power of National Identity at the Grapho-Phonological Level: A Case in Italian." In GLOCAL Conference on Mediterranean and European Linguistic Anthropology Linguistic Anthropology 2022. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/comela22.6-4.
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The Western European nationalism in the modern era, which developed the ideal of nation-state, was based on two key concepts; language standardization and monolingualism. However, today the relationship between language and national identity is overly rigid and anachronistic, and would do well to become modified in order to be more suitable for contemporary transnational fluidity. With respect to previous research in linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistics, this study originally focuses attention on the interrelations between written and spoken language, specifically at a grapho-phonological level. This paper investigates distinct elements of a specific language; the phoneme of the palatal lateral approximant and its related graphemes in standard Italian. I examine through historical-linguistic and sociolinguistic perspectives the diachronic, diatopic, and diastratic features that, during the formation, standardization and massification of language processes, led these target elements to cross boundaries; passing the non-symbolic to symbolic threshold, and becoming standard and prestigious identity markers of Italian. The findings show that today, national languages and identities are not disappearing, but with the formation of global identity and language, new and more flexible boundaries are being created, more appropriate to faster and more layered inter- and intra-linguistic communication.
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VanÄo, Ildikó, and István Kozmács. "Relationship between the Identity and Language Attitudes toward Mother Tongue among Young Udmurt People and Slovakian Hungarians." In GLOCAL Conference on Mediterranean and European Linguistic Anthropology Linguistic Anthropology 2022. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/comela22.5-7.
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In our paper, we will shortly define the notion of minority, identify the basic issues of a sense of identity, and clarify the role of language in the maintenance of minorities and their identities. The group identity of minorities can be defined along three main factors which occur as historical, linguistic and cultural identity within a certain spatial and time frame. There are various group identities, and groups usually give special attention to some characteristic features, as language, race or religion (Cseresnyési 2004). We will discuss the role of one of these, namely, that of language. We will demonstrate the relationships of language and identity through language attitudes of nationalities, Hungarians in Slovakia and Udmurts in Russia, which are similar in quota but different in their historical past and social situation today) (Shirobokova 2008; Kozmács 2008). We will ask what the role of language in different state formations is and whether identity maintenance plays a role in the maintenance of minority languages and linguistic diversity. The aspects of the research are as follows: who considers what a mother tongue is; what is the relation between the mother tongue and the sense of origin; which are the main features of national affiliation; what is the importance of the mother tongue in national affiliation. The data are provided as results of a questionnaire survey. The target groups of the research were university students as future intellectuals and consequently opinion-shapers of the given ethnicity. Four groups were formed: Hungarian university students in Slovakia, Russian university students in Udmurtia, Udmurt university students in Udmurtia, and Hungarian university students in Hungary.
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Geka, Aoi. "Topicality of the ‘Copula. form Shi in Santa Mongolian." In GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2020. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/cala2020.3-2.
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Santa (Dunxian) Mongolian cotnains a form called shi emanating from the copula ‘是 (shiP4P)’ of Chinese. In previous research, this form is known as a borrowed form that can occur with the indigenous copula wo., However, shi has been variously described as a ‘copula’ (刘 1981; Kim 2003; Napoli 2004), ‘copula verb’ (Field 1997), and a ‘postposition to show presentation’ (布和等编1986). As yet, there has not been a unified description of the actual function of shi. In this presentation, I pay attention to topicality after having analyzed the environment and the meaning of shi. First, regarding the environment, I pay attention to the elements preceding shi. From the analysis of the type of noun phrases that appear before shi and noun phrases that do not appear, I show that more definite noun phrases such as personal pronouns and demonstrative pronouns do appear, while less definite noun phrases such as interrogatives do not appear. Secondly, regarding the meaning function, I pay attention to examples frequently using shi. From the analysis of these examples, I show that shi has functions such as presenting a condition. Finally, regarding topicality, I contrast the topicality of Santa Mongolian shi with that of the Chinese 是, the original language of borrowing, and the Japanese wa, which is known as a topic marker. With this in mind, I conclude that the shi from Santa Mongolian should be analyzed as a topic marker and not as a copula.
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Rubakova, Inna I., and Antonio Carluccio. "Second Language Identity Formation through Russian Folklore Texts." In GLOCAL Conference on Mediterranean and European Linguistic Anthropology Linguistic Anthropology 2022. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/comela22.2-1.
