Incertezza, precarietà, capacità di immaginazione del futuro e modernità: un confronto tra Appadurai e De Martino by Alessandro Mancuso

“…Though apparently distanced for their temporal and historical moment, their conceptual terminology, their interlocutors and the fields of their empirical research, it is possible to get some notable parallelisms of theoretical vision between the anthropological work of De Martino and that of Appadurai. …”
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Le caring thinking, au cœur des ambitions éthiques d’Ann Margaret Sharp : quelles recommandations concrètes dans l’accompagnement des vulnérabilités, au sein de la pratique philoso... by Johanna Hawken

“…The emergence of this concept is determined by a specific anthropological postulate: one in which humanity is defined by its vulnerability, its interdependence and its singularity. …”
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Impurity, Moral Substantiality, and Social Control: A Gender Perspective by Alice Van den Bogaert

“…Understanding its nature and functioning beyond its concrete objects is therefore a fundamental anthropological question. This work is grounded in anthropology, though it may be of interest to scholars from other disciplines. …”
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Semantyczno-pragmatyczne znaczenie natury by Jacek L. Łapiński

“…Pragmatic sense of the term “nature” depends on the context (physical, philosophical, ecological, anthropological, relative, etc.). It can be also analyzed from two different perspectives: static and dynamic, this situation leads to the triple opposition: natural versus artificial, nature versus culture and nature versus environment. …”
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Jesus uttering his last words and drawing on his final breath: reflecting on Luke 23:46 by P. Nagel

“…This study does not overburden Jesus’ last moments with theological concerns but aims to reflect on Luke 23:46 and parallels from an existential-anthropological point of view. It deliberately accentuates the mundane, “human” character of Jesus’ “last” moments on this earth. …”
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Tangible consumption data landscapes of teenagers by Ayşe Özge Ağça

“…In this study, I investigate how teenagers understand energy consumption, how tangible data mapping through anthropological theories may increase their awareness, and what ideas they may have about how to change habits. …”
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Bricolage and Social Entrepreneurship to Address Emergent Social Needs: A “Deconstructionist” Perspective by Lamberto Zollo, Riccardo Rialti, Cristiano Ciappei, Andrea Boccardi

“…In partcular, social entrepreneurship has recently gained the atenton of management scholars interested in understanding its sociological and anthropological aspects. This paper focuses on Claude Lévi-Strauss’s noton of “bricolage” and the way it can represent a signifcant opportunity to address emergent social needs. …”
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Àrífàyọ Ìmọ̀ Abínibí nínú Oríkì Orílẹ̀ Mẹ́tàdínlọ́gbọ̀n tí Adébóyè Babalọlá kọ by Duro Adeleke, Adeola Mobolaji

“…Awon kan fi oju tiori imo ibagbepo awujo, imo isewadii-fininin-isedaniyam (anthropological method), ifoju-aato-wo, ifoju-ihun-wo, amo ko si eni to ti i lo tiori imo abinibi (indigenous knowledge) lati yiri oriki orile wo. …”
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Des temples et des quartiers disparus en Chine by Adeline Herrou

“…This article takes as its anthropological subjects these destructions of villages or urban districts, and the upheavals they cause in the life of the society. …”
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Cartographier l’ontologie d’un territoire sur le web by Diego Landivar, Alexandre Monnin, Emilie Ramillien

“…Therefrom, we conduct an anthropological analysis of the “modes of existence” (Etienne Souriau) of a country such as Bolivia on the Web. …”
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Modernism’s Zoo (Pet and Pen in Virginia Woolf’s Flush) by Frédéric Regard

“…By going back to the fundamental categories of Aristotelian philosophy and supporting his argument with detailed narratological analyses of the narrative, the author suggests that this canine biography should be read, precisely, not as an auto/biography – where the anthropological machine would still be running at full speed – but as a fable of the Modernist artist’s discovery of her own linguistic infancy. …”
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Les prélèvements et les analyses sur l’os humain ancien : connaître, encadrer et promouvoir la recherche. Retour sur le rapport rendu dans le cadre du groupe de travail sur la mise... by Christian Cribellier, Anne Chaillou

“…The recommendations concern the need for continuing efforts to raise awareness in the scientific community (via fact sheets) about the preservation of anthropological remains and their potential value for research, for implementation of a procedure for supervising and assessing research projects and, finally, for reporting on the work and the procedures implemented.…”
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Indigenous Identity in the Global Sustainable Project by Yusril Ihza Mahendra, Eduardus Andhika Kurniawan, Balya Arung Segara

“…This research employs anthropological perspectives and ecological knowledge of worldviews to analyse the factors that contribute to these discrepancies. …”
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Les processus de conservation différentielle du squelette des individus immatures by Silvia Bello, Michel Signoli, Emma Rabino Massa, Olivier Dutour

“…Such under-representation produces a bias in the reconstruction of past populations.The present anthropological study was carried out on 341 skeletons from three modern osteoarchaeological collections. …”
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«Omsk group» in exile in Manchuria by M. V. Krotova

“…Based on the theory of social adaptation and the anthropological approach, the article focuses on such aspects of the biography of this category of figures as behavioral strategies, service on the Chinese Eastern Railway, and the choice of citizenship. …”
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Innovations in Education, or How to Separate the Wheat from the Chaff? by M. V. Kochetkov

“…The broad understanding of the category «innovation» is determined by the development and preservation of the anthropological potential of society and education in particular. …”
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Lomi And Totò : An Ethiopian-Italian Colonial or Postcolonial “Love Story”? by Giovanna Trento

“…This “love story” has different shades and can be read from several points of view: personal, sentimental, familiar, social, anthropological, and historical. For some aspects it is unique, but for others it is exemplary of its time and allows us to look into important dynamics during wide and complex periods. …”
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Without Pictorial Detour: Benjamin, Mies and the Architectural Image by Lutz Robbers

“…It can be argued that architectural knowledge was of crucial importance to Walter Benjamin for elaborating his version of an anthropological historical materialism. Between 1929 and 1931 he encounters two publications on architectural history which had a decisive impact on his ensuing works: Sigfried Giedion’s Bauen in Frankreich, Bauen in Eisen, Bauen in Eisenbeton (1928) and Carl Linfert’s Die Grundlagen der Architekturzeichnung (1931). …”
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La selección artificial en el origen del pensamiento evolutivo y en los procesos de domesticación en el mundo actual by Arturo Argueta Villamar, Ricardo Noguera Solano, Eduardo Corona-M.

“…New and recent analyses, obtained from archaeological, anthropological, ethnoecological and ethnobiological studies, show that domestication processes continue with great vigor today, based on traditional knowledge accumulated by millions of peasant and pastoral communities in the contemporary world. …”
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An unwilling officer: the engineer Mikhail Vasilyevich Lebedev in the era of social cataclysms by D. I. Petin

“…In this article, through the prism of the anthropological approach and the theory of social adaptation, the biography of the representative of the Russian technical intelligentsia Mikhail Vasilyevich Lebedev is analyzed. …”
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