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In this article, we analyze the possibility of employing short Russian folklore examples of chastushka during the development of second language identities of philology students studying Russian as a foreign language. As observed, studying folklore texts in a foreign language environment contributes to the enhancing of the level of ethnolinguistic competence, which is important for understanding a different (Russian) mentality. An effective example of such texts may be the chastushka genre, as one of the few that actively develops through the deployment of various factors. Among its main characteristics, it includes a set of rules and norms of behavior, and a collective assessment of what is happening, and demonstrates the symbolic content of general cultural mores. This article draws on a model of linguistic identity presented by Yu. N. Karaulov. The model comprises three levels. The most interesting of these three levels, in the case of this study, is the psycholinguistic (linguo-cognitive) level, the units of which are perceptions, ideas, and concepts. We also discuss a model of secondary linguistic personality, firstly attributable to Khaleeva in the 1990s. This model is significant in its practicality for teaching foreign languages. This paper also presents the components of the term ‘folk concept,’ for which, we pay particular attention to the figurative and evaluative components, since the conceptual component is itself relatively stable. We also conduct a comparative analysis of the symbolic content of lexemes of linguistic and cultural significance. The semantic complexity of the folklore texts and their linguistic and methodological potential when working with foreign students must be and are considered when conducting such a study, along with the possibility of applying obtained results when working with literary texts, thus facilitating the attainment of a deeper understanding of literary images and symbols as additional learning material. The results of this work may be used in practical pedagogical contexts of the Russian language, as well as in courses in ethnolinguistics and folklore.
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Polishchuk, Anna. "Linguoconceptual Analysis of Deceit in Herodotus’ Histories." In GLOCAL Conference on Mediterranean and European Linguistic Anthropology Linguistic Anthropology 2022. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/comela22.1-5.
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This research has been conducted in line with the long historical and cultural controversy over the ethnic and national identity of western and eastern civilisations and the ethno-specific perception of falsehood in ancient peoples mentioned in The Histories by Herodotus. Given the breadth and relative objectivity of information on the contacts of the Persian Empire of the Achaemenids with neighbouring nations in the Mediterranean region, Herodotus’ work is a unique resource for study which traditionally belongs to the prerogatives of modern comparative linguoconceptology. Despite the abundance of scholarship on falsehood and deception in Herodotus (Lateiner 1990; Harrison 2004; Mash 2010; Hollmann 2011; Wesselmann 2011), little has paid attention to the communicative entities within different ethnic groups and discursive areas. This study of the Ancient Greeks’ concept of deceit has used traditional semasiological methods in combination with cognitive methods of discourse analysis, metaphorical modelling, and axiological scaling. As a result of the semantic and stylistic analysis of 36 denotations of the concept, represented by cognates of ψευδ-, (á¼Î¾)απατ-, διαβαλ-, δολ-, μηχαν- etc., ‘the core’ and ‘the periphery’ have been singled out. These lexical means have been differentiated according to the frequency of use, variety of derivatives, types of connotative meanings, and discursive functions. Discursive distribution of the lexical items concerned the social sphere in the political, religious, and personal domain. A comparative analysis of deceit in different ethnic communities showed that representatives of the East were inclined to use non-verbal forms of trickery, while Greeks prevailed in verbal deception. Among verbal means, in Herodotus’ view, Asian peoples preferred misinformation – straight untruth through a complete alteration of the reality – while for the Ionians, Athenians, and other Hellenes, verbal tactics appear as more complex and demanding, since their misleading manipulations balanced between truth and untruth, so that they could not have been easily refuted. Quantitative parameters, as well as stylistic sensitivity, of lexical items have revealed these tendencies for the eastern and western oecumenes, with marginal peculiarities for the Trojans and Ionians, which seem to challenge some regional stereotypes concerning deception.
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Roy, Samapika, Sukhada, and Anil Kr Singh. "An Analysis of Indian English News Headlines." In GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2020. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/cala2020.13-1.
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News Headlines (NHs) are of the most creative uses of natural languages in a media text. An NH is the frontline of a news article. Specific characteristics make NHs standout: for instance, article omission, use of active verbs, dropping the copula to save space and to attract the reader’s attention to the most significant words, etc. Some research has been done on linguistic analysis of British English NH, Hindi-Urdu NHs, but hardly any work has been conducted on IndENH. This paper attempts to analyze Indian English newspaper headlines (IndENH), and aims to contribute to the accuracy of News Headline parsing. This study determines the linguistic features of the IndENH, to improve the quality of the parsed output of NHs. This paper covers sentence construction, tense, punctuation marks, metaphors, etc. for linguistic analysis.
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Do Thi, Hien. "Teaching Vietnamese to Deaf Children Using Sign Languages: Situations and Solutions." In GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2019. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/cala2019.13-2.
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Human civilization has made tremendous progress, to improve its quality of life. However, there are still a number of people in society who suffer from grave disadvantages due to their disabilities. There are many reasons for this phenomenon, and even though science is rapidly developing, it is impossible to completely erase those causes. Ameliorating education and offering vocational training for the disabled are considered as effective solutions to provide these people with a satisfying life, especially children. For deaf children, the dream of normal schooling becomes great. Limited language proficiency leads to limited communication skills and reduces confidence when entering the first grade, adversely affecting their academic performance and later development. Therefore, in this article, we focus on first grade deaf children. Like the impact of normal language on normal children, sign language plays an important role in language development of deaf children. They use sign language to think and communicate. However, to study in textbook programs as does a normal child, in the classroom of deaf children, both the teachers and students must use finger alphabets to teach and learn Vietnamese. We thus study teaching Vietnamese to deaf children and suggest games to draw their attention to the lessons.
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Nguyen, Phuong Lien. "Conceptualizing Religions (Confucianism and Buddhism): From Poetic-Stories to Reality in Indochina." In GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2020. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/cala2020.14-1.
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Influenced by being situated between China and India, two historical giants, the people of the three nations of Viet, Lao and Khome exhibit strong histories of imported cultures. The religions of these regions, which closely connect to people’s lives, offer strong symbolisms of lifeworlds and enculturations. People in Indochina assign great significance to living and to interpersonal relationships, more so than toward deities and spiritual agents, as well as to the creation of the cosmos. Here, folk stories frequently include the ‘first man,’ the messages from which serve to educate society. This study aims to present that Indochinese poetic stories exhibit imported theories, the moral messages within which have reached levels of mastery in the literary genre, that is, the poetic story. These moral lessons emerge in texts such as Luc Van Tien (Vietnam), Thao Hung Thao Chuong (Lao) and Tum Tieu (Cambodia). Based on historical facts, these texts expose people’s attention to humanity’s opinions of Confucianism (China) and Buddhism (India). The stories also present differences and similarities, the descriptions of which can offer pathways to explaining social dynamics in modernity. As such, locating markers within figurative talk in this literary genre may inform theories in larger narratives and philosophical texts.
Reports on the topic "Anthropology of attention"
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Gordon, Eleanor, and Briony Jones. Building Success in Development and Peacebuilding by Caring for Carers: A Guide to Research, Policy and Practice to Ensure Effective, Inclusive and Responsive Interventions. University of Warwick Press, April 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31273/978-1-911675-00-6.
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The experiences and marginalisation of international organisation employees with caring responsibilities has a direct negative impact on the type of security and justice being built in conflict-affected environments. This is in large part because international organisations fail to respond to the needs of those with caring responsibilities, which leads to their early departure from the field, and negatively affects their work while in post. In this toolkit we describe this problem, the exacerbating factors, and challenges to overcoming it. We offer a theory of change demonstrating how caring for carers can both improve the working conditions of employees of international organisations as well as the effectiveness, inclusivity and responsiveness of peace and justice interventions. This is important because it raises awareness among employers in the sector of the severity of the problem and its consequences. We also offer a guide for employers for how to take the caring responsibilities of their employees into account when developing human resource policies and practices, designing working conditions and planning interventions. Finally, we underscore the importance of conducting research on the gendered impacts of the marginalisation of employees with caring responsibilities, not least because of the breadth and depth of resultant individual, organisational and sectoral harms. In this regard, we also draw attention to the way in which gender stereotypes and gender biases not only inform and undermine peacebuilding efforts, but also permeate research in this field. Our toolkit is aimed at international organisation employees, employers and human resources personnel, as well as students and scholars of peacebuilding and international development. We see these communities of knowledge and action as overlapping, with insights to be brought to bear as well as challenges to be overcome in this area. The content of the toolkit is equally relevant across these knowledge communities as well as between different specialisms and disciplines. Peacebuilding and development draw in experts from economics, politics, anthropology, sociology and law, to name but a few. The authors of this toolkit have come together from gender studies, political science, and development studies to develop a theory of change informed by interdisciplinary insights. We hope, therefore, that this toolkit will be useful to an inclusive and interdisciplinary set of knowledge communities. Our core argument - that caring for carers benefits the individual, the sectors, and the intended beneficiaries of interventions - is relevant for students, researchers, policy makers and practitioners alike.